The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-08
EP|SCOP PALIANS n
 MEET AT CAPITAL Twelve Bishops Are Expected
 10 Be Present DIVISION OF DIOCESE Special Committee Will Meet Wednes- day to Decide on Plan For pi-
 viding Alabama Diocese
 Into Two Parts.
DIVISION OF DIOCESE

The fourth missionary department of the Episcopal church in the United States will convene at Montgomery tomorrow morning and will be in session three days. Probably all of the Episcopal clergy in Birmingham will attend, as well as number of laymen from this city. The sessions will be held in the parish hall of St. Johns church, and are ex- pected to be of unusual importance.
 The fourth missionary department. which is also known the department of Sewanee, embraces B southern dio- ceses and two missionary jurisdictions Cuba and Porto Rico It is expected that 12 or 13 bishops will be present. as well as large number of clergymen and laymen prominent Tn Episcopal mis- sionary work.
 All laymen of the church are members of the department and are entitled to seats on the floor of the convention. Each diocese sends lay and clerical delegates and only these are entitled to vote, but all laymen are entitled to take part Tn the discussions. The Episcopal church in the United States is divided into eight missionary departments
 Another matter of special interest to Epscopalians in Alabama will be the meeting Wedh, Bay morning in Mont gomery of the com..4tee on division of the diocese. The matte of dividing the diocese of Alabama Into % parts has been discussed for several ye..-s, because of the feelingsthat the work was @etting too heavy for one bishop.
 The Alabama diocesan council appoinc ed committee some time ago to go into the matter and make recommenda- tions to the next council. This commit tee will hold its meeting Wednesday and it is probable that final action will be taken on the question and a plan will be decided upon for submission to the next council. The committee consists of the Rev. Dr. Thomas J. Beard of Birmingham, chairman; D. M. Drennen of Birmingham, secretary; the Rev. pr. Cobbs of Greensboro, the Rev. pr. Brew ster, Mobile; the Rev. W. N. Claybrook. Birminngham Maj. W. w. Screws, Mont gomery; A. P. Agee, Anniston, and R. H. Mabry, Selma.
 age of 100 empty whisky bottles every day.
 "Constitutlonal prohibition has been a failure and will always be as long as the American people are constituted as they are today. In Maine Kansas and Ohio, especially, it has been a farce. Is it reas- enable to believe that it will prove any thing else in Alabama? Look at what Maine is. If the same thing should oc- cur in Alabama the state would be set back 60 years, where, on the other hand, If the present prosperity is allowed to go on there is no telling what sized town you may have here in Jones valley, 1 believe it's called, within the next decade.
 Birmingham looks prosperous to me. She is called the 'Pittsburg of the South.' and she Is that. But that is not enough for proud people. Birmingham should be more prosperous, and its citizens should not be willing to have the town referred to as the 'Pittsburg of the South.' They should make 1t the 'Bir- mingham of the United States Give the town an individuality and don't mock Attsburg.
 q shall call on Mayor O'Brien and make every effort to have him push a municipal employment bureau. The min isters of the gospel, who I understand, are now figuring so prominently in poli- ties of the present campaign in Alabama, have never advocated anything for the working man further than bread lines which are disgusting, and charity, which is repulsive. The unemployed do not want charity, they want work So 1t looks like the care of the working man Is up to somebody else.
 "The municipal employment bureau would do away with many cases of vagrancy and would be a great help to the many men who are too proud to beg or accept charity"
 MT. Davis has distinguished himself in several undertakings. In Cincinnati he had day set apart for the decoration of the unknown in potters' field, a thing which had been hitherto unknown in this country Cincinnati also adopted his em- ployment bureau idea.
 He was the first man, he claims. who wrote President Taft asking him to have the encasement at Fort Monroe, where Jefferson Davis was imprisoned, cared for. President Taft referred the matter to the Secretary of War and MT. Davis has of- ficial letters assuring him that the cell in which the President of the Confed- eracy was confined will be looked after MT. Davis is now working to have tab let placed near the cell memorializing Jefferson Davis and the Confederate cause.
 MT. Davis was the first man to pro- pose the great national roadway from San Francisco to the east, another mat ter which President Taft indorsed by personal letter to the "jobless" presi- dent. MT Davis Is a red-hot good roads advocate and breaches the cause wher- ever he goes
 At the next session of Congress therr will be presented bill which was drawn at MT. Davis instlgatlon by Senator Ben Tillman. The bill has to do with the re- strictions of immigration. MT. Davis' idea being to secure better class of immi- grants and not so many of them. HiD scheme is to put foreigners coming to this country through an educational test and do away with the tax of S1Q q head.