The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-13
with a particular ax to grind.


 pert in lobbying. There could be no criticism of the practice if it were kept within proper bounds, but wher- ever lobbyists are particularly nu- merous there is apt to be a suspicion that undue influence is being brought to bear on legislators.
 An Ao~iOar To,sSoviS: ver+ to Bus- sa with his wife to help Lenine and Trotzky They were imprisoned and his wife died. He has returned home, and is now as near a 100 per cent American as he will ever be x # #
 New York for the Ku Klux. Possibly the mayor is mistaken. There are times when we think the Ku Kiux would fill a long felt want in New York. 4 # sS l It is rumored that Eugene V. Debs may soon be released from prison. When that happens the socialists will lose one of their strongest talking points. 4 # # President Wilson will move out of the White House March 3. Some of the Will son trunks going out may meet some of t~ ;s # # If mediation between the Armenians and the Turks proves successful, it might I then be possible to mediate between the British and the Irish. | * as # l Battling Bill' Borah may now give his attention to scaling a few millions
 off government appropriations. in the in- terests of economy. | x # # 1 American forces in Germany will be re- duced to 5000 men, just enough to remind
 the Teutons that America had hand in
 the World war.
 Cincinnati plasterers who demanded s12 day should be told that the period of economic readjustmens has arrived < < + i Scientists may mine the air as much as they like, but we defy the smartest of them to get any gold out of it. # x # | are so successful in life is the fact that they work while other people sleep. * ]. * Pennsylvania State college will teach men how to cook, another concession to the onward march of feminism. | }. # # | Most of the manufacturers seem to l think 20 per cent reduction in wages would be about right. ;f as # | A physician says New Yorks police are too fat In the region of the head or the waistband? I Washington's hotelkeepers will never forgive MT. Harding for calling off the | inauguration festivities. E a ;s | is believed to look with favor on naval holiday
 /, Harry M. Daugherty is confident that he can keep closed mouth. We shall see
 | WHY NOT A "SIMPLE CEREMONY. 2. From the Chicago News. 1 In the course of a lively debate on the resolution appropriating $5o,0O0 to de- , fray the expenses of the inauguration of the President elect, Senator Borar and others insisted that If Senator Harding had his own way there would l be a simple ceremony" Why, pray, should not the President elect have his way? Whose inaugura- | tion is it to be? Senator Harding is quite right, and the people fully sympa thize with him There is no occasion for a splurge. Sem ator Borah pointed out that the pro- posed federal state and individual ex- penditures on the inauguration would | amount, according to estimates, tc | $1, 900, ,000--a sum altogether "too large when children are dying of starvation abroad, and in American cities thou sands of children are not sufficiently nourished and clothed to attend school Economy is said to be the order of the day in Congress. Appropriation bills are being drastically revised down ward. Even necessary items are "cut tc 1 the bone." In these circumstances, the expenditure of a modest sum on the in auguration would meet with genera approval.
 The nation cannot revert to so-called Jeffersonian simplicity. but in the mat
 ter of his own inauguration there seems
 to be no good reason for going beyond
 the simple ceremony" which the Presi. dent-elect has requested. MINING THE AIR
 From the Chicago News.
 Recently men have undertaken tt
 mine nitrates, or some of the materials
 for nitrates, from the air. There is nj.
 trogen enough in the air, no doubt, te
 blow civilization off the earth-wert
 that nitrogen concocted into oNexplosives Thero olco haSic fort;ttvaSc aoo,,oh