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MOTION PICTURE CAMPAIGN
MEETS GENERAL APPROVAL
Here We Are—Two of the Many Expectant Young
Ladies In the Race to Win the Leading Ladies’
Part In the Play the Essanay Company Is Going
to Produce For The Age-Herald
* Considerable sur prise is being expressed
by the readers of The Age-Herald on ac
count of the large number of candidates
« “who are entered in the big motion picture
play campaign. Few people thought at
the start that the campaign would leap
into such general and immediate favor.
The Age-Herald believes that this cam
paign is going to be by far the greatest
have a “finger in the pie” of helping some
candidate to win out.
Those who have not as yet entered their
name or that of a friend in the cam
paign should do so at once, as every day
is valuable and a little work done at the
beginning of the campaign will be morfl
effective than work done at a later date
It is not a burdensome task to get votec
If you will go to your friends and tell them
you are competing in The Age-Herald
motion picture play campaign and that
you desire to secure the part of leading
lady in the play to be produced by the
Essanay company, and that you want
them to subscribe for six months or a
year and give the vote certificate which
they will get for the subscription to you,
Just see your friends today. Get them
interested in the campaign and have them
subscribe so you may get the vote ballot
i Do not overlook a subscription and yoi
will be surprised to see how rapidly youi
vote totals will crawl upward.
Full particulars of the campaign, to
gether with nomination blank are pub
lished on another page of this issue ol
The Age-Herald. Cut it out, and bring oi
send it to the Motion Picture Department
The Age-Herald, with your name or thai
of a friend.
Miss Clayton enjoys the distinction ol
playing opposite that popular idol of th*
photoplay fan. Mr. G. M. Anderson
None of her predecessors has created a
| MISS ROSALIE BROOM AD
I District No. 2
.....
motion picture campaign ever held in any
city in the country, and takes pleasure
In assuring candidates and their friends
that everything possible will be done lo
assist them in securing one of the parts
in the motion picture play which will be
filmed at the Essanay studio, Chicago,
shortly after the close of the campaign,
the 26th of September.
New names are being entered daily, and
the list of standings of the many popular
young ladies who are candidates w'ill be
published daily in The Age-Herald, so
that those interested throughout the state
can keep in close touch with the progress
of this unique campaign.
Everyone realizes that The Age-Herald
campaign is making a big hit in Ala
bama.
"What an original idea!”
"How can they afford to do it?”
“It will certainly he an honor to win
one of the parts in a ‘movie" to be pro
duced by the Essartay company and to
have an opportunity to play in the motion
picture with such prominent film stars as
Edna Mayo, Ruth 8tonehouse, Richard
Travers, B. Washburn or Charles Chap
lin."
| "The two weeks’ trip to Chicago and the
Essanay studio will certainly be grand
. and full of thrills."
1 These are a few of the expressions heard
/daily about the campaign. Of course, we
' have gone to a great deal of expense in
undertaking such a campaign, but the
honor to be secured by five ladies who will
take parts in this motion picture will be
a great publicity feature for The Age*
Herald and will serve as a monument for
this paper for years to come. It Is true
that many of the most popular young
ladies in the state are entered and every
one in the state of Alabama desires to
MISS ALICE TINGLE
District No. 1
more favorable impression than she. She
is unique in her wonderful success In the
pictures, as prior to her association with
Essanay, she has had no experience what
ever in any kind of stage work that
counts. But what she lacks in experience
she makes up in brains, and though her
physical attractions are self evident, she
doesn’t rely on them alone for one min
ute. She is a hard and very earnest
worker and takes both herself and her
work with tremendous seriousness. Mar
guerite joined the western Essanay com
pany about a year and a half ago in an
swer to an advertisement, which, as it
turned out. was one of the best invest
ments at nominal cost on record. Her
parents live in Utah, where her father
is a wealthy retired mining engineer.
