The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-14
T oday Welcome, Cheap Money. Play Ball. Tchitcherin Said Some
 thing. New Aristocracy.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

Congratulate Mir. Mellon, head of the treasury. He is borrowing money for the government at sh per cent. That mas not happened in a long time. and you are interested because your taxes pay the interest.
 It means that money is to be cheaper. It also means that labor will be employed. That Is what the country needs. While usury rules and 6 per cent on absolutely safe loans is usury--labor has a poor out look. Why risk industrial ups and downs to make doubtful 10 per cent when you can make and commits. sion and take no risk?
 The fairly cheerful old world rolls along. with the little things attract ing great attention, big things little.
 Play ball" was the cry yesterday. Tens of thousands heard 1t. tens of millions will read all about 1t today. Box scores. errors. assists, opinions of experts-a1l will receive respect ful attention.
 At Genoa. Lloyd George, efficient busy man of Europe, will. if he can, persuade nations to agree not to att tack each other without warning. That shows how far from civilization nations are. Imagine civilized men arguing about an agreement not tog shoot each other in the back.
 
 D'Annunzio, fighting Italian flier and poet, will confer with Tchitcherin of Russia at Genoa. Those two minds ing Europe. The allies insist that, first of all, Russia must arrange to . pay her debts-which she cannot do, At the same time. they do not pay their debts to us-which some of them could do.
 That Tchitcherin of Russia said something worth while when he calmly invited Japan to leave the conference and go home. because she (Japan) could have no rightful share in settling the affairs of Europe.
 Japan might have replied: q have just come from Washington. from giving Americans their orders to guarantee my Pacific possessions and not to fortify their Pacific territory. If America, rich and powerful, can take my order, why not chaotic Flu rope. and especially half-starved Rus sia7~
 Colonel Lowther of the British Par an aristocracy of braias for the aris- tocracy of birth in the House of Lords. The ''brains" would be elected for life, their seats not hereditary for brains do not, as a rule, per petuate themselves, whereas the other aristocracy does And that's about all 1t does do.
 Here in America, next to basball. the interest is in the probable effect of prohibition in coming elections. In New York's Thirty-seventh Con gressional district on Tuesday, the re- publican majority was cut down from l vine. running on an anti-prohibition platform.
 Candidates for next fall must soon make up their minds about being dry or wet this time. It's rather disturb ing, especially if you have no con victions of your own and that is the case with 75 per cent of candidates at least.
 Canadians are worried about their game fish. Salmon born in govern ment hatcheries. protected against enemies in extreme youth. then turned out, lose their morale their fighting quality. They do not strug- gle on the hook. to delight the fish erman and let any enemy kill them sv says member of Parliament.
 That is interesting to Americans what of our foreign policy. raised in our government hatchery, the sort that takes orders from Europe and Japan? That policy is not very game fish either.
 The pleasant young Prince of Wales landed in Japan yesterday. A fleet of light Japanese cruisers es- corted his battleship Renown, also six Japanese battleships. including the giant Mutsu, that Japan did not junk, as originally agreed. The son of the Japanese Mikado and the son of the British Emperor King, ex- changing politeness. are to be con Rratulated. Strongly united. they have known how to pull this republic into their combination in a very in- genious way.
 When emperors can agree and get the greatest republic to underwrite their agreements, what need have they to worry?
 STUDENTS AT MUSCLE SHOALS
 Sheffield, April 13.-Thirty students of the engineering department of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechan- ical college at Starkville, Miss, ar rived here last night to spend three days in an inspection of the Muscle Shoals project. The young men, &C., companied by their instructors, ar prf