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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18
FEW KINGS "COME BACK"

later and was shut up in the fortress of Ham. At last, managing to get him self elected President of the republic, he engineered that coup d'etat which Victor Hhso so passionately dissected in hiss History of Crime" and made himself Emperor.
 Napoleon the Little" as Hugo called him. met his finish at Sedan and dragged out his last years in exile in England. Another Frenchman tried to initiate him in the closing years of the last century. This was Gen. Georges Ernest Jean Marie Boulanger, hand some fellow with curly mustache and close cropped beard whose outward ap- pearance was quite ideal for the man on horseback role t. h4
 As Minister of War General Boulan- ger effected some popular reforms in the army and somebody made him the subject of a very catchy music hall song, the "Boulanger March," Every body was whistling it, and it actually made Boulanger national hero He was "agin the guv'mint." He was for La Belle France, sword in hand, re- venging herself on the barbarous Prus- sians Orleanists and malcontents of all parties Hooked to his standard and for a few years the republic seemed in danger.
 Although Bou1anger longed to effect a coup detat he was always afraid of the gendarmes or something. When prosecuted for conspiracy he fled to Brussels. and the Boulanger balloon just went 'Phuh!" as 1t shrank like an empty sausage skin. After a few years of wretched exile the general executed his final gesture--that of blowing out his brains on the grave of a former mistress.
 Spain had for long time her would be man on horseback in the person of Don Carlos de Bourbon, pretender tx the throne of Alfonso. He many times tried to work the return from exile trick, but the police or somebody al- ways shooed him away. Don Carlos lived in a handsome palace in Venice with all the state of king surrounded by an obsequious court But when he stepped out in the street he became just a common person.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18
BATTLE SHIP STILL SUPREME

Admiral Won Tirpitz in the Deutsche
 Allgemeine Zeitung (Berlin).
 CV o far as the war was won on the .S1 sea, 1t was won by English bat
 tleships. We could have counter acted the influence of the British bat tleships only by our own battleships. No decisive naval battle was fought. because our misunderstanding of the political situation, and our failure to appraise rightly it's possibilities. pre- as it should have been utilized during the decisive early years of the war.
 It was already too late, when at last we attacked England with submarines. She had not and could not make ade- ouate preparations at once to resist such an attack, because the submarine had not been perfected as an effective weapon for distant service until just before the war broke out. Since our naval operations thus, necessarily, took. the course they did, the impression has been left that the submarine is a much more important arm of the fleet than facts justify.
 Any expert who studies the situation without bias and with an adequate background of technical knowledge, will come to this conclusion. Subma- rines were not radilly improved in the course of the war. More powerful en- zines were used, hulls were strength ened and the boats were equipped for longer cruises; but, essentially, during the four years of submarine warfare, Germany used practically the same cruising U-boat so far as type goes. which it had in 1913.
 My own opinion is that naval engi- neers will conclude that vessels operat- ing on the surface will always have the greatest total efficiency. Quite in &C., cord with that, ocean commerce will be conducted on the surface of the water
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18

for an indefinite time to come. That, alone, Is a powerful argument for re- taining naval vessels operating on the surface, for these will naturally be em- ployed to destroy enemy commerce.
 !. So long as we have to admit that vessel operating on the surface can per form more service than 8 vessel operat- ing under water, we shall have battle ships So long as we have battleships, artillery will be the principal weapon employed upon them Consequ ently, there is no reason to suppose that bat ueships, armored cruisers, and light cruisers are going to vanish from the ocean. Their construction and their relative numbers may change-such things depend upon the progress of naval science-but there is not yet the slightest indication that the battleship as the principal unit of naval power, is likely to disappear.
 We have added the submarine to our former naval units The number of these boats and their efficiency will in- crease in every navy. Simultaneously, methods of defense against submarines will be improved, as they were during the war. Changes in the composition of fleets, and in the alocation of money for different branches of the fleet will occur. However. those changes are not likely to be so radical or so sudden. as U-boat champions now believe.
 On the who1e I conclude from the teachings of naval history. whose greatest master was an American, that the science of naval warfare is not go- ing to be revolutionized in . moment. but will follow an organic line of evo- lution. Such evolution takes time. Fancy. only, can ignore this limitation. The practical man will always respect it. The last war has done nothing to change my opinion here although, quite naturally, technical progress Is faster now than in the old days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18