Miss C’layton has made a big name for
herself in pictures. She has a personality
as refreshing and agreeable ns her looks
and her work..
Address all communications to Motion
Picture Department, The Age-Herald.
HUNTSVILLE
Huntsville, August 10.—(Special. >
Frank Smith's 5-year-old child was run
over and probably seriously injured yes
terday afternoon by an automobile driven
by Miss Susie Robertson. The child start
ed across the street and Miss Robertson
<hanged her course to avoid it and then
the child ran back and v as knocked down.
Robert Orgaln, a mall clerk in the
Huntsville postoffice, has passed a sue
For a Quick and Cool Trip to
Washington
New York
Atlantic City
Boston
Take the Famous
“BirminghamSpccial”
Via
Southern Railway
Premier Carrier of the South
A delightful trip through the beauti
ful mountains of North Carolina and
Virginia.
Block signals, ballasted roadbed,
with many miles of double track.
Lv. Birmingham . 9:00 a.m.
Ar. Washington .10:40 a.m
Ar. New York . 4:45 p.m.
Ar. Atlantic City . 5:05 p.m.
Ar, Boston .10:10 p.m.
Telephone Main 3067
M. COXWELL, D. P. A.
cessful examination for postal inspector,
and is expecting to receive an appoint
ment to one of the several vacancies in
this district in a very short time.
.T. H. Hammett, a farmer of the Big
Cove, has been arrested and lodged in Jail
here on a charge of burglary. It Is
charged that he is implicated in the re
cent burglary of the home of Wash
Anyan on the mountain.
George Keel, a young Dallas mill opera
tive, charged with attempting to murder
his wife from whom be had been sepa
rated by cutting her throat, was bound
over to the grand jury yesterday after a
healing before Judge Hawkins. The de
fendant was committed to jail, being un
able to make bond in the sum of $2000.
The plant and all properties of the
Huntsville Cotton mills were sold yes
iteiday by Sheriff Phillips under an execu
tion issued in favor of the creditors. A
L Rison. trustee for the creditors, boughl
the plant in for the sum of $46.3i»3.53. The
Huntsville Cotton mill was the first in
dustry of the kind established in Hunts
ville, which is now the leading textile cen
tei of the state, and is believed to be th«
oldest iri the state. For many years h
earned handsome dividends, and wai
owned exclusively by Huntsville capital
li continued in operation until a fe\^
months ago when the market conditloni
became so unsettled that it was compellec
to close down.
FINED FOR HAVING
FAKE PASSPORT
London, August 10.—<6:35 p. m.)—H. W
D. Frazier, the British newspaper mar
charged with having traveled through
Europe on an American passport obtainec
at the American embassy in London bj
describing himself as an American, was
fined $250 in Bow street court today or
the charge "of having in his possession ar
irregular or false passport."
Counsel for the prosecution said the au
thorlties regarded the matter as serious
as It rendered American citizens liable tc
susi icion and led to questions betweer
the- American and British foreign offices
The defendant said he was born ir
Chicago of British parents and thoughi
be was an American citizen under Amer
ican law.
Steamer Sunk
London, August 10.—f8:43 p. m.)—A Reu
ter dispatch from Copenhagen says th«
Norwegian steamer Geiranger has beer
sunk. The crew was landed by a Dutch
fishing boat. The Geiranger was of 10fe>l
gross tons and was built in 1907.
AMERICA IS TODAY
STRONGEST NATION
IN WORLOHNANCE
Harding’s Recent Review
Pointed Out Remarkable
Aspects of Situation
SECURITIES HELD
ABROAD NO MENACE
Even After War Financiers Believe
This Country Will be Easily Able
to Maintain Its Position of
Financial Supremacy
By HOLLAND
New York. August tO.—{Special.)—In con
sidering the momentous changes which the
European war caused within 12 months,
possibly pre-eminent among these changes
are the new relations established by the
United States in International financing.
