The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-10-01
Today
News a Little Worse. Marathon and Minos. Meet Mir. Ski. Ford and Pliers.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

of any ultimatuTn.
 Europe was worried yeserday. England is not afraid. of Turkey alone. The most powerful fleet, plenty of flying machines. dropping dynamite. would easily take care of Renal. but back of him is still the Russian uncertainty. Western Eu- rope once had strong fences between 1t and Asia--Austria, Germany, Rus sia. Austria and Germany have been hammered, dismembered and plum dsred Into hopeless nothingness. Rus .ta has been made a bitter enemy. The peace treaty of Versailles creat- ed in Europe half a dozen Alsace and Lorraine problems in place of one. Everything is ready for first-class |lsxplosion there. Pray against 1t. The Creeks enjoy their rsvolutfon a they have done often during tho last 3.5oo years. They ask venizsios to come back and run national de- fense-better late than never. One King is off the throne. his son put on, exchanging the gandsr for the gesling.
 when Byron was swimming. limp ing and dreaming about Greece. he wrote:
 ssrhs meuntains lock on MarsthOn' And Marathon looks on the seai And snusing there, nm hour alone dreamed that Greece might stiii be free.s
 The mountains have been looking an Marathon for long time. but the Cracks seem unable to use, In the | old fashioned Greek way. the freedom from outside control about which Byron unused.
 \ Crete has Joined in tho Greek rev elution. That would interest King
 tMinos, son of Jupiter and Europa and brother of Rhadamanthus, who
 ruled in Crete under government
 that makes Homer seem modern.
 How things have changed since that little island, Crete. was able. under the son of Minos. to conquer | Athens and command yearly tribute ' of boys and virgins to Do devoured \ by the Minotauer.
 ! Now Crete joins Greece in hsue | revolution that has no meaning. The N romance has gone from those deep, ' deep. dark cretain valleys that the N sun could hardly reach and gone from
 the hilltops.
 Mir. siki, black senegsiess rrfxa N fighter, who speaks French and hits Y hard. promises to come here and fight anybody.
 The young gentleman has arms that reach almost to his knees and ! hands nicely covered with white kid ' gloves. This civilized nation win X gladly pay half . milliou dpiiars to
 N zee him fight.
 b Eor physical ffehttnE . white man is inferior to bla9k man. . black
 man is far below an orang g-outanK.
 and an orang-outsng is below bull
 dog, tho bulldog below . game cock.
 and the game cock below the mole.
 which, according to scientists. is the
 most dssperate fighter of aii tho
 lnammak. Two male moiss meeting K cad on in . burrow will fight until
 lons has lost it's head or e nueh of
 NC that can't bite.
 N And the mole, h phys1osa ssur- Dars, is nothing compared with the Auais prsying mAntiA CT the svsrAgs 6nAls spider.
 M That gams insect goes s-esustfng. lh1though the hour of his marriage Is Aalso the hour of hts death: the female Nusualiy ends by eating him up. After gths first interesting moment he looks Nliks any other insect to her. 4 spider VhAIf the siss of Mir, siki could in | afsw moments kiil and suck dry Ski. Dempsey. oranE-outang. bulldog. Sgams cook ana mole e why get lsxsitsd about f1ghtingf \ Uassl Ford. son sf Hsnsy. aspesats Ne1e.soo for flying machine prtssa. NFhat's . gsod sign- Father Ford thinks the ums has not arrived to Hnanufacturs flying machines com Hnercially. at lsast % hs said ts this Hwsissr.
 ' DRt whsa hs began making aute- Nnebi1ss the time hadn't arrived fer that job. commercially. either. \ He . one of those that made the DtAing commercial and conferred Hgreat blessing upen the country. To Nlift the men out of slow bugsiss and Nput them in fast ears was good. To Hlift them cut of slow cars and put \ them in s0o-mile-an-hour cheap fly Hing machines would be better, and lrord could do it if he would. He must II not let 1t hs said that he is too old Uto undertake anything rsw. That's the first sign of age. The famous StilIman case is settled 3xnd in the right way by uDholdinE lfkhe legitimacy of . child whcss father said the real father was an Indian W guide. The recording angel only knows the facts. but. when in doubt. to protect the child and ttj mother ' seems . good plan.
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