The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
F x x By-Product Gas Will Be Turned on Today

~ AO lIOm IiiS UJ-PIOOuCL pldHC Ol G the Sheffield Steel and Iron Company in East Birmingham will today enter the mains of the Bir- mingham Railway, Light and Power Company for distribution in Birming- ham homes.
 It will require several days for the new gas, which at first will be mixed with the water gas remaining in the reservoirs, to become adjusted to the burners. Consumers have been noti- fled by the company that the gas trouble department stands ready on notice to help them make the adjust ments in case they are unable to do so satisfactorily.
 Let's bear that in mind before we begin criticising the new arrange ment. No innovation may be ex- pected to work with absolute smooth ness and precision from the start. There are thousands of households to be served. We should not become im- patient if all are not served at once. We will save on the by-product gas now and we will save more later on. We would have much lower gas if we had not been held back by lack of confidence in one another several years ago when we could have got ten a more favorable contract on the base of lower cost of production. As it is, cooking gas at 88 cents per thousand feet is lower than in most cities.
 We are especially glad to use by product gas because it is home product. It comes out of the coal de-
  posits which nature gave us, and it is the result of the enterprise of our industrial corporations in keeping pace with the most modern iron making methods.
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 If the current series of hold-ups con- tinues much longer, citizens of Bir- mingham may have to purchase ar mored cars and go about the streets at night armed to their proverbial teeth.
 # # * As an answer to the old fashioned mar who said women were not inter- ested in the ballot it might be stated that nearly 100000 Alabama women will vote in the national election.
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 The German vice chancellor was cheered when he suggested restoring eho A"oh"i SHy' IHe average Ieuton IS lost without something to bow down to.
 # x + , The republicans are no longer claim ing a landslide. The American people may know little about the League of Nations. but they can tell when a can didate is wobbling
 The Belgian aeronauts laughed and cried when told they had won the inter- national balloon race. Temperamental fellows. but they are made of the stuff that stopped the Germans
 Major Dalrymple. hero of Michigans rum rebellion" has resigned. As the smoke of battle has long since cleared away. we may assume he didn't quit under fire
 It is pleasing to have aeronauts sing the praises of Birmingham hospitality and Birmingham gas. as it were, in the same breath.
 The restoration of Constantine's pen sion might enable him to bear exile with more fortitude than he has yet shown.
 The state department is aware that there is new government in Mexico, but is not yet ready to extend the hand of fellowship.
 Considering the number of British soldiers in Ireland. it behooves Sim Feiners to think twice before starting anything.
 Burma wants cheaper wives. With other necessities coming down. why not wives? Whisky thieves are not only bold, but they seem to be utterly without sense of shame.
 ** * Everybody who returns from Russia announce that something or other ''stalkss abroad" there.
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 As we dodge automobiles it is hard