If the European war has taught new and
heretofore undreamed of methods by
which war may be carried on, *the exi
gencies of the war have established in
the United States new and hitherto un
dreamed of methods of regaining finan
cial equilibrium and of adjusting speedily
very difficult conditions so that substan
tially something like case could be estab
lished. or. at least, apprehension of chaos
and panic be ended. In a communica
tion which was made immediately after
the close of the past fiscal year by W. P.
G. Harding, member of the federal re
serve board at Washington, he spoke earn
estly of the problems which the world
war lias created. Some of these arc en
tirely original. A new' financial formula
was necessarily worked out before fairly
good answ’ers to these problems could bo
obtained.
The manner in which the leaders in
Great Britain solved their stupendous and
very difficult problem has been matched
by the manner In which the men of finan
cial authority in the United States have
solved some equally difficult but entirely
different problems. Mr. Harding says that
normal conditions cannot be expected
until peace is restored. Yet the United
States is beyond any question, in his view,
in a stronger financial position than ever
before in its history. “We have,” Mr.
Harding asserts, ‘greater financial power
today than any other nation of the world.”
Confidential Proof Furnished
just before the close of the fiscal year
excellent, but confidential, proof was fur
nished. proof of which Mr. Harding had
knowledge, that our position is even
stronger than the bankers had supposed it
to be. The demonstration has been made
that Europe cannot seriously affect our
stock of gold through the sale of American
securities in our markets. Mr. Harding
calls this apprehension, which a year ago
at this time so strongly prevailed that It
was one of the chief reasons for closing
the New York Stock exchange, “an old
time bugaboo.” It may no longer b' re
garded as a disturbing factor In our finan
cial situation, especially as there Is now
established a visible trade balance of con
siderably over $1,000,000,000 in our favor.
American securities may be utilized in
liquidating some part of this trade bal
ance. or they may be employed, as al
ready has been done in France, as a basis
upon which loans from the United States
can hr secured.
In these comments. Mr. Harding briefly
epitomizes the amazing changes that have
taker, place in the United States with re
spect to its financial strength since Oc
tober of last year. No one In July or
early August—at the time the Now York
Stock exchange determined to close Its
doors—would have ventured to predict that
in less than a year the United States
would he financing the requirements of
many of the other nations of the world,
would he building up an enormous store
of resources, would amply protect all of
its gold and would be receiving millions
of gold from other countries.
Yet this Is exactly what has happened,
and by and by the story of this year’s
financial changes in the United States
will he told. This story will report what
is the greatest and the most speedily
consummated change in a financial situa
tion which anv nation in the world has
ever experienced.
In October of last year the United
S**>tes was still under the sway of the
old national bank system. It had been
often said of that system that its great
weakness lay in its Inability swiftly to
mobilize credits and resources so that
these might he used wherever in the
country there was need of them. Had
the federal reserve system been In full
operation when the war in Europe be
gan. our financiers would have more eas
ily mastered a complicated and an entire
ly new situation which, with meteor-like
i suddenness. developed in the United
States.
Old Defect Overcome
The defect, however, in our old na
tional banking system was overcome by
what will go on record, probably, as the
finest utilization of the principle of ro
operation which this or perhaps any other
country had ever witnessed. The banks
of New York city, acting with the New
York clearing house as a unit, and in a
swiftly established method of co-operation,
secured nearly $100,000,000 in gold, which
wps exported to Canada. Only the leading
financiers know how greatly that action
gratified the bankers of T^ondon. a grati
fication with w'hich was mingled a sense
of astonishment. Immediately after this
brilliant and successful exploit was
financed, the national banks of the entire
United States, acting in co-operation and
fortified in that purpose by the counsels
of the federal reserve board at Washing
ton. which at that time had no other than
moral Influence, since the federal reserve
system had not been organized, under
wrote a proposition Involving $100,000,000 in
gold. These two transactions will pass
into history not only as among the most
brilliant exploits of men of finance of
the present or of any other age. hut as
serving to strengthen snd maintain tne
credit of the United States.
