The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-19
T oday Whats the News? Many Kinds. A Valiant Million. Shakespeare $43,000,
 Cheap.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

What is the news? The world asks 1t each day and the newspapers an swer: We become used to wonderful things. including the fact that we can look over our coffee cup into Pekin. Rome. Paris. Genoa. Washing ton. Chicago and Timbuctoo.
 Pinchot apparently carries the primaries and will be elected gover- TOT of Pennsylvania. Practical pol itics" shakes it's head and feels like British prize fighter after the first round with Carpenter.
 Harding to confer with steel men. Judge Gary, Schwab and others will dine at the White House and hear in choice. presidential language. the ad- vice, "Go easy. boys.'
 Chauncey Depew Is decorated with the French Legion of Honor in honor of his eighty-eighth birthday and his friendship for France.
 Young men hanging to the skirts of older rich men remember Depew's advice: "Malee your own career. Don't tio yourself to any rich man. He will use you and give you as little as he dares, that you may not be independent of his son, and there fore have to work for him. too"
 When Napoleon invented the Legion
 &t. red ribbon on the chest of any rad ical and make him a good imperialist. He didn't imagine that a French re- public, later, would be using the lit tie red ribbon to reward men that helped finish an emperor.
 Hope springs eternal, but often falls flat A lady spends thousand dollars advertising for "a valiant mil lion" She wants s1.o0o,000 to save striking miners from submission. It is unfair. says she. to fight the miners with hunger. So it is. and cowardly, to count on men yielding when they see their wives and chill dren hungry.
 But there is little sentiment in in- dustry and less. as a rule. in the individual able to give millions. When man has earned enough to dispose of a million he loses sentiment in the process.
 workingmen must solve their own problems, fight their own fights. win their victories. Three millions, nen, women. children, are involved in the coal s.rike. A mil lion dollars would give them each thirty-t three and one-third cents for one day. Not much help there. But there IS all help in knowledge and in united action. Both will come, but not soon.
 A Shakespeare first folio sold yes torday in London for s43.0o0 a record price. and cheap. Any copy of Shakes peare is worth s4s.ooo if you have the money. Any man with brain worth the trouble to develop it. can get more than s4s,0oo out of Shakes peare. If there is anything in him at all. The first folio isn't worth half as much as complete modern edl- tion such as w. R. Hearst published and sold to his readers for s1. losing money on each copy.
 Norwich, greatest race horse, win ner of 12 races, without defeat, is quiet. calm. obedient. level-headed," |" That Is because he does not know that he won 12 consecutive races and therefore hasn't a swelied head. Many men would go farther if it were pos sible to keep from them news of their accomplishments. They become in- toxicated with trivial accomplishment and never so farther. That's their trouble.
 The really great humbly under estimate themselves. T do not know to myself 1 seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prst- tier shell than ordinary. whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undis- covered before me- That was said by Newton, greatest intellect ever born on this earth. Contrast that with the discourse of the ordinary man inflated with his own impor- tance based on things he done.
 Thomas F. Ryan. very wise man, bought the sister of Norwich, greatest race horse. and paid s1s,0o0. He knows that Norwich must have been The son of great father and mothcr. He knows also what Galton teaches us, that quality comes largely through the mother. The children of Morvich's sister will very likely be more valuable than Morvichs own children. if he has any. The mother does the work. The fathers get the credit
 A woman whose husband was killed terday for $35.000 damages. Auto mobile owners not too particular about their own driving, or that tf their chauffeurs. because they are .'insured," take notice. Such a yer dict or one twice as big would make five-ten thousand dollar policy look feeble.