The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-24
T 'oday
Grand Maneuvers, 1,O0Oth Birthday. Judge Gary Distributes. Potatoes 75c a Barrel.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

bY AN HUN DNAGS0HANAA
 The French army is about to in- dulge in grand maneuvers." That Is intended to impress Germany, rsfus- ing to pay what she hasn't got, and to impress England who won't make Germany pay what she hasn't got. It Is a good deal like the old nursery rhyme, "stick won't beat dog, dog won't bite pig, pig won't get over the sty." etc.
 Germany says she won't pledge her mines in the Ruhr region and she won't transfer all the gold she has to the care of the allies.
 France. absolutely dominating Eu- ropo in military way. can take tho mines and the gold, too. if she chooses. The German mark drops a little lower. the French franc also. So much for that.
 While Philadelphia prepares to cell ebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of In-
  at the foot of the Hartz mountains. celebrates It's one thousandth birth day. In that old town of interest ing history and adventure you may inspect manuscripts written by Mar tin Luther, statues of eight German emperors. the Kaiserhaus. oldest building (except churches) in Ger many To learn how soiidly they built, you visit the "zwinger" tower, with its stone walls almost 2S feet thick.
 For a thousand years the old town has stood, sometimes half burned once free city in the Hanseatic league, once taken by the Swedes and since the beginning of tho last cen- tury owned by Prussia.
 What will have happened in Ger many and elsewhere in Europe and over here when Goslar celebrates its two thousandth birthday? That day will come around quickly as tho first thousandth anniversary has come.
 And what will have happened one million years hence, when this race begins real life. with ss.0oo.ooo years to go, according to scientists? There's really no hurry.
 Judge Gary of the big steel com pany raises tho wages of 15e.o0o la borers 20 per cent. That Is con siderable army. To increase the pay of such crowd is to better times and general prosperity, what iviga- tion is to farm.
 Every dollar thus distributed will be spent as the men get it and bus mess promoted. That wouldn't hap pen If the money stayed locked up in one big pocketbook.
 Would you like to be a truck farmer? At Farmingdale, N. J., last Saturday. potatoes sold for 75 cents 8 barrel of 1S5 pounds.
 seconds" smaller sized potatoes. could not be sold at all. The grower got less than half a cent a pound for the potatoes. A hundred miles from Farmingdale. OH the same day. potatoes sold to con sumers for SC a barrel. The problem of the United States is distribution. cutting down the profiteering wall that separates producer from con srmer. That problem doesn't seem to interest the government.
 Three years ago Samuel Greenberg was selling whisky made of wood alcohol. Michael Kulik. on the way to wedding stopped in and had two drinks A few hours later he was stone blind. The jury gave him a verdict of s25.oO0 against Green berg Greenberg went into bank ruI tcv. Two days ago Kulik went to tn. poorhouse to spend the rest of his life.
 There ought to be a law and a judge to put Mir Greenberg to work, preferably at hard labor, earning money to support the man made blind by his criminal traffic.
 To meet the lack of coal, Henry
 
 his big plant, without making one of the 42,ooo workers in 1t lose q days work. You can. do anything and face anything if you have money. energy. intelligence. Those are the three things in industry.
 Women in London take around, in- stead of dogs, monkeys. foxes. mon gooses, sometimes, parrots perohed on the wrist. marmoset for a pet looks silly. But it's better than q bull dog; 1t doesn't bite.
 director of the health depart- ment in Massachusetts says boot leggers have given up selling beer entirely; not enough profit in 1t, Whisky Is the thing, easily hidden. easily made, bringing a high price.
 Prohibition can drive out beer easily enough. The question is. can 1t drive out whisky? That remains to be seen.
 The British government appropri- ates $250.0oo to establish a servant girls college. The girls will he trained 13 weeks for $100, 30 hours instruction per week.
 Tn addition to cooking, washing. needle work, and care of infants, the young ladies in the college will study singing and piano playing. The idea is for the servant to entertain her mistress with music. not to amuse herself The college plan Is excel lent. first class cook will some day be recognized for what she Is. an artist, scientist and a benefac-