The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
T 'oday Shedd and Simpson
 Stayed. 10000 Dead-Means
 Nothing. You Are Living Longer. Daugherty's Good Start.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

Learn a lesson, young gentlemen, from John G. Shedd, who has cele- brated the fiftieth anniversary of his connection with Marshall Field & Co. What is true of him is true equally of his associate. James Simp- son. They began young with Mar chali Field. realized that they were with big man and very big con- cern-with all the opportunity that ability could ask.
 They did not wander around, or wonder why no one appreciated them. They worked and stayed. Now they own the business.
 Ten thousand dead in and near ''Swatow." r
 A majority don't know where Swatow is. Told that 1t Is in China, 25o miles north of Hongkong, they don't much care about the 10000 dead. What interests them is the combination typhoon and tidal wave that struck the coast and drowned the ten thousand. There Is some- thing romantic and interesting in a great wall of water solemnly roll ing against the tiny houses of man. Ten thousand dead don't count when they are Chinese. Not yet much solidarity among humans.
 The health of human beings and their length of life improve. Not so long ago, in the second largest city in France, there was not a man or woman living past 50 years of age.
 Men were "graybeards" at 10. The sewers ran through open gutters and into the drinking wells in cities. Will lages were in the hollow, grave yards on the hill. The ran washed Srave- yard diseases down into the wells. =
 Statistics show that now the aver age white male in America lives a little over 55 years. white women 57lz years in the country. In the city white men live 51h years, women 54h years. In Kansas they live longest of ali--the men almost GO years. the women close 10 s1. Wisconsin comes next.
 Women live longer than rnen be- cause they live more wisely. temper ately. virtuously.s
 Mir. Daugherty. Attorney General, combining deeds with words, has in- dicted three patriots for swindling the government out of a million dol lars. If he will multiply that by 5000 1t will be a good beginning. One of the first caught in the net Is former director of sales of the war department Highly appropriate. 
 Lloyd George, in the latest of the European conferences. asks for. a moratorium for Germany. Belgium dsmands cash, France also. They gre unanimous on one thing only. name- " moratorium as to the claims of the United States. There isn't dissenting voice there.
 Lord Northcliife evidently :s dy- Ing, the end of a powerful .reer He rendered the greatest seryice newspaper man can render to his ma tion, fighting not only the govern mcnt. but public prejudice and dan serous optimism. The English burned him in effigy, as they have often burned Lloyd George. their greatest man since Pitt The future will honor Northcliffe, son of a DOW erfui Irish mother. as one of the greatest men of the British empire.
 Replying to foolish statement in Congress that Frank A Munsey was influenced by advertising in his newspapers it was said here, and 1t is true. that. like Spartan nurse. Munsey had allowed many .no~spa- pers. which altogether cost i.i mill lions, to starve to death in his arms rather than go out and get advertis- ing for them.
 This was understood by so 1e to mean that he let them die because he, Munsey. didn't have the money to keep them going. As matter of fact, Munsey has always had s35.ooo.- GOO to $50.0o0.O00 in good securities and real estate ever since he left Wall street bringing home the sacon and closing up an active account running up to 100000 shares.
 P. s.-Don't think you crn go to Wall street and do the same .hinp Munsey never gambled. he knew.
 The bolsheviki have sentenced to death Benjamin. the Petrograd metropolitan. and another ef inc most important in the heirarchy of the Russian Greek church. It's a mistake in judgment that Lenin perhaps. would not have made I'd h. been well and in charge.
 To injure religion and its influ- ence, let it alone. Persecution means growth. The blood of mar tyrs is the seed of the church.
 We are full of sympathy and hor- TOT because civil war exists in Ire- land and in Italy What is our own condition but civil war when labor and capital are fighting with the general public the victim of both sides?
 Our modern civilization is made up chiefly of the work of engineers and chemists. Our population is made up of workers of all kinds, farmern,