The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
ADAMSON MAKES
 GOOD SECRETARY Georgia Boy Makes Good in
 New York City PROHIBITION WAVES Southern Men Discuss the Matter in the Metropolis-Georgia Man Says the People Arc Getting Rich fr,u Dao
PROHIBITION

| A0f~G--~~-f cleverest thing Mayor Gaynor has done since he was elected mayor of New York was the appointment of Adamson as his private secretary" This state ment was made to me the other day by a man who knows New York politics from the Battery to the Bronx
 They must grow some pretty nice poli- ticians in Georgia if young Adamson is q fair sampe,' he continued, and un- less I miss my guess the mayors secre- tary Is likely to go far in the political life of New York. He is the perfect complement of his chief, cool, level headed and tactful, while the mayor is inclined to be testy, blazes out at the wrong time, and has about as much tact as hornet. He will be saved many a mistake and gain many friend by his secretary.
 Another thing I like about Adamson | is his ability to hold his tongue. While always pleasant he has the ability of saying nothing about as fully developed as any man l ever saw
 | Mrs. Hardin Burnley a talented and beautiful young southern woman. has made an enviable place for herselg In New York as an entertainer for, society. She nas mastered the negro dialect as few, even of the southern whites have, and | has fine collection of stories which have made a hit with society and she is now in constant demand.
 | I dropped in at one of her recitals re- gently and while listening to her could almost feel myself back in Georgia in stead of in prosaic New York.
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 l Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee in. stitute will in time be one of the most richly endowed institutions of the coun- ltry. I don't remember just how many millions Washington already has raised, but he is after $300,000 additional endow- ment this year and 1t is dollars to dough- nuts he gets it.
 When men like William H. Taft, Pres ident of the United States; Theodore Roosevelt B. B. Conner, governor of Ala bama; Seth Low, Charles F. Hughes, governor of New York; Robert c. Og- den, Henry Watterson. Louisville; Frank Hin MacVeagh, secretary of the United States treasury; Jacob H. Schiff. Charles W. Chestnut. Cleveland, and Henry l.. lHigginson of Boston join in recommend ing project to the American people il is pretty safe thing to say that it is laiready accomplished. And these names, IdulOuE OlntIS, are Slkutu lO dtl iiidoi St- lnent of Professor Washngton's plan tc Increase the endowment
 That the people of Virginia will be given an opportunity to vote on the question of statewide prohibition is the opnion of J. M Marshall of Richmond who is now in New York;
 Tt is possible said MT. Marshall
 ''that the issue of the next campaign Ir<< 1aertc lature will be the statewide prohibition law. I am not one of those who believe that sumptuary laws are good for tn, Icommunity. think the prohibition .wav' is on the wane in the south. It is un questionably true, I think, that proh
 bition hurts the business of a community t can't help it.'
 Henry C. Cook of Atlanta is another man who thinks prohibition is on the wane in the south. He says: 'The peo- pie are realizing that the benefits which Ii was claimed would result therefrom in financial as well as moral ways did not lappear.
 "On the contrary the various states | where prohibition was introduced have lost financially in many ways. The state ltax on intoxicants, which is always a | great factor in the receipts, have been
 
 create new sources of income to make lup for the loss. Many people have been | thrown out of work and property has i Idepreciated The statistics show that crime has not diminished, and that the Halls contain as many prisoners as be- fore the prohibition laws were introduced. Prohibition is failure, because it does not prohibit. Intoxicants can be lobtained with the same ease as before lthe prohibition law went into force. The country is covered with 'speak-easies' and blind tigers, and the state is the loser in taxes.
 met my old friend John Waters oi Houston county. Georgia. on Broadway the other day. He is an enthusiast. Here is what he says:
 ''If you want to get rich quickly and easily, go down to south Georgia, start a peach orchard and live forever after with plenty of money in your pocket con tentment in your mind and a healthy body.
 South Georgia is the greatest peach country in the United States. There are growers there who realize in good sea sons as high as $l000 an acre from theiI | peaches. They sell the crops on the trees | They simply get a big check from the commission merchants every year and sit on their porches without care in the world and watch the fruit being picked | It's the ideal country life. Of course, | about once in every seven or eight years | a frost comes along and kills the buds or the young fruit, and that year the plant | CT gets nothing. He makes enough | though, in the good years to easily stand the loss. Many of these planters spend I-l.- tx,L