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.smooth runs the uati^ where the
brook is deep. —Henry VI.
_* * * *_
REGINNING THE DAY — My
Father, may my Lord be to me not
u profession lint a possession, not
a form but a friend, not an {insti
tution but a brother, not a sys
tem of thought lmt an experience
«'f heart and life. I would know
Him whom 1 have believed. I
would enshrine Him in my soul.
Amen.—H. M. E.
Public-Spirited Citizens
Should Vote for Amendment
Birmingham, along with 42
other municipalities in Ala
bama, is in the position of a man -try
ing to support a large family on a
pre-war salary. The city is sorely in
need of an adequate income to trans
act its business, make necessary im
provements and prevent its property
from falling into disrepair.
The voters of this state will have an
opportunity tomorrow to say whether
or not relief will be afforded to these
municipalities by allowing them to
hold special elections and levy a small
tax increase not to exceed one-half
of one per cent in any one year.
Every public-spirited .citizen wants
to see this constitutional amendment
carry by an overwhelming vote. Bir
mingham, which is now recognized as
one of the largest and most progres
sive cities in the\south, and ranks
among the nation’s important indus
trial centers, has been struggling
along trying to make both ends meet
without success. Our streets have
been neglected, our sewerage system
has been outgrown, our city jail would
disgrace a town of one-tenth Birming
ham's population. In fact, every de
partment of the city is suffering for
lack of funds.
If we are to move on, if we are
to realize to the full Birmingham's
splendid future, the citizens of Bir
mingham must put their shoulder to
the wheel and be ready to make a
minimum sacrifice to achieve a max
imum of results. Birmingham cannot
continue as a going corporation on the
present basis. We cannot have a city
of which we may feel proud, a city
that invites new people to make their
homes here because of its superior ad
vantages, unless some provision is
made to pay the bills and provide im
provements.
Vote today for the constitutional
amendment that will not only enable
Birmingham to achieve her destiny,
but will give relief to many other mu
nicipalities in the state which are sim
ilarly handicapped.
As for the second amendment,
granting poll tax exemptions to for
mer service men, that is generally in
dorsed.
* * *
Price of New York Papers
Increased to 10 Cents
BEGINNING January 4, all news
papers published in New York,
with the exception of two, which have
already advanced their rates, will
charge ten cents for Sunday issues in
the country districts.
Throughout America newspaper
publishers have been forced by the
white paper shortage and the conse
quent high cost of news print to
charge more for their papers. At
previous rates, the price of many
Sunday newspapers would not begin
to pay for the white paper used. Even
at double the former price, there is
still a discrepancy in the cost of white
paper in a bulky edition and its cost
to the public.
At ten cents the leading Sunday
New Year Negatives
I will not harbor unkind thoughts about any man or woman, alive or
dead.
I will not strive to get even in any other way than by returning good
for evil.
I will not descend to unkindness in order to be considered funny or
| smart.
I will not let cleverness drag in coarseness or vulgarity.
I will not present lying excuses. I will not make alibis.
I will not pretend to be wiser or brighter or better informed than I am.
I will not sell my self-respect for praise.
I will not accord money or success that respect due only to character.
I will not whine about my luck.
I will not enumerate my symptoms.
I will not strut before my inferiors or cringe before my superiors.
I will not consider disagreement or antagonism a personal matter.
I will not cherish malice.
I will not judge any case by hearsay.
I will not tell derogatory things about any person except in a con
spiracy to help that person or with a genuine desire to shield somebody
else. Even then I will not speak until I know.
I will not put the emphasis upon the weaknesses and faults of others.
I will not forget to be at least as courteous at home as I am away
from home. *
I will not sit in the seat of the scornful. I will not refuse to be taught
by anybody.
I will not look down on any human being who is trying.
I will not keep one dishonest dollar.
I will not promise more than I can do.
1 will not be jealous of those who are more successful than I am.
I will not live beyond my income.
1 will not strain myself to make a display.
I will not wait to see what others are going to do in a good cause.
I will not refuse to change my mind.
I will not say of any man or woman that it is too late to mend.
I will not spoil my happiness by begrudging other people theirs.
I will not impugn the motives of men.
I will not dwell on unclean things. *
I will not live a narrow, a provincial or a selfish life.
HENRY M. EDMONDS.
newspapers are still giving their read
ers a great deal for a nominal sum.
