The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-26
I oday
Daugherty and Morse. She Met Troglodytes. Beneficial Rate Cut. Zoroaster, Then
 Bolshevism.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE


 erty while practicing law and not holding office, took or did not take fee from Mir Morse to help him get out of prison. Is not important.
 Every man In jail or out Is en- titled to the help of the best lawyer he can hire. When he had no public office If MT. Daugherty included Mir. Morse or Beelzebub himself. among his clients. that means nothing.
 The important thing as regards Sr. Dausherty Is that he as Attorney General. brought about the indictment of Mir. Morse. accused of swindling the government in war time.
 That is the important thing and incidentally 1t may explain part of the agitation.
 Lady Dorothy Mills. granddaughter of Corbfn. who built the Long Is land railroad, has visited cave dweli CTS in the Tripoli mountains of north Africa.
 Cave children ran In and out of the caves like rabbits in a warren. says she. The eave-dwelling Troglodytes or "gnawers of bone." are of Euro pean stock. although in Africa. A husband buys his wife and if he doesn't like her after the first day he can send her back and have the price returned-a department store method applied to marriage. This explains probably, why those gentlemen have remained Trogiodyte cave dweIlers. An exchangeable wife has no incen tive to establish a home.
 The interstate commerce commis sion decides that 5A per cent is enough return for railroad stockhold- CTS. Considering that many stocks are largely water and that the people of the United States were taxed to carry railroads through the war and keep them out of bankruptcy the re- turn seems fair.
 The commission cut raes 10 per cent average and railroad stocks did not drop-the first day, at least. To cut excessive charges Is what rail- roads need. The Manhattan Elevated railroad in New York did not make money until the fare was cut from 10 cents to cents in spite of the stockholders.
 Western civilization may not un- derstand Russia. with her strange Lenins and Trotzkys. But Russians understand western civilization pretty weli--at least In spots. The Moscow Izvestia says the Genoa meeting was a scramble for the oil supply of the world and adds:
 Russia was an amused onlooker III this scramble among the petroleum imperialists. The Azerbaijan Petro- leum is firmly in our hands and the oil trust will soon apply to us and not we to them"
 Other times. other uses. Natural gas wells on the shores of the Black sea were once used by the priests of Zoroaster to collect money from fire worshippers. What more convincing than a priest with power to bring flaming fire from the earth?
 Those gas wells and oil wells now will be used by priests of Bolshevism to extract profits from capitalist civ ilization.
 Dispatches late yesterday said that MT. Hall running for governor in Oregon, backed by the Ku Klux Klan, was running behind. But whoever under estimates the power of such an of other secret organizations, fails to understand that what Fourier called the cabalistic" instinct in man. is overwhelmingly powerful.
 To know something that others do not know, to be part of deep mys- tery." to be set apart and made strange by clothing, pass words. grirs and mutterings. appeals strongly to all half savage men. All this re- ligious leaders have used intelligent ly in building their organizations.
 Men are trying to fly around the earth and expect to spend three months on the journey. only 300 hours of that time in the air. about 1.S00 hours on the ground. repairing and resting. That is not discourag- ing. You remember a little while ago, when the automobile was new, how the roadways were lined with ma chimes broken down, flat tires, spark trouble and every trouble. Now they run from the Atlantic to the Pacific without a breakdown. Before this century ends machines will fly around the earth. without stopping. if they want to.
 The New York Times announces a merger of oil companies. A s1VJ share will be taken in at $500 a share. The deal will amount to s755,- 900, ,o0o. not quite a billion; small business in these days. The problem is easily solved by our system of supply and demand"
 After the merger is made the com panies will need more money and they won't supply gasoline unless you meet the demand for a higher price. Could anything be simpler?
 4 young gentleman observes that he never yet read novel that co,,- pelled him to say: This Is too good. It isn't possible that such book has been written" As you get old novels become dull because the concrete of the brain has begun to set" sd