The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-01

hundred thousand dollars. One mil lion dollar totals are the most nu- merous.
 The campaign will continue during 1920, and before it is ended the funds will be far over the top. Among the southern institutions in the list are: University of the South, at Sewanee, one million dollars; Washington and Lee, one million dollars; Georgetown College, seven hundred thousand dol lars, and Centre College, five hun dred thousand dollars.
 While a large percentage of the money contributed will go to the gen. eral endowment, considerable amount will be used for the erection of new buildings and increasing the pay of professors.
 The rich and well-to-do people of this country cannot put their surplus means to better purpose than that of promoting higher education.
 < x # Accquitted for murder charge and re- leased from Los Angeles jail. a Jap returned ard asked to be permitted to stay in the jail until he could make ar | engagements to leave the city. as he i feared vengeance of the dead mans friends Rgamists have been known to have much the same feeling, preferrine the protection of iron bars to the ferocity of women scorned. | # # x 1 The New York Herald says the vote of college students on the League of Ma tions is interesting but of no value, which is probably true. Unless students have changed greatly during the past few years not many keep up with contempo. raneous events. The curriculum of the average college does not call for the daily reading of newspapers.
 # * # 1 The governor of Kentucky neatly re. venged himself on Louisville editorial writer who criticised his appointment of 1 100 colonels to his staff by naming the editor rAdmlral of Green River, Ac- crding to the constitution of Kentucky the appointment is legal. l E j. F
 After short stay in Cuba, for the pur. pose of getting. few drinks, a Chicago man Tan amuclS on steamer returnins home and died just before it reached port This tragedy is not expected to hurt the tourist business, however. l # # #
 Among .he leading crepe hangers of tn, day is Premier Hughes of Australia, wht predicts that the next war will prob ably break cut in the Pacific He ma, not be far wrong. at that,
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 An airplane to carry 100 passengers il being discussed. For people who ar willing to sacrifice speed to comfort an, safety. the dirigible is still the one bes bet.
 There are so many flags nowadays, i is impossible to remember them all, bu the blue and white flag of Zion Is prop ably going to be reproduced in colors il later edition of encyclopedias and die tionaries.
 Sir Oliver Lodge refused to make spirit test for the sum of 5000 offere, by a New York man. The latter is skeptic, to begin with, and besides, Si Oliver doesn't need the money. < x * | If the Martians are really trying to es their remarks about the service must b, shocking to hear
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 MT. Munsey is opposed to newspape departments, but surely he believes il beauty hints and advice to the love lorn'?
 * * E | The low mortality from influenza is en couraging to nearly everybody but thu undertaken
 x # * 1 A bumper raisin crop may be due to tn, more or less misleading belief that ever, rsisin has a "kickS