The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-24

, indication of the demand for the Ala bama product by other nations. This, in turn, points to the necessity of the long-delayed coal terminals being built at Mobile, without which no large export business of a regular nature and such as to command per manency can be established.
 For the present operators are not concerned with export trade. There is not enough coal for domestic pur- poses. The same may be said of coke. Very little of the latter moves out of the district on account of the great demand for it here. The time will come, however, when the dis trict will require an outlet for it's surplus ofN production. The termi- nals should be ready for the arrival If that time.
 Alabamians are more and more realizing that the port of Mobile is their common gateway for marketing with the rest of the world, and since the world war brought knowledge of our intimate contact with other na- tions commercially, financially and industrially, they see the necessity Of trading with these other nations.
 Port aid is aid to the farms, to the mines and mills, to every interest, to every man, woman and child in Alabama.
 A bartender has been arrested for stealing a mall pouch containing s1oo,- coo. Here's a good chance for his law yer to use little Sob stuff" Deprived of livelihood by prohibition he turned first one way and then another At last grown desperate, with, mayhap. a wife and nine children to support. he yielded to temptation
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 .Inha abitants of a Spanish village rioted because the mayor didn't pro vide, enough bulls for a local festival. When you stop to consider that bull fighting is to Spain what baseball is to America, the wrath of those villagers can be easily understood.
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 "We all make mistakes" said Sir Thomas LiptSn, addressing Sing Sing ,onvicts. Don't we, though? Sir Thomas himself recently made one, in connee- ion with the Americas cup, which cost aim tidy sum of money.
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 oi4Oc Si"iHi to nave Iounu plot | against Lloyd Georges life. If there | s anything in lunches" he will be | he next premier to be shot. stabbed, | bombed or otherwise assaulted.
 The estate of Chicago millionaire included s2o,ooo worth of liquor. Some f his heirs are understood to be show ng great fortitude in their bereave- nent.
 The gentleman who escorts his wife 0 the polls and stands by with swell lg chest while she casts her firsr allot is the kind of husband for uffragist to have.
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 courageous patron of Birming- am restaurant gave waiter a nickel esterday, but he probably never ex- 1 ects to enter the place again. lt
 * * # ( -h icAds Slil carried fourteen bath | lg suits for a two weeks vacation on le California beaches. A single bath g suit suffices if one has the figure.
 * # < There Is nice distinction between le United States Senate and the Sen :, -e oligarchy," which Senator Hard- , g refrains from drawing. t
 # # * f De la Huerta says he will reform Tia c lana. Another slap in the face of a urists. t The sufflgists say they are pleased ith the situation in Tennessee. Wear g of the red rose report all well at ecatur.
 Those American aviators fighting r Poland more than offset Link" effens, chief propagandist of tho lssian soviet ~ovn~nment Il
 * * < Boss" Murphy may not be taking n conspicuous part in the Cox cam- u ign. but he knows the situation in t wv York from the ground up. Even if it cost them twice s15,O0o a Q, republicans would consider the l at ho