The world is combed for the latest
and ost interesting news by the most
expert news gatherers; there are spe
cial articles by the score, written by
people whose names are familiar in
every home and in many lands; there
are numerous special features, all de
manding the expenditure of time, en
ergy, brains and money. Yet the
whole, arranged in the most attrac
tive manner known to the newspaper
business, is promptly placed at the
disposal of the reader for a dime.
The newspaper publishers can
never be justly accused of profiteer
ing by increasing their rates. For
years they have given the public more
than value received.
Coal and Iron
Production Increasing
Alabama feu behind in both
coal aud Iron production dur
ing the ye»r 1919, but in the closing
weeks of December the indications are
that the year 1920 will witness a de
cided revival in both industries.
! -The furnaces in this district are
Aold out for several months ahead,
and there is urgent demand for all
the coal that can be mined.
Reports made tby the coal operators
during the year, when totaled, it is
believed will show production this
year to be somewhere arcuind sixteen
million tons, as against about nine
teen million five hundred thousand
tons in 1918, and twenty million four
hundreci_and thirteen thousand tons in
1917.
This loss is attributed to several
causes, the main one being the let
down in business following the sign
ing of the armistice in November,
1918; car shortage during the sum
mer when there were signs of a re
vival, followed by the miners’ strike
on November 1. t
All of these causes contributed
their share toward decreased produc
tion, but with the strike ended, cars
enough to handle the entire output
and with a stronger demand now evi
dent, the daily average no doubt will
rise shortly after the holiday season
to approximately the figures of 1917.
There are about tiventy-four blast
furnaces in operation at present,
seven less *han when the armistice
was signed, and ten more than last
spring when the low tide was reached.
The daily average production of pig
iron in Alabama in November was
six thousand two hundred and thirty
three tons, or one hundred and
eighty-seven thousand tons for the
entire month, which, if maintained
for the year, would make a total of
about two million two hundred and
twenty-four thousand took.
* * *
A British medical writer says the
chances of Jack Dempsey to win his fight
with Cerpentier depend more upon Demp
sey’s “reaction time" than upon superi
ority in weight and hitting power. Hon.
Carpentler may know what the learned
gentleman is talking about, but it's a
cinch that Hon. Dempsey doesn't.
* * *
A new illustration of the folly of drink
ing during business hours is given by
the luckless Pullman porter, who got
caught .over in Georgia because he Im
bibed too freely and in the dark loaded
126 gallons of pure rye on the wrong
train.
* * *
Italians who went back to Italy re
turned to America because the high cost
of living was worse in the homeland than
in the United States. The next time
they'll think twice before bidding the l
Statue of Liberty a hasty farewell.
* * *
There is really no difference between a
bolshevik "walk" and a bolshevik parade. |
A Chicago professor says the story of
Jonah Is a mythical cortredy. TXaybe the
story of Lot's wife being turned to a pil
lar of salt isn’t disputed more because
it’s so natural for a woman to look
back. —
* * *
The packers insist that their recent
capitulation to the government was not
a confession of guilt Tut tut Gentlemen
The government is too well pleased with
itself to Insinuate anything of the sort.
* * *
The baseball situation Is crisply summed
up in the statement!! that Tyrus Cobb is
showing less speed in his base running
and "Babe” Ttuth is still holding out
for CO,000.
* ¥ *
The German state of mind is not im
proved by the Targe number of former
German ships awarded to the father
land's inveterate enemy, John Bull.
* * *
It Captain Detzer isn't guilty, he is a
sorely maligned person, and no more
"hardboilcd” than the soft-spoken teacher
of a Sunday school class.
* * *
Why is it that there is always some
member of every fire company who goes
to a fire in his shirt sleeves, no matter
how cold the day is?
* * *
A lock of Napoleon's hair was sold
the other day for $80. A lock of William
Hohenzollern's hair wouldn’t br#\g a
pfennig.
* * *
There is no basis for the pessimism of
coal miners' leaders who say the govern
ment is fighting the battles of the op
erators.
* * *
It was not a merry Christmas for the
people who imbibed wood alcohcn', ttn
less they woke in a better world than
this. i
* * *
If it is true that Dentne confesses his
failure in Russia, why do the "red”
armies continue to pack such a punch?
