The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-25

only way to win the confidence of la- Dor and render strikes unnecessary. # 4 x Why Delay Longer in
 Starting Auditorium? ~ ROUND should have been broken NJ for the auditorium long before now. Why not go forward without further delay? The half million dollars of bonds voted for the edifice were sold at good price and the proceeds have been in bank for month or more.
 Something like $100,0OO has been subscribed as a supplemental fund and it is expected that considerably more will be subscribed, but with S500,- 1000 in hand work should proceed forthwith.
 A half million dollars will pay for a site and build a substantial struc- ture. The supplemental funds can be used in embellishments which will be needed. But, even without orna- mentation, there will be enough money after paying for the ground to erect handsome building.
 As to the supplemental fund now in sight and that can reasonably be counted on, Birmingham will have an auditorium equal to the most peauti- ful south of the Potomac. l What is most needed is start. With the bulk of the funds in view, site should be secured and an archi- tect engaged to draw the plans. 1 The way things have been Jrag- ging, it will be another six months before a foundation is started and year before an election for a new com mission is in order. The auditorium should be completed before another commission goes into office. It is surely none too soon to get busy if the commission of 1921 would see the ng-talked-of auditorium completed.
 l The late George w. Perkins left $50, eco and an annuity of $6,0O0 a year to wom- an who had been his secretary for thirty seven years, which is a substantial way of saying. Well done thou good and faithful servant" l Atlanta welcomed Georges Carpenter with open arms. It does look, sometimes, as if Atlanta were more metropolitan in Tits ways than Birmingham.
 Although Washington has been prac- | tically deserted by statesmen, thousands O. war clerks still on the government pay roll lend life and movement to the scene.
 At any rate, Mir. McAdoo will have paragraph or two in history without the presidency, and nest egg in these times iS not to be sneezed at
 x x Y | Now that women are taking hand in politics. whats to become of the old fashioned smoke screen that used to create low visibility in committee rooms? ? Any naturalist will tell you that the elephant and the donkey are both hay burners"
 San Francisco's 2,0oo hotels are rapidly filling up. Bellhops will soon be refusing to hop for less than quarter.
 * < * Venizelos seems to have things pretty much his own way with the allied pre- miers and King Alexander. ,s < *
 An accusing finger is pointed at A. Mitchell Palmer for the profteers he failed to scotch. | x * + The latest photograph of President Will son shows a man whose mind might be on golf.
 * ss # Towns whose population has decreased can nevertheless boast about the superior quality of their citizenship. 1 MT. Dempsey does not possess a hyp- nctic eye. His hypnotic powers lie in his punch.
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 Although, Obregon is said to have a keen sense of humor, that won't protect him from an assassin's bullet l Perhaps MT. McAdoo is trying to put himself in the position to be really and Itruly drafted
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 When Hiram Johnson says, T am hap pier than ever before.' he taxes our cre- dulity.