The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-22

Otncr bHtedt uclu Out Dy tne nlBn rates.
 Ships solve some of the rate prob lems, but not all.
 New Republican View
 of the Tariff Wall
 7T7HE republicans are at sea in re-
 U gard to the tariff. The world has moved since the slogan of the full dinner pail" was current and that does not sound as well in the ears of those who know how much we need the worlds markets as it did in the days of the so-called infant in- dustries." The infant" species is no longer extant. The clamor once raised in it's name, is hollow and unconvinc- ing.
 Senator Edge of New Jersey, repub- lican, sounds the new keynote, say ing:
 In considering any tariff legis-
 lation. it is imperative th6k Con-
 gross view the problem from the
 changed trade relations brought
 about by the war. Europe owes us
 $14.o0o, ,oOo,o 900. We cannot have
 the cake and the penny both.
 That is plain statement coming from the hub of the tariff loving east. The senator sees that we can not collect our money from people with whom we do not trade. Trad ing with other people does not mean selling them what we have to offer only, but it means fully as much that we buy from them in proportion to what they take of our goods. e Before America was the large pro- ducer that she now is, high tariff walls did not signify what they will henceforth. Trade of other nations is a necessity, not a chance; necessity for the larger .partHof what we pro- duce. TT s|ee
 And the other nations of the earth have progressed along with America. Many of them are thoroughly capa- ble of caring for themselves to the extent of directing their buying where they do their selling. Senator Edge probably has inserted this item in his new tariff philosophy.
 Investigating Mans
 Food Idiosyncracies
 m mOSTON hospitals are making q ID series of tests to determine why food that one man likes and thrives on is nauseous and even poisonous to another. The effect of medically prepared injections and solutions of foods will be observed with scientific precision. The investigation is to be made with special reference to the causes of hay fever and bronchial diseases, but will include many other human ailments.
 It is an interesting study. Men and women differ as much in gas tronomic tastes as in disposition and mental capacity. They are as im- patient with one another about these differences in appetite as they are about those of mental temperament. Each is as obstinate in his predilec- tions as he is critical Aof those of others. .
 A distinguished governor of Geor- gia became violently ill if so much as 2 particle of onion was absorbed in bowl of soup. There are men in Birmingham to whom the smell of an orange is offensive. There are those whom the odor of banana sickens and whom the more pungeht scent of peanut will drive from the scene. There are men and women-to whom the rag weed and the golden rod are positive enemies.
 One man can take does of medi- cine with benefit that given to an- other in the same quantity will do harm.
 The Boston hospitals have en- parked on an uncharted sea.
 Brilliant Future Is Predicted for Auburn l1rHE >Alabama Polytechnic insti- 1 U ute should enter upon new era of development and usefulness, with the inauguration of Spright Dowell as president.
 1 The school at Auburn has long been