The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-17

Harding:
 Elections are coming soon and a big eIectlon--for President-later. Farmers will decide 1t.
 If the government does not give Henry Ford chance to make good his promise about cheap fertilizers a. Muscle Shoals, there Is apt to be a shake-up and many farmers may be found voting for Henry Ford for President-which this administration would not like.
 Whether Ford could produce cheap fertilizer nobody knows and he doesn't know. He thinks he could and he is a wonderful manufactured.
 If you give him Muscle Shoals and he produces cheap fertilizers it may be said truly That's enough to make him President"
 If you do not give him Muscle Shoals and he does not produce cheap fertilizers, or not enough to make 1t worth while. that will disgust the farmers.
 If you don't let Ford have Muscle Shoals, the farmers will always be- lieve that you deprived them of cheap fertilizers and they won't be satis- fled until they get Henry Ford in the White House where he will have chance to make cheap fertilizers If he can. U
 That's worth some thought.
 With music to amuse her, a young girl went through two dangerous operations, fully conscious, smiling, feeling no pain. The music came through radio receivers. and her only comment while doctors were cutting her body was: T hear perfectly"
 All pain had been eliminated by an injection into the spinal cord.
 That announcement is important to all women. It may mean some day cessation of the pain at child birth.
 Hitherto 1t has been impossible to stop that pain by use of anaes- thetics to make the mother uncon- scious. When the mind is uncon- scious labor stops. the brain no longer carries, through nerves, to muscles. the order that cause ex- pulsion and birth.
 It should and it will be possible, by partial spinal anaesthetic, to deaden the nerves that carry to the brain the sensation of pain and not interfere with the efferent nerves that take the orders from the brain to the muscles.
 When that Is accomplished child birth will be painless. and all surgi- cal operations will be performed, if the surgeon chooses. with the patient conscious.
 Marconi is trying to reach the planet Mars with wireless electric messages through the other. He believes Mars is trying to reach us As that planet comes oloser--it will soon be only 4o.ooo.oOo miles away communication should be easier.
 At the same time Conan Doyle is trying with radio apparatus to get in direct communication with spirits of the other world.
 There is s great doubt as to what Marcont will accomplish. But there is no doubt whatever as to Conan Doyle's accomplishments.
 He will get up as many spirits as he wants. Whoever, belieyeing. goes hunting for spirits will always find them.
 Railroad men alleged that 100, 900 section hands under recent wage cutting will work for $56304 a year. Tho majority of these men are mar ried and have children. Will those responsible tell how they expect man to support his family on s56s,et year? VIII that amount pay rent. even. in the meanest hut, and feed and clothc man, his wife and chill dren? If it will not, what are the 100000 men expected to do?
 It Is important that owners of railroad stocks should get dividends, owners of railroad bonds their in tcicse, anu managers or railroads their salaries and graft.
 But as Labor" organ of the workingmen, published at Washing ton, says. The labor board should understand that 1t cannot safely sub stitute Chinese for American stand ards of living. even for the sake of dividends
 Much of the worlds real progress Is Tn medicine and Tn surgery, how ever much that truth may distress friends of mind healing and other Imaginary cures. For instance. ur. Biggs. head of New York state health department, tells you and proves that diphtheria anti-toxin has made al- most harmless the disease once most creaded and fatal among children. Before the use of anti-toxin, of 10 children with diptheria, five died. Now. with anti toxin, out of ten with diphtheria at least nine get well.
 Thanks to that one marvellous d,s- covery, thousands of mothers have teen spared the agony of seeing their children strangled to death by the vile disease.
 pr. Biggs' figures are facts. not imagination. yet there are minds So marrow and ignorant as to onpose such remedies nd the eciart;f,c ..,.. ,,-