The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10

NO General Stflkes
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
 
 The Philadelphia Public Ledger. not merely owned by the able Mr. Curtis. discovers that there exists tn tho United statss "a new progressive ism" Mir. Curtis sees 1t in Iowa. Ns- braska and mile high in wisconsin. where Lafollstte's victory makes con. servatism shake its hoasy head.
 Just ss this country thought in official quarters that 1t was settlink down to a long reign of oapitalistic conservatism. up comes the new pro- gressiveism."
 You cannot escape your fate as German proverb has it. And you never can tell what will happen. Eu- gene Ttmofeet was ferociousiy radi- cal while the cxar lived. He fought ozarism and spent 10 years at hard labor under the cxar's rule. Thsn came the end of czars with Lenins and Trotzky and Timofeef threw hts hat high in tho air. Now he Is dead. Bolshevih successors to the cxar com demned him to death with Il of his friends. He was quite enough of . radical in the right way. He didn't like his prison and killed himself by putting his head into a vsntilator. causing suffocation," according to a report.
 Dissatisfaction is . great powsr- greatest in the world. But not many of the dissatisfied know what would happen. or how it would seem if they got what they ask for.
 The railroad engineers union, well managed, conservative, intelligent, buys for two and half million 4 six story building in Cleveland to have . national bank, owned by the loco motive brotherhood. To own a bank is good. For union to show that it knows how to invest two and a half millions. and has the money, Is anot th- CT good thing. One thing people of all kinds and colors respect in the United States and that Is two and a half million dollars.
 The famous phiIanthropist. Nathan Straus. said to this writer, when both were young: Brisbane I know v you have not got any money. but for heavens sake don't tell anybody. You have no idea how much 1t hurts xoxr standing"
 Dr. R. O. Hurts, of many Jsarnsa societies, says mammals of the sea need protection. That will interest William Jennings Bryan. for sea mammals, unless Darwin was nais- taken, lived at first In the sea, later went upon land. got legs, learned how to have children born alive and how to nurse them
 Then giving up tho struggle on land. they wandered back to the ocean. where they lost their legs ana became water animals once more. Every whale. when you dig under the blubber, shows a little pair of parliamentary leg and hip bones in its skeleton. Mr. Bryan ought to look at them.
 Sea mammals dying out are the manatee, or sea cow-you read about her in boys adventure stories, the seals and the whales All arc van isning rapidly. However all animal life on the earth, except man. the ruler. will disappear eventually in cluding. let us hope, microbes ana all germs. Sea mammals. led by the manatss. might as we'll go first.
 The American Federation of Labor wisely declines to call . general strike to express sympathy with the shop men. To hit everybody on the head to show that you are sorry for somebody would not be wise. o. casionally mourners scratch and cut themselves and howl That's savage but if they must do 1t. they must But for all workers of the United States to strike alkthA people of the United l States, to show that they don't like l an. injunction, would be sDlly. No need of that in a country where . | man can vote.
 Bonnat. head of the French School of Zine Arts, is dead. aged | so. That means something in 1 France. where art is taken sefious- 1 ly. Bonnat painted admirable por- traits of Thiers and Victor Huge. | among others. He was working to | the end. like the great Titan who l was hard at work at ss and died | of the plague at go. Titan painted | admirably the submission of Empsr- or Frederick Barbarossa to the Pope. And he painted portraits of his wife in pictures of pursatory. heaven and l hell. to be sure that h4 would meet her later That will intersst ladies.
 In Iowa the Reverend ". n tobb, 1 . clergyman and also a sheriff. will personally hang Eugene Weeks, al condemned murderer. That is news because up to now no clergyman has ever played the part of tho hang man. In the war the Reverend Robb, as chaplain, was decorated for extraordinary bravery. He will need that courage when it comes to hang ing fellow man and sending nim off on such an uncertain journey.