The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
STATUTORY PLACEMENTS
 AND MORALITY

Some of The Age -Herald's ministerial friends not legislate people into being good" There is distinction to be made between crimes against which it is necessary to enact laws with penalties provided, and questions which the in- dividual conscience and not one's neighbors must decide.
 There are people who hold it serious offense to lie abed after o'clock in the morning, or to sit up after midnight There are even some strict moraists who think it wrong to read newspapers on Sunday or prepare hot meal. If they could impose their ideas on other people, these things would be taboo. It may be wrong for young people to dance in supervised hall or pavilion, with liquor and other objectionable features barred, including the "shmmy" and the 57 "'wobbles;" it may be wrong to see motion picture on Sunday afternoon-a decent motion picture which would be proper for week day; it may be wrong to play golf or base ball on Sunday afternoon, or to commune with nature in the family livver, but there is nothing in the Scriptures anywhere else to show that here lies the road to eternal damnation.
 For those of our readers who have been on pins and needles ever since the engagement was announced we wish to state that the mar riage of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles will take place with due pomp and ceremony on February 2S. King George will give it his personal attention.
 Berlin's city council has just discovered that the city owes Holland 100, ,00O, 900 marks for rabbits bought during the war. While Holland is waiting for her money billions of rabbits will come into this vale of tears and pass out. A dispatch from the Riviera says woman bather was rescued from a devil fish It is hard to say whether it is more dangerous to fall into the clutches of an octopus in the Mod iterranean croupier at Monte Carlo.
 
 New Jersey judge has ruled that wife may shoot her husband if she doesn't make it habit. But suppose the first shot proves fatal? He forthwith ceases to be useful as target.
 Dean Yeomans says Harvard students are older in their habits than they were 10 and 20 years ago. An undergraduate without few boyish i Anks in his system is an object to he pitied
 The distressing discovery that Colonel Roosc- welt sold his limousine to help finance the pro- gressive party after the defeat of 1912 adds another tear-stancd page to history.
 
 Americans who think they will go to Paris when they die can sympathize with former Elm press Zita, who has been forbidden to pass through the city by the Seine.
 Henry Morgenthau says the republicans are afraid of Woodrow Wilson. He is certainly in a position to make certain eminent republicans look foolish if he cared it.
 
 When a judge tells negro murderer that he'll soon hear, And may God have mercy on your soul" he isn't cheering up the defendant enough to notice.
 The man who invented the ice cream soda in 1874 authorized his heirs to spend $l,o00 for tombstone to tell grateful posterity about it. The peace dove cooes her sweetest note when Kentucky feudists shake hands and agree to let by-sonss be by-gones.
 
 If tombstones told the truth many of them would bear the letters "P. R." meaning 'Poi- soned Rum."
 Strange it may seem, Ireland is showing fur fly.
 Scientists do not believe synthetic gold has half the possibilities of synthetic whisky.