The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-09
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A real attorney general. Turtle, king, fliers. How women teach men. The soul weighs zero.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

public service has had for many years. has exploded one pretty little balloon in the coal strike. The oper- ators said they didn't dare meet with their men to consult because if they held a wage conference they might be prosecuted by the federal govern ment.
 The Attorney General tells them that so far as prosecuting goes he is the federal government. And there won't be any prosecuting if they meet the men as they should do. They will have to get along without that ex- cuse.
 Four important things in life, in the order of their importance, are air, water, food, coal. which last means power, heat and light. None of the four should be at the mercy of any scheming gang, none of the four should be for one moment outside the control of government, and the Att torney General knows it.
 No matter where you go there is danger. No wonder the ancients said nobody could escape his fate. The sad history of Oedipus, the king. proves 1t, and that of the Greek warned that he would be killed by house falling on him. He slept out One fine day an eagle, carrying a heavy turtle, dropped 1t on the mans head and he died. The turtles shell was the house"
 Oedipus, poor thing, simply be- cause the oracle had predicted 1t, killed his own father, married his own mother-and lived miserably ever afterward-although he tried his best to behave. Els kann kein nensch sein Schicksal entgehen."
 All that fs apropos of two flying machines, running between Paris and London They ran into each other Up in the afr, both came down in flames, six were killed. You are not sur prised when automobiles collide in a
  road, 25,eoo miles wide. to travel in, collision seems strange.
 It reminds you of the we'll writ ten story of the sea turtle, asleep on the surface of the Pacific, run into and cut in two by a big steamship not room enough for both of them on the wide Pacific
 Miss Stone shot MT. Ellis Guy Kinkead--no doubt about the shoot ing. The jury approved her private, personal reasons for the shooting and acquitted her, while the crowd shouted approval and she kissed her lawyer. That's undoubtedly as it should be. Since the beginning of time women have educated, dis ciplined and improved men by killing them when they needed 1t. They did 1t with a stone hatchet 1z,ooo years ago, with a litie pistol recently.
 Miss Stone, pleased with public approval, says. T want to forget" "There's the rub" as the Danish gen. tleman remarked. Shooting is easy, forgetting Is hard. A human con slence Is no emotional jury. It keeps telling you the facts with nobody in the courtroom to cheer, no lawyer to kiss, no reporters to take flash lights"
 This from a reader.
 s~You say the real human ereeture is a soul weighing nothing at all. not even the ten thousandth part of q grain. How do you know that the soul doesn't weigh anythin@-have yeu ever seen one or weighed itf'' No, but after you are dead your body will weigh just as much as 1t did when you were alive and your sorf will not be there any longer. How much does tho soul weigh Nothing. Q. E. D.
 New and uru sually sad news comes from Ireland. Two hundred Dublin rebels against the Free State at lacked the custom house and de- stroyed $1sseoo. 600 worth of wines and wffslkfes belonging to Belfast firuns Tn years to coma, to tho day of xhe -Great Wind viii be added xhe day of the ~csreat wases- when s1A,eoo,ooo worth of whisky and wine wcre poured out.
 erAs Aee-HeraId fs in 10 way spsnssr for the opinions expressed by nTr. Br1sbans. His views are his own. They are published as . Aatte< of pubifo infsrmation-)
 
 BHGN TRAINING SCHOOL Troy, April a-tepeciai )-Tne Methodist Episcopal church hers will begin . training school at the church on April 16. lasting one week. clar- ence Dannelly will have charge of the school. The text book The Or ganization and Administration of the Sunday schoor' will be used for the study.
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