* * *
January will probably see the treaty of
peace ratified and many shiploads of
booze en route to other lands.
* * *
New Zeland has gone dry, but nobody
ever goes to New Zealand.
STRANGE CASE OP DR. GRANT
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Curious Intellectual twists are char
acteristic of our parlor bolshevists.
Here is the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant,
for example, comparing the recently
deported reds with the Pilgrim
Fathers. Winthrop and Bradfftd, to
say nothing of that stout old soldier,
Miles Standisli, would have been
amazed at such a comparison. Dr.
Grant enlarges on the idea by recall
ing the treatment of Baptists and
Quakers by the sternly Calvinistlc
New England colonists.
How completely he misapprehends
the character of the unwilling pas
sengers on the Buford is revealed
when he urges the deportation of
editors who deliberately ( suppress
news,' and "those who despise democ
racy,’’ but not of ‘our workmen.’’ It
is no compliment to honest labor to
put the Goldmans and Berkmans in Its
class. These reds work, no doubt,
when they have to. but their prin
cipal occupation has been that of agi
tation. The confusion of thought
which is the hallmark of the Intelli
gentsia could not be better illustrated
than by the odd classification which
Dr. Grant sponsors.
That anarchistic propaganda should
succeed among the ignorant, that de
nunciation of those who have should
be supplanted by those who have not,
is no surprise. But there is certainly
a screw loose in the mental machinery
of educated men who see democracy
in the overthrow of democratic insti
tutions and regard the disciples of
violence as honest workmen,
PRINCE WAS RIGHT
From the Houston Post.
When Prince Hbfiry of Prussia
j fieited the United States he told an
audience in “Washington he had visited
all parts of the German empire except
Milwaukee. Victor Berger’s election
shows the prince knew what he was
talking about.
ANOTHER OUTRAGE
From the Thrift Magazine.
_ Another outrage being perpetrated on
the poor man of today is a tremendous
increase in the price of diamonds. Will
there never be an end to cruel injus
tice and heartless wrong ?
!
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
A Card Krnm Dr. Perk
"Among|he many beautiful Christmas
Cards which I recieved this Christmas”
said Dolly Dalrymple, "none was more
appreciated than one from Alabama's
beloved poet Dr. Samuel Minturn Peck.
Beside the card which in reality bears
New Year’s wishes but was received
Christmas Dr. Peck wrote such a beau
tiful letter In which he grave interest
ing news of a former very dear friend
of mine and one of the most beautiful
and popular belles who ever lived in
Alabama his neice, Lucy Martin now
Mrs. William Nesler McKelvcy. I am
going to pass the news on. because of
the hundreds of friends here who will
be interested to hear of Mrs. McKelvey.
Dr. Peck writes among these things;
"Dear Miss Orllne: I’ve forgotten
your married name but what matters
it? 1 knew you always as Orllne Ar
nold* Enough I’m sending you a New
Year Card. I always write mine my
self and in thinking of the folk I’d
like to be# remembered by you come
among the first, partly on account of
Lucy. You two girls were inseparable.
And how we drift. Sometimes only
to meet on Memory's Isle of Dreams.
Lucy is now at the marine barracks
at Noffolk. Her oldest child, Nesler,
is nearing 19 and Is a cadet at An
napolis. Her second, a girl, grown,
too, and at St. Mary's Hall, Burling
ton, N. Y., the school of her grand
mother, the late Mrs. Jonn M. Martin.
And the youngest, Elisabeth, is a
schoolgirl of 12."
Enclosed in the interesting letter
was the following card:
NEW YEAR WISHES
I wish for you delightful things
KSeh fair as any bud that flings
Its fragrance o’er the morning dew;
That flowers, not shattered hopes, may
strew
The coming year your wanderings.
The honey of life without its stings,
Yes, every blessing fortune brings,
Beneath a sky of cloudless blue,
I wish for you.
That In your slumbers fairy wings
May waft you sweet imagings;
That you may trip a glad year through,
The brightest one you ever knew—
In brief, all that the Bluebird sings
I wish for you.
—Samuel Minturn Peck.
“Name and Age, Please”
“Name and age, please," soon will
be the universal interrogatory in mil
lions of homes throughout the United
States, according to Clarence Lloyd,
secretary of the Automobile club. The
campaign opens January 2, and will
continue during the 2D succeeding
days.
