The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
ums, but for modest

 appeal now being made.
 Jefferson eountys quota is &, 5,000. A canvassing organization has been perfected and team committees started to work yesterday. As the time is short, the canvass must be brisk.
 The county's quota should go over the top. In such cause $10,o0O would seem little enough. Every dollar will be needed at national headquarters. 1 If you cannot give $5, make it what you will. A dollar will help. Even 1 fifty cents will count But give some thing, and do it with a cheerful spirit.
 Governor Cox, the democratic stand ard bearer, is making a whirlwind campaign. Personally popular and full of magnetism, he stands for high ideals and progressive principles. He wears no boss collar, but he will fight with pluck to the end. It must not be that his efforts will fail of good results because of an empty treasury.
 All Alabama should bestir herself and especially must this prosperous county rise to the occasion. Says the New Orleans .Item The stunt flying championship is again va can't" This will be news to the Hon. Jersey RingeL who is thrilling multi tudes daily at the Alabama State Fair by standing upright on a wing of his plane as it loops the loop. < * < According to bulletin issued by his publishers. John Burroughs occasionally eats woodchuck- With the right kind of sauce it might even be possible to enjoy the "fretfui porcup:ne" < # Let motorists be considerate,- urges the Houston Post. Since gentle persual sion has failed in this neck of the woods, there is some talk of using shot, guns. x * A revised ronnt erivaS D.4ro;F people than the first census report The various civic organizations of Detroit may have some difficulty in registering satisfaction. Grand Duke Michael of Russia is re- ported to be sojourning with the King of Siam. His return to Russia at any time soon is problema sicaI T # Doe" Eliots remarks to "habitual re- publicans" should sink in. Senator Lodge is horrible example" of an ''habitual republican" # < x Burleigh Grimes has name that sug- gests diplomacy. literature or the movies. but he's the master of a wicked slant" < < * In letting the people decide whether he or Senator Spencer is telling the truth, President Wilson takes his case 10 the court of last resort.
 < # < We gather from a hasty reading of-| dispatches that the profits in sugar have considerably exceeded the net re- turns from paragraphing. < x x With Tom Hardwick for governor and Tom Watson in the United States Son. ate. Georgia will not be in a position to point with pride.
 # # < | West Virginia boatswain risSed his l life in a shipwreck to save his best suit of clothes. It was probably bought at the peak price.
 < * x 1 CnArteS IOHzl Wil3 De aDie To. pay less than one dollar in three. That's not so bad. Most bubbles" are a total loss to the investor.
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 At any rate, Senator Reed has noth- ling to lose in little argument with Woodrow Wilson.
 
 The manufacture of 5000 collins month in Petrograd is another manifes- tation of the blessings of bolshevisu | < x <
 Colonel Bryan continues to emulate Achilles, who sought his tent and nursed a deep grouch.
 Chicago's forthcoming ~hernp carni- val" in the Cook county jail will be strictly an invitation affair
 There may be some conn ec tion be- tween cheaper whisky in New York and the increase in drinking.
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