The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-26
Greatest Among Alabama Boys
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would cost 100000 If built In a private
yard would cost nearly s1O,0O0oOO IL built
in a navy yard. 1t has proved to be i'm
possible for the government to build q
ship as quickly as 1t can be built by pri-
vate enterprise.
Should the general policy of building its
own ships be adopted by the government,
it would seriously affect organized labor,
which is said to favor the change, for
laborers In all navy yards were long ago
placed under the civil service law. II
man should be able to stand the examina-
ton, he would become a navy yard labor
err for the balance of his life, and however
superior an outside man might be there
would be no shipbuilding work for him to
do; and In the end OF the great private
shipbuilding yards, which now employ
tens of thousands of men at big wages.
would be practically driven out of bus
mess. as we are building very few mer-
chant vessels In this country.
The Senate passed a bill, at the instance
of Senator Hanna, to create a merchant
marine, which in one way or another
would have given remuneratve employ
ment to 100000 men: but the Hanna bill
is held up in the House of Representa-
tives.
As to the government building of war;
ships. an immense sum of money would
be required to equip the navy yards for
modern shipbullding; and ten If the
makers of steel plates and armor and
the builders of engines should pull the
strings" on the government no ships at
all could be built until the government
constructed its own plants for such work.
These plants would cost perhaps $50, 0Oo,-
go in money and ten years of time in
their construction.
The government will require six years
to build a respectable warship, while
private enterprise would accomplish the
work In three or four years. When the
first government ship is finished the
object lesson will be complete; but until
that is done we shall hear a great deal of
talk on the subject.
The summer schedule of the stork. as
applied to Washington, was recently given
in this correspondence upon authority
which I considered excellent, and the
information then given has been widely
comm ented upon, one of the Washington
newspapers going so far as to warmly
praise what 1t called my fair enterprise"
Notification in part of my stork news
is had today. At the state dinner given
in tine White House to the distinguished
official visitors from France, Miss Alice
Roosevelt did the honors as First Lady OF
the land, Mrs. Roosevelt being unable to
be present. Miss Roosevelt took the place
of her mother at the luncheon on board
of the French warship Gaulois at Annapo-
lis.
Now we have the direct statement THAI
Mrs. Roosevelt is indisposed, and while
her condition is in no sense serious, hef.
physicians advise that she take no part
In social duties. and avoid all excitement.
Thus she could not receive the French
visitors"
This Is proof enough of the accuracy
the Age-Herald three weeks ago-sent In
all respect and reverence It Is officially
give out that Mrs. Roosevelt and her
children will leave Washington June .
for Oyster Bay, where she is to spend the
summer. 1t Is believed that the President
will accompany his family, and they will
travel by a war vessel instead of by rail-
road train. The best wishes of all Amer
leans will abide with Mrs Roosevelt.
Another boy is coming to Congress. He
is Frederick Lands of Indiana, brother
of the present able Congressman Landis
of that state. He has just been nominal
ted by the Republicans In a safe Republic
can district defeating the veteran Leg
islator Major G. w. Steele, who Is q
member of the ways and means commit
tee, and who has served in Congress.
with two breaks. sixteen years. Young
Lands was until recently private secre-
tary to his brother. He resigned that
position. and said to his brother that he'd
not return to Washington until he came
as a Congressman. He is 20 years old
LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.
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position forms these wonderful charao-
tiers.
John Henry Muirhead professor OF
philosophy in the University of Birming-
ham, England. has just completed his
work on Philosophy and Life which The
Macmillan Company will publish this
month.
Miss Mary Johnston, whose Audrey
has captivated critical portion of the