The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30
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 People who never think of anything but themselves don't burden their brains enough to speak of.
 It's comparatively rare that what is known as heavy swell weighs his words.
 Lots of folks fall back on politeness as an excuse for prevarication.
 Many figures which receive commenda- tion are for dress parade only.
 Some men can make good in half the time it takes others to explain why. they didn't.
 One of the cheapest things in the world, next to advice, is self-admiration. Unless loss of friends be taken as part of the price.
 When a visitor from little town of Ala bama or some other more quiet and ease- taking locality comes to Birmingham, one of the things that impresses him is the hurry that marks the business district. One often wonders why all this rush and rumpus. At least a considerable part of it is unnecessary and grows out of habit.
 Which recalls the visit of Chinese digni- tary who was sent by his government to ob- serve conditions of living in this country. He was in tow of New York man. "Here comes our car," screamed the latter, "lets hurry and catch it, and he literally dragged the Celestial across the street like house afire to crowd on the elevated. They caught the car. All out of breath the China man was chucked aboard, the ga,eman slammed the entrance, yanked the bell and enjoined the passengers to "step lively"
 When the Chinaman got his breath he asked his chaperone: "What did we do that for?"
 "Why, if we hadn't caught that car we would have had to wait nearly minute for another"
 May I ask," said the Chinaman, "now that we saved a whole minute, what are we going to do with it?"
 That they are selling shark meat for white bass out in Frisco is not fish yarn. It's actually being done on extensive scales.
 Reports continue to trickle through that Senator Hiram Johnson persists in his re- fusal to talk while in Paris. The only thing we can think of that would keep him silent anywhere is unfamilarity with the current language that's availsh'"
 Five killed and eleven poisoned by hooch in Philadelphia. Apparently bootleggers don't take much stock in the "brotherly love- tradition attached to that clry.
 Contemplating the death of Sarah Bern- hardt and other artists who became justly famous, the thought arises with pity it is those who become great cannot bequeath their genius to the near-great left behind.
 That New York jurist who advocates com- piete abolition of divorce by legislation might also consider the advisability of legslating against large proportion of the fool mar riages that naturally lead to the divorce court.
 The high cost of building doesn't seem to affect the birds. They are going right ahead this spring as. usual. Maybe they save a lot tors and carpenters.
 The Hungarian woman 193 years old who hanged herself recalls the Chinese philoso- pher who couldn't understand why people spent millions of dollars killing one another in war, when they would all die anyhow if they would wait little while.
 The people of Birmingham will be asked to contribute one hundred thousand dollars to tuberculosis sanitariums Such an insti- tuition Is the best kind of health insurance.
 Besides, it costs more than the sum asked to support tuberculosis in its present style.