The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-08
MONUMENT IN WASHINGTON
 TO GENERAL GORGAS
armament,

Senator Heflin has introduced bill in Con gress to appropriate $5o,oOo for the erection of a monument in Washington to Gen. William C. Gorgas. Favorable action is expected. al- though there may be some opposition on the score of economy.
 The people of Alabama will be glad to see this distinguished son honored in the national capital with a memorial which will be re- hinder of his services to his country and to humanity. General Gorgas was an army man, but he won fame by saving and not destroying life. His work in sanitation and hygiene was of inestimable benefit to the world
 No American has accomplished more in a branch of science to which General Gorgas de- voted his life. He banished mosquitoes, mala- ria and yellow fever from countries where they had been a scourge for centuries and made plague spots habitable. In Panama, in Cuba and in other lands his name is reverenced and his work lives after him.
 A record-breaking feat of publicity was a special section of 40 pages recently published in the Tampa Tribune by local hardware firm, total of 320 columns of advertising mat ter for this enterprising concern which is one of the largest of it's kind in the south. Ac- cording to Printers Ink and the Editor and Publisher, this is the largest single advertise ment ever printed by any newspaper in America.
 Jap propagandists are said to be working overtime. communication received by The iAge-Herald the other day from Tokio read in some places as if 1t might have been written by Hashimura Togo, Japanese schoolboy.
 robber who bound seven mail clerks on sn Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train and escaped with two sacks of mail must have en- countered seven pairs of exceptionally cold feet.
 The new home proposed for Charles is de- scribed as an earthly paradise. But what does it profit dethroned monarch to dwell in a bliss full environment if his heart is in the grave?
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 Later advices from Kansas City indicate that the American Legion convention was al- most as wet as the Atlantic ocean.
 SniHa S CKeoit lS Sdlo IO De SerlOuSly strained. The amount of strain that can be put on nations credit before it breaks is one of the marvels of latter day finance.
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 The fourth anniversary of Lenine's coup is being modestly celebrated in Russia. Maybe the Russians are beginning to think it's hardly worth big demonstration.
 A plan has been proposed by which New York housewives can purchase milk from trucks, bottled or '1oose." Add this to your vocabulary.
 Marshal Foch says he sees soldiers every where. Somebody ought to tell the marshal most of them only wear their uniforms the day he is in town.
 A Cuban singer who aspires to succeed Caruso is hard up in New York Thus far his voice has not assayed much gold.
 biologist scoffs at the idea of Mars being inhabited. When biologist does scoff he can be heard for considerable distance.
 Small boys who live in Washington are see- ing 50 many celebrities these days they've lost all interest in traffic policemen.
 New York reports falling off in marriages. Gotham long ago discovered that two cannot live as cheapy as one.
 Petrnsrzd ia szid to hsak nk. . de.srtsd mining town. Great are the blessings of bol- shexiam-