The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-24
Concerning the Mortgage
 on Sergeant York's Farm

Q tennessee to pay OH tne mort gage on the farm of Sergeant York, the Houston Post says, "1he fact that the mortgage on the Alvin York farm amounts to more than $12,000 suggests the thought that the greatest hero of the war set out to farming on too large a scale, and that he might have fared bet ter had he not gone so deeply in debt. The sergeant is evidently a better fighter than he is business man."
 This is not quite fair to York. According to the newspaper ac- counts published when it became known that he was in financial straights, the mortgaged was sad dled on him by the admirers who gave him the farm, leaving a bal ance of about $12,O00 of the pur- chase price unpaid. This was rather a poor kind of gift. It placed bur den on York's shoulders which he was unable to carry, since the defla- tion following the war immediately struck the farming industry and all other industries.
 but the people of Tennessee and the Nashville Rotary club have de- cided to help York out of his diff faculties. If they need any help, which does not appear probable now, the rest of the country should be willing to lend it's assistance. York would not have been poor if he had capitalized his heroism, something he refused to do and for which the nation honors him.
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 Paris doctors say boards and mus taches are increasing alarmingly among, women who smoke cigarettes
 
 and drink alcoh olic liquors. A little propa aganda Of that sort will do more to reform the fair sex than all the laws in existence.
 A New York woman says when she objected to her husbands business, he replied, You ought to be proud to be the wife of a successful bootleg ger Furthermore, there is no req son why she shouldn't be able to break into society
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 Irate mothers in mems clothes are said to have whipped a Texasrwoman, and not members of the Ku Klux Klan. When mothers put on mems clothes and so on the war path, it is reasonable to suppose that they are irate.
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 So many sapient writers have in- formed us that the statesmen who drew up the Versailles peace treaty and the League of Nations covenant had no-vision we are beginning to suspect they are right.
 The automobile steam laundry" which operates just under our sane tum windows makes more noise in half an hour than Chinese laundry does in half century.
 T * * If Woodrow Wilson has chuckle left In his system, it, must come out when republican senators criticize Harding for doing what Wilson did.
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 Among the other hardships experi- enced by Lloyd George as a promi-, nent Welshman Is the fact that he has to look pleasant, while his coun- trymen sing.
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 American women have made the startling discovery at Deauville that they must have at least ten changes of costume daily or hang their heads in shame
 It's good idea to find out what defects there are in the construction of the zR-e before she gets out into the middle of the Atlantic.
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 Some of our more pessimistic statesmen seem to think the railroads will always-excuse mixed metaphor -Ahave their hands out.
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 The Harding retainer who looks after the White House lawn doesn't
 
 get his picture in the papers half as often as the Harding dogs.
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 Samuel Gompers says unemploy- ment is an economic crime Unem- pioyn,ert of ex-service men is worse thAn that