The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-09-26
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Turkey Comes Back.
The Angel Never Came.
Fool-Proof Flying.
The Trouble With
Marriage.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

OF nations conquered In the big
war, Turkey comes back first. Read
the offer made to her by the great al
lies and you learn that fighting alone
counts in tho family Of nations.
Turkey fought and won. England,
France and Italy beg her to meet
them In conference, offer her, most
humbly. sThrace as far as the River
MARTHA, and including Adrianople."
Turkey is invited into the League of
Nations; she is assured that the OAR
danel1es will be kept open and neu-
trail. Anything In reason, IL you will
please stop fighting" Is the word.
What a change from "Armistice Day"
when Turkey was the yellow dog
kicked out of Europe. It makes a
difference when you fight and win.
In Constantinop1e there is fear OF
Turkish massacres. The Turkish idea
OF a celebration is massacre. And
the Christians In Constantinople lack
the absolute faith that upheld thorn
in times past.
Whom the Turks first entered the
city In triumph, after Ii centuries of
Roman rule-about 46s years ago
the Christian women and children
gathered in the square before the
church of Saint Sophia. They had
been assured that at the right mo-
ment an angel with a flaming sword
would appear and protect them.
The angel did not turn up, but the
Turk did, with his usual massacre
He made a Mohammedan mosque of
Saint Sophia. putting minarets for
Muzzins at the corners and covering
with plaster the beautiful mosaic de-
signs forbidden by the prophet.
Turkey has not replied to the hum
BILE petition of the great allies. But
Russia has served notice that the
Dardanelles belong to the countries
of the Black sea--to Russia chiefly.
The question of war or no war de-
ponds on Russia ard the character Of
Kemal. Turkish leader.
II this war comes it will be inter-
esting chiefly as Russia's war. That
big country may come back number
two. That depends partly on the abil-
ity of Trotzky as leader of the ar
mics.
The Wright Airplane company says
1t has perfected a machine that any
body can fly after four hours prac-
tice. That is bound to come, for fly
ing on road as broad as the sky
should be much easier than driving a
motor in traffic.
If the fool-proof airplane has come,
it means a great deal to human free
dom, for the law of gravitation be-
comes law without power over man
when all can fly.
The Protestant Episcopal bishops
decide that there must be no divorce
except for infidelity. If they think
rhat infidelity IS the only thing that
makes marriage hard to stand they
know little about marriage. Bore
dom. with terrible dull husbands, is
the general trouble
The bishops desire to preserve mo-
rality. What is the moral effect of
compelling to stay married those tina.
don't want to be married, or forbid
ding men or women, separated. to
marry AGAIN.
Mrs. Peter Santes. in a hospital in
Mason City, Iowa, gave birth to an
infant that said mother" quite dis
tfnctly when only five minutes old,
and repeated the word several times
in the course of the day.
SO the nurses say, but they are
mistaken. To say mother" you must
use your teeth and tongue together.
Try it. New born babes have no
teeth.
Babies say mamma" all over the
world very early. as w. j. Bryan may
learn from Darwin. because it is a
vSound uttered naturally by an infan.
! i'm search of its lunch. Later the
|chiid thinks the word means mother,
put lt really means lunch"
Government experts say coal will
be very scarce and tell you to econo-
mize and buy British coal. That helps
to keep prices up.
Henry Ford says, Coal prices are
breaking. There is plenty of coal.
Use as little as possible and that will
bring the price down"
Take your choice. The moral in
any case seems to be, use little coal.
All educators are discussing the
etatement by President Hopkins of
Dartmouth that too many men go to
college. He, Hopkins. said college lu-
cation should be reserved for men
worthy of it, for material worth edu-
eating, for brain aristocracy" Is
BIT not a fact that mediocrity more
than genius needs training and edu-
eating? Is not the most important
task OF civilization the raising of our
low mental average?
Exceptional ability will do fairly
well without college training, for as
iures said, when you teach a child
to read easily you open all knowledge
to that child"
How many people realize what the
coal strike meant or to what extent
his is a civilization for those that
have.
The coal miners increased their
WAGES by so cents a tor. To rnt of