The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-20
oday Be Careful With
 Matches. Let Him Live. If Mir. Harding Means It. Debs' Change of Mind.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

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 The Times asks the government not to delay in resolutely grap- pling. etc" "Resofute grappling" is good. walking into powder room with q lighted candle Is not so good Gentlemen who have made their It, tie pile and have 1t stored just above the powder room should be careful about their matches and their advice
 If you had q big fat man living in the same room with you and knew that his body, dead or alive, would always be in that room, you would want him to live. Dead men are un- pleasant roommates. France, Germany and England live in the same room. geographically. England and France have deciced, it seems. that Germany shall stay alive. instead of dying and decaying beside them.
 The proposition Is for England to forgive. the debt of France. and for France and England to cut Ger many's- indemnity down to 5o,ooo,- 900. gold marks. about IF times what Bismark took from France after the. 1870 war.
 President Harding tells mine own CTS he is sorry they will not accept his suggestion, arbltrets and resume meanwhile.
 Being sorry isn't enough. Mine owners will resume production If tbey believe President Harding means that coal shall be produced.
 Mir. Harding. .~why not open those mines yourselff You can do it. The owners are too wise to resist you. Put the union men at work. Instead of having the army shoot them, let the people hire them. You couldn't run the mines with scabs, they don't know how and you don't know how. Find out what coal really costs. at what price is ought to sell. You may find 1t isn't necessary to re- ducs workmsn's wages. only necss- ssry to reduce mine owners' extor- tion8ts 0harBen.
 Eugene Deb< advises the workers to fight. He says, "The crowd you fought for in the war would now shoot you like dogs"
 Mir. Debs changes his mind. He advised his friends not to. fight in the late big war. If . job on the railroad Is worth fighting for. you would think the whole United States would be worth fighting for. Il
 However. thts is the point. Mir. 1 Eebs understands mob psychology. | And the government would be foolish. especially that part of 1t Interested in the neat election, if it's deeds should seem to justify Mr. Debs violent statement and advice. Shoot ing should not begin with the gov ernment
 Forty-five years ago yesterday Ed ison had what Is called "a crazy | idea" He was working on . machine for recording telegrams. to gain speed. He began working as . tele- graph operator. you know. He mo- ticed that . sound could be recorded and reproduced From that was born the phonograph and all the talking machines. 1
 Don't neglect your orazy ideas. st lee st don't let other people declde l for you whether they are crazy or | not.
 Leah Silver has . baby. Various charitable" institutions refused to | take her or tho baby in. She left | the 1e-months- girl in a swamp. Tho mosquitoes nearly. ate it. :,he was arrested; locked up. They haven't arrested the man yet. Now she Is out on s2,5oo bail and will soon have another baby. Sailor has offered to marry her. thanks to newspaper publicity.
 What about the man? Stern moral ity says the mother deserves no con- sideration. But what about the baby. the ono the mosquitoes nearly ate. and tho new one?
 A Frenchman. 80 years old, goes every morning to little chapel to | look on the face of his father, who | died s7 years ago. Having obtained permission of civil and religious au- thorities, the man placed his fathers body in . zinc coffin with a glass top. The coffin is filled with alcohol and the body thus preserved. The face is said to have changed little.
 Fortunate is the man who in his memory retains the face and the | voice of father worthy of venera- tion. And most unfortunate he to whom . fathers name and memory mean little.
 A Pennsyivania justice fined two aviators 31 each for flying oyer mans land without getting his per I mission" They didn't alight. simply flew over. But the learned judge | gays that he who owns land owrs down to the center of the earth and | ID into the air as high as heaven and you must rot trespass.
 This would be good time to es- tablish single tax above ground at | least and let the people own the air. |
 Some of these days. if the people | want 1t. the land single tax will se established, not by confiscatI,1. !