The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-05

African savases celebrate only with a loud noise. Whether the chief dies marrieA buries his mother, or dis covers 6 dead hippepotamus loud bowling and beating ea tom-toms,
 On this glorious Fourth many futi grown Americans wtli show, when It comes te celebrating, that they arc net far from savases,
 wfsh children the noise is natural. they are going through the savage state,
 President Harding celebrates the one hundred and forty-stxth ami versary of American Independence with two excellent moves.
 He notifies owners of coal mines and striking workers that if they don't get together the peoples servants." meaning himself and his administration. will settle the matter for them.
 A similar statement addressed te che railroad men will be welcome
 Justice in dealing between workers and employers is Important; good wages arc important; without them ahers can be no real prosperity. But first comes the right of the people to have their coal supply. free of in- terruption and their railroad serv-y ice
 For the mon on strike, particularly on railroads. these are tho facts apart from right and wrong.
 If the strike continues, thousands that now have jobs more or less satisfactory, will find themselves without any job.
 The government Is conservative the influence of railroad owners is greater than that of hundreds of thousands that work for railroads.
 The people have gone through A great war that cost them a hundred thousand millions of dollars, have not much sympathy to spare for an industrial war.
 tant strikes will be lost and the strikers will be the losers.
 Nothing is interesting usually if fl happens far from the city hall" but you might be interested in the small twin star Plaskett, named for the astronomer that studies and describes 1t. To write the distance of that star from the earth. write down 5.25s and add 13 zeroes.
 That makes about 52h quadrillions of miIes--not easy to measure in your mind.
 The twin star. faint speck of light, In the depths of the sky. Is made up of two suns revolving around each other Their temperature is 3o.- 900 degrees fahrenheit. Our fastest flying machine. travelling 200 miles an honr. would take So.ooo ,ooo,ooo.- 900 ysars to travel from our earth to that star.
 Plaskett, more than 10000 times as bright as our sun. is the biggest sun ever measured up to now. If 1t should rain on that sun. every drop as big as our earth. the drops would be dried up before they reached the surface and not noticed.
 It's a big universe in which this earth h less than small grain of sand. You would think, considering the figures, that we might stop cheating, robbing and murderins each other. spend little time won- dering what 1t is all about
 Casanovas writes from Baracoa, oriente, in Cuba, that he reads this column daily. published in Spanish in Fl Mundo, of Havana. Mir. Casa novas reminds you how much can he said briefly in the Spanish lan- guage. What newspaper men should do and what none does, MT. Casa novas puts in five words.
 "En hoy escribe pocoy dice mucho."
 Write little and say much"
 It Is the custom of newspapermen, present company included. to reverse that, writing much. saying little.
 The British government Issued an official document white paper" say ing it will not change it's mind, that a Jewish national home will be es- tablished in Palestine and Jewish people will be in Palestine as of right and not on suffrance."
 That Is satisfactory. Jews were Tn Palestine before there were any English in England, Irish in Ireland, of French in France.
 The white paper" adds, His majesty's government has no such aim in view as that Palestine should become us Jewish as England is Eng- lish." Palestine. of course, will be- come as Jewish as the Jews of the world decide to make 1t. At present the Arabs are 10 to one against the Jews. Jews can change that if they choose.
 [ There was no mention of bequests to charity in MT. William Rocke- feliers will. But that isn't import . ant.
 If the visible property amounts. as 1t probably will, to $2oo.0oo. .o00, the United States will collect $5o.o0o. .O00 in inheritance taxes. and the state S10, 900, 900. Thus while working for himself and his family. Mir. Rocke- feIler has gathered together sso,oeo.- coo to be used for public purposes.