The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-22
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 Dr. Thach labored long and faith fully for Auburn. Much of it's suc- cess is attributed to him, but Spright Dowell faces an even greater oppor- tunity. He can make of the Alabama Polytechnic institute one of the strongest colleges in the country, as it is already among the leading in- stitutions of its kind.
 The new president of Auburn can rest assured that in whatever he does for the advancement of the school whose future is in his hands, he will receive the hearty cooperation of the people of Alabama, who feel that at Auburn and Tuscaloosa are two educa- tional institutions which are credita- ble to the state and the south.
 A New York legislator proposes to ban the "shimmy," the "toodle," the bear hug" the camel walk" and oth- CT dances. By the time he got his law passed there'd be a crop of new ones.
 n- might agree to knock off l centime from the German indemnity. Even in the best of times the centime was no great amount of money.
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 General Pershing, states reporter for New York newspaper, declined to give the name of woman whom he escorted to the opera. We trust tha. the reporter had the good sense 10 be neither surprised nor disappointed.
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 One M. Schwartz, who went to Rus sia to worship at the feet of Lenine and Trotzky is giving out interviews on the subject of bolshevism that will rot make any converts
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 George Washington not only could prevaricate on occasion, but swore and sometimes took his liquor straight We might as well take our history the same way.
 * * x We would not think any less of 7 Warren G. Harding if he never again granted an audience to George Syl- vester viereck.
 It is said the star system in the plain why the stars who are still vis- ible are so busy feathering their nests.
 e # * Women. says John F. Kramer, are making great deal of home brew. This merely confirms we'll grounded suspicion.
 VI President Wilson's new cane is proof that there is at least a wood carver in Alabama who fe4ls kindly to- ward him.
 When a Jap tells us that he is neith- CT pro-American nor anti American We naturally infer that he has a great admiration for the Mikado * F * The American Legion says the Ger mans will bear watching. If anyone desires corroborative testimony, France will cheerfuny furnish it. E j. . The poets may be quiescent, but pie lures of baseball celebrities in the pub lie prints are reliable i,arbingers of spring.
 l When Lenine and Trotzky are finally kicked out of Russia, or executed, it will take about seven years to clean | up Petrograd and Moscow. q ' 1 Life would not be so complicated ii there were not so many self-appointed leaders who don't know where they are going.
 1 # F E l Ankle curtains have been provided for women in Springfield, O., court They are needed more for street wear 1 E =
 For a statesman who has been re- pudiated. venizelos continues to aocm large in the affairs of Europe. ] F < l The rehabilitation of the democratic donkey will call for almost an en. tirely new pelt. 1 WHAT'S THE MORALs From the Boston Globe. | One version of an old-timer: l Two men were standing behind tn, chain on the front deck of . Rever, Beach ferryboat. As usual . woman