The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-18
oday
Aerial Bootlegging. Mammalian Civilization. Same Old Issue. Lions Eat Donkeys.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

1oason with Montreal newspaper of the day before and 200 bottles of whisky. The whisky was smashed In forced landing. The aerial boot iegser vanished in a waiting auto mobile. The police announced an aerial smuggling route. The diff culty Is that such routes are unlim- ted in their possibilities. You cam not police the air or the earth's sur face everywhere. It makes suppress sion of traffic in whisky seem i'm possible-since 1t pays so well. For every short flying trip the fiisr could make thousand dollars. Who would have predicted 20 years ago. absolute prohibition in this country and flying machines defeating 1t
 The "mammalogists" met in the great museum of natural history yesterday. These scientists carc only for Animals that are mammals from man down to the mouse smaller than your finger and up to the ele- plant and whale. The mammal nurses it's young, feeding 1t with milk manufactured in the mothers body. Without that nursing there could have been no close companion ship of mother and child, no mother love, or family, or civilization. Help less infancy dependent on the moth CT was necessary to develop moral nature. You cannot blame Mir. Bry- an for refusing to believe that 70 important development was left to the accident of evolution.
 There is difference between dem ocrats and republicans. Republicans know what the people want, al- though they may not always do 1t. Democrats of the brand recently in power neither know nor do what the nation wants.
 For instance the republicans knew enough to win their last big election on the antiLeague of Nations fight
 Once elected. they ignored what they knew and mixed up in the four power treaty.
 Now another election approaches. Mir Hughes refuses the allies invi- tation to a conference at The Hague. Good old Hague. The allies thought that magic word would surely do the trick. but it didn't. The Re- pubicans want to make their fight again this fall on mo foreign en- tanglcment' issue and will point to their Genoa and Hague refus@ls.
 Lions, monkeys. leopards, left Af- riea on tine ship Dromoro Castle and landed in America yesterday. Of seven donkcss put on board in Af- rica. only three came ashore. Four were killed to feed the lions and leorards on the way over. good reporter mourns mans ingratitude, s,utclicrtns faithful, meek friends to feed savage monsters. But that has cen history from the beginning. The. faithful iard working and humble have been sacrificed to the arrogant and savage It's as old as Cheops or Uncle Tom.
 Stone. head of the locomotive en- gfnecrs, says prohibition Is good, and even bad bootleg whisky is good, fer, he says. it kills off the para sites in the leisure class" Unfor- tunately, as rule, the leisure class parasites have old fashioned whisky of -volstead days stored away. and do not drink the wood alcohol, more deadly kind. In the long run, however. those that perish by boot leg whisky are easily spared. Provt- dences allows few wholesale mis- takes.
 What would you say if you had to write n paragraph with sound moral about the following incident? On the Geneva (N YD golf course, very early yesterday morning. man was practicing long low drives. And a robin was catching early worms. He rose with one struggling worm. q swift golf ball hit and Killed him. The worm escaped. Evidently if everybody gets up early. worm, bird and golfer, there is no especial ad- vantage in 1t.
 Mrs. Mary Pike died in New Hamp sLire yesterday, 1o6 years old. Her life began in 1s16. What was the most important event in that stretch of years? A majority would answcr probably, The, great WAT" and the answer would be wrong. The deyelop- ment of the flying machine, tele- phone, wireless and radio, These things will be important when our great war as we call 1t, will be forgotten with other brutal attempts of the human races to find their bal ance.
 Mary Pike saw the development of mans industrial. scientific and me- chanical powers. The next 100 years may see return to intellectual de- velopmcnt alone really important. In- dustrial and mechanical are impor- tant only as they contribute to in- tellectual development. It Is an in- suit to science when electricity is used to kill murderer or haul howl ing mobs to a prize fight.
 General Pei Flu. impressed by pro- hibition in America, sent flask of distilled water to General Wu when the latter celebrated his birthda '. The idea was not to make Wu pro- hibitionist but to have him apply prohibition to the territories over which he ruled. Curiously enough.