The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-19

~ SAtS SOON NAAi6o AI 1AASANS HI Brussels than in any other capital in Europe.
 There is poetic justice in the fact that the first country to feel Prus- sia's might should be the first to get back on it's feet and push forward, with its eyes on the future. Yet, the economic situation in Belgium seems paradoxical. The American people may suspect that the Belgians were not as badly off as reported. They were not, but their present prosperity is easily explained.
 Although occupied, with the excep- tion of strip of sand along the coast, by the Germans, Belgium suf- fered little material damage. Her factories were stripped of machinery and material, but the Germans were compelled to return their loot. Bel gium's loss of man power was con- siderably less in proportion to popu- lation than England or France suf- fered. Thosuands of her young men were unable to reach the Belgian army which was cut off by the Ger mans. Naturally thrifty and indus trious, the Belgian people went to work as soon as the armistice was signed and have wasted no time since. Wages are low and living is cheap. The characteristics which made Bel gium a beehive of industry before the war were not lost. Belgium had nothing to think about but her own internal affairs and as a result of team work, unhindered by bolshevism and other evil outgrowths of the war, the nation is once more on a sound economical basis.
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 South American immigrants with bank. rolls running into the hundreds of thousands are a contrast to the average immigrant who arrives in America with nothing and gets rich at the expense of his less thrifty neighbors. Resumption of telegraphic commu- nication with the City of Mexico should enable the. American people to get a. few facts about what is going on in Mexico. The grape vine" service of border towns is not reliable.
 The English comment on Secretary Daniels charge that an effore has been made to place von Tirpitz at the head of the American navy might be: But you have no yon Tirpitz in America"
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 Suffering from another heart att tack. the supreme court has again postponed decision on the validity of the prohibition amendment and re- cessed until June 1.
 Omaha stores have announced 30 Der cent reduction in prices Will the time ever come when the five and ten cent stores will get back on g. five and ten cent basis?
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 Left a bust of Wilhelm to reimburse him for all his trouble and expense, it's doubtful if Count Bentinck could dispose of it for s2 Mex"
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 If Carranza has lost the loot and has been offered amnesty, what, in the name of common sense does he keep fighting for?
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 Belgium is working hard, saving money and minding her own business. Examples the rest of the world would do well to follow.
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 It is pretty well established that the shortage of sugar is not due to the large qusntities being used by south ern colonels to sweeten their toddies.
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 Even $5O week track walker might have some difficulty in making both ends meet since he would then have s1oo week tastes.
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 If anything could bring cigarettes into disrepute it would be the charge that large numbers are consumed by the people who write free verse;.
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 If the next slogan is to be Down with jazz" thousands of people who couldn't see the prohibition orators will rally around.
 'Wets" will subscribe heartily to the statement of naturalists that camels have mean disposition.
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 MT. ''Nicky" Arnstein scorned nigh finance as commonly understood and scared to the upper attitudes