The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-06
STR|PL|N WILL
LEAD CAMPAIGN
Want Better Educational Con-
ditions In State
PREACHER TALKS OUT
Decries Practice of Playing Cards for
Prizes in Fashionable Circles.
Miss Baker Heads Library
Extension Work.
PREACHER TALKS OU7

Extension Work.
Montgomery, July 5.-(Special 1.-THE
campaign which the Alabama education
commtte is preparing to make for better
educational conditions In the state is to
be led by w. E. Striplin, one of the best
known school men in the state. He has
been secured by Chairman H. C. Gun
nels to get the movement going and will
be in Montgomery in short time to set
all lines to work. Mr.. Gunnels, who is
state superintendent of educa ton, is back
from Knoxville, where he had a talk
with Dr.. F. P. Claxton, chairman of the
campaign committee of the southern edu-
| cation board. who is greatly interested In
the Alabama situation.
The campaign will seek to arouse in
terest In the schol improvement work,
which has been going on for some time,
better supervision In rural sections, modi-
fed compulsory education and local tax
by districts These are thought to be
| vital at this time, and at the last meet
Ing of the Alabama Educational associa-
4
nifty by those present. Every leading
school worker Is for them, and most of
the other classes who are well posted on
what ought to be done to brace Up the
school interests in the state. 1t is CON
fidently believed that the next session of
the legislature will be for all of them
Minor Alabama News.
sioner of Shelby county, vice B. d. Miller.
resigned.
In all the counties of the state exam
nations are being held for license to teacl,
In the state. Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday are given over to getting through
the lists.
AT a meeting called by the Law and
Order league for next Thursday night
some warm talk is promised George G..
Miles, the president, will preside, the ses-
sion to be held in the Court Street Meth
odist church.
Robert e. Steiner, Jr., recently gradu-
ated from the Harvard law school with
special honors, has been admitted to the
| firm of Steiner. Crum & Well, of which
his father, R. e. Steiner, is the head. He
has also been admitted to the bar in this
and other courts
July was general holiday in the city.
little work being DONE Only a few OF
the offices at the capitol were open.
Preacher Talks Out
DR.. y. c. McGhee, pastor of the Court
Street Methodist church. one of the lead
ing downtown congregations, made his
people sit up and take notice by the blunt
ness OF his remarks on social evils on
Sunday. He branched out in the plain
talk while reading the rules Of the organ
ization Just prior to the sacrament of the
Lords supper. The hats and the dresses
that women wear and the games they
play were leading topics of the rather
sensational discourse.
Court street cannot be called old-fash-
ioned," said he, going back to time when
a rule was made about worldly amuse-
ments and practices. What its people
do not know about cards and dancing is
not worth knowing, / am told. There is
| nothing that will kill piety so quick as
dancing and card playing" he continued.
THE other day l heard of a sister hero
In this city who had gone to q card party
and had set hear heart on winning the
prize, beautiful vase. She lost and
went home sick and went to bed, sick
over 1t.
This sister had son who was very
| much. in love with his mother He told
her he would get her vase like the one
she did not win, and came in with 1t that
night.
. Where did you get itT the mother
asked in great interest
Bought with money l won gambling.
replied the boy.
What my boy gamblingv she cried
in horror.
Sure What's the differencer replied
the youth. I play for money; you for
| vases
| And l told of another case of this
kind. A sister went to a party and won
handsome prize. which the hostess
found had not arrived. Expressing sor-
row at the delay, the hostess said: Here
is the money, the value OF the prize
| Take 1t and I will return the gift to the
store when 1t comes
That woman was Mortified. The idea
| OF taking money gave ner shock, but
she had never regarded that her playing
was just as much for money as IL she
| was getting the money.
! Throwing back his head In a gesture OF
| helplessness, the doctor almost cried out
"Why do l not correct it? ! can't
| correct it, l would be butting my head
| against the rock of Gibraltar to try It.
l see no chance to stop it save to go to
| God and cry out for His saving grace
| The church Is filled with It, and the
| preachers do not know where 1t will
| stop. 1t shows up everywhere and is
eating the piety out of our people,
| Talking to the rule about putting on
| gold and costly apparel. the doctor said
| that women had become slaves to dress
had made idols of their clothes. He did
not decry dress, believing. on the other
| hand, that 1t denotes progress that Is
wholesome. but the woman who makes
| herself slave to fashions that are orig
| mated in Paris, the wickedest city in the
| world, was committing great sin. In the
| old days brother stood at the door OF
the church and removed the hat or dress
! ornaments of those who were too flashily
| adorned. But would not have the
! would almost as soon touch the ark OF
| the covenant.
The doctor thought that the future Of
unless the people return to honesty II
all things. simplicity of life, and leave
Off those things that are known to bt
nothing more-was one nearest sensa.
have heard DR.. McGhee make.
| Judge Brown Resigns.
Judge Armistead Brown, for some time
superintendent of the Court street Sun
| day school has resigned being suCcaeded