The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-21
ENCAMPME IS A
GREAT SUCCESS

first week of the state encampment of the
National Guard has come and gone, and
the officers in command are in a posi-
ton to estimate its worth and the benefits
Ii has brought to <f1e nearly 20OO men
mere assembled. But one expression Is
heard, and that is to the effect that the
encampment is the best and most sue
cessful ever experienced in Mississippi.
There has been no trouble and no fric-
ton in any quarter-the work was care
fully mapped out in advance of the COM
ing of the troops, and the programme Is
being carried out with true military pre-
osion.
Major General Keesler, the commanding
officer. is declared by some to be a marti
net, but the soldiers themselves appre-
ciate the fact that the position is one
requiring firmness and a positive nature.
But so far as visitors to the camp are
concerned they find none of the autocrat
in the commanding officer, and are ready
to defend him from the charge. His
headquarters tent is open to all corners,
ana IL Is precious few meals he has eaten
since he arrived on the grounds without
{. house full of company. If all who ara
invited to accept of his hospitality did
so he would be run out of house and
home.
The presence of the battalion of in
fantry tho Seventeenth United States,
has had fine effect on the enlisted men.
The officers of the regulars have been
detailed very day to drill and instruct the
Guardsmen, and they have had a school,
ing here that has done them great good
and instilled the military spirit into their
bones as nothing else could have done.
Socially, the encampment has been re-
markable success. The city of Jackson
erected a monster dance pavilion 9Oxl3O
feet floor space, and 10 or II of the fore
most ladies of the town go there every
night to act as chaperons to the hundreds
of young girls who assemble there to trip
the light fantastic. 1t Is here that the
officers and men of the big camp strike
a level. Rank does not count on this
dance floor, and in the eyes of the bellies
of Jackson the private is just as good
partner and just as fine a man as the
captain, the colonel, the major or the
general. This wiping out of the lines OK
rank has had more to do, perhaps, with
the success of the amusement features or
the encampment than anything else.
FARMERS OnlOH 0lSeSftStouos
Dissensions in the ranks of the Farm
ers' union seem imminent in fact, they
are already apparent, but their extent
and influence can only be oonjectured.
The trouble had its origin in the efforts
of Capt. ]. ]. Haynie, then editor of the
Union Advocate the official organ OF the
members, to organize the negroes or the
state-not as members of the union, but
to the extent that they would agree to
handled
union. Editor Haynie took the position
a very strong one-that the union could
not hope to succeed in the holding move
ment without the assistance of the ne
groes, the producers of more than half
the cotton of the state, and he seems to
have had very strong following
But the organization was against the
Haynie proposition, and when he persist
ed on that line he lost his job as editor
of the Advocate. He did not surrender,
however, and being a member of the
union continued to lecture and to urge the
organization of the negro farmers as aids
to the union.
In the meantime Captain Haynie is said
to have criticised some of the officials of
the state organization very severely He
has questioned their motives, 1t ts
charged, and in course of time they took
heroic methods Of getting rid of him. At
a meeting of the executive committee
here last week a resolution was adopted
calling on the local union, of which Cap
tain Haynie was member and an officer,
to expel him, and that Is what they claim
to have done. But the editor had a tip
as to what was being done, and when
his local union assembled he rendered his
resignation, which was accepted.
The union now claims to have expelled
Captain Haynie, but he takes the posi-
ton that his resignation was accepted.
that he was no longer member and
could not be expelled from an organiza-
tion to which he did not belong.
Trouble is also brewing in other d.
rections. 1t has been charged by one of
the foremost workers and stockholders in
the great consolidated warehouse scheme,
that there was some irregularity in the
organization and the selection of the d.
rectors. 1t Is known that the warehouse
company was not organized till the very
last day remaining in the life of the
charter. Charters run for two years after
being filed for record with the secretary
OF state, and the two years were ending
the day the directors met here in secret
session 1t is stated that those directors
resigned Immediately after the election of
the officers of the warehouse company,
and Captain Haynie and others want to
know why such secrecy and such haste.
New Health Resort.
The charter of the "Woodmen of the
World Health and Pleasure Resort" has
been filed with the secretary of state. and
the charter fee of $3.50 has been paid,
which is taken to mean that the incor-
orators are very much in earnest. They
are o. p. MCPHERSON, N. B. Mclean ana
j. T. Lowrey of Gloster, and d. v. Law
renee of Chicago.
This resort is to be domiciled at Clos
ter. Amfte county, on the Yaxoo and Mis-
sissfppi valley railroad. Several months
| ago 1t was accidentally discovered that
q number Of magnificent springs In that
| vicinity are possessed of wonderful cura-
! tive properties, and an enterprising Wood
man suggested to his local lodge that
| these springs be purchased and the lads
on which they are located converted into
| o great health resort for Woodmen of
| the World. There was known to be great
| virtue In the waters and the proposition
| took like Wild fire. The property was
| secured and the Woodmen of Gloster
| went ahead to organise their company.
| 1t In understood that they have interest
| ed men of means in the project, and
| 1t Is confidently believed one of tho
finest health resorts In the south will
| in few years be running at Gloster.i
| 1t is said that there are number
| of these springs, all fine and bold, and
! all different One gives out water that Is
highly recommended for the cure of rheu-
matsm, another for Brights' disease, an
| other for some other complaint that the
! human flesh Is bAir to-so that, taken
| all together these Gloster springs form
the greatest combination of cures known
to the medical profession.
Money for Schools.
atate Treas,irer George r. Edwards.