The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-25

Congressman Hobson urges all who care to investigate these matters to send for 1 blanks at once.
 Have Had Varied Experiences. 1 The experts who will accompany Con l gressman Hobson are men of wide and
 varied experience in their fields and much l practical experience.
 Dr. J. A. Bonsteel is a New Yorker.
 having spent his boyhood upon his fathers farm. He graduated from Cornell ! university in 1896, having specialized i along agricultural lines. He entered the ! bureau of soils in 1900. and spent his :, earlier years in that department in the 1 field work of making soil surveys eov- l ering several of the tidewater counties 1 of Maryland an important area in the l Yazoo Delta of Mississippi, and several l counties in Illinois, together with one i winter spent in the Colorado desert of California Dr. Bonsteel found time to pursue postgraduate course in Johns hopkins university, from which institu- ton he received his doctors degree in 1901. In the fall of 1903 he was assigned , by the Secretary of Agriculture to orr ganze a course of instruction in the study of soils at Cornell university, and to deliver lectures on that subject. ! sam C. Lancaster Is consulting engineer of the office of public works. Is Tennes- 1 seean, having been city engineer of Jack son, Tenn, and is thorough southerner. 1 He is now on the Pacific coast, where he has been doing some special work in the 1 line of improvement of the public roads. l He is a thoroughly competent and able road expert, and is in constant demand. William l.. Hall, the expert on forestry l will tell the people how to cut their tim l Der and yet at the same time preserve l their forests He became d member of
 the forest service in 1898, when it was the division of forestry. For three years and half he was chief of the division l of forest extension, and for two years after that chief of the office of forest products. He has conducted nvestigd- 1 tions throughout the country and has fa- miiarized himself thoroughly with forest
 conditions and problems. When the last | congress appropriated 000 for the sur l vey of the Southern Appalachian region,
 MT. Hall was assigned to this most im- portant work. MT. Hall was born in
 Missouri. but spent his early life in Kan sas and Is a graduate of the Kansas State
 Agricultural college.
 l Chief of Forestry Service Clifford Pin-
 chot said of Mil Hall: He Is one of
 the very best men, one of our four heads
 of branches in the forest service. I am
 very lucky in being able to send him."
 R. S Wilson. expert on cotton culture. comes from the bureau of plant industry
 of the agriculture department He is | | man of exceptional qualifications and | ability having had much practical expe-
 rience in cotton culture, particularly in
 Northern Mississippi, similar territory to
 that of the Sixth district of Alabama.
 Itinerary for Tour
 The following is the itinerary of Com
 gressman Hobson and his party through | the Sixth district.
 Starting from Tuscaloosa, Sunday after l al 1 to Aliceville and spend the night: Monday, May G. 10 a.m-Speaking at | Aliceville, Pickens county; pm. speak ! ing at Carrolton, Pickens county: 8 pm, speaking at Reform, PiclSens county. i Tuesday, May :. II a.m.-Mil1port. La
 mar county 2:3O pm, Kennedy Lamar county.
 Wednesday, May 8. Il a.m--vernon. La- mar county; pm, sulligent, Lamar i county
 Thursday, May 9, il a.m.-Detroit. Ma rion county; pm, Hamilton. Lamar county.
 Friday. May 10. 10 a.m.-Hamilton. Ma
 rion county. pm, Winfield. Marion
 Saturday. May Il. II a.m.-Fayette. Fay | ette county
 Monday, May ls, lO:sO a.m.-Jasper.
 Walker county.
 Tuesday May II. II am.-Livingston.
 Sumter county; pm, Epes. Sumter county.
 Wednesday, May 15. Il a.m.--Eutaw, | Greene county.
 Thursday. May 16 il a m.-Greensboro, 1 Hale county.
 Friday. May r. Ii m.-Northport. Tus-
 caloosa county; pm, Tuscaloosa Tus- | caloosa county
 Addresses Large Audience. | Congressman Hobson addressed large audience at the Jefferson theatre last night upon Peace and Progress" which was highly entertaining and received with great appreciation. The speaker took up the history of the United States and showed that this great country was con ceived in peace. born in peace and de- veloped in peace. This nation. he declared l to be logically the peace nation of the world All other nations have enemies but l America has not enemies and is friend 1 ly to all nations.
 l A great plan for worlds peace was | outlined, a perpetual peace which to be secured, the speaker said. must he pre- ceded by a temporary peace. Interna- | tional tribunals must be established to 1 settle all disputes
 1 To secure this peace and to maintain the balance of power the United States | must have q big navy, sufficiently strong ! to ward off attack from other nations. i but not built with a view of taking the i aggressive
 | In conclusion the speaker referred to ] Japan's threatening attitude with the un- | disguised object of creating dispute 1 and obtaining possession of the Philip | pines This, has been shown, he said. 1 by certain incidents of the Russo-Japa- nese war and the San Francisco school | incident. A final plea was made for world peace for both humane and commercial . reasons.
 Congressman Hobson will deliver lec- | ture on "Educaton." at o'clock this morning at the Pollock-Stevens institute and leave immediately afterward for New Orleans where he is billed 10 lecture to- night.