The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
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George Harvey's Legs. The Second Richest Man. Older Than Ku Klux. Bad Things Are Three.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

knee brooches at court and goes bacS to American trousers-even when he sees the King. His reason" is-his legs are too thin for knee brooches, That's a poor reason. Thin legs are the best. voltaire and also Talley- rand Thomas Jefferson and others much like Harvey. No one should want calves like George Washing tons or the calves that MaeMonn.es put on his statue of Civic Virtue. For a man using his brains biS muscles are simply a handicap. Each of the billions of cells in the body requires so much energy to keep 1t going. Thin legs mean more energy left over for the brain.
 Ther Is competition for the posi- tion of "second richest man in the world" Mir. Rockefeller is general ly admitted to be No. and strictly hors concours.
 As to No. some say it Is MT, Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury Others say 1t is Thomas F. Ryan oi New York street cars and African mines; others that it is MT. George F. Baker, head of New York.s First National bank. who has built up railroads and many other things
 Some say that MT. Baker Is the richest man in the world. but doesn't say So out of regard for MT. RoclSe- feller, older than himself Such men feel about money as others do about a golf score. More important is the fact that Mir. Baker is busy. acting like the richest man in the world He gave away 8 million dollars the other day to the Metropolitan Mu- scum of Art. with no strings at tached, except that they mustn't lose the money.
 Now he gives $5oo,o to a hos pital, and 1t is understood that as long as his fountain pen holds out, he means to continue signing such cheeks. He will have long way to go to reach the record of John II. Rockefeller, who gives tens of mill lions at a time. But a million and A half in one week Is a good start.
 Mir. Baker is quite old. MT. Rocke- feiler older. MT. Carnegie was old. In former days such old men would have been wondering how they could invest their money in some great tomb or pyramid. or in such way as to buy a front seat in everlast- ing glory.
 Now they Invest the money that opportunity in a great nation has given them to benefit the people of that nation. That's real progress.
 The proposal to discriminate against Jews at Harvard will prob ably be dropped. It was suggested here that the matter could be att tended to. inasmueh as any public institution discriminating against N any class of citizens might and should be deprived or tax exemption.
 Attacks on Jews are largely based on jealousy that touches the pocket book. That kind of jealously can be counteracted by another touch" on another pocketbook-that of the tax payer.
 It is however, not necessary to pass special laws. Massachusetts, one of the most enlightened states. has law that authorizes commission to probe the opportunity for higher education open to the men and women of this state.''
 Governor Cox will choose a com mission to do the probing. and that should settle it.
 Negro students of Hardvard say that the Ku Klux Klan has stirred up discrimination. Probably not so. Something much older than Ku Klux is responsible for the attempted dis crimination against Jews. Ignorance, jealousy lack of energy to compete. are forces older than any Ku klux.
 Ale Cute Dinge Sint Drei.
 That German proverb means All good things are three." It is the other way around just now with re- publican politics. All bad things are three. First, it was Beveridge beal- ing the republican machine in lndi- ana. then Pinchot in Pennsylvania, now Brookhart beats the machine in Iowa, winning the senatorial race. lie is a radical-as Iowa senators go and the machine didn't want him.
 While this is discouraging to the republican party, that party should remember that whom He loveth He chasteneth. But whom He chasteneth, He does not necessarily exterminate.
 Reverses make the republicans think, make them realize that they were elected to run the United States, not to provide Japan's safety. not to police islands appropriated in the Pacific ocean, in the course of a war
 These setbacks may make the re- publicans remember that they were obligated to restore prosperity in the United States. to find work for men in the United States. to stop profi- teering in the United States, to punish some of the thieves that stole hum oreds of millions under tine last dem cratic administration, with patriotism for burglar mask.
 If republicans will remember for what they were elected they can over- come the three recent bad things"
 You cannot look at any page of a newspaper. except the sport and financial pages, without saying to yourself, How much better women are than men, how lucky that chil- dren are brought up at the knee of 2 mother, not father" Mrs Louise c. Ellis, 80 years old, has at last won long fight to obtain the for tune of her father and mother and the right to be buried in the tomb with her father and mother
 She has received hundreds of thou sands of doI1are and doas ,,at .ra,.5