The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-11

I oday
 A ChiIdren's Book Shelf.
 Various Things.
 No Russian Fascist.
 Nature Is Generous.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE L---------..----------. ------------,-----------l
 Mrs. Mary E. Limberger, 1os years old. cast her first vote yesterday. She voted to put her own great grandson into the legislature.
 Five hundred thousand more tors of coal are ordered from England.
 The President invites Congress 10 consider drastic action" in regard to mines and railroads.
 Mark Sullivan suggests that $the strike will soon end because the mine owners are afraid of Congress and the mine workers are short of money. Thousands of government bond sales in very small lots indicate that saw ings are going overheard.
 Lord Lascelles, who married the daughter of the English king, went into business. Now he is out again. He started a typewriter factory, with 5o0,000 pounds capital. The plan was to make a first class typewriter, "all British" The firm has gone into bankruptcy. and English stenos- raphers are buying first class type writers, "all American"
 In Italy radicals are checked by the Fascist. These gentlemen. .ed by one who was formerly a socialist. snd numbering 100000. fight on the side of conservatism.
 It is said that exiles from Rus sia. victims" of the Czar's downfall, will try to organize some Fascist in Russia to fight bolsheyism. It won't work. Bolshevism has given land free to the peasants, taking it from the nobles. Any Russian Fascist trying to change that would simply be knocked on the head
 So they would be in Italy if the radicals there had been able to give free land to all the peasants.
 
 The real wealth of the nation Is in its crops. The two other kinds of wealth, brains and mines. depend on crops. It is a good crop year, never equaled in American history probably.
 Three thousand million bushels of corn. the hay crop the biggest ever known. the biggest potato crop in history with one exception, 1,500.0 900 pounds of tobacco GA pounds for country), 20o.ooo,oO0 bushels of ap- ples. The country ought to raise, for its health, 0 times as many. Men have been foolish with their wars strikes. cheating and striving. But nature continues her unfailing gem erosity.
 Columbia university plans 10-foot book shelf for school children. Some selections already made are excellent;
 Little Women" Treasure Island" "Aliee in Wonderland.s Robinson crusoe." Tom Sawyer" "Andersens Fairy Tales" "Aesops Fables" Lambs Tales From Shakespeare "Mallorys Boys King Arthur" Dick en's .sChristmas Carofs.
 All those books all children should read
 The best books written for grown people. nine-tenths of people that need them never read. They should he rewritten for children. and also for the nine -tenths that dc not read them in the original form.
 The Presidents friend. Colonel Thompson of Cleveland, leads two to one in a field of nine candidates for the republican governorship nomiaa- ton. Besides being the Presidents friend. he is the dry candidate. Anybody who imagines that the pro- Libition amendment could be repealed in this generation will learn his mis- take by watching elections.
 Here and there in the railroad news you read of some dead and some dy- ing. Rolling stock without mechanics to take care of it is dangerous.
 Governor Allen of Kansas thinks it wrong to restore seniority rights to strikers Why Is it wrong?
 When the strike ends railroads will get back everything they had before. including equipment and capital. All that railroad worker can accumn- late is his seniority rights. To take them from him would be as unjust as taking the bank balances from the railroads in a strike settlement
 The President knows it and will. it is hoped, stand by his original opinion.
 England is preparing a flying ser vice, half way around the world be- tween London and Melbourne, Aus tralia. In his new book "The Con- cuistador of the Sixteenth Century," Don Rufino Blanco- Fombona excuses the murders. tortures. robberies and general horrors of the early Spanish conquerors in South America because,