Secretary of the Treasury Mellon,
I while on his vacation abroad, has de
j dined to be interviewed; but the de
partment over which he presides is
doing plenty of talking in Europe be
cause of its huge gold accumulation.
Mr. Lloyd George’s recent public
address was in the nature of an ex
planation that many folks who do vo
luminous talking about the league
don’t know whether it is a baseball
organization oi* a social club.
A large proportion of the new im
migrants are going to revise their pre
conceived ideas of American liberty
just as soon as they begin to make
application of the mistakes they bring
along.
There never was a more abused
saying than that the end justifies the
means.
gfORCH
BEARER
When the thousands of new immi
grants go ashore, there will be a lot
of extra jobs for idle men as fuel
shovelers for the melting-pot.
It seems that the Eufaula postmis
tress didn’t realize in time that sev
eral passenger trains leave that town
every day.
Paper bathing suits are said to be
fashionable on the Chicago beaches.
In case the wearers go into the wa
ter, there should be some hickory
limbs convenient.
Automobile accidents in Birming
ham for six months resulted in twenty
four deaths and two hundred inju
ries. What other city can beat that
enviable record?
The ruling of the treasury depart
ment that beer is not medicine will
doubtless cause some folks to foam
at the mouth just the same.
Scopolamin
Abdul the Good listened attentively
as Hidome, his favorite wizard, dis
coursed on the merits of his latest
discovery, which he called scopolamin.