GREEK SONG Clinton Scollard. in Scribner's Mag azine. r When Spring sweeps over Zante In such enchanting wise, And OCT the Aegean the empyrean Is blue as Daphnes eyes. When nightingales their paean Lift in the.silex groves, In their green alleys my footstep dal-
 lies
 For there sweet Daphne roves! When Summer broods o'er Zanta. And all the waters wear, When twilight's falling, blue entharll- ~ ing
 As dusk as Daphne's hair, When boatmen easestheir calling Across the drowsing tides, No oars lifting, I dream a-drifting. For there sweet Daphne bides! When Autumn throws o'er Zanto It's rose-and gold eclipse, And the round pomesranate. if you but
 scan it. S-s Is red as Daphne's lips. When clear the noon-day planet Beams on ripe vineyard ways. pluck the luster of the plump cluster, For there sweet Daphne strays! sWhen Winter over. Zante R Swirls with its ley dart. And fagots glowing, though blasts be
 blowing,
 Are warm as Daphne's heart, When. to the zither flowing, The low hearth song beguiles Content, hearken till daylight darken, For there sweet Daphne smilAA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18
south,s Beautiful Roses

Nothing in the south is more att tractiye to me-" said Charles F. Wicks, assistant manager of the Tutwiler than the beautiful young roses that cluster about the wide verandas of southern homes. They will soon be in bloom, and I am anxious for spin down the road toward Clanton to sec thom.
 There are the prettiest cottages along the roadside that are literally GOV cred with festoons of wMite and pink roses. No wonder the southern people are gracious and courtly. One could not live in the atmosphere of these lovely flower-clad porches and homes without taking on the gentler side of life.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18
THE JOY OF LIVING

By JOnn BurrOuSnS.
 I have never had much money, but have always enjoyed the things at hand. I have become so familiar with the face of nature that it is as the face of an old friend and I know and love it in every mood. My years have been full of joy, but they have been years of simplicity and economy. have never seated myself with any thing and the bloom is still on my life.
 I have kept young because l have kept free from worldly and selfish ambitions. If I had been miserly and grasping, I would have been old and unhappy long ago. There is nothing like love to keep you young--love for your fellow man and for nature--and love is natures final law. Someone once asked me how I had kept so young and I answered that I had been born young and had never thrown my youth away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 6T o play the man on horseback suc- cessfully requires something
 S more than a horse. It requires most of all a propitious star. Former King Charles of Hungary evidently has the wrong kind of star. His return from E1ba," however, carefully staged and supported, has fizzled out. It really looks as if Charles retirement from the king business might be considered permanent one.
 There was another Charles once who was staged as comeback" and it was wild and hilarious one. Charles II of England was a gallant and picturesque figure when he entered London after the death of Oliver Cromwell For Il years he had been a king without kingdom. The people. sick of Puritan ism, gave a deliriously joyful welcome to him who was to become known as the Merry Monarch"
 That Charles evidently had a pro- piltious star, and he must have cut udohiHS IFS uIC III HIS lOHS DldEh CulIS' his plumed hat and all the rest of it. He was more than six feet tall, and a woman described him as well made, with a swarthy complexion agreeing well with his fine black eyes, large, ugly mouth. a graceful and dignified carriage and fine figure"
 But he made bad king. He who never said foolish thing and never did wise one" does not present an encouraging example of the sort of thing Charles of Hungary plotted to do.
 The notorious susceptibility of the French people to the attractions of a man on horseback" had it's classic ex- ample in the case of Napoleon Bona parte when he reared his revolution, and again when he escaped from Elba, and. recapturing the allegiance of his soldiers, drove out his Bourbon success sor and flourished for the hundred days which ended in the debacle of Waterloo.
 Louis Napoleon spent his life in earnest attempts to initiate his illus trious uncle. He tried the man on horseback" trick at Strassburg when he was 2S and earned only ridicule. He tried it again at Boulogne four years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18