“The census man will pop the uqes
tion,” Mr. Lloyd said, “and a number
of other questions besides. And the
people in Greater Birmingham will
answer truthfully. For the law pro
viding for taking this, the fourteenth
decennial census, provides that any
person IS years of age or older who
wilfully deceives the census enumera
tors shall be punished by a fine not
exceeding $100.
“The census bureau has been get
ting ready for the big task for sev
eral months. And they will complete
it faster than ever before, due to auto
mobile transportation and better roads.
Some 87,000 enumerators are toeing the
mark and ready\ for the word ’go.’ Un
der the law the census taking is to
begin the second day of the new year
—next Friday. It is to be taken as of
January 1, however. If any person dies
on Janpary 2 or any subsequent day
before the census taker visits his home,
that person is to be counted in the
total population of the United States.
On the other hand, any baby .born Jan
uary 2 or any day subsequent thereto,
misses the new census and cannot be
counted as a part of the population of
the United States under it.
“The census is to be taken not only
in continental United States, but in
Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam, Sa~
moa and the Panama canal zone. The
enumeration must be completed in all
cities of 2500 or over within two weeks,
and in the towns and rural sections
within 30 days. If weather conditions
are such as to prevent taking of the
census in the time limit specified,,as
they may well be in Alaska in January,
the director of the census is author
ized to extend the time."
Walt to Be Shown
“Beware of the traveling fakir,”
said S. D. Cowan. “He is just as plenti
ful now as ever, only his tactics and
methods of attack are different. Mer
chants and various men operating any
kind of legitimate business should be
careful about selling a business to a
stranger who offers to pay a small sum
down, and take full charge of the busi
ness, with some excuse that he has to
wait to pay the balance until his money
arrives from New York or some other
distant city.
“If the ‘fake buyer’ is on the square,
he will be willing to wire for the
money to be transferred by wire. His
usual scheme is to advertise for a part
ner and make such an attractive of
fer that he soon has a number of ‘fish’
to select from. He sells a half interest
for a thousand or two above his initial
payment, gives a bogus bill of sale and
leaves his unfortunates to mourn their
untimely loss, much the wiser but'
minus some hard co/n. In buying a
business or an interest in a business,
it pays to be careful, to employ coun
sel, and to ask to be shown. Use good,
common, twentieth century common
sense and you/will never have cause
to regret a blind venture. No dis
grace to be from Missouri, even though
you reside in Alabama.”
Just Like Leaden
"I wish seme one would explain why
it is that Birmingham is aping London
in the mattef of fogs,” said Dr. J. D.
Heacock. “I have lived in this valley
for a quarter of a century, but it seems
to me that the weather man is rather
overdoing tt in the prodigal way in
whJch he Is draping the Magic City
in mist. The fog of the season seemed
to gather themsdlves into one mighty
shropd to drape the city on Christmas
Eve morning, for it was so thick that
it was almost impossible for one to
get about in an automobile. I am not
surprised that the fire department had
trouble in getting to the fire out at
East Birmingham. Then came ,the ac
cident on the East lake car line. I
think Mr. Horton owes us an apology
or rather an explanation.**
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE PROSPECT i
OF DECISIVE ACTION IN THE U. S. SENATE
THE news center of the world has
been transferred from Paris to
Washington.
Prom the eleventh day of November,
1911, for practically a year, the eyes of the
world were centered upon what was hap
pening in Paris.
The newspaper correspondents of all
the world were In Paris writing: daily of
peace negotiations.
But now the newspaper correspondents
of the world are In Washington and are
daily speculating on what this American
government Is to do.
To all Intents and purposes we have a
world’s peace. But the United States
Senate has not yet ratified the peace
agreement made by President Wllsoh
with the allied powers in Paris, and In
consequence America's foreign trade is
seriously curtailed.
* * *
Senator Lodge, the republican leader of
the Senate, is embittered against Presi
dent Wilson. He resented the fact that
the President did not appoint a member
of the United States Senate on the peace
conference in Paris. He has, therefore,
thrown all manner of monkey wrenches,
so to speak, !n the machinery which
President Wilson had installed in the in
ternational factory.
Lodge has pot a sprat In the wheel of
international adjustment 'of trade and
commerce.
