The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-04
T'oday Build Something" "
 Hearst. Bells Long Distance
 Call. Riding Too Hard. England's 'sNo."
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

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 W. R. Hearst. talking to one of the oldest living editors and urging him to take a vacation, said:
 While you are away build some- thing, if it's only chicken coop or COW barn. Merely doing nothing is not vacation. Building takes your mind from ordinary work. rests the tired part of the brain. I am building houses on my California ranch. may not live in them long, but anyhow build them"
 That's good advice, build some thing. Beaver. ant, bird. man, all need to build.
 A real builder died yesterday when Alexander Graham Bell an- swered the long distance call.
 Bell built an idea into a mag nificent reality, the telephone. that carries the voices of children to their mothers and of men to each other. all over the world. To bring human beings closer together. in action and in friendship. is noble work. Alex ander Graham Bell did that work. His place is safe in history on this little earth. and safe, you may. be sura. wherever he has gone.
 Railway owners say. "No," the workmen say, Yes" to the President. The strike goes on.
 Owners of railways evidently be- Iieve that the President does not mean what he says. In the opinion of this writer, they are mistaken. One important Wall street man said yesterday: "The railroads think they own the administration, but they are riding the President a little too hard"
 They may get a fall. and remem- Der 1t.
 England says to her allies: You must pay what you owe me, because the United States won't forgive my debts" There is this difference be- -Syt~1s ene French and Italian debt to England. and the English debt to the United States. France and Italy between them saved England from destruction. France saved the life of the British empire by her sacrifice of men, her terrific fighting courage.
 England did not save the life of the United States-quite a long dis- tance from it.. England owes the United States s5.ooo, ,ooO. 900 borrowed in war. If she doesn't want to pay, there will be no war about it--only a memorandum for future use.
 The debt of France to this country is different. That nation did help us when we were fighting England. To forgive that debt would be welcome to many Americans.
 Some money is left in the country. Mir. Mellon. able Secretary of the Treasury. needed ssoo,ooo,oo0 for his Uncle Sam and offered A per cent interest. They offered him $1,2oo.- Ooo.ooo--four times as much as he wanted.
 "Mellon and tomato crops damaged by storm" Farmers get that on their radio. Now that they haven't any, they will be offered good prices for tomatoes and melons. Remarkable is the courage of farmers, pathetic their perseverance
 Al She,mer of Hampstead. on the Berg place. sold his potatoes for s1.e5 a barrel, less than they cost to pro- duce. White others were asleep he was clearing the potato vines. Now a biz field Is covered with tiny. dropping plants that soon will be huge cabbage. Very likely he will get less than 1t cost to grow and haul them. Still he keeps on.
 More slashing of automobile prices. Studebaker. Nash and Chand- Ter cut. The main thing Is to buy your car. the best you can afford. remembering that the best is not always the dearest.
 A good black slave was worth $2.ooo. A good automobile doubles nara~ -salue. besides lengthening his life. So consider yourself worth s2,ooo. then a car. multiplying your value by two, is cheap at s2.ooo. Get one.
 Because England demands billions from France. France will refuse Germany's offer of a morat rum and practice "retorsion," new word to many.
 "Retorsion" is coming. because Germany has said she couldn't nay what France wants. Retorsion or no retorsion. you can't make gold money out of paper.
 They seem to have gone the wrong way about getting everything that Germany had.
 Tho treatened "retorsion'' will ba seizing German cities to see what can be made out of that. Confisca- ton of private property in Ge. many would produce results, but that would be new in modern war