The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-03
T oday What Is News? Humane, Just, Wise. Who Owns Chicago
 Streets2 The Mind Sees.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

What really Is news7 You ask yourself that question as you read dispatches that come from every where.
 No doubt about the most important news. The President of the United States. dealing with the owners of the railroads. demand that they re- store the striking men their full seniority rights. That is humane. just and wise.
 It will do more to end tho strike than thousand hours of talk. Next to coal and railroad strikes affecting the nation comes the street car strike that ties up Chicago. owa- CTS of Chicago's streets, living in New York, are said to have gathered an army of men to replace strikers and wipe out once for all the street car labor organizations. That may work, and may not.
 What ought to come out of that strike is realization that the people of Chicago are big enough to own the streets of Chicago, too big to de- pend for transportation facilities on plans of profit of distant stock owners.
 A woman is running for senator in West Virginia. another lady in Kan sas Is running for the governorship and, of all things. on a wet" plat form. She says Kansas has been thirsty for 40 years without admit
 ting it.
 Negroes arc lynched by mobs In EArkansas and Georgia. You can hard ly call that news. Forty pilgrims are killed and 50 injured in a train wreck on the way to the holy grotto of Lourdes. That may puzzle the de- vout. but should not. If the accl- dent represented the will of Provi- dence 1t means taking the victims direct to heaven; otherwise 1t could not be helped.
 Cotton jumped up $S.5o baic. and the cotton crop for this year will be 100000 bales below the crop of two years ago. That's good news
 for cotton growers. bad news for the
 ragged. ha1f-clothed hundreds of mill ] lions in Europe and Asia.
 Men manage crops and prices badly, leaving naked children at ths mercy of cotton spectators and price fluc- tuatons.
 An unfortunate girl, gone blind.
 told she could not recover. killed herself.
 She should have been told that the mind alone sees. not the eyes.
 Madame Du Deffand, marvelously
 clever among the witty French | women of the Eighteenth century, went blind at S4. Then she decided
 to. enjoy herself. She fell in love with Horace walpoie, wrote him let ters that fill 2,0o0 pages. corre- sponded with voltaire. had everybody in France worth while in her salon
 and died long past so That's the way to treat blindness. You can always see with the mind, and see what you will.
 Germany finally sits down and says. T can't pay" and it is clear that she can't. at least not with money.
 If our dollar suddenly dropped in value to one-tenth of cent. and some conquering nation told Us to go immediately and buy in the worlds markets several thousand million real dollars worth of gold. we would find it hard to oblige. War doesn't pay even the winner, e. F. D. Newspapers and their readers are | discussing the question, Did Theo- 1 dore Roosevelt use profane lan- suage?" He didn't need to. He pounded the table. showed his teeth. shut them with snap. glared at you. l and that was enough! Much more l violent than swearing. This is explained in the first de- | scription of that set of teeth, written by this writer when Roosevelt was | rolice commissioner of New York | city. and admirably illustrated by the late Mccarthy. cartoonist. The lion
 doesn't need to swear. he roars. | Profanity is feebleness. | The Japanese do fairly we'll. Our exports are off many millions. The