The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-18

4 11E DlHlM IN G0 AM At the earth's surface shuddered under
 the feet of It's needless millions. Force
 waves thousands of miles in length
 swept outward from that storm center
 like ripples on a rock-broken pool.
 Yet only the unsleeping seismograph
 noted it and inscribed a mute record for watchful scientists who engi-
 neered them."
 The casual reader fingered mo-
 ment over these words, wondered at
 their import and passed on to other
 news, but the story the seismographs
 told was perhaps another stupendous tragedy of nature, more appalling be-
 cause unseen. Something may have
 happened beyond the knowledge even
 of scientists which was more cata-
 clysmic than the worst disasters
 known to mankind, but it was little
 needed because there was no loss of
 human life and we pygmies continued
 to go about our little affairs unmind-
 ful of the tremendous forces which
 may have been on the verge of de- stroying us.
 # # 4 There must be mething in the ouija board after all. According to credit | line an English poet who died in 1874
 recently contributed some verses to the Des Moines Capital # x !. Germany expects fair play from the Harding administration. Tfe German idea of fair play is little the best of it.
 whats a million dollars?" asks a lcontemporary. A mere trifle to Con- gress but a fortune to the average lparagrapher. Mr. Chaplin's latest magazine arti- cle is interesting, and it does not we venture to say, go over the heads of his readers. rrl roforpoerc Shn11ld baStep fo mass law to prevent the owner of a home brew" recipe from bequeathing it to his heirs.
 The lynching belt now includes so much territory that race riot is lia- ble to occur anywhere in the United States.
 # # # When you come to think about it, it's remarkable how Heading minds begin to run along'' with MT. Hard iipgs mind after they reach Marion. :s < # The League of Nations assembly is e3 mentarian like Rene Viviani to straighten out the snarls. # # * Standing room will not be at a prom ium when MT. Einstein reaches Amer ica to lecture on the theory of rela-
 tivity. Carusos golden voice. is pro nounced unimpaired, and alarm in phonograph circles has subsided. # < * The quickets way for America to re- gain the moral leadership of the world lis to show superior brand of nor ality. # # #
 '"The Wolf of Wall Street" will spend
 the winter in the south as the guest of the federal government. # < F l The league now numbers forty six count em-nations. and several more waiting to be let in. # < * ColoneI Harvey mas at last torn E'm- self away from Marion, but not with out visible effort.
 # < 4 Governor Catts of Florida threa ems to shoot an editor. He's 40 years te- hind the times.
 # < x Having picked up $10O,o0o for less than an hours work, MT. Dempsey
 naturally gravitates to California. # # # The high cost of keeping the country dry is bit discouraging when you con- slider that it isn't dry enough to notice. 4. x * MT. Colby is encountering sub south ern hospitality in South America. A LITTLE RICH BOY
 From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. A Philadelphia boy who suddenly finds himself heir to $scO,oo0 does not | intend to let the sudden affluence give F, fh ho-