The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05

By ARTHUR BRISBANE
 Eloquently President Harding pro- claims Thanksgiving this year on November 30. You are to give thanks. suppiicato and show devo- tion.' There are reasons. Crops are good. We are still cut of the League of. Nations. We didn't accept the Turkish mandate"
 We live in a country that isn't go- ing to have revolution. Heterogeneous populations in which one element would promptly suppress any other element, guarantee that.
 The death rate is falling. times are not perfect but are not bad. Government bonds have gone to par. Those not satisfied by the coming election will realize that elections ]. reflect the times. They influence or lead to no great extent.
 So. obey the President and be thankful.
 Belle Miller. l6 years old. very pretty. left these few words when she killed herself: "I may as well die. as am in everybody's way" Some tickle young man about IS is probably responsible for that. There ought to be some way to make sem sitive girls understand that things that happen at 1s will seem very un- important at 50, and at 7s as unim- portant as events in the nursery.
 Every high school girl In Chicago is asked ''t0 demand certificate of clean health from the man she pro- poses to marry" Good idea. but on that basis Napoleon and Alexander would have remained single. Ma poleon had, the ith. Alexander prob ably had . slight touch of epilepsy.
 Get healthy husbands. young la- dies. by all means. But above all, get intelligent husbands. Fathers and mothers can usually be trusted to see that the gentleman Is not . leper. And sad to relate. the aver age high school girl can be trusted to forget all about everything else when she meets . young gentleman with . feeble mustache and an earn est eye.
 After all. 1t Is the average that counts. and the average is good.
 Russian Boisheviki went in one di- rection, letting the bottom of the heap govern-with . little help from the middle. Fascist went in the other direction, determined that the bottom of the heap-that Is what they call socialists and radicals should have nothing to do with gov ernment.
 Changing government Is spread ing. To visit this writer came Dr. N. Lupu. editor of Aurora, an ener- setic newspaper published at Bucha- rest. He said peasants will soon take the government of Rumania, as speasants have already dtne in Bui- garia. Poland starts an imitation fasoisti movement, with a girl lead ins. You abserve. there was a Turk ish Joan of Arc. busy with Renal. There was a charming Italicn girl, also called Joan of Arc, active among the fascisti. The more the merrier. 
 As the ice breaks up in the spring and starts floating, so old established frozen kind of governments, seem to be breaking up in Europe.
 Parke-Davis. able chemists. believe they have discovered virus to end rats by their own viciousness.
 It is the vile character of the rat. that destroys him. through cannibal- ism, as ic is mans vicious character that destroys him and his civilization through war. Give destructive bac- teria to tne rat. He becomes feeble. Immediately his brothers and sisters attack and devour him. They get the disease. they get sick. their brothers and sisters eat them.
 As Prince Kropotkin has shown, the higher animals are preserved by their mutual aid" You learn now that the vilest of the animals are destroyed by their own cannibal- ism. Providence Is very just. Man should take warning.
 Under an old crab apple tree in New Jersey somebody murdered . man and . woman. And somebody jealous woman probably--cut the throat of the woman after she was dead. Now the crab apple tree has vanished, the whole thing taken away by crowds hunting "souvenirs." You couldn't imagine any kind cf monkey doing that or any wild anjmal.k H~ Eyae