But the indications now are that the
Underwood suggestion of ratifying the
peace treaty and leaving the League of
Nations fpr further adjustment will pre
vail. Present indications'are that within
ten days after the United States Senate
reconvenes the American government will
formally declare peace.
If such be the case it will be the re
sult of Senator Underwood's activities
in the Senate.
* * *
Underwood has really <?ome forward as
the broadest gauged member of that body.
He has realized that there mtist be a
compromise between the warring factions
of the Senate and the President in order
to place the American people and the
American government on a proper basis
before the world, and the chances are
that under his leadership such will be ef
fected.
* * *
The writer would In no sense reflect
upon the ability of Senator Hitchcock ot
Nebraska. He has been the democratic,
mouthpiece of President Wilson on the
floor of the Senate. But unfortunately the
President, in ill health, has not appre-:
ciated the attitude nor the power of the
Senate. Underwood has come forward tas"!
the real leader, and the chances are that;
he wlU co-ordinate the Senate and bring.]
about tmity of action among the demo- ;
crats in that body, as he did in the Houce;
of Representatives.
1
In the House he had opposition at first,
as he now has in the Senate, but hltjj
splendid tactics and conservatism will :
eventually prevail.
Underwood is at this time looked nponj
as the mainstay of the democratic party}
in this country. He has the confidence, not !
only of all the Business Interests, but of 1
all the thinking people.
If his advice prevails in the Senate and ;
the chances are in that direction, this
country will be upon a business basis <
apaln Cy the second week in January.
ADKI.Fi WITH THE TIMES
_/
MAKE-BELIEVE.
She stood beneath the mistletoe.
A creature wondrous fair:
Her eyes were of the bluest blue
And spun gold was her hair.
But she was just a costly doll—
Some youngster put her there.
Perchance to wait a fairy prince
From realms of long ago.
The trimmest, boldest cavalier
That childish fancies know.
Who’ll come to claim his true love there
Beneath the mistletoe.
WILLING WORKERS.
"Would you call the Blithersbys public
spirited citizens?" z
“Under certain conditions."
“Well?” v
“The Misses_ Blithersby recite. If the
cause is one that can be helped along
by a recitation they are ready at all
hours of the day and night to sacrifice
both themselves and their audiences.'*
NO. INDEED.
“But, father, he’s my sSTiI nWS!^
“Tut, tut, daughter. Don’t be foolish.
Just because two young people happen to
like the same phonograph records it
doesn’t necessarily mean that they were
made for each other.”
EXPLAIN YOURSELF. /
Base hypocrite, you’ve often said. /
You never touch a drop;
If that is true, why such concern
About tho raisin crop?
DESERVES IT.
"A number of magazine editors are
talking about sending Scribson a lav
ing cup.”
"What for?"
“They say he's the only writer of hec
tic Action they know about who doesn't
overwork the Verb ‘intrigue.' ”
THE GREAT SACRIFICE.
“Imogens, the beautiful shop girl, could
make a fortune in the movies."
‘Perhaps.’'
"Why does she stay behind the
counter?”
“It's just another case of a career
abandoned for fove. A certain floor
walker has her heart. She can’t bear to
think of leaving him to the tender mer
cies of some department store ‘vaiflp'
while she Is wooing fame and fortune on
the screen.” •
POINT TO REMEMBER.
“When a tourist is being- shown over
a European battledeld I presume it is
proper for him to t^ke off his hat as a
mark of respect to the men who fought
and died there?”
“Oh, yes,” replied the seasoned trav
eler, "but he should not permit himself
to be so overcome by his emotions that
he forgets to tip the guide.”
A THING OP LITTLE WORTH.
"What do you do when you see your j
jokes put jo the mouths of statesmen 1
V
and appropriated by other journals with
out credit?” \
“Oh, I just go ahead and write a few
more,” said the column-conductor wear
ily. "So far as Pve been able to Judge j
& joke has no intrinsic value.”
GREAT EXHORTSBL
"An old-fashioned preacher, you say?”
“Ah! You should have heard him. That
man must be a power for good."
“Yes?”
“He gave us 46 minutes of Are and brim
stone without once stopping to take a
drink of water or clear his throat.” i
THE SITUATION.
“Senator Snortsworthy says he is in
favor of ratifying the peace treaty, but
he must think the matter over.”
“Good heavens! Hasn’t he been thinking
the matter over for months?"
