The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-09

ters worse an inexperienced crew was unable to get the lifeboats low. cred quickly. The dense pail of fog added to the horrors of their situa. ton and a few minutes later the boilers of the ship exploded, throw. ing oil from her fuel tanks over the sea and drenching alike the liv- ing and the dead. There are stories of hair-raising escapes among the of heroism and exposure while the rescue ship, Any6x, sum- moned by wireless, sped through the regardless of the risk she ran of going on the rocks which wrecked the Alaska. One little girl drifted about nearly eight hours before she was rescued. A four year-old child floated all night on the oily surface of the sea, wear ing life preserver and a blanket. But if the sea is grim and relent. less, the heroism of men and women never fails to reveal itself in acts of sublime self-sacrifice and cour- age. Captain Hobey of the Alaska may have been technically at fault although the elements defy the best of navigators sometimes, but he went down with his ship, standing on the bridge to the last and issu- ing orders for saving his passengers It is reported of him that he shouted, q am going down with this ship, but if you do what I tell YOU nobody will go down but myself Stewardess Grace Campbell saved many distracted women and chil- dren by her presence of mind and Captain Snoddy of the Anyox, who came to the rescue at eminent peril of his own ship and picked up nearly two hundred survivors makes the modest and laconic announce ment, Credit due our crew for handling all survivors without mis- hap"
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 IT the charge is true that Mir. Hoover seldoms says anything at a iinner table unless subject is men tinoned in which he is interested and knows something about it shows he is quite different from the aver age dinner guest.
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 An archivist says Captain Kidd was not a pirate at all, but a much abused gentleman. Let the learned archivist rave. We will have nothing to do with any Captain Kidd who is not pirate, and bluff, bold one at that
 The New York World calls Hard ing a "Pollyanna" President. Who wouldn't be glad with so many pleas ant trips to take amid the plaudits ficult to behave themselves.
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 The matrimonial differences of Geraldine and Lou have brought into circulation number of photographs which make Geraldine look younger than she really is.
 There's brisk demand for books about the South seas, probably be- cause that's one part of the world where the reformer is chiefly con spicious by his absence.
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 Raisuli is still ambitious and yearn- ing for advancement. He Is reported to have offered to pacify the Spanish zone of Morocco if Spain will appoint him caliph and sultan.
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 The impressions Senator France gained in Russia are favorable to the bolsheviki, but they are not credit, able to his powers of observation.
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 Sir Harry Lauder's landed estate. in Scotland are too much bother tc keep up" so he will dispose of an in- part-9,76S acres.
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 Readers not interested in baseball if there are any, may skip this para graph. Hon. "Bambino" Ruth has hi his fortieth home run.
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 An aviation expert says there | no such thing as an lair pocket,' thu another illusion created b, alert reporters.
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 Grandmother may look like grand on the street. but it's grand daughter who gets the long moto rides.
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 The situation in Russia Is depress