The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-29
Today
King and Crazy Man. Imagination Kills. Foolish Plot. Cheap String Beans.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

man, wounded many. Yesterday bombs filled with tear gas" con quered him. He appeared ut the door. blood dropping from his hands held above his head. and asked for a drink of water.
 If such man, a little less insane, had happened to be born king of some fighting nation. with the lower i, of that nation back of him. little boys in school might ,be reading about him now as a great hero.
 The performance in the little West Virginia house is not so different from that of Charles XII of Sweden. when the sultan sent to arrest him and Charles undertook to fight the whole force of the sultan with no army but the few servants il his house.
 man in London. tried to hang himself. his handkerchief fastened to the bed post. The man was not hanged but believed he was being hanged, and died the doctors say of to-suggestion." This is interesting to all those who believe and preach the theory of mind over matter.
 
 Senator Borah says that included in the big strikes is "a plot 70 kill all unions" That will prove a fool ish plot if it exists and if it should succeed--which it won't.
 Money is organized. employers are organized, professions are organized. Labor. naturally, should be organ ized. If it were possible to destroy the unions. employers would have in place of them I. w. W. and Knights of Labor" organizations, not dealt with as easily or satisfactorily as labor unions.
 The department of labor says liy- ing costs 6s.s per cent more than in 1914. This seems strange to those who raise the food. William Fro stick of Allaire. N. J., gives you the interesting information that truck farmers sell string beans is quarts for 20 cents. The basket costs 71s cents. That leaves 12M cents for 16 quarts of string beans. Tn addition. the grower must ship the stun to market.
 Cabbases are sold at from 30 to 50 cents barrel.
 Potatoes are sold at $2 a barrel How much does the public pay for what it eats?
 Imperfect. costly distribution IS the curse of this country. and causes the high cost of living.
 James c. Dean, publicity man for railway employees, tells the President that government efforts to run the mines and the railroads may lead to violence and revolution.
 There will not be any revolution.
 Mir Dean is mortified at what he calls drafting men into involuntary servitude." There has been no sug- the President or by anybody else. Nevertheless men are drafted Into involuntary servitude in war because public welfare makes 1t necessary.
 Rather than go without coal, rail- road service or food. the people would draft men to work, promptly and without any revolution" talk.
 The public welfare is the first thing. Drafting is always done when public welfare makes it neces- sary, no matter what kind of var it may happen to be.
 In New York very old Ameri- can man jumped out of a window and killed himself. At Deauviile, ia France, an old American woman appeared at the Casino with four diamond bracelets on the right wrist, four pearl bracelets on the left wrist. three ropes of pearls around her neck, one holding dia-l mond three quarters of an inch long. also brooches, rings. etc. There are great inequalities in this life, but you are not quite sure whether you would rather be the old American that jumped out of the window or the old female American trotting around Deauville. as described.
 The duty on raw wool will be 33 cents a pound. That seems settled. It's a high duty, but the people would not mind paying it if they were were sure that 1t would re- suit in greatly increased raising of sheep.
 Mutton is better than beef, for all except those that do the hardest physical labor. Sheep clean up farms and roadsides, keep down weeds. There ought to be in this country 1000 times as many as there are. But 1t seems easier to raise the tariff than to raise sheep.
 The Consolidated Gas company of New York protested to the supreme court that New York city should not be allowed to regulate 1t. The SUI preme court said the poor gas com pany must not be submitted to com 7 fiscation and decided for the gas company.
 The gas company yesterday in- creased it's dividend. putting itself or an per cent basis, and very thing is serens-for gas companies.