The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-27

President Harding is working on a plan to settle the coal strike. May he settle it.
 The doctors have taken from the side of Lenin bullet that has been bothering him for three years. He Is feeling better. It seems he is the man that wrote that Russo-German agreement. Very able citizen Lenin.
 Russia says: Let us wipe all debts out and get down to business. That suggestion seems to please Europe, except that Europe wants Russia to pay what she owes Europe. \ "All debts" is usually taken to mean United States claims. One Rus Hsian offered an amendment that they first wipe out all debts and then bor- row more from the United States.
 A syndicate headed by James speye-. the banker, bought $45,o00,001 of New York city securities in one lump, paying points above par for A per cent bonds. Money is getting cheap, and that is the principal "seri- ous" news.
 The vessels of the United States shipping board, managed for the gov ernment by A. D. Lasker. were carry ing a good deal of South American trade. That did not suit the British Lamport and Holt line. They cut rates. Lasker. representing the Pres ident, meets the cut and cuts deeper, saying to the English gentlemen: If you want rate war. come on"
 If, instead of Lasker and the United States government. the Englishmen. were dealing with some private American shipping onc-.n, they would say: We have plenty of money behind us. let's bankrupt those Yankees with our cheaper operating expense. then buy them in"
 But they know they can't bankrupt the United States and they can't buy that in.
 This useful incident may convince President Harding and MT. Lasker himself that there might be some thing in government ownership of boats. You are told that the govern ment can't manage things success fully, can't get the right men. What about Lasker, one of the smartest business men in the United States? He is serving the nation for salary less than one-fifth the amount paid some of his own employees and sacri- ficing his business profits at the sane tIme--and glad to do it.
 There are plenty of men in the United States able to manage busi- ness for the government, do it well and do it honestly.
 If John D. Rockefeller were 30 years younger he could take the United States navy, its fighting ships, merchant ships and all. and run them
 Tomorrow President Harding will speak at the hundredth celebration of General Grants birth. Fathers and mothers should tell their little boys about Grant. how he tried to ride the trick donkey. in the circus, when very small, to earn a dollar, almost succeeded, then failed. Then tell how he asked for another chance. mounted the donkey. facing the tail, seized the tail. rode all around the ring, won the dollar. Then a little sermon about the boy who conouered the donkey and later conquered in great battles. No need to mention the fact that for a long time after he rode the donkey. Grant was a flat failure, drank too much, seemed bound for nowhere in particular. Then came the war. something worth while and he showed what was in him.
 Mere riding a donkey or carrying a message to Garcia doesn't mean everything. Certain men need certain opportunities. But don't tell your little boy that; it might demoralize him.
 Signs of spring are beautiful, flowers, green grass and blossoms. Signs of life in Wall street, more than million shares a day every day for more than two weeks are very beautiful for those that work down there. But of all signs the most welcome are signs hanging for the first time lately on the gates of steel mills in Ohio:
 Men wanted"
 Perhaps the tariff bill, if it is ever settled. will multiply those signs. If so, welcome to it.