The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-22

NIT. Hardings Wisdom. Two Items From Europe. Hope and Common
 Sense. Insulting Monkeys.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

Mir. Harding's debts commission starts in to collect the billions that Europe owes us. if it can.
 More important Is President Hard ings earnest backing of the plan to spend ssBo. 100000 as a starter. on re- oiamation of land. with irrigation and drainage That wise spending of money followed up persistently. will give greater wealth to this country by far than the amount of our for aign debt
 Two items from Europe: zita. once Empress of Austria. will soon give birth to . child The father is dead. To the island of Madeira. where Zita lives in exile. they have taken cart load of earth from Hungary. The earth soil of Hungary will be spread cut on the floor of zita's room. that child may be born on Hungarian soil with an eye to inheriting the throne some day. It takes more than a cartloAd of earth to make a people forget 90 soon what royalty cost them.
 European item No. 3: Pests arc at- eacking the roses that grow in the valleys of Bulgaria. at tho foot of the Balkan mountains. The roses are used to make altar of roses. They are grown in place of tobacco. cuAGtion of taste.
 x4oyd George talked hopeful com mon senss to newspaper men at 0enoa yesterday. He expects real results from the conference. does not take too seriously the German Russian treaty or believe that 1t was intended to wreck the conferences. He predicts that tho conference will produce an agreement of all nations not to attack each other without long deliberation.
 He believes the conference marks the beginning of Europe's recon struction. Before all. he is hopeful. and hope Is 90 per cent of recovery.
 Under Che ocean. over thousands of miles of cable, comes this from Lon don: Fans will be carried very big and gorgeous. They will be trimmed with monkey fur in strips. the fur floating in the breeze as the fan is waved. What would we say of a female monkey if she sat in her tree. waving under her delicate nose strips of skin cut from the scalp of a womAn-with hair attached7 Mir. Bryan. please note that today men descended from monkeys. insult the monkey as often as it insults the man.
 Conan Doyle tells more about life in spiritland and renders public ser vice. After you hear what he says. you are reconciied to this life and all it's sorrows One medium per- suaded the spirit of Madame Pal ladino. in this life q medium, to come back and see Conan noyle. The lady came. as you would expect. throwing q tambourine in the air, up- setting tables and making little toy piano tinkle.
 In the spirit heaven you have horses. dogs and other pets, says Conan Doyle. Presumably also rabies typhiod fever and other diseases that pets carry with them.
 old men become strong. old women become beautiful in spirit land. Hus- bands and wives that didn't agree on earth stay apart up there.
 After leaving this earth. the spirit zoos to sleep for three whole days, to rest the mind thoroughly and pre- vent shock on waking up in the next world. What difference would three days or three million years make, once you are as1eep7 When you wake. eternity starts, where time Is noth- ingi
 It is natural that puzzled humanity, not Knowing how 1t got here or what is to happen after 1t leaves. should ask questions. But 1t is amazing that any human should be satisfied with such silly answers and pre- postsrcus impositionA
 The Red Indians. at least, imagined . hunters hunting ground. with doss. bisons. bears. The Conan Doyle spirit heaven suggests an eternal home for the feeble minded.