The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-31

+ x < Outlook for Splendid
 Crops in Some States
 0ULY has been a good growing 0 month. In June the crop outlook was gloomy but in spite of late planting the recent improvement has been rapid.
 In the northern part of Alabama corn as well as cotton is in fine con- dition and the country, taken as whole, promises bumper harvest. Oats and winter wheat have turned out well, and corn will yield at least an average crop. The hay crop will be larger than usual and cotton will probably yield more than last year. Potatoes-Irish and sweet-promise record breaking crops.
 As all our wealth comes out of the ground business of every description will flourish in large measure.
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 An English humorist says when Char ley Chaplin next visits London he'll be escorted halfway across the Atlantic by the American navy and met by the British fleet. This would be sad blow to Mary and Doug" who were merely mobbed in London.
 The chief of police of Long Beach, N. Y., says: Out here we're ounces on styles, but tons on morality. Wear what you desire, but watch your moral two- step" That's fair enough. bathing suit to him is bathing suit, and noth- ing more.
 "A great triumph will be scored when Colonel Bryan and Chief Murphy of Tammany are persuaded to meet in con- ference for the good of the party" says The Washington Star About that time the millennium bells will be ringing. # x x That Washington correspondent of a New York paper who seemed not to have heard that President Wilson had wired his congratulations to Cox, must have been caught in a prolonged poker game.
 A New York woman had her soldier husband arrested for kissing her 300 times a day after returning from the battlefields. At any rate, he seems to have kept aloof from foreign entangle- ments.
 Villas pension will depend on the sta- bility of the Mexican government. On that basis, his prospects for an old age free from financial worries are not prom ising.
 Did the drys win the war;" asks a poet. What war? They won the war against the vets and negotiated a hard reace.
 Speaking of the trophy Sir Thomas failed to lift, witty "gob" said Amer ica is the place for cup without bot tom. Righto
 place in world affairs, will somebody | speak a good word for that moribund institution, the homer # # x | No matter how many times sleepless sleuths are baffled in a murder mystery, they are always ready to be baffled again.
 l Leslie Shaw says Harding is a states man. But. strictly speaking. Leslie does not represent the unanimous sentiment os the country. i The sale of automobiles confiscated by prohibition enforcement officers enables a prospective purchaser to get a bargain | if he doesn't object tohAcar with past. 1 Mary and Doug have returned. Had they been drowned at sea, the film in- dustry would have been left flat on its back.
 Some of these days women politicians are going to learn how to operate a steam roller without even mussing uI their hair.
 While Lloyd George is resting. Lenint and Trotzky will live up to their motto We never sleep"
 Compared to an automobile race, s yacht race is about as lively as a speed contest between two snails.
 x * # | Governor Coolidge has started rather late in the day to popularize overalls. ENGLISH JURY WOMEN I