“Oh. yes. But the lucubrations of a
great man must not be hurried. No mat
ter how many babies are dying in Eu
rape and regardless of the millions of
dollars it is costing the American people
and their allies, the senator must be per
mitted to think the matter over.”
PAUL COUK.
SERMONS FOR COW FODDER—By Frank Willis Barnett
One of the standing Jokes about and
among preachers is a sermon barrel
which each minister is supposed to have
in reserve into which he can dip and got
out a manuscript in time of need.
« • •
Now. I confess that in my own think -
ing, the "barrel” was but a symbol for
preparedness, for every pastor is sup
posed to have a sermon or two to use in
a pinch, for it is but common prudence
since so many unusual demands are made
upon their time.
• • •
Take the case of a city preacher, who
is required to preach more than 100 ser
mons each year, besides 60 prayer meet
ing addresses 4nd various other special
talks, and it takes a studious and ver
satile man to keep abreast of his pulpit
.work, and when he is taken out of hiS
study too frequently he is hard put to
get ready for his Sunday services.
Hence there has grown up the legend
of the "barrel.” But here in Birmingham
a kinsman of mine, Dr. E. M. Glenn,
widely known as editor, educator and
preacher, is one minister who actually
had accumulated in a long ministry a
barrel full of sermons, and being a Meth
odist time came for him to be moved
from a nearby town to the Magic (Jity.
• • •
I got -the tip from a friend of his.
Dr. C. W. Read, and it has the prime
requisite of a child's tale, for it is a
"true story,” and part of it at least
is admitted by Dr. Glenn, for while un
packing his furniture he stored his bar
rel of sermons under the rear of fhe par
sonage, which, being built on a hillside,
gave his cow a chance to get under it,
and nosing around she turned over the
barrel, and being hungry, ate a few ser
mons. Dr. Read with a chuckle said.
"And from that day she went dry.”
I am a Baptist preacher, and of course
must be loyal to the Baptist way of do
ing things, but sometimes X think it is a
Wise mercy of Providence which dnder
the itineracy of the Methodiat church set
a limit of four years upon the stay of
a pastor. A mercy to him in that he
could pack up his barrel and try it out
on a new crowd, Und a mercy to the old
congregation that they would get Im op
portunity to hear a different series.
• • •
I am sure that there are Baptist churches
which would give a sigh of relief if
there was so simple a manner of getting
rid of a pastor. without hurting his
feelings. X am familiar, however,' with
the fact tffat there has been a lifting of
the time limit both in the M. E. church
and the M. E. church, south; but I dare
say that the four-year provision wtll
apply In the great majority of cases. Yet
I hope my friend, George Stuart, will
be permitted to live and die in his pres
ent charge.
- • • •
I bad a warm friend whom every one
felt was doing a great work as pastor of
a splendid and thriving Baptist church
in one of our large southern cities; but
all of a sudden it was announced that
he had resigned to go to another Held, and
both his church and the town wondered
why he had made 4he change. But it
was no cause of speculation among his
premier brethren, for they knew he had
reached the stage where he had gottei}
to the bottom of hi* "barrel," and thought
it wise to go before there was any let
down in his sermonic work.
Tes, there are pastorates which have
lasted for a half century, but they are
extremely rare. I think it is claimed by
tho Methodists that there is as much
changing among the Baptists, where there
is no time limit, as there is among them,
and from long experience as the editor
of the Alabama Baptist, and being ac
quainted with the restlessnea sof papjors
and the desire for change in the congre
gations, that there was a continual ex
odus of Baptist preachers from 6ne
church to another.
* • •
One of the longest and most memor
able pastorates in my own knowledge
within the state is that of Dr. D. o.
Dawson at Tuscaloosa, where for there
than 25 years he has not only served The
First Baptist church, but has been looked
upon almost In the light of the com
munity pastor, for he is in demand from
all denominations in time of Joy and sor
row. He is not only a consecrated, fear
less and eloquent preacher, but takes a
great interest in civic affajrs, and is an
all around "good fellow,' 'or he wquld
not be the president of the Tuscaloosa
Rotary club. I gladly hand him this
boquet in spite of the brickbat he let
loose at me when he WS3 the guest of
Rotary here a few weeks ago.
