The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-02

lages concealing "whites" or greens" i" /, the shooting of the adult population and confiscation of property. + xx
 Farm Loan Act Valid;
 Opinion Is Unanimous l1OY declaring valid the farm loan 0 act the United States supreme court has made available to farmers of the country the loans intended to have been made to them through the federal land banks. The act will provide about one hundred million dollars.
 Commissioner Lobdell of the farm loan board, says there will be an im- mediate issue of farm loan bonds and that the loans already approved by the board will be financed. In 30 days time the money will be in sight and will be of service to farmers in mak- ing this years crop. It is gratifying to learn that the de- cision of the court was a unanimous one, the only difference of opinion be- 1 ing not as, to the merits but as to l jurisdiction only. It is good to have fundamental things like this come from the highest court of the land with approval of all the justices, be- cause their unanimity of action is that much additional proof of the un- assailability of the matter decided. Manufacturers and storekeepers get money without difficulty in the ordi- nary conduct of the banking business. It is only fair that Congress should have taken steps to provide the farm CT with loans that are not procurable in the usual way from banks. < * F Things are in bad way in the court circles of Greece. The Dollar Prin- cess" is suffering from ptomaine pois- oning and is attended by five doctors; Queen Sophie has the grippe and for mer Premier Rhallis has gone to Paris to take the radium treatment for can cer.
 The French government has discov- cred, by circularizing various depart ments, that all it needs from Germany just now is 15 cuspidors. At that rate the rehabilitation of Germany will never be accomplished.
 One reason why we'd like to have the physique of Mr. "Strangl Ter" Lewis is that we would always be assured of the respectful attention of hotel clerks and the greatest consideration from taxicab chauffeurs * * < The statement that the New York Central train was travelling slower than the Michigan Central train when they were wrecked is a reflection on road that yields precedence to none. Ss King George has ordered British guardsmen to begin growing mus taches, 'to give the virile touch to their military bearing, whatever that means.
 Very little sympathy is being wasted on Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, who have discovered that bolshevism is not what they thought it was
 many Germans in Japan as there were before the war. The reason why they are there might be worth looking into.
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 The casualties in the disagreement between Costa Rica and Panama could not be large without wipng out all the forces engaged.
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 Living in tent possesses no attrac- tions for the person who is crank about hot and cold running water and modern bathtubs.
 There are millions of unfortunate chinamen who can't conceive of how, anybody could voluntarily go on a hunger strike.
 Married couples without children who put kewpies on their automobiles may be signifying either q hope or a promise.
 By using firing squads to carry out executions. Great Britain admits that a state of war exists in Ireland.
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 Italy has decided to raise the price of bread. In that country bread comes