The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-21


BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Lloyd George is out. for the time,
and the British empire will miss q
man that has steered the ship
through most difficult years. The
tory gentlemen think they no longer
need him. With new alliances form
ing and new problems rising they
will find themselves mistaken. For
him it means needed rest. No one IN
all history has carried a greater load
or carried it better. For England. he
won the war.
woodrow Wilson is man without
vote. New Jersey decides that he
can no longer vote there, Is he does
not live there, and he has no vote
in Washington. It is annoying for
him but hts Importance will call use
full attention TO the disgraceful fact
that all living at the national cap
ital are political parishs. They live
where they can actually see what
scrt of government they have and
may not vote.
Every little boy knows how great
oaks from little acorns grow. BIZ
ologists marvel at the change in
tiny cell into a full sized elephant or
whale. But the growth OF an idea
is infinitely more amazing. Even a
word spok en- for freedom, of body or
thought, may grow into new civil
ization, upsetting ancient empires and
laws.
Edison in the great General Elec-
trio plant has seen his ideas of long
ago grown into a new mechanical and
industrial world.
In his youth he struggled to
through resisting medium. AT
schenectady he held in his hands an
incandescent bulb of 100000 candle
rower He had worked with little
magnets, in many ways. There he
saw them powerful enough to lift
tons.
But there was something even mo-e
Important in that electric factory.
That was Steinmetz. its head engi-
neer, running for state engineer on
the socialist ticket this year.
What may that fact grow into. Ed
ison would like to know. So would
others. IL they had Edison's intel
ligence.
Slowly the case of Hall, the clergy
man found murdered beside the dead
body of Mrs. Mills, leader of his choir,
becomes national in size. They wrote
the usual letters, he kept the usual
diary. Human beings must always
talk about it; that IS why they are
found out.
The murdered womans husband
says, "a jealous woman did IT, and
that is evident. She Killed or helped
Kill both but cut the throat of the
woman she hated. after that woman
was dead.
: Read the Bibles description OF
jealousy. cruel as the grave. and you
realize it. If they find the woman
the jury will set her free. Yet they
convict and sentence to life imprison-
ment another woman, Gilberson, who
killed her husband
She killed him because she wanted
another man-so the jury believed.
II she had killed her husband be-
cause she wanted him she would
probably have been acqilitted-cus-
som makes that permissible. But you
must not kill your own husband or
wife because you want another.
Juries won't permit that. We have
our tribal" laws and customs in our
civilization, as all savages have them.
The biggest railroad in the world
is to be created by combining four
lines: Great Northern, Chicago Bur-
lington and Quincy, Northern Pa
cific and Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Iaul.
The capital of the new giant viii
he two and half billions. Fifty
thousand miles of trackage will be
included in the deal-but the bigger
the better--if we'll managed and with
some respect for public interest and
the fact that the public alone makes
the railroads.
Getting rid of separate and useless
Gets of officials, replacing costly
com~etition with cooperation, should
do wonders in economy.
But the railroad problem will not
be solved until this country has one
great railroad, as 1t has one great
post office, owned by the people
President Harding says that prohi-
bition will never be taken out of The
constitution, and it won't, without
some great change in public opinion.
The change would have to have
more than mere majority, more
than a three-quarters majority.
Three-quarters of the states are
needed to change the constitution.
Anti-prohibition will not get that