The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
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those officials.
 The Maryland senator's idea is to have President Harding appoint a commission to visit Russia and in- vestigate the situation there, but this sort of thing is getting to be tiresome. Investigators, officials and unofficial, have made volumin- ous reports and it is doubtful if any useful purpose would be served by acting on Senator Frances sugges- tion.
 Secretary Hoover knows infinitely more about Russia than Senator France, who spent few weeks there and came home singing the praises of Lenine and Trotzky. It would require many months, if not years, to make an adequate survey ] of conditions in Russia, even if the bolshevik authorities were willing to permit a thorough investigation. l Senator France labors under the sus- picion of having been treated we'll by the bolshevik leaders, for mo- tives that are easily understood, and was probably shown only the bright side of the picture. Had he not been United States senator and at- tempted to find out what really is going on in Russia in the capacity of a private citizen he might have come back with a different story to tell.
 Sixteen hundred and twenty-two performances of Shakespeare were given In Germany last year. So far iAttI " llHGlIl IS COHCtIHeu, IHH Teutons are willing to cast aside pre- judice.
 Paris recently had difficulty in get ting 15,000 soldiers together for General Pershing to decorate the tomb of an unknown soldier Carry the news to Germany
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 Representative Herrick of Oklaho- ma gets his name in the papers. but merely causes people who read about him to wonder how he ever got to Congress.
 Now that a woman has sued her husband for divorce because he spends so much time with his fliv- yer. few golf widows may be heard from.
 * x < Even if i"Babe" fails to knock home run in the world series, he will have no trouble in justifying his ex- istence in the eyes of baseball fans |
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 Are your flues all clear?" asks q | contemporary They are so far, but | we expect to catch our annual cold | sometimes within the next 30 days. |
 X x Judge Taft gays prohibition has failed to put stop to law violations, and nobody has ever accused Judge | Taft of having chronic thirst. All the Germans are not working. l large percentage of them are try ing to get rich quick via the race track and the roulette wheel.
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 The old-fashioned girl who blushed | whenever a strange man spoke to | her has a daughter who wins snappy | arguments with traffic policemen.
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 Mary Garden will remain at the head of the Chicago Grand Opera | company. That's another excuse to publish Mary's picture.
 * x # Mrs Q. II. P. Belmont. it is re- ported, will run for the presidency. | We have no doubt the exercise will | do her lot of good
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 Mr Dempsey says he's the cham pion boxer, not the champion prize fighter of the world. A nice dis tinction
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 Some of the people who talk about the good old days" don't go any | farther back than the -volstead | era.
 The disarmament conference prom | ises to be dry enough. without hav- ing .he cocktails eliminated. New York is having a vaudeville l war. Managerial rivalry often | proves beneficial to the customers.
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 One or Arbuckle's lawyers has | withdrawn from the case. Strange. | Fatty" must have few dollars left.
 
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