The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-07
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and strength, the stout heart and the iron will, the fixed purpose and the elo- quent tongue. And it got what it want ed and to spare.
 There is deep meaning in the fact that the leader-ridden south of the past is almost leaderless now. There are, or course, honorable names in letters, in economic life, in journalism. in state government in legislative halls, and the white haired veteran of the south who is at work, with sweet temper and un- wearying spirit at all sorts of noble tasks, is to me the real hero of our time.
 More Difficult to be Leader.
 'T do not wish to be merely pessi- mistic. It is more difficult to be a leader now. Life Is wider and democracy sees farther and wants more. One cannot sim ply incarnate for the dumb people the-r desires and aspirations as Clay or Jack son did Men north and south will not gather at the call of great voices as men gathered about Calhoun and Toombs or Davis or Webster or Adams or Benton. It is not an age of personal loyalty, but of social awakening, of social imagination and of social and political initiative in the things that can strengthen and really enrichen our common life It is in these qualities that our leadership is weak.
 Our leaders frequently suggest inad- equately the antique type. Not because they are weak men or bad men, They are emphatically neither. They have brains character, courage and genius for politics. They are infexibly honest. They are idealistic, diff ing tnerin somewhat from the leadership commercial cen- ters whose peril is the peril of material ism and a conception of government somewhat selfish and not wholly for the public good. Our leaders, indeed, have many of the virtues of those who have gone before, but they are trying to apply the virtues and equipment of an age that demanded endurance and steadfastness to an age that demands as well, creative ness insight and economic genius. They simply did not have the opportunity for training in these directions. In their young manhood not a southern university possessed adequately equipped depart ments for training in the great economic subjects and the vital problems of the future in America arc to be economic rather than constitutional.
 Cry is For Trained Men.
 "The supreme cry of the south and the whole nation, indeed. then is for trained men to help it realize its splendid noble self, not alone through personal courage or civic devotion or stalwart individualism but through creative ictivity, community effort civic unity and scientific attitude toward social phenomena. Let us prs serve our idealism as we would our soul, but let us learn mastery of the forces of the modern world. let us play again the old great part in the national life, let us learn the splendid value of give and take in freedom of opinion and speech. The south will get this type when it can train them. Therefore its supreme need is training-from the country school for the little country boy to the great university off that same boy grown into prophetic and potential manhood The whole nation needs the ingrained conservatism and profound idealism of southern leadership, tempered with scholarly insight, as it needs the eternal old democratic party illuminated by scholarly liberalism and kept standing for everlasting faith in men,