The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-14
oday Here's Leadership. Poor Old Lightning. To Discourage Suicide. An Orang-Outang to
 Teach.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

forbidding Interference with trans portation" Is the most important made by any president of the United States since President Wilson's dec laration of war.
 The President calls the labor board an agency of government" and ht- tributes force of law to its decisions This means, unequivocally, compul- sorry arbitration. with the labor board as arbitrator. How important that is business men and workingmen know.
 Tn his fourth whereas" the Pres ident asserts the right of workingmen "to decline to work" This means that whoever chooses may strike but must not interfere with anybody will ing to work.
 It means also that workingmen of the United States could, if they chose. and with President Harding's off cial approval, tie up all the railroads and all the business of the country by simply. declining to work" 
 Tn the French repubiIc they have not taken that view of workmen's duty In connection with public neces- stiles All men of a certain age in France, can be called into military service on a minutes notice. When railroad men struck the French gov ernment called them into the army, then put them to work on the rail- roads as soldiers. If they had re- fused, they would have been shot for mptiny.
 The Presidents proclamation will soothe those who said he was not willing to take the responsibility of leadership"
 hundred thousand years ago lightning flashed. your primitive an- cestor fell on his face, speeches.. Later he built an Idol and expressed his feelings roughly, in sacrifices. Today he has that lightning har- messed. It washes his clothes, sweeps his floor, runs his street cars, moves his electric fan, even brushes his boots. To know what complete slave poor old lightning has become. and how humbled, read this:
 A lady in court. where her hus- band is explaining murder, sat in q dark corner. pulled out a powder puff, pressed 8 portable electric bulb. looked into tiny mirror and pow dcred her nose. The once dreadful lightning supplied the light to pow der that nose. That's a downfall for you.
 Ladies and gentlemen are forming league to combat suicide" They will build a beautiful temple in A grove and invite persons thinking of suicide to como there and talk 1t over. It's a pretty idea but should not be necessary. This world is bright and sunny. And for all we absolutely know. apart from tho blessed relations of faith, the ancient Greeks may be right. Under the earth spirits may find things damp. dark and dreary.
 Besides many interesting things are happening. Everybody should stay and see the happenings
 The writer once, as editor of the New York Evening Sun. years and years ago. conducted a discussion. "Is Suicide a Sin?' The good said You ought not to discuss such thing" Statistics showed suicides diminished by half while the discus sion lasted. They wanted to see how 1t would come out.
 The highly civilized state of New York. represented by It's boxing com mission. which regulates highly prof itable prise fights. has said that Dempsey. white man. must not re- fuse to fight Wills. negro. The fight S arranged. accordingly.
 White and black both weigh more than 200 pounds. It would help civ iiization if the winner were compelled to get into the ring with an ourang- outang weighing about 80 pounds. In about seven seconds there would be an absent-minded orane.outane scratching his ear with his hind hand, and an unconscious, much bat tered white or black man lying on the ground. Little boys should see the fight, and learn how little fight. ing amounts to.
 John Wanamaker, s4 years old, gives as his birthday sentiment: Look up and look forward. Never look down, never look backward Do not do much looking in, but look out."
 French scientists. the serious, not the guessing kind, announced that spots on the sun affect certaIn chronic diseases. and they can prova 1t. We know that sunspots affected weather and believed that they af- fected mems nerves. Three great French doctors assert that they af- feet diseases of the heart, liver. in- testines and blood vessels.
 This is not surprising. The sun. once foolshly supposed to be a great mass burning up, is nothing of The sort. but a gigantic source of elec- tric power and radio activity. It ia
 ,mbarding the earth and all of us constantly with its powerful rays Sun spots that interfere with those rays or increase their power must affect all of us in some way, of course.
 Our good friends in the north of Ireland celebrated yesterday the bat tie of Boyne Water. Those Protes- tants in the north of Ireland re- joice in the day when Ireland was beaten and the English army won.
 Irish Catholics of the south take