The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-16
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Two Strong Men Gone. Levy Mayer-North-
 cliffe. The Roads Say ''No." Ko Lows End.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE


 The sudden death of Levy Mayer takes from the American bar ore of Its most powerful figures and from many great industrial and other or ganizations their ablest adviser.
 Levy Mayer died a victim of work and of devotion to his clients. He worked ceaselessiy, night and day. Interests entrusted to him were never out of hts mind.
 He supplied to his important clients | notl only legal knowledge and fight ing ability but the mental courage to face their difficulties. Many will | testify to that.
 While working professionally for others he neglected himself. his own health. He devoted no time to real exercise, recreation or vacation. His death is a warning to other men rast 50.
 He leaves behind him many earnest | friendships, earned by unselfishness and loyalty.
 Alfred Harmsworth, who became Sir Alfred. then Lord Northcliffe. Is do <, leaving no child to inherit his | title. his vast fortune or the mar velous engine of publicity. the many newspapers that he leaves behind him.
 He worked we'll and courageously | for the British empire that gave hip his success. And he worked for the British em- pire, not for any other country. not | for any other thing. Some American, so-called "statesmen'' might remem- Der that.
 Wherever England was concerned Northcliffe's idea was that England should rule. Newspapers that at- tackled him through envy. malice or Ignorance. while he was alive, will | praise him now. He was for Eng land
 The private owners of railroads, who feel that they can always even things up by taxing the public say that they want to fight to finish with union labor If 1t must come 1t ought to finish first of all. all pri- vats ownership of public monopoles and necessities upon which the peo- pie depend. The railroads of the United States have long since outgrown the brains and pocketbooks although not the cupidity of their owners. Low is buried. Five motor cars carried s5,0o0 worth of flowers to his grave. He lay in his coffin in Chinatown dressed in a black Yankee coat. his cheeks roughed. his eye brows penciled-
 White girls, also rouged and pen ciled, poor things. wept at his coffin whn the crowd had gone. He had been Kind to them
 A Chinese Baptist that was to have helped bury him did not appear. ko Low had been converted to the Cath ollie faith in London when he mar ried an, English girl. so a Catholic performed the last rites.
 The dead Chinese wore his decora- -tions as past grand master in the Masonic order. And the Standard OIl company sent wreath to his funeral. A thousand marched. four abreast, to the grave. A small boy distributed coins from a big paper bag, presents from the dead man. into the open grave his friends threw prayer ribbons'
 And that was the end of Ko Low, head of the powerful Hip Sing tons. who was murdered as he walked out of the Chinese Delmonico's with X white girl on either arm.
 When Ko Low arrives on that other uhore it may be found difficult to classify him. The best news from Russia and for Russia in many day is the open ing of the great fair at Mini Nov gerod- It is to be hoped that some good moving picture man was pres ent in the great building one mile square. where Russians. Mongoliars, Chinese, Japanese and horses. don-
 
 keys. camels and motor trucks gath cred to buy and sell.
 Bolshcvik Russia Is organizing church and clergy of it's own, adapting the old Russian Greek church and putting 1t under soviet direction Trotzky, Lenin or whoever Is responsible. initiates Napoleon, who restored the church in France, say ing that he had need of 8 spiritual gendarmerie as we'll as physical fighting men.
 The Russians. however, lack Na- rcleon's common sense. They are urging the bishops to marry. that they may be "iike other people" They are going to abolish ikons. the sacred \ images and picturesque costumes and \ ceremoniss. That Is . mistake Tn tactics. If you do not give the peo- plS the kind of religion they want they win find somebody else to give 1t to them.
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