The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-05

Tn tnlS strlke matter the people will
 decide what sort of man MT. Hard ing is and what his strength of will amounts to. It will have a good deal to do with deciding he next presidential election. Some .ay it was all arranged. The President was to request settlement, acceptable to the workers, to keep the record straight and help republicans at the next election. Then. when the roads refused. the President could .sy to the men. Well. I did my best" That suggestion is a little too subtle.
 A MT. Watson helped Bell make instruments for his first telephone. It ran from an upper to a lower floor in the house. The first mes sage ever heard over the phone was this;
 Watson, come up here; I want you
 This was the last message Bell ever heard:
 Bell come up here; want you.e
 When Bell was buried al. the telephones in the United States and Canada were silent for one minute. That meant cutting of at leas. s5,- 900 messages, allowing for extra business in day time.
 Bells little idea of calling Wat son over wire has grown into SO,- 100000 messages day, 1O,OOO,ooO subscribers talking over 20, oco, 900 miles of wire,s1 ooo, 100000 worth of property and 100000 employees. If you get a good idea, stick to it.
 Monsieur Hilaire Guerin. mayor of La Prairie, in Canada. leading three others, saved 47o lives, making 40 trips in a frail boat through the rapids. One man that tried before him was swept to his death. Fine heroism, but this is shocking; Monsieur Hilaire gives recipe for heroism, pea soup, hard work and white whisky" You are comforted by his statement that the hard work is more important than the white whisky. Somehow, no matter how good a prohibitionist you .Are. YOU feel that heroism and some alcohol have always been close together. "Ciaret for women and children. port wine for ordinary men, brandy for heroes" is an old saying that sticks in the mind.
 Yesterday tombstone Vance, editor of the Naw Haven Herald, drove a i65-yard golf hole in one strosse. up the ball flew. along 1t rolled and hopped into the little hole. Others will know enough to realize that it was an accident, and won't waste 1 time trying to repeat it. But let it 1 be said that a man has made money In racing or stock gambling, or a lottery, much more difficult than holing out in one at yards. and | thousands of idiots will try the | same thing.
 Every American. on the average, | received 112 letters through the post office last year. And the art of letter writing is as dead as cunei- 1 form script. Today's letterwriting. compared with that of the eigh- teenth century, is like machine-made | mosquito netting compared with fine old lace. We are in too much of a hurry to do things well. But it is all right. The human race, like an individual, does only one thing well | at time. This is the age Iof quantity and quality will come | later.
 New silver mines. with ore run ning $50 to the ton. have been .onnd ! m the barren lands of Fitzgerald. Alberta. How that will arouse excitement, and how 1t will sound to Germany. Austria. Russia and other countries trying to make good money out of paper. Yet, if Ger many discovered solid mountain of gold and it became known. she could not pay her debts. The gold would be as worthless as paper marks and France would not accent it. The only real values are earth. thought and labor.
 France, according to The As- sociated Press. is preparing to take the Rhineland from Germany. in- cluding the remaining worth while coal and iron mines. A serarate government, to run the Rhineland and exploit it for the allies, France principally is part of the plan. It is a new thing in modern methods. The story of Alsace Lorraine will tell the French how it will work But in the meanwhile what will happen to Europe? The evil effects of the worst of all wars may be only be- ginning.
 Bolivia, planning to reorgani7e her little army, decided to hire expert German officers. out of a job. message from the allies says, You cannot do that. You signed the treaty of Versailles and are bound to heed this notice" Bolivia willlI heed, probably, although under the Monroe doctrine, it would be our business to protect her from such penalties as Germany now pays. It is just as well that this country did not sign the treaty of Versailles, or go into that league. What s.rt of orders should we be getting from Europe If we had signed.