The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-15

at the mouth of the mine" to make up for the strike. They had to pump water out of the mines while the strike lasted. workmen had to pump food into their families and pay rent while the strike lasted. But they haven't any way of tacking that onto the public by charging them dollar a day more.
 The English King has applauded a poem entitled Merchandise" read by a music hall reeiter. Julius Rosenwald sent the poem to Lasker, of the shipping board, Lasker sends it here. It is full of good advice about making business boom, build ing your ships and deep bosomed mothers with wide-fashioned hips will bear ye good sons for the build ing of ships" etc.
 Commerce is a great thing, pro- ducing things at home is also great. For instance: Germany, before the war. used 100000 tons of nitrates, importing 120,0oO tons from Chile. Today Germany can make 500,0o0 tons of nitrates year at home. talk ing the nitrogen from the air. which carries endless billions of tons of it.
 Five hundred thousand tons of ni- trogen from the air means a colossal sum in money. It means agricultural independence, also unlimited sup plies for making explosives.
 In America we are wondering whether Henry Ford should be al- lowed to use Muscle Shoals water power to produce nitrogen here. or whether Muscle Shoals should go to grafters as usual. We are slow.
 Scientists bound for the Malay peninsula will look for a race of men with vestigial tails.' Darwin and evolution teach that all men once had tails. They gradually dis appeared. Don't say anything about 1t to William Jennings Bryan. but 1 your own skeleton--you may prove it in the museum. possesses at the end of the spine, small curved bone called the os cocy. That is what used 10 be the tail. It's humiliation, but there it is. Bryan himself has it.
 A lady in Texas, said to be dying, is fearfully beaten by four other ladies. The four that did the flog- ging, using straps with metal balls fastened to the ends, stern moralists. describe themselves as committee from the ladies of the invisible eye"
 That's name to make tho Ku K1ux Klan itself to sit up and shiver. Every lady has an invisible eye" Every one can see perfectly out of the corner of her eye without turning her head. Have you noticed that? A few of them can see backward And some can see what is not.
 Bishop Roots of Han Row, China, tells missionary mass meeting that bolshevism is the great force in China. It has soverthrown doctrines that have stood for thousands of years"
 Young China listens eagerly to tic bolsheviki.
 That's all very sad. But the good missionaries should remember wha. Lincoln said when told that General Grant drank too much whisky. 'Get some of that same whisky for the other generals" There must be a strong kick in bolshevism, if in few months. with no money to spend, 1t can do more to overthrow Chinese traditions than missionary work has been able to do in centuries with many millions to spend-and above all. with all the great authority of all the assorted forms of Christianity back of it.
 The department of the high-Alps in France has had no crime, no work for judges. no jurlcs called, in IS months. That is a new thing in his- tory and the world wonders.
 Some day civilization will look back on our criminal courts, prisons, electric chairs, gallowss guiIlotine, garrotte, as We now look upon canni- balism. the auto da fe' and torture of witnesses. Crime is born of ignor- ance and poverty. Both will end.