The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11

By AklHOk BRISBANE
 An architect. aged 50, is found wan dering, unable to tell who he Is or where he lives. That "amnesia" inter- ests us. We forget that the billion and a half human beings on earth all have amnesia.
 Who are you. really7 Where were you 100 years ago? Where will you be, and where will you live 100 years from now7 What we call conscious life" is just a flash of consciousness in eternity. Amnesia victims, often have such flashes.
 At Nice, where in winter the idle from all over the world walk on the Promenade des Anglais, men sell tiny birds like parrots. beautifully colored, wonderfully tame. They sit on g little stick held in your fingers and never fly away.
 A woman has discovered that the entire tanning process consists in put ting out the poor creatures eyes. See- ing nothing, they fear everything, fear especially to lose their hold on that little stick.
 That Is how we feel about this earth-blind to what is beyond 1t. we cling on desperately If we could see beyond and know what Is outside. should we fly away in millions. through the doors. of death. as those poor birds would fly If they could see?
 new poem by John Milton Is dis- covered. Written early, 1t probably has little value. But millions will read 1t in newspapers. If 1t Is short enough-while of every ten able to read, nine certainly know nothing of Milton's real work.
 Better than discovering something new by a great poet would be te make the great poets discover" a few hundred millions of the empty brains.
 Advertising men should read some letters written by Milton for Crom- well, when Milton was Cromwells sec- retary. also his slam bang discussion with a certain Dutchman. They'd find there the kick" that they long to get in their style.
 In soft silk shirt, with neat, wide. bright stripes of white, purple and yellow. Mir. Jeffries. x-heavyweishtl prize fighter, began his career as a preacher. "It's nobody's business if I want to swear. smoke and drink, SO long as my heart is right. Let your conscience be your guide" says he.
 That's broad platform, wider than usual, but you have to think ot something new in thesc days of competition. It will remind Jeffries or his last great fight if he ever meets Billy Sunday in the new ring he has chosen.
 John L. Sullivan did not exactly preach,s although he was the great est of all fighters since DuRuescIin. But he did lecture on temperance and consulted this writer concerning his lecture. Fate had made him A temperance lecturer, he said. He would have preferred to. lecture on patriotism.
 Senators Lodge and Underwood showed clearly. in the Senate. that at least one of them does not know what the four-power treaty. means. One said 1t meant one thing, the other. another. If those men that sat listening, like provincial owls, while the wool was pulled over their eyes, don't know what the treaty means how much can the senators gener- ally know. Lodge and Underwood, nominally. helped to frame it. In reality it was handed to them.
 Japan can tell the two learned gentlemen what the treaty means, so can England. That treaty will soon mean something. at the ballot box, that will surprise good republicans.
 David Hand, who lived near Ash ley Grace. at Fanwood. 45 years ago, had COW that got an apple stuck in her throat. She swelled up. MT. Marsh. the butcher-there was no veterinary--said to make a hole in her side between two ribs, let the air out, and she'd be all right. Mir. Hall. who had four teams, said no. While they argued the cow died,
 Some one ought to tell that to the gentlemen at Washington arguing about the soldiers bonus.
 If President Harding and Secre- tary Fall put through their s35o. o.0o0,- 900 land reclamation plan. reported favorably by the Senate irrigation committee yesterday, their names will be remembered with gratitude when little fights of today are for gotten. To drain swamps and irri- gate deserts means to kill off mos- quitoes and disease, provide homes for legions, food for millions. Some friend of MT. Harding's should cele- brate the ending of his finSt year as President by preparing vivid state ment of what he has tried to do and actually done, for the nations land and it's farmers. There has been no President more earnest in such work.