The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-15

 easily be adjusted. The Japanese government hastened to express its formal regret. It is announced that the sentry will be court-martialed and orders have been issued at Vladivostok forbidding Japanese sentries to chal- lenge Americans in the future.
 The death of Lieutenant Langdon was deplorable, but it should not, and will not, cause any friction between the American and Japanese govern ments.
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 The Anti-Blue Law league has chosen the Goddess of Liberty for an emblem. That leaves the reformers the choice of l Columbia or the American eagle, al- though their claims entitle them to neither.
 business man evangelist" is charged l Wlln ndNHS SNInuleu investors out ol sl, ,OoO,0O0 He brought his converts into the fold and then fleeced them. It was appalingly simple.
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 The report that Uncle sam would make l Constantine's government a loan is all a mistake. Greece is still dependent on the dollar princess" for funds. x < <
 Mir Harding is growing gray under the strain. Worse still, he is barely started on the rocky road travelled by Presi- dent.
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 General Murguia is reported to have taken the field against Obregon. This will give the President of Mexico some thing to think about besides his health 1 + * # 1 The statement of Irish sympathzers that Lloyd George would be permitted 1 to enter the rnited States is probably true.
 "Photoba" is new eye disease caused by looking at dazzling objects When a pretty girl trips by in modish attire gaze-if you can-at the skyline x F # While it may be true that we are not menaced by an army of immigrants ranging all the way from Is, ,O0o000 to 9 0C0,00O, the Jap problem is still with us
 # # + Washington's society leaders, in lieu of aid from the White House, are ex pected to fall back on their own re- sources.
 < < < A New York man has been sentenced to kiss his wife daily. By some repro bates that would be regarded as cruel and inhuman punishment
 # * x The nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals has called forth a remarkable exhibition of plain and fancy pussyfooting at Wash ington. It is related that Hon. Monk East man used to be victorious in as many as 15 fights a night. but he was in his prime then. Bruised and battered, Jimmy Wilde $ | still the idol of Great Britain. He's a game little chap, anyhow, and a 100 per cent boxer. MT Hardng's inauguration "trous- seau' will consist of Ii suits in addi-i tion, no doubt. to his golf togs.
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 A Saturday night bath in Vienna costs E, very good reason for not consider ing it necessity.
 Threatened with badness, King George | has sent out an "S o. S." for a reliable l hair tonic.
 Wayne B. Wheeler is confidently look ing forward to seeing the whole world 1 dry He should live so. long.
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 If it's exercise they want, the Turkish | nationalists are getting plenty of it.
 THE BLUE LAWS From Leslies.
 The Lords Day alliance has recently | brought to the fore the old svexed | question of Sunday laws and Sunday | observance. Tn settling upon a princi- , pie for the working out of a Sunday jolicy we can't do better than go back | to the time of the original blue law" 1 advocates. The Pharisees were the arch | opponents of the Man of Galilee. and | one ground for their enmity was the ] prophets lax ideas upon the Sabbath. | In the eyes of these legalists the Sab- ; bath as a sacred day was of more im- | portance than man himself Man was | of value only as he fitted into the le- l galistic interpretation of the day. Jesus exploded that theory for r.all time when ! He declared the Sabbath was made for man. not man for the Sabbath"
 The Lords Day alliance enjoys the | support of many churches, but it's pro- gramme is not a church programme. It would be exceedingly difficult to get | all the churches to Agree on practi- rr>t--