The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-29

ISSdLulSoo Ol party dlIllldIlOht nOuiu favor the retention of the present in- cumbent.
 No administration, democratic or republican, has been so constructive in many years as President Wilson's. The conduct of the war was one of bold initiative in everything pertain 1 ing to military affairs and in economies, and the handling of food supplies it could not have been .ur- passed.
 If any one act of legislation were pointed to as transcendent it would be the creation of the federal reserve board, which gave us an elastic and stable currency. And the smooth operation of the board has been due in large measure to the acumen, wide vision and economic statesmanship of | W. F. c. Harding l It was promised when the banking and currency bill was pending that i it's passage would mean the end of financial panics. That promise has been wholly fulfilled. Had the bill failed of passage no telling how many crashes there would have been after the war was over. The United States had to finance England, France and Italy. It re- quired billions to do it.
 The reserve board played a big part in the financial machinery, and Mir. Harding was as modest as he was conspicuous through it all. l # # # 1 The man suspected of having murdered his wife and shipped her body in a trunk from Detroit to New York is described as hardly expect him to have frank, open countenance. unless you happened to be | a detective.
 | Governor Cox, with his broiled lamb chops and roasted potatoes is not to en- joy all the culinary honors. The other day Governor Coolidge assisted Mrs. Coolidge in cooking a batch of dough- nuts
 It is reliably reported that when a stranger in Chicago asks policeman where he can get a drink, the policeman doesn't arrest the stranger. On the con- trary, he points a stubby finger and says, Right over there, me friend"
 < # # 1 Having adopted the motto. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Sir Thomas Lipton will make another attempt to win the Americas cup, provided the next world war can be postponed. | Even IT every farmer malntd1neQ a movie theatre and dance hall on his place, the chances are he couldn't keep his hired men from drifting away to the cities
 ! General won Ludendorff has been view I ing with alarm ever since Germany was defeated His fearful gaze is now directed toward bolshevism.
 # F < | Los Angeles continues to have earth quakes. However, we confidently predict that the movie colony will be the last to leave.
 Paris should be able to tell the differ renee between Harding and Cox, even if they do live in the same state and speak the same language.
 Still, it is not absolutely certain that Senator Hardng's illegibile signature will ever appear on a state document. |
 Birming gham maintains her composure in the fierce light that beats upon a town involved in murder mystery.
 # # * Nobody Is going to accuse the farmer labor party of accepting handout from Wall street.
 President Wilson is so far advanced on the road to recovery that Admiral Gray son has ceased to be national figure.
 The democratic donkey, Cox up, and the republican elephant Harding up, have gotten away to good start While we are praising Resolute, isn't it in order to lift our yachting caps to her skipper, Charles Francis Adams? , The heart of Jim Reed is not in the grave. but his foot is usually in his mouth.
 It is creditable to human nature that !, Theda Bara isn't attracting as much at- tention abroad as Mary and Doug"
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