The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-22
Today
Now They Weep.
Big and Growing.
Cruelty in Education.
Educate Your Grand
father.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE


Having got rid of him. tia English |
are now weeping over Lloyd George, |
giving him terrific farsweiis, crowd
ing the railroad station as he leaves.
forgetting even their idolized little |
Prince of wales, as Lloyd George
stands beside him and yelling go that
the former prime minister cannot |
speak. Perhaps they will have
brains TO bring him back TO power.
Lucky for them IL they do.
This is big country, growing fast. |
A gigantic bridge soon to be built
across the Hudson river at New York
city viii have one single span 5000 |
feet long
-Four steel cables, each twelve feet .
in circumference, will hold q weight |
OF eight hundred million pounds.
Twenty-one years ago the bridge
was planned big enough for forty
million human beings = year. Now.
to last until 1910. 1t must have a I
capacity OF two hundred millions,
using the tunnel now under the
river
One deck of the bridge will carry
twelve railroad tracks. Above II.
there will be an automobils road,
planned to accommodate twenty-five
million vehicles a year.
Five times as big as the Brookiyn
bridge. with ten times the steel ton
mage of the gigantic bridge 81
Quebec, this new engineering feat
shows what men can do and how
nations grow.
A midshipman at Annapolis APP
pears on crutches to tell. reluctantly,
of brutal, cowardly treatment in
flicted upon him In hazing. Presi-
dent Harding should ask officers In
charge of that institution how long
they propose 20 allow cowardiee
combined with cruelty to remain In
the education of American naval
officers.
IF you want good brain, educate
your great-groat-gr grandfather" That
10 an old saying. The modern say
ing Is. IF you want the children of
the nation to have good teeth, sec
that the mothers are properly fed
An army travels on its stomach.
according to Napoleon. An individ-
N Uala ne
them no good health. without good
health, no accomplishment. Without
well and inteiligently fed mothers
no good teeth for the children. That
ought to interest the government 50
much as the proper ration for lady
swine in the CESSATION period. But
II doesn't. II you suggest that
government in this generation
should protect the unborn. you hear
bowls from grand assortment OF
fools.
stok." They find the Russian port
plunged IN darkness, ravaged by the
''s'hite Army that seeks to bring
back the Cars. VIII somebody
kindly tell what American marines
are doing in yladivostok? What
business have We there7
Wise gentlemen in washinston
ought to know by this time that they
can't collect from Lenin and Trotzky
the millions that American bankers
lon
Why american marines in v1adi
vostok?7
1t viii be said our marines must
protect our consulate. If we refuse
to do business with nation why
have consulate? Better take this
consul aboard ship. leaving White
Guards. Red Guards, Japanese and
interested European nations to fight
il out.
The Earl of Derby. with the heavy {
handsome" face of a first class Lon
don hanson cab driver of the old
times. is spoken of as a possible sue
cessor to Lloyd George. The gentle-
man. praised as typical English-
man. Is exactly that, of = certain
kind. Therefore. he il typically I'M
fit for the work that took all the
power Of a great statesman and that
will become increasingly difficult A.
the next war and the new European
alliances take shape.
A British bulldog Is a very fine
thing In the dog show or in the House
Of Lords. but lie not the right animal
for thinking.
Rafet Pasha, representing Kemai.
says proudly, I'VE have one of the
biggest armies In the world. We are
the most powerful military nation.
The Turkish people have excited the
admiration of the entire world"
Possibly. although the entire world
doesn't know 1t. The part of Euro
ropean civilization that financed
Turkey and supplied weapons may
later regret II. Civilization owes q
debt to Lloyd George, whose last i'm
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