The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-02
v E z Another Chance for Fairness to Greece

France and Italy are understood to have helped Turkey in the re- cent hostilities, while Great Britain leaned toward Greece. The gallant Greek army has surprised them all with it's achievements, and now that it presses on Constantinople, the old jealousies are at work, with Greece the pawn.
 How to deal with Greece is the problem before the powers. It is a problem because they are not yet willing to do the only square thing to be done. That is to turn the Turk out of Constantinople and have it ruled by Greece. Rule by Greece need not be an altogether independ- ent one. The powers might still patrol the Dardanelles and preserve them as an international thorough fare. To that plan the Greeks would probably enter no objection. Under the treaty of Sevres, the Greeks were accorded all Thrace up to the gates of Constantinople, Smyrna and a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The trouble with this treaty is that it did not include Constantinople, at least to the ex- tent of expelling the Turk and mak- ing it international. The part which France and Italy have played in helping the Turks to ignore that treaty has not redounded to their credit.
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  range the status of Constantinople with the Turk eliminated as with the Turk under consideration. In fact, 1t could be more easily done by removing this troublesome fac tor. That is the first thing to be done if the problem Is ever to be solved.
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 crime school is reported to have been unearthed in Philadelphia. An institution of that kind sends it's graduates out into the world with an extensive knowledge of locks, bolts and combinations.
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 An autopsy performed on an Ohio hog showed that the animal died of appendicitis. There won't be much money in raising hogs if the little pig has to go to hospital before he goes to market,
 Edison slept so much during his recent camping trip that we've lost all confidence in his ability to get along with three or four hours of sleep out of the twenty-four.
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 An Atlantic City hotel keeper has been sentenced to serve six months in jail for violating the prohibition law. His opinion of the United States isn't fit to print,
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 The spectacle of Raymond Hitch cock pawning his watch to pay the fares of his chorus girls back to New York was enough to melt press agent to tears.
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 It Is sad state of affairs when fishermen along the New England coast abandon an ancient and hon orable calling to become whisky smugglers.
 The average of intelligence in this country is still high, in spite of the people who drink '.moonshiner when the thermometer registers 100 in the shade.
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 A number of American authors who have accumulated enough money to go abroad are doing it.
 + # x Political conditions may be i'm proving in Russia. but what Russia needs more than anything else just now is three square meals a day. It must be the ambition of every train robber who gets few hundred dollars for his pains to do something worth while and wreck a bank
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 A fountain tooth brush may fill a long felt want, but what the world really needs is a1entist who can send lem away with smile.
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 At any rate. Northcliffe will be spared great many tiresome em- bassy dinners while he's travelling in British possessions
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 One advantage the southerner en- joys is being able 10 stand 100 de.