The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-23
CITIES CONTEND
FOR EXPOSITION
New Orleans and San Francisco
in Merry Fight
FARM BOYS IN THE NAVY
People on the Pacific Coast Are Said
to Greatly Admire Colonel Roose-
veIt-would support Him
for President
FARM BOYS IN THE NAV
BY RALPH M. wHITEsIDE

Washington, October 22-(special.)- 1t
| is an amazing thing to the mind of the
San Francisco or New Orleans visitor to
Washington how any thinking man can
have any doubt as to the proper place to
hold the exposition to commemorate the
opening of the Panama canal in 1916
Listen to New Orleans man talk
about 1t for Is minutes and one cannot
fail to see that the Crescent City is truly
the logical point" that 1t would be
folly to think of holding the exposition
anywhere else, and that Congress
will be plainly recreant to its duty If 1t
does not give the exposition to New Or
leans.
| Then talk with a San Francisco man
for little while and be convinced that
the city of the Golden Gate is the one
ideal place in the whole country wherein
to celebrate the wedding of the Atlantic
and the Pacific and unless Congress is OBJ
solutely locoed it will SO decide
Verify the national legislature is going
to find the tariff is not the only puzzle 1t
will be called upon to solve when 1t gets
together In December. For both southern
ers and westerners are in deadly earnest
and have as nice a line of talk as was
ever brought to Washington.
| The time when the boy of the sea
coast had any advantage over his broth
| er of the farm In Uncle Sans navy Is
gone. In fact the farm furnishes as
many enlisted men for the American navy
as the waterfront, according to Secretary
Meyer of the navy, and the men most
wanted for the decks of our men-of-war
are no longer those with gaudily tattooed
arms, a salt water air and odor of tar
and calking. but bright young men with
| a mechanical turn of mind and desire
to learn something about the immense
machine on which they work and live.
Secretary Meyer recently said, regard
ing the part played by the west and
middle west in the makeup of the Amer
lean navy:
To-day the crew of warship repre-
sents only in part the seaport towns or
seaboard states, and many a young man
who was born on a farm is among the
most capable of the enlisted men.
1.-THE days of the predominance of the
| sailorman are gone. Now we are look
ing for young, alert, intelligent men
with a bent of mind toward mechanics.
The warship OF today is a big compl-
Gated machine. We have found that In
the western states is the type of young
man who inclnes readily to the duties of
| the naval service"
P. M. Mccoy of Seattle, Wash, who ac-
companied by Mrs. Mccoy, has been on
a visit here, says: 1.-THE Pacific coast
states are strongly insurgent and are
great admirers of Theodore Roosevelt.
Mr. Mccoy is democrat and entertains
the greatest admiration for Mr.. Bryan.
although 1 am a democrat said Mr..
Mccoy, who was here to place his daugh-
ter in the National cathedral school, 1--WE
admire Roosevelt very much out in our
state If he were to be a candidate for
President In 1912. he would, no doubt, re-
ceive a tremendous vote out west, and
President will be a democrat, and there