The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-15
HEARD AND SEEN UNDER
 THE GREAT WHITE DOME,
BY WALTER HARPER

Washington. March 4-(SpeciaI) I)-Ala- that are leading in progressive road building in the United States at the pres ent time.
 The II states named as leading in pro- gressiveness in a bulletin just issued by the office of public roads are well dis tributed oyer the country. They are as follows; New York, Georgia, Washing ton, Missouri South Carolina, Alabama. Pennsylvania, Tennessee, New Jersey, Florida and Maryland.
 Seven of the Il states are in the south.
 Handsome and chivalrous Archie Butt. aide to the President, has gone to the Mediterranean for a few weeks rest, the first vacation he has had for several years. But he leaves behind him prob lem that keeps him in the social mind If Is rumor that he is engaged. This is by no means the first time that Archie has been the hero of such a rumor and he Is immune from serious concern thereby.
 Alabama has not only monopoly on the important chairmanships Of the House. but it can lay claim to monopoly of an other distinction. It has the shortest man in Congress in point of stature. But 1t is in this point alone, understand.
 John l.. Burnett is two-eighths of an inch shorter than the next shortest man. But John tries industriously to make up in girth what he lacks in height The proximity of his head to things mundane does not. however, seem to have any ef- feet on the composition os it's contents. He measures up with any of his col leagues when 1t comes to question of quality Of gray stuffing for the skull
 There is some question about 1t but Ala bana can almost claim the giant of the House. J. Thomas Heflin may be a little lighter and little shorter than Ollie James of Kentucky bu. there is not much difference.
 Hugh Dent of Montgomery can safely lay claim to spareness that would probably challenge any claim that might be made by any other of his colleagues. On the floor of the House he appears real boyish. While addressing the House one day not long ago visiting newspaper man from Philadelphia walked into the press gallery. Looking down on Mir Dent the visitor remarked: "I did not know that they allowed pages to make speeches on the floor"
 The range of salaries for the heads of faculties of state aided institutions Of higher learning in this country is given in bulletin Just issued for free distribu- tion by the United States bureau of edu- cation. According to the bulletin the high est paid head of any institution of this class Is the president of the University of California, who receives $l20o0 q year and house. The presidents of Illinois uni yersity and Cornell university each re- ceive $100O0 year and house. while the president of the University of Minnesota gets s100O0 without house. From these figures the presidents salaries run down as low as s2400.
 The saalries of the faculty members range from $50 a year for the least paid tutor to s6000 year for the best paid full professor, both extremes being touched at Cornell.
 The bureau of education's bulletin shows that the United States now contains ex- actly 100 universities and other institutions of higher education which depend in con siderable measure on the state or federal government for their support. Of these i6 are agricultural and mechanical colleges for negroes. Four of these state aided institutions have more than 400 members on their faculty: namely, the University of California. with a faculty of 42i; the University of Illinois, with 53o; Cornell