Count Jimmy Minotto is now an Amer ican citizen and plain Mister" but we understand he still draws his pin money from the packers daughter who mar ried him.
 As to that payment of s25, ,OoO,0 600 to Co., lombia, the good name of the American people is more important than the repu- tation. of Theodore Roosevelt
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 If there were no other indications, the visits of colored politicians to the White House would show that the republican party is once more in power
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 A paragrapher says the American peo- pie refuse to become serious thinkers. He ought to have heart-to-heart talk with a taxpayer.
 The New York broker who kept two wives under the same roof may lose both People who undertake to lead a double life should use discretion.
 Los Angeles hotels have reduced their rates What good does that do when there is no reduction in the fare to Cali fornia?
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 Won Tirpitz says the battleship is still supreme Opinions differ as to that, but the bombing plane seems to be holding it's own.
 Josephus Daniels says MT. Wilson con- suited with him during the World war MT. Daniels, of course, is not 8 lawyer. Voluntary reductions in wages. report cd here and there, are indications that we ar4 beating back to pre-war basis. If France decides to start new war with Germany, let us hope she will de- molish the statuary in Berlin.
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 A Chicago gangster had to be carried to the gallows in a chair. The least a gangster can do is to die game. ss # #
 Steel pipe Is cheaper. What became of the project to run pipe lines from mountain distilleries to city consumers # # #
 King Constantine of Greece regained his crown, but he probably had less to worry about in Switzerland. j. H E
 From a geographer's point of view, Tap continues to be pinpoint on the map and nothing more.
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 Jealousy among European powers IS the Turks best ally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18
INTERNATIONAL "BLAcKMAIL"

From the Chicago News.
 It Is admitted by Washington ob- servers that the treaty providing for the payment of s25,0o0.oo0 by the United States to Colombia as compen- sation for it's floss of Panama, including the canal zone, will be ratified by the Senate. Influential republicans, like Senators Lodge and Knox and Secretary Fall strongly favor the treaty in it's revised form. President Harding, like his predecessors Wilson and Taft, rec omm ends ratification. Business inter- ests generally know that Colombia's grievance has been serious obstacle to the development of the commerce of the United States with the Central and South American republics. They are aware that in the matter of concessions and opportunities in those republics there is indirect discrimination against citizens of the United States.
 The course of common sense and sim pie prudence, to say nothing of obliga- tions and honor. seems to be to pay Colombia the amount agreed upon, which is not excessive. In opposing the treaty Senator Kellogg has been strangely bellicose and has seen fit to revive controversies that had been for gotten and that should remain forgot ten To support his position he has produced notes from Colonel Roosevelt. but Senator Lodge had previously pro- duced a note from the same author calmly approving revised treaty with Colombia There is no need for MT. Kellogg to be more Rooseveltian than Roosevelt.
 To contend that if Colombia is paid many other claims will be pressed, and that the United States will be subjected to ''blackmail" for years to come, is to conjure up imaginary troubles. There Is nothing to prevent any country from pr esenting claims or bills to the United States and there will be nothing, after the Colombian treaty has been ratified, to prevent the state department and the Senate from rejecting claims lacking in merit of euuity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18
IMMORTALITY OF KNEES
n the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 A police censor in Detroit has issued ban against bare knees. Some stage folk. he declares, have been going too far.
 But he grants a concession. In na- tional costumes, such as the Scotch, bare knees are officially condoned if not approved.
 Why this weak compromise? Is the Scotch knee less provocative than the native? We can hardly accept the dis tinction, but that may be because the human knee at best, or worst, appears to our innocent and uncensorial obser tail of the human anatomy If the hap- itual exposure of any detail is in itself perversive of our morals the knee, we suppose, must be covered with the rest but if there were reason in professional censorship it would remain exposed long after our fragile morality is de- tended from the eyes, the lips, the tresses. and other agents of immemoral temptation.
 If censors would investigate the laws of the mind, which thus far has not oc- cured to them as useful, they would realize that habit is the safeguard of the truant fancy. Over every censor's desk should be hung the enframed classic of the London busman. It would save those excitable guardians of other peoples morals a great deal of unnec- essary perturbation. It is not what is
 But if that were acknowledged the censor's occupation would be gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18
THE soRROws OF GILBERT

From the New Orleans Item.
 "In all my travels through the United States" says c. K. Chesterton. Eng lands plump professor of the paradox. T have found no real advocates of pro- hibition. My hosts invariably apolo- gized to me for not being able to serve liquor, but promised that they would have some soon.'
 All of which signifies several things.
 First, it speaks sadly of the company with which the visiting great man min gled-that not one puritan abstainer was there in all the rout
 Secondly. it shows Friend Chesterton far less wise than he writes and talks for the dullest of our hundred per cent mSricans. setting their minds ear nestly to 1t, can always find somebody who has something.
 Thirdly. it proves out of the mouth of a friend of personal liberty. that pro- hibition really does prohibit despite as- surances that it does not-always as- suming of course. that the thirsty
  for surely so noble a mastodon of the intellect could not be wrong.
 Fourthly, it establishes the suspicion that the able phrase-maker has found ed dictum on grounds insufficient. For the most untutored of us might have found hosts for him, in some com munities we know, who would not have been constrained to resort to the hu- initiating apologies he chronicles.
 Fifthly. if such suspicion prove by any chance correct, it confirms pre-ex- isting impressions that the adoption of opinions and the rearing of dogmas on inadequate foundations Is not alto. gether common with this disappointed and disappointing lion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Ase-HeraId Cured Him

