The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-20

oASV oNNSN 6ASAJ eV ~hS AhOhOy available for road construction. The Delaware road funds come from in- come tax revenue and automobiles, including fees for registration of ve- Ihicles and licensing drivers. In nine months of 1919 the receipts from this source "were almost eight times what they were for the entire year 1914, and more than double what they were in 1917." All progressive states have real ized the necessity of providing per- manent roads and there is a marked Iunanimity of opinion that they. must be built without the aid of politicians. The people want roads-not patron Iage. Alabama's programme of road building is on a much more ambitious Iscale than Delaware's, but that plucky little state has already made Ia good start.
 When New Orleans prohibits some thing you know that it must be ter rib1e," says a Mobile pastor, in dis cussing the "shimmy' and the tickle Ptf ho leans-1ight-hearte New Orieans-k not as it used to be. SO they are turn ing to Cuba.
 An Ohio woman got divorce from her husband because he didn't take bath during the entire five months he lived with her. There are so many fancy dewdads on the market now adays to make bathing attractive you'd think a person would acquire, the habit without half trying.
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 Newspaper correspondents who vere exposed to shell fire and other dan gers during the great war got off light compared to the Associated Press rep- resentative who was kissed by Emma Goldman in Finland.
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 Vice President Marshall describes Johnny going to Sunday school while father stays at home and reads the Sunday supplement MT. Marshall cer tainly knows the ways of the average American family.
 A writer in Henry Ford's weekly says the French are badly misunder- stood by Americans. Alas, too many of us get our ideas of the French from musical comedy.
 Influenza is sweeping through Poland. Something disastrous Is al- ways happening to that unlucky coun- try.
 The Russian Friends of American Freedom will be considerably handi- capped in their work by some 5000 miles or more of salt water
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 Oh, we'll. there is nothing now to prevent Clemenceau from paying that long-expected visit to Egypt and the pyramids resf.ot -s
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 The Turks see their error in fight ing for Germany. which is what may be called an unusually good example of hindsight
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 The airplane bandit has arrived. Henceforth when he hops off, a bank in some distant city may be his ob- jective
 A female educational expert says life is a man hunt for women. We all know how N feels to go out hunting and come back empty-handed. Emmd GoIumanS s trunk full of furS will no doubt prove useful in the cold climate of Russia.
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 Admiral Sims is doing his best to rob Josephus Daniels of his we'll known complacency
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 Scientists are not discussing the plan to shoot rocket into space on the theory that boys will be boys.
 
 Add horrors of prohibition. A prison keeper killed himself because he fore saw an end to his iob.
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 Sam Gompers is getting to be so pessimistic he sees Freedom slain half dozen times a day.
 * E z General Wood calls our navy a Floating death trap.- Surely he means for the enemy.
 DETER LATE THAN NEVER From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.