The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-17
SANTA CLAUS NOW RE|GNS IN NEW YORK Carnegie Has Started a
 Fascinating Game FRISCO IS BOOMING Is Financial Center of Rapidly Devel- oping Pacific, C6ast-Let Country
 Take Care of Itself Says
 Mrs. Mussey
By ROBERT LEE CARTER

Santa Claus reigns in New York just now and it Is worth any mans while to take trip through the toy departments of The great department stores. The first thing which strikes the man whose hair is growing thin in making such trip is the amazing variety of toys and the immense cost of some of them, as compared with the days when 1t was his delight to take a preliminary survey of St. Nick's stock in trade.
 The parents of family of children who want them to have the best that's going on~the. glad Ghristmastide must take dollars, where pennies would have done the business in the good old days. Not that Chfistmas shopping can't be done on the penny basis these days. !; As a matter of fact the most amazing things may be bought for the youngster for remarkably nsle money. If there are $50 dolls, there are also very good play children for d nickle. dime or quarter And there is plenty of old fashioned stick candy at a dime d pound. even if there are confectiens at dollar.
 The next case of wonderment is where
 in the world all@the people come from who do looking and buying.
 All day long the toy departments of the big stores remind one of the Brooklyn
 Bridge entrance along about O clock in the evening.
 It may be that the early Christmas shopping crusade which is being vigor- ously preached from press and pulpit is responsible for all these crowds, but
 doubt that they will be even greater as
 Christmas approaches.
 In any event a round of the toy em-
 poriums is worth any mans while.
 Andrew Carnegie by announcing his 20 world makers has started most fascl- mating game. It's a pretty poor specimen of the prominent citizen who is not able
 to break into print with his idea of the score of men who have done the most to advance civilization. There is a wide range from which to choose and there is as much variety as there is in picking the all-American football eleven.
 Tt is better to be of, rather than from,
 San Francisco these days" said William
 Mitchell Bunker. director of the San
 Francisco chamber of commerce, who is
 in the east. Every sign spells progress Hnu every Sdu f'fdnclScan IS edSeI tO uO
 his share of progressive work. The pulp lie spirit of the city recalls periods of long ago. The people are nothing if not in- tense. Just now they are intensely unan-
 imous. The main motive is the 1915 expo sition. Unanimity is indispensable to eX
 position success. Hence unanimity that passes all understanding. First, the cham Der of commerce of San Francisco. the Merchants association, and the Down. ,t..%s tlNtt- tive affairs and merged into the San Fran cisco chamber of commerce.
 The new organization has a member ship of nearly 2000, and is doing things. The old San Franciscan regards this mer- ger as a modern miracle. And still more miraculous is the fact that the merger has proved real success. Quick and united action on commercial issues is an everyday occurrence. The exposition also influenced votes at the late elections Again the necessity for unanimity was seen by the people and again they did their duty. The election of James Rolph as mayor and the selection of equally re- liable subordinate officials insures a fine administration for four years.
 For the first time in ma.1y years San Francisco is on good terms with itself, and bent on making first class history. In brief, the people realize that their hon or of nation are tied to the exposition, and they are bound that no local jealousies shall interfere with the expostions suc cess. Nor is the exposition influence lim- ited to San Francisco or the state. All the Pacific coast states are pledged to the | enterprise, and all are aiding in one way | or another. In Charles c. Moore, presi- | dent, the exposition managers have an ad- | mirable leader and the directors are also | active and resourceful men.
 But the prospects of San, Francisco do | not rest solely on the unanimity of the | community. The city is the financial cen l Ger of the rapidly developing Pacific coast, | the local point of a producing state and | the final terminal point of electric rail- | ways in process of construction. Also | that the shipping of the port for the year | ending June 90, 1911, was 16.7 per cent | larger than In 1910, and the producers have l received more money for their products | this year than during any previous year | in the history of the state. Is 1t any won- der then, that the true San Franciscan l wants to be of rather than from his city | at this time?"
 "Courting has always taken care of | itself ever since 1t came into existence" said Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, mem- Der of the board of education and prom inent lawyer, land I think 1t would be | advisable to let it take care of itself in | the future. don't believe in making 1t | part of the regular public school curric- ulum. ,1f
 'The little mischievous imp who is at | the bottom. of love making and counting | will hardly submit to cut and dried lines," said Mrs. Mussey. Different tempera- ments adopt different ways, and what | looks like success to one may turn ouv just the opposite for the other"
 Mrs. Mussey added a word or two on lr arriages in general, and said that laws should be made to compel those matri- inclined to publish their inten- ton about month before the marriage Is to take place, This course, thinks Mrs. will eliminate runaway marriages and elopements and other mischief breed- | ing marriages.
 ''The trouble with our young people ia | they don't know each other sufficiently | we'll before they run away and get mar ried, only to apply for @ divorce shortly afterward. About 90 per cent of the Rock vile runaway marriages end up in the di- cate this evil is to publish the mar riage bans"
 The pastor and members of the Reor- ganized Church of Latter Day Saints of are very much worked up over made fin lecture on Mor- monism, which the Rev. John D. Nutting gave at Plymouth church recently. The ecture, which hayed the Mormons and their beliefs, was delivered In tho lecture room of the church at the home mission {, vice, and was entitled Present Day Normonism and It's Remedes.'
 William E. La Rue. pastor of tho