The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-15
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each year. Florida is the Mecca of motorists with it's smooth roads from end to end and across the state and more and more persons are making the trip to Florida winter resorts by motor. Tags representing as many as 20 states are observed on cars passing through Jacksonville every hour or so during the winter season. Birmingham, Decatur, Montgom- cry and all other places on the Nash vile Birmingham route should act quickly and in concert to get this travel.
 A recent photograph shows Presi- dent Harding strolling down Pennsyl- vania avenue and scarcely recognized by the passing throng. The alert young man keeping close at his heels you guessed it-belongs to the se- cret service.
 A Massachusetts woman, S4 years old. has never seen trolley car or a theatre, but she has lodged automo- piles and no longer cranes her neck to look at airplanes, so she is not exactly behind the times.
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 A freight car containing 2,100 gal Ions of bottled in bond whisky was seized in Georgia. A lone sheriff armed with shotgun was reported to be guarding 1t. He'd better call for endorsements.
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 President Obregon of Mexico should not be censured for standing on his dignity. Something must be done to make the presidency of Mexico look more like an official position and less like gamble.
 Sergeant York believes in bone dry. country, or one that is frankly wet. No halfway measures for the German army.
 At this season of the year one nat ura,ly inquires for the old-fashioned man who wore linen duster on his travels and carried. palmetto fan.
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 Home brew in the African jungle makes consumers walk backward. Still, that's. an improvement on going straight up.
 Prince Christopher of Greece wants to live in America. He'll discover that our newsboys pay no attention to royalty.
  Caruso says he can sing now. If he keeps on talking that way some of his admiring countrymen may call on him to make good
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 "Garbled." says Admiral Sims. And we always had an idea that he was not the kind of man who would blame it on reporter.
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 If the world has never yet heard the voice of the German people. it's high time for Fritz and Heinie to speak up.
 A New York tenant was fined $5 for telling his landlord what he thought of him. Another blow at the freedom of speech.
 When the cigarette bootlegger ap- pears in Utah he may find it more convenient to carry his wares up his. sleeve.
 Our fear that either Dempsey or Carpentier, or both. will grow stale before July ? has become an obses- sion.
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 If the Irish vote had it's way Ad- miral Sims might be chained to a rock somewhere in the storm tossed sea.
 Grover Cleveland Bergdoll no longer chortles. Something has been gained, anyhow.
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 The rapid increase in college stu dents has not yet produced super football team.
 Upper Silesia will never be free from discord until it gets new pop ulation.
 
 CHEMISTS AS WARRIORS From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 A demonstration in the manipula- tion of the latest development in war gas is to be part of the commence ment exercises of Pennsylvania Mill tary college next Monday evening, with General Pershing, Governor Sproul and governors of neighboring states as guests (of honor. The ma neuvering of the gas brigade from