The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-02
n vey made, but the situation was sub

eeiibldily uffCndISeu.
 The fact is that were recounts made the gain, # any, would be so small as to be negligible. In cities of the hundred thousand class, the five or six hundred that recommendation might give them, would amount to lit- tie. On the other hand it would be making mountain out of mole hill, and would, therefore, make an aspir- | ing city look ridiculous. There will never be a census that includes everybody that should be counted. The best that can be done i is to get an approximate total that comes close to the actual facts. In 1910 three or four cities were recounted, but the results were dis appointing to the cities in question. And that is one of the reasons why the census bureau will go slow in yielding to the demand for another enumeration. It costs large sum of money to take the census and Uncle Sam is none too flush now, to say nothing of other reasons. # # < The giant Zeppelin built to bomb New York has been surrendered by the Germans. It is dreadful to think about what might have happened to the Wool worth building if the L-71 had ever reached these shores < # % One of the mean traits attributed to a stingy man is the habit of sitting on his favorite newspaper until he fin ishes eating and has chance to read it. He may be selfish brute. but we can understand him. # # T When the strains Of After the Balr Heated through the convention hall at San Francisco that was the psycholog- ical moment for somebody to launch Charles K. Harris boom.
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 Birmingham motorists continue to speed past the open doors of trolley cars while trolley patrons leap for their lives. Still, a trolley patron is only pedestrian with cents
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 The Spaghetti lip" caused by the Italian manner of eating spaghetti is said to have made it's appearance in London. It can be cured by eating a green persimmon. / Newspapers and magazines are flood cd with advertisements of new soft drinks. which is one of the symptoms of bone-dry era,
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 remarkable man is MT. McAdoo, ~ho drew the draperes of his couch about him and rocked not of the tumult
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 In describing himself as "pleasantly plrmp,' Irwin Cobb hit upon an ex- pression for which many a fat woman has cudgeled her brains in vain.
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 Paris women are wearing snakes as ornaments. This fad may prove rather trying on the nerves of American visi- tors who have imbibed too freely.
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 MT. Bryan has no time to get his hair cut or his clothes pressed. Paying at- tention to such details is regarded by MT. Bryan as an amable weakness.
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 The easiest way for the democratic party to avoid an argument is to ignore tho prohibition question. It has lost it's interrogation mark. anyhow.
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 There is disposition to deal gently with the new Mexican government, but the tig stick should be kept in reserve
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 While small man physically, Carter Glass packs" enough brains to get him past any doorkeeper
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 The republican party should be able to learn a great deal about itself from Ht mer Cummings Keynote" speech.
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 The nations sweet tooth might as well be a wisdom tooth. for all the su- gar profiteers care.
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 With thirty or forty. wars going on. it looks if the Versailles treaty were just another scrap of paper.
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 Senator Reed is about as popular at the democratic convention as British SC dier at Sim Fein meeting. BIRMINGHAM'S GROWTH F-cm the Gadsden Journal.