The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-28
'oday Employers Will Win. Will They Be Wise? Promise Something. Get a New Body.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

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 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
 H. E. Bryan. president of the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul railway. sent telegram of which this Is the substances:
 Railroads are not seeking to destroy the seniority of king employees. but merely to subordinate their seniority to those employees who have remained at work"
 It is for railroad owners to de- eide what they should do. Admitting that men have a right to strike-the President and the laws say they have-the question is; Is 1t wise to punish them for striking by con- fiscating their seniority rights?
 Railroads now are functioning only 50 per cent, the public does not threaten to confiscate their ri.,ht of way or other assets. Intelligent men should know enough to avoid threats and avoid arousing hatreds unnecessarily.>
 The men will lose these strikes. coal and railroad. For as vas said F here at the beginning. public :idif- ference and the administration are against them. But employers, for a change, should be wisely triumphant. not sowing seed of future troubles.
 Senator Culberson Is beaten in Texas, after long years of service. and the Ku Klux Klan comes to the top politically. The program is Get rid of Catholics. Jews and negroes" That program won't last, and won't work. But 1t Is program. That seems to be what people want If you want support promise some thing definite,
 Germany Is making film to show surgical operations that will make old men young. It appears that for a while, at least, surgery can re- store certain nervous energy. Grip ples from the war, and hundreds of guinea pigs. dogs. monkeys. pigs, goats and horses will figure in the picture.
 It Is all interesting but very fool ish.
 AGnf rrya fA rurxr in the old Is to live quietly while you are old, die quietly when the time comes and begin all over again, in body brand new from head to foot.
 Soft coal went up more than s3 a ton last week. The President sent a message asking governors of the states to protect from violence. men willing to work in places of strikers. Please send out another message asking somebody to pro- tect the public from robbery. The fact that coal is scarce ought not to be sound Argument m favor Of nigh way ropberx-
 Good missionaries in the east com plain that American moving pic- lures give the heathen a false idea of life among Christians" They say they can't convert heathen ladies and gentlemen after they have been to movies showing Chri7tians shooting one another, swimming half naked. etc. There may be something in that.
 Many things in Chistrian nations more serious than movies" would make the hsathen pause and think hard.
 Germany possesses "a certain rich man." with much common sense. His name is Shines. He owns all sorts of things in Germany. in Russia, In South America-factories. castIes. mines and newspapers.
 His most important newspaper is the Deutsche Algemeine Zeitung and he has made Paul Lensch. moderate socialist, chief editor. Stinnes him. self. is no more socialist than a Bengal tiger Is a vegetarian. But he is an intelligent capitalist He knows that the thing for an intelli- gent capitalist to do is to make hay while the sun shines. now Times will not always be so good. He uses everything that comes into hs hands, from mercury to quick5 silver, from conservatism to socialism, and from Terra Del Fuego to Moscow.
 A woman, poor, turned on the gas, killed herself and two children in big city night before last De- spondent, she could find nobocy in- terested in her and the children were only babies, twins.
 A little while before, with ex- pense and skill. man sentenced to death, had been taken to the death house and operated on for appen- dicities at public expense. It wasn't that the government wanted the fun of killing him by electricity as the little boy wanted to kill the blue bottle fly. It Is that we are always ready to help people when they get beyond help. Plenty of socities for helping criminals, no society for helping mothers of young twins.
 William Allen White put up A sign: The governor told him it was against the law. White said he was exercising the right of free speech guaranteed under the constitution. Nevertheless he took the sign down, saying he thought it was his duty Ito obey the law" An editorial owl tells workmen to follow William Allen Whites example and cease to