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

' Everett spake fainted dead away in the tax office when they told him of tho increase in his taxes. He was raised from ss5 last year to SIP this year.
 MT. Beveridge, 1t seems. is nomi mated senator from Indiana. and the { Presidents friend, Mir New is beaten. This worries "old guard republicans but need not Mir Beveridge announce cd in advance that he would not join any farm bloc" He will form bloc All by himself. musical. distinct. apart. but not "unfriended, melan- choly. slow"
 The French Academy of Medicine, see today's cables, has demonstrated that the deaf can hear by putting their finger on the larynx of person speaking. Many roads lead into the ether can be opened.
 What puzzled Darwin was the be- ginning of the eye and of sight. MT. Bryan will be glad to hear that MT. Darwin never could explain that, all thoggh he surmised that the effect of sunlight on the tissues and "spe- cializations Of nerve force in one spos might explain it.
 How is it possible for nerves at ti{e end of the fingers to tell the brain of vocal sounds and their mean (ng. when the nerves of the ear are A dead? It takes more than .evolu- 7 tion9 to explain that.
 However, whether we descend from monkeys or not. we are not far from them mentally. The news that Hiss or Mrs. Peggy Hopkins Joyce took an overdose of drugs in Paris receives in the newspapers five times as much attention as does the news that the deaf can hear through their finger tips
 London believes the Genoa confer eace will collapse. However, it has dons good, for all talking-like counting ten before you strike your enqny--is useful in moments of ex- Gil sment.
 ftk will please you to hear that England has decided to make a strong sreaty with Russia with a highly moral intention to "prevent others exploiting that country"
 We weep for you, the wnIrus said. we deeply sympathize. With .obs and tears he sorted but those of tho largest size, etc.
 W A Chatterton in Denver sends an advertisement from the Billings, (sIont) Gazette. advertising for bricl<layers at s119, plasterers at sI1o. carpenters and fathers at sl an hour.
 It is not true that every thing Is for the best in the best possible of worlds Everything Is far from being as it ought to be and will be. But advertising for men at s1.1O or sli an hour is an improvement on con- ditions In this country, not hundred years ago, when there was just one mechanic living in New England, sup posed to earn as much a sf day, all the year round.
 Good wages is not good news for workers only. It is even better news for business men. All that the big man gets is what the little man has io spend. He ought to remember that.
 Latest from China: General wu jnported killed in action"
 1 He is the pleasing person that put Hire crackers in the Standard Oil s.ans and made the enemy run away, tgthinking the firecracker noise was machine guns. It's too bad it Wu is dead The whole thing to America sounds like comic opera. but isn't The strength of China is guarantee for good behavior ill Japan. and that interests us.
 Eugland is reducing income tax and other taxes.
 India is settling down with Nir. Gandhi in jail The miracles ex- pected by his followers did not hap pen. Russian oil wells will probably ,e developed by the British, a great thing for English shipping. which turns from coal to oil. The British are a, well managed people. They knew, where to find statesmen and they {pay them well. not forcing them to rely on corporations to make a forTine for them after they leave. efgce
 fire national conference of Mutual Savings banks in Atlantic City, dis c}overs that the average wife of man earning two or three thousand Iyear, spends less for clothes than the husband. and is better saver It did not take a national confer ence or ghost from the grave to tell US that The average three thousand year man. and many other average men, spend as much, without neces- sity. on the midday lunch for in stance, as it costs to feed the chl- dren. Then they groan about the heavy load
 Berlin newspapers are disgusted because great throngs "clnng to the huels of prize fighter Dempsey in Berlin"
 It is foolish for educated men to