The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06

der construction have much to do with this money increase.
 The most satisfactory feature of the building permits of both 1919 and 1920 is that they call for structures representing the requirements of the average merchant and householder. No permit was issued for any very large structure, but practically all for those that fill the wants of the workaday citizen. The structural ac- tivity has reflected virile citizenship reaching out for homes in which to live and places in which to carry on business.
 The large factories that have been built during the past eighteen months are outside the city limits and the fifteen to twenty millions which they represent are over and above what has been built in the city proper, for it's merchants and householders are not included in the figures presented above Neither are the literally hun dreds of homes and storehouses that have been built in Fairfield, Vest field and in other industrial centers. | Withal the need of home and store house remains acute, because Bir- mingham pulses with constant in- croment of new citizenship, and there is no sensing the end of the struc- tural activity now prevailing and which is but one of the many con- vincing evidences of the progress of the district.
 ] Hon. "Rowdy" Elliott, baseball player, says he has been handicapped in his pro- fessiona1 career by nickname bestowed on him by Birmingham newspaper man. It is deplorable when an athlete Is un able or unwilling to live up to hard boiled moniker
 "Noah got drunk on light wines," says the advertisement of a prohibition candi- date. Why recall a painful episode, to the detriment of more or less upright patriarch and an early navigator, just when it was about to be forgotten? # i. # l Chinese mercenaries, who are getting a great deal of experience fighting in Russia and central Europe, ought to be able to give a good account of themselves the next time China and Japan lock horns.
 Instead of going to the United States Senate, the Hon. "Breck" Musgrove will continue to commute between Birming- ham and Jasper. with side trips to New York. Paris and other points. < # T.
 Grow your own furs in your back yard" sounds attractive, but won't the same objection be made to homegrown furs that now attaches to homemade clothes?
 Speaking of confirmed pessimists-or is it optmists the Brooklyn judge who says, National prohibition has produced more drunks than there ever were before"
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 At last We are promised Mary Pick ford's own story of her wretched life with Owen Moore" See the Sunday supple ments Also if you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
 An Ohio farmer without one worry killed himself. Still, that agricultural questionnaire may have preyed on his mind.
 Nevertheless, it is better fsr Attorney General Palmer to "see red'' at every turn than to suspect nothing until a bomb is exploded under somebody's doorstep.
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 The poverty-stricken Germans recently bet nearly 1000O,0O0 marks on horse racing near Berlin. Still that isn't so much in real money.
 Alas, the overall movement already sems to be on it's last legs and 'Don Denim" no longer evokes feeble cheer. E < 4
 As further proof that the Prince of Wales is a human being. when riding the surf at Waikiki he let ont a whoop.
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 Wilhelm will move to Doorn on May Il, according to present plans. May Il will also be moving day for number of candidates in Alabama.
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 One of Mexicos revolutionary leaders , says his party plans to make Msxice dry Is this a subtle bid for the support oi t the Anti-Saloon League? a