The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02

200 Millions-Not All.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
 Desperate fighting in Ireland and the defeat at the primaries of Sem ator McCumber of North Dakota, are the news of importance as this Is written
 The Irish fighting. now ooncen- trated in the south of Ireland. Cath olios fighting Catholics, shows how difficult it is to establish a new Ina ton or even a Free state. There have been many failures for one successful attempt in the worlds history.
 Senator Mccumbers defeat need not puzzle the administration or the old guard republicans. People expect too much. including Immediate prosperity. when they re- place ono administration with am other.
 Voters are dissatisfied and are try ing something new.
 With the war ended, the people are beginning to pay the billions that thel war cost. other billions that --p4triots" stole and other billions th,sown away. in waste. Until that bill Is settled. good times soatne back, and profiteering is made more difficult, each administration iai turn will have troubles and eiee- torai upsets.
 Capt. Herman M Biggs, Now York state commissioner of health, am nounces the discovery of a new and ~astpnishingiy successful" serum for the prevention of pneumonia. ' Although details are not given, the |@nouncement from high authority is pst important to the human race
 eumonia is an especially vicious
 base. because 1t takes men in their
 na. and older men and women at
 ins when they might render
 best service to humanity.
 
 raise monuments to men who
 bloody battles. But the great
 ,aea. the only permanent vic-
 l4 are the victories of scientists.
 scently they have conquered
 theria and typhoid, as long ago
 g conquered smallpox. These are
 duests worth while, saving in the hs run of centuries, not only mil bns but billions of human lives.
 yaterestine to farmers and other
 lligent people.
 one year herd of five Holstsin
 in the dairy of the Pennsyl-
 fs state college have produced 47
 H milk. The five cows weigh
 xtan 5000 pounds. and they
 ln one year s4.000 pounds of
 That kind of interest doubly
 tebly compounded, produced by
 Intelligence of educated farmers
 e sort of "usury" that tho world
 It's. all human beings were compelled
 work as honestly as those five |rs work, If they had as good care
 direction as those cows have had. |
 1t a fine world this would be.
 The will of William Rockefeller ot the rich MT. Rockefeller. but his l ps prosperous brother) will divide
 least s2oo,ooo, 900 in actual wealth | .haps q good deal more. But those
 ures do not represent the entire | tune which Is largely in undevsl- ed possibilities.
 When a man owns wells, mines,
 roads. . great enterprise of all ids in the United States. 1t is hard
 say how much he is worth.
 Bevsnty-five years ago MT. Rocke- her didn't have sloo. This country rtainly offcrs opportunity. fsom ething good Is coming out of bacedonia. if you happen to smoke ngarettes. The country that produced Jaexande.. who conquered as much ? the world as he cared to and %kat of late has been under the rule \ ths Turks. now belongs to Jugo- via.
 NAlI the Turks did was bad, except lat they did plant good Turkish to- kcco. Gentlemen and ladies with Sshtng to do, like the smoke of that / /facco and it may make Jugo- -Slavia 4 kh- But its quite drop from pro- { scing . world conoueror to produc- E Turkish cigarettes.
 EAn earnest but not very successful | Hort to -tske some of it with you"
 shown in the accounting of the | sL4 Haxlrnsss estate. MT. Harknsss 1t something over sss.ooo. .ooo. His fsoutors show that they spent siAo.- 10 for tomb. That amount, less lan one twentieth of . years inter- q on the money. wasn't much to take kions. The dead man didn't take 1t |lar--only as far as the graveyard. Sixty eight millions producing an Income of more than $a-ooo. 900 . year win go to be used at his dis eretion by an only son. when he reaches the age of c4. MT. Hardness worked hard all his life to give . young man . chance to do somsthing