T was somewhat amused at re- mark made by a friend of mine the other day in reference to moonshine whisky" said W. H. Staton. T asked him what he was doing for liquor these days, knowing that he was fond of his 'toddy' when he promptly replied that he was off of the stuff forever"
 The articles recently published in The Age-Herald concerning the quality of the moonshine sold in Birmingham cured me- he continued. for while am as fond of drink of liquor as any man, love life too well to take such a chance with such poison either in large or small quantities.
 1T don't see how any man who @9ads The Age-Herald articles can drink bootleg whisky. In my opinion, they have put more men on the water wagon than all the prohibition agencies put together.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18
Enormous Damage Done
 By Forest Fires

|W E can in measure realize the WV toll taken by fire in the homes of the land, especially the death loss incident to the open grate. Appalling also is the loss of life and property through forest fires.
 Some of the records of the forest fire loss are these:
 Forest fires in five years burned over a territory exceeding the com bined areas of Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jer- sey, Maryland and West Virginia.
 In one state in one year more than 1000 persons lost their lives from this cause.
 More than 5000 forest fires a year are caused by railroads and more than 4,00o by careless campers.
 In Alabama alone the loss in the past five years was $3,200,0O0. In Minnesota the loss has, reached the enormous total of $30,O00,0O0
 This summary more than justifies the extraordinary effort made by the government and authorities in many states to stop the ravages of forest fires. There is reason for the obser- vation towers on mountain tops, air. plane patrols and the thousands of men employed in fire prevention.
 Four-fifths of the loss, it appears, is due to careless campers, who leave fires unquenched, throw cigarettes about and go their way without reckoning the damage that may fol- low. In the far west the law reaches out for the thoughtless and in the light of the danger, the law is right.
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 BrindeIl the labor czar. couldn't spell business" when examined for his in- telleotual rating at Sing Sing. What he accomplished in spite of his defective eeu .ation proves that America is the land ct opportunity.
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 The Civil war has been over . long time. but . few southern editors still tear their shirts. metaphorically speak, ing. when few northern editors discuss the benighted south
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18
OBSCURE CELEBRITIES

It Is true strikingly of those who make civilized life more agreeable, and more wonderful, by applied science and by ap-. plication of discoveries in what are termed inventions. It is as true of Doolittle-even Lord Kelvin--as it is of John I.ouden Macadam, a Scottish en- gineer, whose name is borne by millions of miles of hard roads upon which the sun never sets, yet remains a name little known, or Jean Frederick Oberlin. who hit upon good roads as an improver of the business of farming. and introduced improved agriculture to help build better roads
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18
SMOKE STACK TWO MILES LONG

From the Popular Mechanics Magazine. ' The heavy vegetation-k killing acid fumes from copper shelter in Wales are carried up the steep side of moun- tain and discharged high above Its sum-
 init by smokestack which Is . novelty in chimney construction. A nearby brook was diverted to flow alongside the long tube. partially submerging it, thereby cooling and condensing most of the rich vapors upon it's walls. That this Is we'll worth while is demon strated yearly at the time of cleaning, when ton or more of high-grade metal is racoYered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18
Hard on Owner

"A friend of mine asked me the other day what l thought about the propriety of the states refunding at least a part of the animals worth when it is killed on account of tuberculosis" says Dr. D. A. Piatt. T have no hesitancy in saying that at least half of the price should rest upon the state.
 q know of an instance which oc- cured just last week where a dairy man had 10 suspects and when slaugh- tered under government inspection nine of them were condemned It hit the owner mighty hard, and to me where a thing is done in the interest of the pub lie that private parties should bear the whole loss.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-18

we have contributed our full share to the total. Never in the history of this city was as much building of importance going on at the same time. It includes churches, hundreds of res idences, large store houses, factory buildings, two high schools, a Masonic temple, an auditorium, a postoffice building, Young Mems Hebrew as- sociation building and numerous oth- CT structural enterprises besides city and county highways.
 Best of all is the record of resi- dence building in Birmingham. The building inspector has issued 416 per mits for homes costing in the aggre- gate $850,o00 so far this year, com pared with total of 476 permits is- sued in 1920 and representing $1, 1,419,000. At the pace now set Bir- mingham will build three to four times as many homes as in 1920 and in 1919.