The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-20

 fnaries in Pennsylvania Is especially encouraging because 1t was a woin- ans victory. It proves that women judge character. They saw in Pin chot an honest, earnest, able man. They paid little attention to bosses who were against him. Women vot- ing will make politics much cleaner. as Queen Victoria made the court cleaner. Not that she was very brill liant. but she was a woman.
 Tears are deadly to germs. says an English scientist. One tear in test tube with millions of bacteria dis solved them all. Nature has many ways of protecting the body. There is salt in tears and salt is one of the greatest protectorr. Salt. acid and violent shaking are deadly to germs. when you sneeze you kill germs, just as you would be killed If an elephant stepped on you.
 Senator Capper, in his weekly, says that there is s chance of really doing something about war profiteers. The statute of limitations no longer pro tects them. The department of justice may find out who ordered 5000. 900 sets of riding spurs for the army and navy. For the navy spurs seem pre- posterous. They can't make a battle ship or submarine go faster. As re- gards the army. horses played little ar no part in this war. Buying s.ooo,ooo pairs of spurs indicates that somebody got something from some one intsrested in the spur business. of course, that was . mere flea bite. The real money was got fn larger Iumpa
 Japan has 3oe flying machines. Ono of them is capable Of sinking tho grsakesxs sbattieship. How foolish it is to talk4 about -elimination of armamsuta~
 One nier~scouid destroy . battle ship costing forty millions Multi ply that by 800 and you know how much those flying machines would he YorfA to Japan in war. No won der she smiles and agrees to out down batt1sships. The (Itaiics> Niefi Sichs tEnd Italics, of Tokio. says that in October Japan's Eng lish air instructors will be al smissed. America perhaps. or possibly Eng land herself. may regret these fly ing lessons given to tha Japanese. Asia failed when she tried to in- wade Europe on ponies. on eamels and on foot. She might do better in the air.
 The governments of Europe will leave Genoa to meet later at The Hague. Once more they will miss Uncle Sam and his pocketbook. The Genoa conference ts not . failure. Russia and Germany made . treaty. ttat rsade souns of the others think
 Tho latest nsws says thss nations have agreed not to attack each oth- CT for eight months. That is some thing. To say to your neighbor. T won't shoot you for the next eight months" is better than shooting him next day.
 In . l.es Angeles school. hair dressing. massage and manicuring arc to be taught m tradek To have . chflA study those trades in like having him stndy law. He will srend his life in tho law fighting others quarrsis. In massage. mani ouyinw and hair dressing, he will live es fix ID other peoples bodies.
 Better enable tho child to hire law rsrs 10 ffght his fights. and mani cursrs, hairdrsssers and massage ar tiyts to manipulate his body-if he thinks such foolishness necessary. Az duil . caxeer n could be imag- tpeA. vouid be rubbing somebody eiss's hair. CT fighting somebody eisss legal fishta
 A xhs rate of sTs.ooo miles day MArs 10 coming nearer to the cary On Juns 1S 1t will be only 4o,00o.os ( niles eway-it never comes any nearer than that. It seems long wav eff. but this solar system. the sun and planets that go round 1t. are a nearly solid as . metal spoon that you hold in your hand. What we call .solid substance" is . collection of atoms and molecules as far apart in proportion to their diameters as the sun and planets.
 When Mars comes so near another attempt will be made to learn some thing about 1t, what the people on that planet, 50 much older than our selves, amount to, whether they really dig canals to hold their oceans. as the planet gets round-we shall have to do 1t some day--or whether every thing happened there long ago ana tho planet is now dead.
 The day is coming when we shall know more about Mars than we know now about the Arctic Circle, and 1t may not be 90 far off
 ! A Frenchman in Nice bought a lot, made bricks from clay dug out of his ground, baked them in his own oven. ana pulit nouse' ne city oI Nicc taxes bricks, Broussard. the brick maker, was fined one hundred francs and compelled to pay six thousand francs taxes. The bricks were con fiscated. Broussard was ruined. It seems unbelievable. but isn't. Not SO long ago. in France and Italy, it was . crime to collect salt on the edge of the seashore or to let salt water eva porate to get the salt. The govern ment taxed salt and wanted the money. It taxed doors and windows.