The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
Today Our Gold a Danger. Emperors Babe and
 Napoleon. Daugherty Worries
 Them. Planets and Ant Hills.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

prosperity of the world.
 When a public official says that about the gold hoard of nation. he Is listened to as a solemn wise economist.
 But a private individual talking in the same way about the money piled mp by another individual Is looked upon, and hushed up. as an anarchist. What's the difference7
 Kings and emperors find it hard to restrain themselves when angry especially when their physical power is out Of proportion to their mental power. You remember the discus sion between the philosopher volney and Napoleon Bonaparte- Unable To answer yolney's argument, Napoleon kicked him in the stomach---a Ma poieonic answer.
 Now Emperor Babe Ruth. whose power resides in his arm. some dis tance below his brain, throws dirt in the face of an umpire and par- sues a spectator whose remarks of- tended him.
 The umpire's decision may have been wrong, the spectator may have been rude. But the popular Babe" demonstrates once more. for the ten millionth time in history. that power goes to the head-especially when there is not much of 1t in the head.
 
 This news will please bond buyers, war stamp buyers, all that gave and bought until 1t hurt" all that have been taxed up to their eyes and ears' all the crowd that did the paying. while a few did the stealing.
 The Attorney General announces that the turn of those that did the stealing has come. He Is going after them. and will get them.
 MT. Daugherty's announcement will set some distinguished patriots" to thinking. It is to be hoped that big fish caught in the net will not be thrown back and only little fish kept to fry up a mess to please the pub lie. The fishing ought to begin on a well known Wall street corner and extend from there in four directions.
 Mir. Abbott. of the Smithsonian in stitution, things our neighbor. the planet Venus, may be- the abode of human beings. The curious thing is that anybody should doubt other planets are inhabited after they have cooled off enough to make animal life possible. and before they have grown too cold and lost their atmos- phere.
 If an ant climbed to the top of the ant hill. looked through 3 telescope at thousands of other ant hills and said. Mine. probably. Is the only ant hill inhabited by ants." you would think him silly.
 That's what some scientists do when they look into endless space, at millions of suns. carrying their fam flies of planets with them and won dering whether those planets are in- habited" For what purpose do they imagine the planets were created? Surely not merely to amuse us.
 New York city bakers union had c fight with an employing baker and decided to teac hhim lesson. It started . shop next door at cut rates to ruin the baker that it does not like. The bakers union is ordered to close the shop. told that 1t is wicked and cruel to bankrupt q man. that it is un-American, outrageous, for a union. rich compared with one single master baker, to use its money and power to ruin that baker. All true, perhaps. But when big oil men were doing exactly that same thing to little oil men. nobody went to jail. What's sauce for the corporation goose ought to be sauce for the union labor gander. This does not mean that either goose or gander did the right thing.
 In the congressional directory every congressman may print what he chooses to say about himself. how wonderful he is Here Is the short est congressional biography ever written:
 TT. H. caraway. democrat. Jones' boro."
 Senator caraway doesn't even men ton that Jonesboro is in Arkansas. little suspecting how many of his fellow citizens never heard of Jones' boro. Very short biography. only five words. But just five words longer than what will be said of the great majority of us in the histories of the future.
 Lloyd George tells England and the world "Ths danger Is not yet over; war still threatens the world"
 It does more than threaten. It is absolutely certain to come again. on a big scale, unless the world can make up it's mind to stop the eco homie war that follows the other war. Unless peace can be made worth while for majority of those that live on earth. 1t won't have peacs-
 The Swedish parliament proposes to amend the Nobel Peace prise foundation to wipe out the peace prize and use the money for other prizes. Quite sensible. To give reace prizes while there Ia no peace on earth, while nations manufacture poison gas and fighting machines and only talk about peace, seems