The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-28

By ARTHUR BRISBANE
 Long before the war wise German warned his kaiser and the rest of the world: Russia is a feather bed The farther in you go. the more you'll smother"
 The allies learned that it was true when they tried to change Russia's Bolshevik government. Napoleon had time to think it over, as he came home through the snow from Moscow. Lloyd George and his friends real- fze 1t now, as they smother in Rus sias oriental Bargaining" at Genoa
 Lloyd George confesses that the Russian feather bed of diplomacy an noys him.
 It will continue to annoy. Vast Russia, tens of thousands of inde- pendent villages, practically self ufficient-territory stretching dim ly off into Asia--all that is an az gregation not to be hurried.
 Russia won't pay but she will talk and meanwhile she will grow big ger and bigger. an international feather bed more and more to be feared, never to be completely con quered. What she and Germany will do as allies remains to be seen. That they will make the res tof Europe worry, is certain.
 A dog soon tires of standing on it's hind legs-not used to it. Human beings soon tire of the laboriously gathered fruits of evolution (apolo- gies to W. J. Bryan) and civilization. In Europe women are taking baths of henna, to make their skins an interesting dark brownish color. Others are having beauty spots tattooed on their cheeks.
 The human race had to devote at feast a hundred thousand years to getting the hair off it's face. Then, up north, it had to live through long winters of snow, to get the face blsached. And today ungrateful wom- en, little realizing what white, hairless skin means, dip themselves in henna baths and tattoo their faces with spots.
 Strange creatures, but 1t all means something useful. undoubtedly.
 Providence wants only what is right, and providence is never thwart- ed--in the long run.
 Miss A. whitney. a social welfare worker, is sentenced to 14 years i'm prisonment in San Francisco, for violating the state criminal syndi- calism act" The charge against the young woman is that she helped to organize, and accepted membership in, communist organization.
 Communist organizations won't achievs anything in this country for at Ieast a hundred years, f ever. But they do frighten lawmakers and judges. When lawmakers and judges are frightened they do something. Hence the 14-year sentence.
 Pity they are not frightened of a different crime-of organizing trusts and monopolies to rob the people on big scale. Nobody was ever sent to jail for 14 years for that crime.
 Yet taxation and robbery of the people by monopoly is much more of q menace than any foolish talk of communism-in this land where nine- ty-rine and nine-tenths of all the people are intent on getting and keeping what they can as individuals.
 The first son of Man-of-War, greatest of race horses. is born. Great rejoicing. It Is a brown colt. the mother a brown mare, Colette- Hu- man beings interested in that colt are far greater in number than those interested in any human birth for 1922.
 Racing men know all about that brown colt, the names of his ances- tors all the way back to the famous Arab stallion that kicked aside a common heavy horse and started the line of thoroug in England.
 There is at least an even chance that the colt will be a good race horse. Perhaps not a wonder. but a good racer.
 How little we know about human colts. How little certainty in their ancestors when you go back not Sc !, very far.
 No matter what the father or the mother may have been. how little anybody can guess what the son or the daughter will amount to.
 Gentlemen that study eugenics and believe in stirpiculture. tell you ''one day we shall breed human beings as exactly, certainly and scientifically as they bred Man-of-War and the brown mare Colette."
 But we shall do nothing of the kind. In horses you breed bodies, Tn men you breed minds-and there IS a difference.
 INSPECTION MADE