The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-10
I 'oday
Earth's Ant Hill. We're Saving Money. Big as a Scent Piece" !" How Norwich Travels.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

You ride across acres of grassy tieids and suddenly come upon a few square yards covered by an ant yil- iase, with its little piles of sand tiny holes and tunnels. Your horse steps on the village and everything Is excitement. Rebuilding. rushing planning. restoring.
 Similarly. the suns light rides mill lions of miles through the fields of ether and come upon this ant village called the earth, also In great agi- tation, war having put hts foot upon 1t. There is rushing. planning. re- building. and the center of agitation in Genoa.
 You learn that Japan Is making a treaty with Russia. Italy plans to make separate Russian peace and agreement promptly if the allies fall fish ants are fighting bitter against each other. The French ant stands close to his little Belgian brother saying: We stick together: he fought for me-"
 Nobody steps on our American ant hill, or at least not seriously. And If there Is any wisdom here we shall keep away from the European rush and squabble.
 praaiAant HardfpD nf inc American ant hill, announces that We arc trying to do financial recon struction here. The government will spend s1.e0o, 100000 less in 1922 than in 1921, if hopes are realizeds
 In addition to thanking President Harding, the people should thank Mir. Madden of Illinois. chairman of the committee that has cut down expend- ttures.
 French francs and Belgian francs dropped In value yesterday. Men that deal in money. not sentiment. believe the allied situation Is weak ened and that France and Belgium are not as strong as they were, with England disgruntled and uniting with Italy in an offer to lend sS00,o0o, 900 gold francs to Russia.
 You have read in this column the suggestion that England, before long. would make with Germany a treaty apart from the allies.
 Henry wickham Steed. editor of The London Times. says Lloyd George Is contemplating "an agree ment with Germany, even at the cost of abandoning the British claims for reparation." The Europeon kaleido- scope changes rapidly.
 Man proposes. God disposes Small things, presumably the agents of the Deity, settle important matters.
 Thomas '. Ryan said of H. P. paVi- son of Morgan & Co.,: When Morgan and Rock kefeller and the rest of us are gone young Davison will be richer than all of us.' That was few years ago at birthday dinner given to MT. Ryan by his son. Allan.
 The elder Morgan is gone, John D' Rockefeller and Thomas F. Ryan are still here and H. P. Davison is gone taking with him the handspring or J. P. Morgan & Co. It will prooaoly find another mainspring. It has me inducements to offer.
 MT. Davison left $1o,oo0.o0o. which is a long way from wealth, accord ing to the modern idea.
 In announcing the operation that caused his death. Morgan & Co. said it was necessary to remove from MT. Dayison's brain a tumor about as big as 5-cent piece"
 Through the circulating blood into the brain had travelled a fragment of tissue capable of setting up and building a body of it's own. NO big ger than b-cent piece" that wan dering fragment ended the activities of q brain that might have built a fortune of thousands of millions.
 Norwich travNls surrounded by every care. Food to which he is &C., customed goes with him. His shoe maker, his own servants accompany him. His car. carefully routed travels so swiftly that only mil lionaire's private car could have done better"
 Norwich Is a race horse. not scien- tist. His shoemaker is a blacksmith. Hc had five kinds of hayfi and espe- naIly chosen oats and bran. Water to which he was accustomed was brought in . thoroughly sterilized new milk can. That Is what we do for animals on which fools bet their money and by which gamblers make their fortunes.
 The contrast of that race horse travelling "as only a millionaire in his private car could traveI' with an- other picture, that of harnessed poor mother, arriving from Europe with five or six children only to be turned back "at the door of freedom ? will tell future generations all they care to know about our civilization.
 
 CHARLES EBBETSS AND
 MRS. SHADE MARRIED New York, May 9.--Charles H. Eb- bets, Jr.. announced today the mar riage yesterday of his father presi-