The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09
T oday Time to Step Lively. Mohammed Loose
 Again. Peace and War Needed. Lasker's Big Ship.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

A>aSA@T DIE OLltPs By ARTHUR BRISBANE k.------------- Pinehet. Hiram Johnson, now S LaFeIlette. winning by landslide each In turn oonqners the effort of old d-fsshloasd stupid conservatism to | turn back tho tide.
 The people want men that mean something. are something. And unless gentlemen in power realize it and move q little more rapidly. they will be run over.
 The Greek eommander-in-chief is captured by Turks, whose leader kindly orders his men not to murder Christians As they march trium- ' phantiy forward.
 There is q suggestion of trouble in Athens-perhaps the turning out of the King. That wouldn't be trouble, rather . good idea. The Greek na- tion with 5000 years of experience back of 1t ought to know by now that the one thing that 1t does not need Is R King.
 The victorious rush of Renal Pasha's Turkish army reminds yos unpleasantly of olc days when Mo- ham.ned first wound up tho enthu- siasm of his followers. Sweeping westward, 8. one time they threatened to preach the Koran from avery pulpit In Chrlstendom and send all Europe In pilgrimage to Mecca That won't happen again. And England means that 1t shall not. She has sent Field Marshal Plumar to protect Constantlnople, which means the Mediterranean. against this Turkish overflow.
 Latest news brings nope of strike settlement. which would mean get ting back to business. For every body's sake 1t is to be hoped that the settlement is coming. What this country needs from railroad owners to track walkers, and from coal mine owners living in Newport, to half blind mine mules living under ground, Is active business. Some of these days we have got to pay for that war and 1t is time to prepare for that settlement It will come.
 Lasker, president of the shipping board, announces plans for American ships of 10000 tons each.
 If the President and his active young assistant. Lasker, through the fight they are making for subsidy, can enable the United States to be represented on the ocean and stay there, the country will be much obliged to them.
 With the news of the 7o.ooo-ton American passenger ship comes news of the greatest flying machine ever built by this country.
 The War Department has been working on the machine, great bombing war plane, for IS months. Such machine, well handled. might destroy an enemy fleet of battle ships.
 1t is hard to discourage Russia. she has seized a number of British ships and hauled down the British flag, playing at the same time God Save The Queen." unnecessary sar- casm.
 The Russian flag replaces the British flag.
 1ls Italy the exclusive right to coast wise shipping. Italy evidently used her time wisely at Genoa.
 At Chang Chung. Manchuria. Jap anese and Russian delegates are ar ranging various matters preliminary to replacing fighting with business.
 This country. that fooiishly bought the Czars bonus. and still has them apparently does not know. as far as Russia is concerned, that the war is over.
 In the Red Hook section of Brook lyn, city that will soon be bigger than all the rest of New York. II have been killed by poisonous boot leg whisky since Labor Day. That is murder on an active scale. The government used to make money by taxing whisky that was only slow poison, Now bootleggers, and off cials that tax them. take millions of profit from swiftly and deadly alcoholic poison. Il
 Killing with bootleg whisky would be discouraged if some of the killers were sent to life imprisonment as they should be. Murder is murder.
 What use Is science? You sti1l hear the question asked by the ig- norant. Minnie r. Dresslaur, at the Pittsburg convention of chemists. shows that few drops of "methylene blue" or of certain other dyes, will show in a moment whether milk is fresh or old. If it is old milk it all becomes discolored when the dye is dropped into it. If the milk is fresh it remains clear.
 There is trouble in the Philippines about the Star Spangled Banner"
 When 1t is played some natives perhaps they don't know the tune = keep their hats on. Our patriotic soldiers take those hats and throw them In the street. That is little too patriotic. Civilized soldiers should show the first sign of civiliza- ton. which is politeness.
 On the other hand, the Filipinos