The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-31

what do managers Of the republi- can party think will happen at the northern elections If they let the ccal and railroad strikes drift along?"
 Do they doubt that the vote cast will wake them up and set them trying to save themselves for 19247
 Why don't they do something now? It Is just as easy as to wait Cor poration gentlemen, with strings on the administration. will hold those strings just as tight a month hence as they do today.
 Henry Ford throws interesting light on the situation. He says that coal brokers" have plenty of coal. If he cared to pay the price, he co1li buy enough coal to cover a 10-acre lot as high as he chose. The plan of coal owners, according to Ford, is to break down the unions and let the public pay the cost of stopping the mines by paying two or three prices for coal. He is now flooded with offers of coal at prices from 100 to 300 per cent up. That ought to interest the administration.
 It interests the people that will will soon be voting.
 Some doctors. of whom many know very little, advise the world that men should eat a hearty breakfast Mental work. they say. cannot be done efficiently otherwise.
 There have been some efficient mental workers in France-none of them ever ate a hearty breakfast. Except for a day laborer, giving out enormous quantities of muscular en- ergy. hearty meal in the morning is stupid and harmful.
 You eat to replace tissue used up. You don't load on food as ship loads on coal. to be used as you go along.
 Sensible men, especially those that work with their brains and nerves, business men and others, eat as lit- tie as possible during the hours of work. In the evening when work is over. rest one hour before you eat anything. Then eat as moderately as self control permits. And wait two hours before going to sleep. Real and complete digestion occurs during sleep and at no other time.
 If all the things the average doctor does not know about diet were put in one volume. it would be a big book. You realize that when you see the way patients are fed following 6 serious surgical operation. If ig- norance were crime, some doctors would be locked up.
 While you discuss lack of coal this winter. the delay of trains and other trifling difficulties. you may fad comfort in thinking abont IS miners, now trapped 4.20o feet below the surface in the Argonaut gold mine. two miles from Jackson. Cal.
 The men are trapped by a fire burning In the mine 300 feet above them. They cannot come up through the fire. Rescurers cannot go down to them. Electric wires are burned out. the men are in the dark, won dering how long their supply of air will last whether lack of air or the fire will kill them.
 Men are struggling desperately, but hopelessly to save them.
 Work in mines is not pleasant occupation. Those that seek to de- stroy mining unions and cut wages do the lowest levels don't seem to appreciate it.
 Captain McMillan and Lieutenant Mullins. trying to fly around tie world. fell into the sea and en- countered two things equally danger cus--sharks ard human ignorance. MacMillan cables from India de- scription of the sharks, and of na- tives who passed in their dole boats and would not go near them, be- lieving from their costumes, that they were devils.
 Ignorance and superstition see devils in every thing new. Years ago they could see nothing but devils in science revealing the truth to man.
 In Russia, when the American In- ternational Harvester company began gelling harvesting machines that made a big noise, their chief dif- ficulty was to convince the peasants that the machines were useful and had no devil hidden in them.
 Have you collected the interest on your Liberty bonds? The govern ment is having difficulties that show how little some of us know about business or bonds. Eighty-thrse million dollars In interests are still \ uncollected. At post offices, many lave inquired where they were to . pay interest on the bonds. They thought bond owners had to pay in- terest.
 One woman threw away her bonds when she had collected the few cou- pons on . temporary bond. Millions 1n temporary bonds are still out standing. If you know any unbus- mess like bond buyer. tell him the facts. No wonder sharpers swindled the innocent.
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