The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-19

llL DllNlu LIN AI1AI AN very heart of the district where lie the ingredients entering into Bir- mingham iron and steel. It is equi- f distant from the Warrior river, down which the plates are floated to Mo- bile. Bessemer throbs with the life that is typical of the district.
 It is great thing to have the Bessemer City and ships bearing the names of Chickasaw, Ensley, Mobile, i Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Br- mingham going in and out of the ! ports of the world telling the peo- pies of all nations about Alabama and the busy places in it where men and women are prosperous and hap py; telling them about what we do and make here and selling our goods to them, for which we get money in return to build more and more ships and expand Qpr trade. 1 x < x 1 A baseball writer says "Matty" swears a, bit and even takes a drink occasion ally. These failings will be forgiven ,, ir ball player who would be the last man in the world to look for bank roll under his pillow # + # 1 Abe Lincoln, says a biographer, used a wedge and did not split rails with an ak, as commonly supposed That is a minor detail, but we defy anybody to prove that Abe didn't study by the light of pine knots. 1 A column conductor says he has never read Great Expectations" While co,l- fessions are in order we don't mind saying Hard Times" by the same author ia hard reading.
 # # 4 Agitators may say conditions in the Alabama coal fields are worse than Russia but deep down in their hearts they are glad to be several thousand miles from Petrograd # # # If Mir. Lewis headloch has permanent ly eliminated stecher from the wrestling tr,,.f,, ;t o,o,. te ,,ooo.e,,.,. .o ,,1.x.;4 . of the aspirants now on the waiting list. * x # If New Yorks police commissioner were to read a few kind words about himself in some of the New York papers he probably wouldn't survive the shock.
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 We trust that when Mary Garden clashes with the Latin temperament in grand opera circles she will know how to ,be short sharp and severe
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 Mir Burleson is sad to be a har.l orker, There is no better way to keep cheerful when people are making unknl remarks about you and your job
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 At the risk of being called crepe hanger, we predict that the Carpenter baby is going to be spoiled. unless the family increases.
 Judging from recent photographs, Gil bert K. Chesterton has almost as. great
  a contempt for pressing clubs as Will liam Jennings Bryan.
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 What with office seekers, best minds n reformers and one thing and another, MT Harding is rapidly forgetting how to enjoy life
 some of the movie stars may be com peled to worry along with only one car.
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 The movies may be partly responsible for the fact that our urban population outnumbers our rural population.
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 The glad tdings that the cost of liv- ing is coming down have not yet reached the dull ears of landlords
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 Cabinets rise and cabinets fall but Lloyd George continues to receive his mail at No. 10 Downing street.
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 South Carolina has female judge of probate There has always been close affinity between women and wills.
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 The cat population of Chicago is esti- mated at 5000. The rat population must be at least 10 times as large
 NORMALCY IN EUROPE From the Kansas City Times.
 It is estimated that s,000,oo0 men will be ready to resume fighting in Europe in the spring, which seems to show Eu-