The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07

the traffic will bear" But the citi- zens of Birmingham are not con- vinced.
 It is significant fact that there is remarkable, similarity in the price of ice in many cities. Why? If there is legitimate competition, it is reasonable to suppose that some manufacturers can make ice cheaper than others, yet 60 cents hundred pounds is the uniform rate to con- sumers. It looks as if there were 'gentlemen's agreement" to stand ardize the ice business.
 The buyers strike" brought down the price of clothing and many other commodities. Ice is almost as indispensable in hot weather as bread. People can't do without it. It is a case where they can't "strike." Are the ice manufactu- rers of Birmingham profiteering or merely striving to make both ends meet by charging 60 cents for hun dred pounds of stuff that melts like snowflake? That's what the peo- pie want to know.
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 The "meanest man" has been dis covered. He lives in Kansas City, Mo, and his wife says he not only won't work, but when he wanted to attend dance he took the only pair of silk stockings she had and cut the tops off so he could wear them for socks
 AmerioA has been compared to Rome in her decadent period. Amer lca Will never decay as long as about nine- tenths of her population have to hustle for living.
 < < < The indestructibility of mule, as compared to a flivver, was shown the other day when Pennsylvania loco- motive knocked mule into a field and men who went to remove the body found the intelligent animal quietly grazing.
 The employment manager of a large insurance company isn't hiring girls with bobbed hair. He says, "we want workers in our office ynot circus riders" Now that we think of it, some of them do look like circus riders.
 Cubans claim to have discovered nonalcoholic drink made out of sugar, one drop of which will make a consumer frisky. We don't wish to hurry the Cubans, but there is such a thing as filling a long-felt want.
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 No riots are reported in Utah since drastic anti-smoking law was passed, so it is reasonable to suppose that Utahs tobacco victims are still smoking anything and anywhere they please
 A new gun to hurl five-ton pro- pectile more than 200 miles is being discussed by scientists. The next war promises to be more of a long, distance affair than the last one.
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 We don't object to the proposed loving cup to be presented to Ad- miral Sims by true blue" Americans. but for the sake of the admirars fu- ture it should be empty.
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 The Prince of Wales is going to h. dia. where he may be able to make a part of India's polyglot population think better of the British govern ment.
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 Newspapers which failed to publish accounts of the way Mme. Carpenter received the fight news deprived their readers of an additional thrill The report that Trotzky has been arrested by Lenine is too good to be true. When the heavenly twins" fall out Russia will be on the mend.
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 The Kaber lawyers want to pick their own alicnists. Naturally, they don't want to bother with alienists they can't rely on.
 < < * German children are being taught to hate France. About 1850. if not sooner, that sort of teaching may bear fruit
 Judging from the Fourth of July celebrations. America is just about as popular in France as she ever was.
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