The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-04

lowing immoral practices: I say there Is small amount of this in all hotels, large and small; more in the larger than the small ones, perhaps. This practice ex- ists and will exist so long as time lasts in all civilized lands, and there is no
 remedy for 1t. The constitution of the United States does not require a man to produce a marriage certificate when he
 and his wife stop at or in hotel, but the
 state law does require men and women
 to register as man and wife when they lodge fin licensed hotel, or occupy the same room. This within itself makes them man and wife-as to whether the i union is legal or not, is not for the hotel proprietor, the night clerk, the day clerk or the bell boy to determine. If MT. Dick inson desires to remedy these conditions,
 let's make a personal application.
 Dr. Dickinson as Policeman
 Let us imagine him as a police official
 and see him knock on the door in an up-
 stairs room and ask the inmate If the
 lady there was his wife and a nice wom- an. The deacons of the First Baptist church would meet next day after the trouble and call new pastor. The ms I uel.eanor laws on the statute books of the state of Alabama are made to pro ] tect the public comfort It being against
 the law for one man to meet another one 1 In q puDllc highway anu turn HIS fciitit 1 to the left, instead of the right. The same l illustration will apply to number and
 numbers of other laws on the statute books. So long as public comfort is al rest, the public has certain constitutional | rights over them.
 I As to the grand jury's report: The grand l jury has more authority than any other l body of men you can call together, yet l their actions are not infallible. I would far aur 1txrfx, 1 vine knows about the cheap hotels in Bir-
 mineham He only has few hearsays If MT. Dickinson wants to do what the
 grand jury suggests. let him go on over l to the almshouse and put Brussels carpets l on the floor, as one of them suggested I These grand jurors are good Christian gentlemen and their meaning Is noble. bu. 1 am sorry to say that few of them have possibly ever sat on a jury before. and
 never studied the ways and conditions that exist in a city of 150,0O0 people. For ] that reason they are liable to be mistaken i in their recommendations. Very respect I fully. LOUIS R. DEAN. I Birmingham, Ala, November 2, 1912.
 Dr. Dickinson Answers
 To the Editor of The Age-Hrald.
 am very busy today. and have time only for a word in reply to the inter view of MT. Lane in your issue of to- day. l have made no personal attack
 on him, and shall not do 50. His high
 standing in this community pleases me
 and is fully deserved so far as private character and personal integrity is con. cerned. I do not wish to impeach tho
 validity of his pretensions at being 2 man of high standards: even thougl ho writes me down as peracher "belou
 standard" He writes me down aboul l right; for I am less than the least O all preachers and am not meet to bs l called one, yet to me Is the grace giveI to preach. l will magnify my offics lin my unworthness, for it does not talk, Ia standard preacher to see that watch
 men on the walls of Birmingham ough