The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-08

| daughters only. President Johnson had only two sons. out both died be- fore he was President, and so do not count. C.
 '"rhe sons of thirteen Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams. Van Buren. William Henry Harrison. Tyler. Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, Grant, Hayes
 Garfield. Arthur and Benjamin Harrison have lived to mans estate. The sons of Cleveland and Roosevelt are still boys
 "Of the twenty-one Presidents sons | who have reached manhood, nine have
 bulked large in the public eye on their | own account, and all but one or two have been solid, substantial citizens
 'The prominent nine are John Quin- cy Adams, President, diplomatist and | representative; Charles Francis Adams, publicist and statesman; Robert Tyler, Register of the Confederate Treasury; Richard Taylor. who served with dis tinguished gallantry on the Confeder- ate side of the civi1 war; John Van Buren. prominent in State politics and just entering national politics when he died; Robert Todd Lincoln, Cabinet minister. diplomatist and President of worid-famous corporation; Frederick Dent Grant, diplomatist and general in the army; Henry A. Garfield, law yer, banker and professor of politics in a great university, and James A. Garfield, State Senator and United States Civil Service Commissioner of Corporations in the Department of Com merce and Labor, now in the Cabinet.
 Besides the nine who have climbed so high, there is John Scott Harrison, who had the unique distinction of be- ing the son of one President and the father of another. He was a man of force and of great influence in his own State, though he was not prominent figure in a national sense. Counting hirs in--and he surely made good as the saying is-ten or only one less than half the Presidents sons who have reached manhood, are entitled to be named on the roll of honor" In speaking of the plan suggested by Miss Mary Campbell. of Birmingham, to organize a ''Soceity of the Sponsors of the United States Navy" The New York American has the following:
 Flair daughters of the North and South, who have christened ships in the United States Navy. have joined hands n an effort to form national associa- ton of all young women who have ever acted as sponsors at the launching of any battleship. cruiser. torpedo boat or ship flying the naval flag of the United States.
 Although the movement to organize Society of the Sponsors of the United States Navy is still in its infancy 1t is meeting with tremendous success and will no doubt develop into a permanent organization with members in every State in the Union.
 The initial step toward the f0rmaG ton of such society was recently ta- ken by Miss Mary Campbell of Ala bama. who christened the scout ship Birmingham Miss Campbell received letter from Miss Laura Pinnoclx. daugh- ter of Salem's Mayor, who is soon to christen the scout ship Salem, congrat- ulating her upon her appointment as sponsor. In Miss Campbelrs reply to Miss Pinnicl1 .hs organization of the Society of the Sponsors of the United States Navy was first suggested.
 "Tt has been suggested that we might organize the Society of the Sponsors of the United States Navy wrote Miss Campbell From the pleas ant association and comradeshlp that should grow out of it, we would con- tribute our mite to the development of