X hare often heard preachers advised
to burn their old sermons and write some
rfew ones, but the only man in my mem
ory who ever took his own advico was
none other than our own belowed Dr.
\V B. Crumpton, who some 10 years or
more ago on a bright spring day took
an armful' of his manuscripts out into ai
nearby orchard and made a bonfire of
them. If I didn’t love him so I would Sug
gest that it was no longer necessary for
him to keep them, as he had preached
them so often as to know them by heart.
I’ll add this testimony that they grow
better by repetition, for I have heard him
take an old one and keep on deliverihg
it until it had the flavor of a new one.
• • «
Booker Washington used to have a lam
oua story about being called In to af
bitrate between a Baptist congregation
and Its pastor. The deacons, with the ma
jority vote of the church behind them,
had asked him to hand in his resigna
tion, but he having a ioyal minority,
asked for a conference on the matter. The
president of Tuskeegee first heard the
pastor's statement and then the spokes
man of the deacons arose and with great
dignity, said: "It ts this way, we heard
dat nigger preach his sermons one year,
and we called him agin, and we heard
him preaoh 'em all over once ibore, fTWf
we dun made up our mind we ain't going
to pay for-’em any more."
• * * /
I am not a connoisseur of wine, but
those who are say it improves with
age, and I am sure that some sermons,
like fruit cakes, are better when they
are old. Take the case of an evangelist.
I wonder Bow many times Sam Jones,
Moody and even George Stuart, repeated
their sermons. I daresay that some of
the true and tried ones went beyond the
hundred mark, and got stronger with each1
presentation. I have heard many sermons
tn my life that stranded better to me the
second time than at the first.
AD of the above to lead ujT to the fact
that the other day a preacher said, "Bar
nett, how is it, but every now and then
you get a good story in your column? I
replied, "It's on the same principal that
preaching every Sunday bn the course ot
a year’s time you maBage to preadi a
few that are acceptable. It’s just a mat
ter of being at the bat fo thany times
that a fellow has to make an occasional
hit.”
MKK SPLOTCH SAYS _
Many a business man wonders why
a course in Stenography never in
cludes Spelling.
We do not wonder at the carnival of
crime prevalent in large cities under
prohibition. A lot of men would just
as soon be in jail as have to stay home
every night.
A foot isn’t a man whlo disputes your
word when you argue that White is
White or that Black is Black. A fool
Is a man who disputes the word of a
225-pound woman who argues that she
weighs only 175.
It hurts a woman more to wear shoes
that are too large than It does a man
to wear shoes that are too small.
Mature started a lot of trouble when
she fixed a man’s head so that the
part he talks with works faster than
the part he thinks with.
After a girl has clerked all day In
a busy department store you can’t
blame her for looking Shopworn at
night.
We can’t think of a Sure Winner
right now. But a Sure Loser is a man
who tries to argue with a Woman or a
Book Agent.
Kven if he doesn’t bag anything else,
■the man who iq hunting for a wife will
bag his pants at the knees.
You can’t make a good-looking girt
believe that it isn’t safe to judge by
appearances.
Even after the women get the right
of Suffrage, we'll bet that there will
be a whole lot of the old-fashioned
kind who will stay at home on elec
tion day and play “This Little Pig
Went to Market” with the Baby’s toes
Instead of watching the polling places
to make sure tnat Hon. Pork Bari and
Hon. IX R. y. Humbug get all the
votes that are coming to them.
One way to make friends Is to pre
tend that you are enjoying the In
formation when the other fellow Is
telling you things th^ you already
know. ' i . ’
Some wombn have the flivver habit
sc bad that they automatically crank
the baby's gdcart before they start off
with it.
A CHRISTMAS GARLAND
By Clinton Scoliard.
What garland shall wp twine
Bor this all-hallowed .day?
What votive vine,
And what perennial spray?
Not ours the bloom of May,
The fcagrant eglantine;
For this all-hallowed day
What garland shall we twine?
The fir and ivy bring.
The holly, berried bright.
For offering
To deck the Christmas rlta;
The while on soaring flight
Our praise and prayer take wing
The holly, berried brlghC
The fir and ivy bring!
O? that which shall not fada
Lot these the cymbols be;
Hone undismayed.
•*nd loving charity:
‘And’ faith that shall not flee.
Our prop, our guide, our aid;
Let these the symbols be
Of that which shall not fade!