The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-09
T oday
Does It Suit You? Grafters, Beware
 Daugherty. Memories in Smoke. Praying in the Rain.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

By ARTHUR BRISBANE You know what happened to your favorite candidate or favorite villain Tuesday. If you are not satisfied with election results. let this com fort yon.
 thousand years hence not even the war of 1914 will make any real Difference in the worlds history. To say that Tuesdays election means little in the history of the United States is putting it mildly. Walking slowly through field, every mole burrow seems to count, | especially to the mole. Flying over country only big mountains count. To the flying machine of history this election will seem like the least inn portant of unimportant things. Can you suggest any real meaning that it had, except here and there an effort was made to replace "prac- tieai politicians" with thinking men.
  gentlemen that grafted during the war including those that stole for eign patents by selling them to themselves for a song. Have you grafter read the speech made by MT. Daugherty, the Attorney General, at Canton. October 21? If you haven't, get copy and read it. Some things in it will keep you awake. But if you move rapidly out of the United States. reading may also keep yoa out of jail That speech is full of meat" a very dsagreeable kind, for some of the big war patriotic rasca1s.
 Minors theatre in New York's bowery burned Tuesday, recalling memories to those that are old. The great Booth once played there. Why are there today no such actors as Booth or Salvini; no actresses like Rachel or Sarah Bernhardt? There are none, to those that are old. Per haps the trouble is with their age, rot with the actors.
 Eighty odd bodies have been taken from the Reilly mine in Pennsyl- vania. When the explosion told what had happened the women of the dreary mining region gathered at the mouth of the mine and for hours, kneeled, praying in the rain. Then dead bodies were brought out to them.
 That picture of the women praying tells what mining is and should in- terest those that don't want to be bothered with the question of liv- ing wage"
 For those men and many others a living wage" is turned suddenly into a dying wage. There should be a few dollars left over for those pray ing women and their children.
 Victor +. Arnold, once president of bank in Wisconsin is preaching every Sunday morning in New York city's town hall. having given up business. Anybody poor and suffer ing Is asked to call on him. That is fine, impressive.
 But it's a long way from some re- iigious unselfishness that you read about. Buddha, in one of his in carnations, appears on earth as lare He sees a starving beggar. sitting before wood fire.
 Immediately he jumps into the fire him But before he jumps he shakes himself three times to get rid of any fleas that may be living on him. He doesn't want to sacrifice them. That example of what you really might call loving a neighbor you may find in a footnote in William James admirable book on religious ex- perience.
 Senator Calder, running for re- election. in New York, gives these figures as average world wages:
 United States, sSo.s2 per week; England, s15.eS; Belgium. ss.4s; France, ss.69; Japan. s6.6S.
 You are not yet at the bottom Italy, s4.S6 and Germany, S3.12.
 The German that gets sS.12 of American money has 15.000 marks per week, four times as much as a Ger man professor used to get for year. and he works hard and skillfully for his 52 cents a day.
 Whoever imagines that this coun- try does not need protection and good solid protection against such wages does not know much.
 You know how slang grows. The aIgot of the French lower world. and thieves slang in this country. grow gradually. But how does the new. strange language called ''flapper talk come. ready made. to life?
 Young people, for instance, talk about the cows nostril,' or the eats ankle" or the bees elbow" These are expressions of high app proval. Where did that thing start? Can anybody tell?
 
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