They did much to secu-e for the United
States the confidence r#f other nations,
whieh is not reflected In transactions
which aggregate hundreds of millions of
dollars. In October of last year great
doubt still prevailed. England sent of
ficial representatives to this country so
th&f it might be determined by p* rsonal
Investigation how' much we owod Europe,
w'hat the aggregate of our indebtedness on
account of American securities was. and
what means could be taken whereby there
could he adjustment of difficulties which
would be of benefit to both nations. In
midwinter, the T/ondon financiers were
informed that the United States was abun
dantly able to protect its credit, even
to absorb American securities, and could
confidently be reckoned with when the
subject of foreign loans or the establish
ment of great credits was under consider
ation. »
Use of 'Emergency Laws
We had. in the late summer and early
i fall, utilized for the only time in the life
of the* statute the so-called emergency
currency law. We obtained from the
treasury department und^r that law’ many
millions of currency. Yet within six
months all this currency was returned and
cancelled, and $he banks all over the
United States were reporting that they
were in possession of funds unprecedented
In amount. Instead of sending gold to
Canada, we received back the gold we did
send last fall, and we have loaned to
Canada nearly $100,000,000. We loaned to
belligerent and neutral nations in the last
six months of the past fiscal year ap
proximately 1560,000.000. and negotiations
are now known to be under way whereby
new loans can be made or great < recilt
established in the t'nlted States. In Au
gust and in the early autumn of last
year we were a debtor nation In more
ways than one. for in addition to Ameri
can securities held by Investors abroad
wo owed at least $300,000,000 upon open ac
count and upon short-time notes which
represented the credit of New York city.
Now we are no longer a debtor nation,
excepting In the sense that sooner or later,
and in the course of years, perhaps, we
will be compelled to pay off the American
securities now held in Europe. A change
of this kind is without any precedent in
the history of civilized nations, and it is
observed that the great bankers of the
t'nlted States are convinced that this pre
eminence as a creditor nation, leaving out
ef the consideration American securities
held abroad, we shall maintain after Ole
war is ended.
LETTERS TOEDITOR
Dr. Dozier Replies to Weatherly
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
Please pardon me for again appealing
to you for space In your paper for the
exploitation of my views concerning a
public matter, but after reading in your
columns in Sunday’s issue the plaintive
appeal of Commissioner Weatherly im
ploring the good ladies of Birmingham to
come to the aid of the city as garbage
collectors and scavengers, in an effort
to prevent epidemics and keep our
streets, alleys, back yards and commons
clean and sanitary. T am so filled with
indignation and disgust that l must
speak out or explode. The very idea of
such an appeal coming from that august
source fills my very maw with shame
and chagrin.
M.v God! Where and when before was
ever such a suggestion made that the
good women of a city should voluntarily!
and without reward, constitute them-1
selves into bands of garbagemongers and
back alley scavengers, and perform the,
dirty work heretofore done by criminals
and convicts?
The thought should be enough to make
a buzzard droop his head in shame. Oh.
what a patriotic, public-spirited appeal.
But let us also note that Mr Weatherly
is not only acutely clever in his wise
and timely suggestion, but let us also
consider his further most liberal and
magnanimous proposition-that after the
ladies shall have collected all the trash
and garbage and destroyed as much of
same as they -can. that he will then
graciously arrange to have a trash wagon
come twice h week and carry away
whatever is left, provided the household
ers will “chip in” voluntarily and pay
the teamster for his work. Now isn’t
that a magnificent exhibition and out
burst of liberality and kindness! Why.
I shouldn’t be surprised after this If [
should hear of his giving some poor man
the Itch provided the man would in turn
pay him for the pleasure of scratching.
