The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-25
I Today
The Irish Tragedy. Wicked Judge Gary. Here Comes the Bonus. How Do the Rats Do It?
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE <

A tragedy beyond description Is the murder of Michael Collins, who at 30. made himself the leader of Ireland's forces against England, who won the fight for Ireland's free dom and after the death of Griffith was Ireland's great hope.
 The cowardice of the murder is al- most hidden by the stupidity of 1t. Civil War is bad enough. There is no word to describe the murder, from ambush, of such a man as Collins.
 Judge Gary raises the wages of 156, 900 day laborers. Two other big steel companies under Schwab Be- gin to follow suit. "so shines aSgood deed in a naughty world"
 The New York World discovers wicked things in Judge Gary's ac- tion. First, 1t is part of scheme to destroy labor unions by convinc- ing workmen that they can get bet ter pay without unions.
 0CtOii0I IL d put lO nCtP tnS 4dAA roads win their strike without yield ing on seniority.
 Third, it is just a preliminary to the raising of all steel prices. The workmen will get a little more. the public will pay s10 for every dollar the workmen get.
 Fourth, it is an effort to make the new high tariff popular. The work men will say You see. they have high tariff. and we get our wages raised. Three cheers for the high tariff"
 What the public sees and cares about is the fact that Judge Gary gives. directly to 15s,0OO men and in- directly by his example to many thousand others, wage increase of 20 per cent which means better liv- ing for at least a million women. chill dren and men.
 The bonus is coming, and will not be stopped by all the efforts of pa triots that cheered the soldiers in war and would cheat them in peace
 Bitter tears have been and will be shed by big taxpayers in vain. They are the same near sighted crowd that fought the federal bank system. de- claring that it meant imitation and national panic.
 Those that hate the bonus most will live to bless 1t. Distribution lions in cash is just what this coun- try and it's business need. The sol diers are young men and you can rely on them to distribute the money.
 There need and ought to be no tax at all about the bonus.
 The country needs more currency. The nations credit is good for ten or fifty times the amount of the /. bonus. The government can print nice new money and hand it to the soldiers, without paying interest to any bondholders, or taxing anybody And at it's leisure can retire the money if it chooses, just as it would be compelled to retire bonds.
 The wise will shout Initiation to ruin!" But paper currency is the na- tion's note of hand. If John D. Rockefeller printed a hundred mill lions of money with his name on 1t anybody would take it.
 Why Is not the United States, which owns John D. Rockefeller, good for a hundred times as much :?
 This column asked: How do rats carry away the hen's eggs they steal?" Many readers have written solving the mystery. One saw a rat holding hens egg in his front paws, pressed against his chest, ball. ancing himself on his hind legs and tail, hopping along like a kangaroo He was chased. made to drop the egg and break it. He has witnesses.
 Another saw a rat lying on it's back holding the egg against it's stomach with four legs. Other rats were dragging it along by the tail. using the rat on it's back as a sled. An other saw a rat nibble a tiny hole in the eggshell, put in a long tooth and drag the egg gently away
 The rat is more Ingenious than we had thought-a most versatile anil nal. By the way, rats steal eggs from kitchen table without break ing. them on the floor. Perhaps some reader can explain that.
 We are referring the matter to the Smithsonian institution, the zoologi- cal garden and the museum of nat ural history