The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-29

By ARTHUR BRISBANE
 Men die, pass from sight. and mer that see them come and go know as little about them as animals 1T the stockyard know of their fellow animals walking one by one towarC death.
 When Louis xI died in France. yot would have been told. He tough the Duke of Burgundy to his death He imprisoned bishop in q torture cage invented by that same bishop He encouraged nobles to hate ant fight each other. etc"
 You would not have heard wha' real work the great king had done He established unity of weights measures and money in France. Ant by encouraging nobles to fight eaef other he established his own centra power. preparing the way for uni form government throughout France and for todays French republic.
 You read now of William Rocke- felier,s death. and are told. Like hft brother, John. he made great for tune" He competed in the Maei- strom of American industry and finance and came out on top.
 William Rockefeller leaves mon- ument more permanent. enduring amazing and admirable than any giant pyramid. Colossus of Rhodes Tai Mahal or other "socalled won der.h
 William Rockefeller harnessed the waterfalls of the Rocky Mountains and used their power to haul freight swift passenger trains over that rocky backbone of our continent
 The system was 30 organized that the great trains, pulled up one side of the mountains by electric power actually created and stored up more electric power as they plunged down the other side.
 Thousands knew it could be done William Rockefeller did it. That's an American monument worth ieav- ing. Two things count--to leave the world better to leave It's people wiser.
 The English, having climbed with in 200 feet of Mount Everest's top have given up. Scientists say. If the top ,s ever reached. the climber will not live to return"
 They say that now. But the day is coming when 1t will be not un- usual for q helicopter type of flying machine to land whole class oi school boys on the top of Mount Everest. There, fnolosed in glass. the interior atmosphere properly regu- lated, with an atmosphere destruc- tive of human life outside. the teacher will lecture on that 2s.ooo- foot mountain. only tiny roughness on the surface of the earth. which In proportion to It's size, Is as smooth as an apple.
 The death of Albert. Monaeo's prince, reminds you that in all evil there is some good. His old castle on the hill looks over the Mediter- ranean, and beyond, to the left, look inr across tho water toward Africa is Monte Carlo gambling hell, where misery, despair, suicide, immoral. fly and dishonesty arc manufactureo as regularly as cars in Ford fac- tory.
 With money from that gambling house. Prince Albert. quiet, studious old scientist, carried on his i'm portant work. He studied strange life in ocean depths, charted the ocean currents. Those charts were use1ul flo us in var. indicating probable drift of explosive mines planted Tn the ocean,.
 In the princes little domain. oi which his ancestors were left unois- turbed by Napoleon, because they sided with him, the prince of Monaco 1eeislated wisely. His own subjects are never allowed to enter the gam hing house. He did not want them committing suicide.
 The size of the Monaco principality eight sorare miles, two square miles smaller than a farm owned by this writer in the state of New Jersey reminds you of small national di- visions of territory in the old days
 One stupid idea following the biz war is the attempt to go back to that old system and divide Europe into small units, in defiance of wise mod ern tendencies.
 Suppose female gorillas of central Africa decided to use the hair of hu- man beings for decoration. Suppose they killed so many humans to get their hair that human beings were dying otu. What owulds those human beinrs say about the gorillas?
 The government of Abyssinfa has limited the number of monkeys that may be killed each year to 20,o00 Women in "civilization" have taken to trimming their garments with monkey fur, not warm. not beautiful hideous and animal. supposed to be attractive to monkey-like men. Now there is danger that monkeys may vanish from the earth, slaughtered and sold for 45 to 90 cents apiece fol the fur.
 Mot much difference If the monk. eys do vanish" you may say. Blu that is not true. They are needed fol while for study and for importani