Yes. of course. Mr. Weatherly will ex
pect to see our mothers, wives, sisters
and daughters, hastily casting off their
white skirts and dainty lingerie, and
donning their lovely forms in blue over
alls and grasping In their tender hands
the rough handles of rake and hoe and
shovel and in immense numbers rushing
out to attack the inviting job. And
perhaps, too, he may imagine that he
will ha\ e us poor, overtaxed assessment
robbed men rushing up with voluntary
contributions to pay the teamsters. May
be he will. We poor fools haven’t much
sense, and after thus contributing, may
be we will also constitute ourselves into
organized squads of policemen to protect
our homes now unguarded and also do
duty as firemen in case of fire, for in
these departments of the city’s protec
tion there is need for such action, since
the reductions already made by our
J commissioners in these departments, calls
for help, which Mr. Weatherly should
have included in his appeal.
But enough of this. I^et me now come
down to “hardpan and brasR tacks.’’
I was one of the ardent advocates of
commissioners for Birmingham, for I
had cause to be dissatisfied with the
Inefficient, loose and wasteful actions
of the old aldermanic board: but with
the light of experience and the cold,
hard facts before me. 1 will candidly
state that the city has not been bet
tered by the change we made.
It would have been impossible under
the old aldermanic system to have put ]
over that infamous conspiracy of the
telephone deal nor would the lately
made contract with the waterworks
company have been foisted upon us.
for there were always at least a suf
ficient number of capable, honest and
watchful men in every council hoard
to forestall any such gigantic outrages
being committed
But it is needless to revert to the
past and I will try to confine my re
marks now to the present.
Birmingham is no longer a strag
gling village, hut a great cosmopol
itan city, owning now more than ten
millions of dollars in tangible and real
assets, but with the exception of the
small and badly managed electric and
water plant at North Birmingham, not
one of the city’s holdings is earning
and turning one dollar in money into
the city treasury. And right here 1
want to say with emphasis that if If
wasn’t for the “gentleman’s agree
ment’’ now existing between a com
missioner and the Birmingham Rail
way, Eight, and Power company that
the little plant at North Birmingham
would be saving to the city more than
$2500 a year—a sum quite sufficient to
help the ladies out in paying the ex
panses of removing the garbage, which
they are expected as scavengers to col
lect and dispose of
And T will also remark that the $15
a week paid oul to persons to labor an
hour or two on Saturday afternoons
teaching our children how to play
might be better applied to pay the
trash wagons.
Then there is the big, colossal octo
pus. “the Bell Telephone company,” ,
______ _ _ i
Repeated Analysis by Chem
ists Prove Certain Points
Beyond Question
There are constant Inquiries from
people who want lo know something of
the scientific nature of Vitalitas. The
question is asked whether Its effec
tiveness is due entirely to its chemical
properties, which Include iron, sodium,
magnesium, sulphur, aluminum and
traces of other minerals, or whether
there Is some unknown added forte of
nature that makes It so quickly re
sponsive.
Vitalitas is new to the chemist and
Its Ingredients as compounded within
the earth have a different meaning in
chemistry and medicine. Vltalltaa musi
he considered as a whole and not with
respect to its individual properties. TIip
truth of this la clearly shown when au
effort is made to build up Vitalitas
synthetically. The Ingredients may he
compounded in the same proportions
hut tile result is no more Vitalitas than
water is wine, and its use as a medicine
is practically nothing compared to
Vitalitas.
There is nothing known in nature
that equals Vitalitas as a tonic and coi
rective. It is wonderfully effective and
dally thousands of sufferers are find
ing new health In its use. For derange
ments generally of stomach, liver, kid
neys. bowels and blood and u'licrcver
a tonic la needed.
Bample Vitalitas at Averyt’s drug
store, 109-111 20th st„ or while there
for Information.—Adv.
I
Black's closes Thursdays at 1 O'Clock
Another example of the
Wind-Up economies—an
unparalleled offer that
should bring thrifty men
trooping into Blach’s
^ . _ A and Blach’s own
$1.50 cislom label C
1 Shirts
.
