The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-07

 there is no reason why great quanti- bies should not be shipped through that port"
 Nothing stands between Mobile and the part that port should play in the development of all Alabama interests except adequate facilities for handling of exports and imports. The thirty-foot channel is there and are available. Alabama must do the rest.
 When Alabamians vote on the port aid amendment this November, they will have before them like choice of development or sticking in the mud as they had when the state highway was presented. No more are the highways that bring the stuff from the farms to the inland waterways and the rail- roads than the means at our port of forwarding our products to the outer world.
 We export as much cotton as our home mills consume. We export as much lumber as we sell at home. Without a foreign outlet, Alabama cotton and lumber would be an over production and domestic consumption would name the price. What is true of cotton and lumber is equally true of many other Alabama products. It behooves Alabamians to think in terms of ships.
 Montreal is said to be the most "wide open" town on the North Amer ican continent, but even at that it's about seven laps behind Costantino- pie.
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 It is reported that ny" Cobb will stump the country for Cox and Roose- welt. Regardless of his oratorical ability, the Hon. cry" will never lack an audience.
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 Oklahoma has supplanted her blind senator with a man who can see, but it may be discovered that even without eyesight. Gore had the better vision
 A movie of candidate moving his lawn would be more popular if 1t doing it before breakfast and disturb ing his sleepy headed neighbors.
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 The speeches of Cox and Harding lack the Wilsonian flavor, and, what is more important in some circles, the Wilsonian style.
 
 According to the latest figures, there are still 54.ooo,o 900 gallons of whisky in government warehouses, enough to give the entire nation a headache.
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 It looks as if the war correspond- ents might as well begin to get their oa eenorts ar5 arr,,-o fon +..x.~.4. tion to Europe.
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 Tennesseans take politics almost as seriously as Mississippians, and down in Mississippi a political cam paign is the next thing to civil war.
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 Germany is determined not to let the allies violate her territory by send ing troops to Poland. As for Belgium in 1914. that was another story.
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 As fellow newspaper workers, may we not advise Governor Cox not to lean too heavily on Prof. Tafts sup port?
 Harding wants conscience to guide the nation. That sounds well, but who's going to be the keeper of the national conscience?
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 Governor Cox has even convinced the suffragists, or part of them, that he has a forceful personality.
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 Talk of mobilizing 400, ,0o0, 900 ne- groes to fight for African freedom sounds absurd in watermelon time.
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 If Ponzi reopens his business he'll never have to spend another nickel for advertising.
 Jce Tumulty's visit to Governor Cox is said to be without political sig nificance--on the surface, perhaps It win take a stronger dyke than any yet erected to check the flood of bolshevism.
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 The disturbance in Lower California is just another indication that Mexico can't have peace everywhere at once
 LUKE; M'LUKE SAYS
 You can get acquainted with mar without marrying him. But it is diff ferent with woman.
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