The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-05
SOUTHERN MEN WERE
PROMINENT FIGURES
In the Recent Senatorial Fight
in New York
MUCH MONEY WAS SPENT
On Florida Fort Now Used as Carne-
gle observation-disclosures Work In
Education in South Dis
cussed by Mrs. Munford
BY ROBERT LEE CARTER

BY ROBERT LEE CARTER
New York, February Especial 1.-TWO
southern men figured in the senatorial
| fight in New York somewhat prominently.
Martin w. Littleton, of Tennessee and
Texas, who swept former President
Roosevelts own congressional district,
| usually overwhelmingly republican. was
voted for persistently and was a strong
| possibility as a compromise candidate
throughout the fight. Another southerner,
Lewis Nixon, of Virginia, master ship
builder and man of affairs, might nave
broken the deadlock early had his busl-
ness affairs permitted him to make the
| financial sacrifice of going to the senate.
Mr. Nixon has always been staunch
Tammany man. At one time he held the
place now occupied by Charles F. Muir
ply, giving it up voluntarily Murphy is
his strong friend and was ready, ] un-
derstand, to give him the support which
would have elected him had Mr. Nixon
been willing to accept.
THAT the United States government
expended nearly $4oOo,0oo for fort on
| one of the Florida keys, which has been
turned into an aquarium by the Carne-
gle Institution of Washington, is fact
| brought to mind by the latest gift made
| by Mr.. Carnegie" says E. c. Drum, OF
Jacksonville. Fla.
"Of course, the entire structure Is not
used by the institution: 1t is only the
moat. The rest of the fort has been
abandoned and stands as mute evidence
| of wasted American energy In the great
| concrete and stone moat the Carnegie in
sttution is studying the habits and life
| in general of the animals of the sea. 1t
| is on the key where the fort was built
| that the institution has established its de-
| partment of marine biology.
THE Carnegie institution calls the
place its Sl40o0,000 aquarium, of which
| it came into possession through the nom
| feasibility of the location as an Atlantic
coast defense. Very seldom is the place
| frequented by other than scientists con-
nected with the institution, and these in
vestigators only stay at the key during
| the summer and spring, leaving there In
| the winter because of its severe storms
"Womans part in the educational prog
| ress of the SOUTH" was the subject taken
| up by the women's welfare department of
| the National Civic Federation in it's
course on The Growing South at the
| Waldorf Astoria recently. The speaker
was Mrs. NJ. IS. Munford of Virginia, and
she had at her tongues end the details
of women's work throughout Dixie.
| Federations of clubs, hospital auxilia-
res, nurses leagues, school boards and
| teachers, missionaries and settlement
| workers, Daughters of the American Rev
| olution, legislative leagues and college
alumnae bodies-all the armor with which
| their northern sisters equip themselves
for social work Is at the command of the
| southern woman.
"a large part of her work, however"
/ sair Mrs. Munford, lis of a persontl, pri-
vate nature, which 1t is impossible to esti-
mate. If a hundred girls are graduated
from a domestic science school in the
north people can know it, but If two hum
bred negro girls down south are trained
by a plantation mistress no records are
| kept. The southern women, of course. do
| enormous good in this way. 1t Is habit
they acquired during the old slavery re-
gime, when the mistress felt responsible
| for the care of her negroes.
| The very fact, however, that this work
is voluntary and private is its greatest
falling. 1t lacks system and accuracy.
| Few women understand the scientific side
| of domestic labor, and they know little,
| either of the broad aspects of the social
and economic problems of today.
There is little higher education In the
| SOutn- Only IOur WOMEN cOlieSeS De-
long to the Southern Association Of
Schools and Colleges. and even these do
not all qualify for membership in the As
| ISOLATION of Collegiate Alumnae.
The noblest work done by women is
| the maintenance of industrial schools for
the negro and the mountain whites in
| districts where public schools and the let
ter carrier never penetrate"
| tat Of
4 that passenger travel to the south this
| winter is in excess of that In all proceed
ing seasons, and promises when the final
figures are made up to prove a record
| breaker. Reservations have to be made
far in advance in order to get accommo-
dations wanted. and trains are loaded to
| their full capacity. Florida Is not getting
all the traffic, and about this time New
Orleans is a Mecca for tourists, with the
Mardi Gras not far away.
| DR.. Sidney D. Porter, special medical
inspector of the Louisiana state board of
health says that a man on southern
farm takes no more risk than on a farm
/ In Illinois or Iowa.
Reclamation of land improves health
conditions said DIR. Porter, "as 1t drains
| stagnant waters and diminishes the num-
Der OF mosquitoes. Our pine lands in
| Wudt 10 Sdlcu LILO CAOhC Deli, dIe OK
ceptionally healthful. and the breezes
from them reach all through the state
Malaria has decreased materially during
the last IS years, especially the types
most feared by the north erners. In fact,
although my home is in typical mala-
rial district on alluvial soil, l have not
seen case of malarial fever in eight
years. An active campaign of education
Is being prosecuted along health lines
and the results are showing on every
hand. We can prove that Louisiana Is
exceptionally healthful, in addition to
having a pleasant climate
"One whole district of the state of
Tennessee lies within the boundaries of
Arkansas. says Attorney General c. A.
Gates of Nashville.
The belief is general, know, that
Tennessee's western boundary line is the
Mississippi river, but in Upton county
there is a civil district with lands ag-
gregating in value millions of dollars
that is separated from the state by the
river. This district was formerly Joined
to the state by narrow strip of land
The course of the Mississippi formed a
sort of horseshoe, with the toe lying to
the westward, toward Arkansas. The
peninsula, for that Is what 1t was, was
nearly circular in shape.
I'm 1876 however, in the night, the
| river got on a rampage and cut its
| n