For style, beauty and service Earl & Wilson Shirts
can’t be beat, so you’d better take on a few more
while they’re going at this price.
Blach’s entire shirt stock
reduced like this
$1.00 Shirts Now.65c
$1.50 Shirts Now.r0.95c
$2.00 Shirts Now.$1.25
$2.50 and $3 Shirts..$1.65
$4.00 Shirts Now.$2.65
$5.00 and $6 Shirts.$3.65
50c underwear 29c $1.00 union suits 65c
75c Underwear .45c $1.50 Union Suits . 95a
$1.00 Underwear .. 85c $2.00 Union Suits .$1.25
Silk Hose ::29c Ties Tl." "d 29c
25c Lisle Hose .15c 25c Wash Ties .15c
Wind-Up reductions affect all Early showing
departments
Fall 1915
Hats
For
Men
! Ot BIRMINGHAM (Li3t0AVB AT 19U' *T
Mail orders solicited—Free delivery
using our streets and alleys for the
past 30 years, without a city franchise,
and which our commissioners so gen
erously favored by first permitting it
to raise its prices for service 50 per
cent and then futher favored it by put
ting its competitor out of business and
allowing the said Bell company to dive
deeper into the pockets of the people
and extract an extra toll of $150,000
per annum, hut which company never
lias been made to pay a dollar to the
city for Its franchise privileges.
Now, Mr. Weatherly might take a
long Lane and a short cut to-Ward
financing the city by Inviting this great
and rich corporation to come across
with n liberal contribution for Its
franchise rights and thus In a way
help the ladies out in their scavenger
labors. '
But Mr. Weatherly. Lane & Co. should
not be so partial to the Bell Telephone
company, as to overlook other corpora
tions. whose special privileges are
keeping us poor. The quality and
source of our gas should he looked
Into, In order to learn whether or not
we are getting a good quality of Kas
“made in Birmingham." and for which
we are paying 95 cents per 1000 feet,
or whether we are burning an Inferior
quality of by-product gas, which was
offered to the city for 9 cents per 1000
feet. And then, the commissioners
might explain why they did not ar
range with the Alabama Power com
pany and the Birmingham Railway.
Light and Power company so thnt the
city might obtain some pecuniary ben
efit. or that the consumers of electricity
in Birmingham might in some way prof
it by the 5 mills per kllowat hour price,
which the latter company pays the for
mer company for electric current and
Tor which we poor tax oppressed, as
sessment robbed, license squeezed clti
zents now have to pay 10 cents per
kllowat hour.
But why mention gas. electricity, wa
ter. steam heat, street transportation?
Free gift of concessions have a 1 read5
been made and our city gets not a dol
lar therefrom in the matter of fran
chise payment. And here let me say that
every natural resouroe of wealth that
is diverted from the use and benefit
of all the people to the use and control
of a company or corporation, becomos
a menace to the welfare and happiness
of the community at large, since that
diversion promotes the corporation or
company to grow* rich at the expense
of the public at large, and the state,
county or city that does not keep and
control its natural resources ami make
Its public utilities a matter of public
profit or benefit. Is derelict in its duty
and exceedingly improvident of Its own
liberty, welfare and happiness.
A word in conclusion. If Messrs
Weatherly, Lane and Ward can’t so
finance this city of great and rich re
sources as to provide proper sanita
tion. fire and police protection, public
schools, etc., they should candidly admit
the fact, tender their resignations, step
down and out and let some of their in
vited garbage brigade take their places
and relegate to them (the commission
ers) the delicate and pleasant pastime
of gathering up trash and carting it off.
O. T. DOZIER.
Birmingham, August 9, 1915.
