The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-23

,arnacle jail are doomed. sible, it is liable to become the vii. est kind of poison, certainly unpala- table and sickening in it's effects.
 Just like the man in MT. Quillen's editorial, the average man who can. not afford to pay the exorbitant prices now charged for red liquor dis covers that he is playing a game of tag with the undertaken and quits buying "moonshine." The people who adulterate this kind of whisky, which is even less harmful than many brands of red liquor, when pure and properly made, are slowly but surely destroy ing their market.
 In time, rye, bourbon and Scotch will be the faintest of memories and only "moonshine" will remain, with few people willing to run the risk of buying it. Then indeed there will be drouth in the land, parching and permanent.
 A gentleman pug who came to Birrning- ham and posed as another gentleman pug, at the time sojourning in Memphis, was found out before any considerable sums of money had changed hands. Opinions differ, but one Birmingham cit- izen thinks the most humiliating of all desths is to be hurled into eternity by a jitney bus with Tapping mud guards. >x Y E
 Shall Prohibition Be a Farce?' asks the Houston Post That question has been answered by the all-powerfuI Anti Saloon league. which says it shall not
 VIII he rider was the password of thieving express messengers. Otherwise their system of robbing the United States government was simplicity itself.
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 Jake Hamon's slayer will write her own photoplay, it is announced. How much longer will public sympathy for her hold out under such treatment? Give our fool reformers a little more rope and smoking will be made hanging offense. We are in favor of applying that penalty now to chewers of tobacco
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 The Memphis Commercial Appeal dis cusses Government By the Unfit" That's the kind of government we have most of the time iii this country
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 The President of Liberia wears a rib- bon across his white shirt front which probably makes him feel more at ease among diplomatists.
 Allied soldiers who marry German girls are evidently convinced that the war is over and private fights might as we'll be- gin now as later.
 It begins to look as if Woodrow Will son would be compelled to reply to Rob- ert Lansing. if only to keep the record straight. You can't learn much about conditions in Russia from a lecturer who hasn't been there in six or eight months.
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 If the next war is to be fought in the air. there won't be blessed thing to hide behind
 < # Y What in the world would a farmer 8 wife do with her spare time if she mere- ly worked A hours week?
 The correct pronunciation Of Viviani's name is not so important as the subject matter up his sleeve.
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 Bottled goods smuggled into Florida not infrequently make bee line to Birming- ham.
 < . z Clemenceau is back in France. step ping around like a brisk collesian.
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 The Poles talk as if the Germans in silesia voted early and often NAMES DIsCREETLY OMITTED From the St. Louis Dispatch.
 A senator approached Senator Knox and said:
 Senator. why do you suppose Mr. Harding has been comforting with So- and-So and Mr.. Such and Such?"
 Well" replied Senator Knox. "l suppose he wanted complete mental relaxation"