Comment on School Measure
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
I have read with considerable pleasure
the editorial in your issue of August 8,
1915, entitled “Another flood School
Measure." The concise, terse, and dis
criminating manner in which you deal
with the provisions of the bill recently !
passed, providing for reorganization of
our present county school system to |
make it conform to modern ideals, shows ,
that you have the same intelligent grasp 1
of our educational problems that is a
characteristic of your publication. Ac
cept, therefore, my warm appreciation of j
jour kind and convincing words. Most]
cordially yours,
WILLIAM F. FEAGIN,
Superintendent of Education.
Montgomery. August 9, J915.
Church-going in the Old Da>s
To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
It seems my recent letter In your col
umns under the caption of “The Old-Time
Songs" appealed very forcibly to quite a
number of readers, and especially among
those I may properly term as The 0»d
Guard."
Allow me to draw onee again a picture
of those other days, from the pages of
memory. A picture that can never grow
dim with the passage of years, and ever
grows sweeter day by day, as we loos
backward to childhood spent amid the
scenes I shall endeavor to truthfully por
tray.
There rises before me as I write a men
tal picture of the old red hills of Talla
poosa county, Indelibly stamped up* r. n;y
memory as among my earliest recoil*.*
tlons, and well do T remember the tierce
struggle for existence even when the
whole south was lighting bravely to over
come the disastrous effects of the war.
Notwithstanding the Intense hardships
that a hard, cruel poverty can inflict, ev
ery meeting day at old Mount Zion
church was a day of rejoicing, and hearty
welcoming handshakes among a simple,
home loving and God serving people, and
when the pastor himself, fresh from be
tween the plow handles, entered the
square box pulpit, a silence both deep and
sacred swept over the congregation, and
I can almost hear his powerful voice as
he lined the opening hymn:
“A charge to keep I have,
A God to glorify.”
I Rven to my childish mind, with ils Im
perfect understanding, there was some
thing so deep, so pure, so holy, so won
drously full of the power of the 11 ol\
Spirit that time cannot even blur the
memory.
On one side of the log church the rude
seats were occupied by the men. while the
other was equally well filled with women,
glris and babies, and, by the way, race
suicide w’fls entirely unknown, it being
considered and rightly so. too. that the
glory of womanhood was Incomplete
until motherhood fully crowned it, and
certain it was that the young mother
'viih her strong laughing baby in her
arms was the cynosure of all eyes and
perhaps the envy of many. The baby was
not banished from church, as the « untom
now is, but was considered in much *he
same light as tin* Master saw it. when he
said: “Suffer little children to come unto
mo. and forbid them not." ot *
The sermon perhaps would ho considered
a dismal failure at the present time, as
It was i; *Khei grammatical or theological,
just the simple story of the . t*o»- and
<• 1 I’.-* wi uderful love for hi* children, <je
• iviud in a m-urnest, po-vevf.d, pleading
voice, that carried with it an urine* n
power, and when at Its conclusion this
earnest man of (Sod sal t "Let us pray,"
not a head appeared above the scats, even
the world respected that deep, earnest
religion by kneeling down in humble rev
orenee.
"Is it so today?" if not. why?”
Services over, the yard was filler! with
a happy people, as thev eagerly pressed
forward to greet their pastor first of all,
and then each other, while tears of Joy
glistened in their eyes, p,\**slng invita
tions extended to share the humble hos
pitality of lumen. No foi m ulltly. no con
ventions. no coid, fishy handshake* or in
vitutions. hut a whole-souled, earnest. Ood
loving people in the full **njt > mi ni of the
old-time religion. II. F LACK 10V
Birmingham, August X, l.ul. 3810 Ave
nue F.
ITS FURNACE TIME
—Probably you think bo- looked Into. If It only needs
, i cleaning nut. why that's easy,
cause its hot now, cold . , _
’ _ but on the other band, if parts
weather is too far off to have to be ordered they'll
bother about fixing up come J«»t 1,1 to be put in
your furnace. "rrnrp 001,1 n,Rll,s oomo'
—But you're really just In Needless to say I'll be glad to
time NOW to have your furnace get this Job—and DO IT RIGHT.
C. A. BAIN JZ,
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