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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

The smile was not the self satisfied smirle of a self conscious superior.
 Nor was 1t smile of duty conjured up for the occasion.
 It came up from the wellsprings of the mans fine nature It was smile that spoke volumes of good will to- ward me. It was the generous smile of a busy. hardworking man who had no time to spend on boy. It was an understanding smile-not pitful, but sympathetic.
 It was the smile that helps
 The editor died a few years after ward and never knew what his smile did for me. It put heart into me. went away sore at my defeat, but de- termined to keep on trying.
 l have not written many short stories. A writing man soon learns his limita- tlons as well as his special talents. But l have kept on writing for the market--for 30 years now. l was tided over by smile.
 This is a true story about Maggie and Walter Bowen. aged and years.
 A few days ago the two children were discovered fast asleep in a big box in the rear of a store building. And the reason?
 Because of the advent of a baby in the Bowen household who WIS displeasing <  to the children.
 The brother and sister had started for school, as usual. when they decided to find a home elsewhere because they did not like the baby the stork had brought.
 Poor kids!
 They started across country. and they would go far. far away-to grandpa $, six miles distant. And it was a fine day for a journey, and there were many things to see that when they got to grandpa's it was rather late.
 The children were kept overnight and started for home the next morning. But there was that baby in the housel Every body paid attention to the ugly thing, and nobody cared for them.
 Then the baby was red and bald as it could be.
 With the feeling that home was not what it used to be- with mamma in bed and papa so busy-and that bald-headed baby--the two wandered about town awhile.
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And soon there's miles and miles of
 smiles
 Because you smiled.
 It is like the pebble dropped into the quiet waters of pond. The ripples go out and out to the farthest shore, and there's miles and miles of smiles be- cause you smiled.
 And you are the center of 1t.
 When you speak the word of grace in season, when you let loose a rift of sun beam and fling it at 2 soul that's feelin' blue"Z
 And that is the way to grow your own happiness.
 It was a long time ago.
 The editor to whom l had given the manuscript of my story for perusal handed 1t back to me, saying:
 There Is nothing. in 1t, young man.
 From our standpoint 1t is absolutely of no account. You do not know the first principles of writing A story. It requires as much Technical knowledge to produce salable short story as to build a house."
 Which was news to me
 And then, noting the disappointed smiled very kindly and went on to point out some of the lack in the con struction of my tale.
 He kept on smiling.
 And I scarcely heard what he was saying. But I watched his smile. ] fairly hung on the smile
 There was something in the warmth of 1t that took away part of the sting of his plain speaking. It oper- sted as a sort of first aid to the in jured It salved my wound. It helped nv hurt courage.
 Long ago I learned the truth of his criticism of my alleged story. It was the crude attempt of youth who be- lieved anyone should be able, after a little practice, to dash off story that would sell.
 But that smile,
 It was not the kind of smile that wont come off'-a habitual or pro- fessional smile. He was not that sort of smiler. Looking back, am able to realize that I enjoyed that day q rare look into the very tender heart of very strong man.
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lard moved along the even tenor of his way, commanding the respect of all alike from the highest to the humblest.
 Without precedents to guide. for rail- roads were new, Colonel Pollard had to rely on his own inherent qualifications in the manipulation of mighty interests. The most substantial qualities were need ed to master conditions of vastness and creative genius was necessary to find methods of accomplishment. In Colonel Pollard these were inherent and needed only the occasion for their evolution.
 Few are able to appreciate the pressure of the burden borne by one under condi- tions like these. With agencies moving in divers and remote directions, and yet moving toward a common end and pur- pose, one has to dispatch business with electrical facility. A sudden iuncture reached had to be promptly met The busy brain of one in such circumstances had to be ubiquitous. directing, manag-
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They discovered a big box partly filled with excelsior and erawled into it. Wal ters feet hurt him. and he took off his sleep. Maggie felt 1t her duty to watch over him. But soon she was in the land of dreams.
 And then
 Their walk having made the little folks tired. they slept soundly. When they were awakened by policeman they cried and were frightened until their father. who had searched everywhere. arrived and took them in his arms.
 You smile?
 l hope 1t may be a tender and sym pathetic smile. Because
 The rorrows of childhood are very real and very keen. The child has no sense of perspective. He sees things close at hand. He has had no experi- ence of disappointment We who arc older arc wary and wise
 Let us be slow to belittle the chill dren's trouble They may seem to us trivial and transient in fact their eriefs are most poignant.
 In time Maggie and Walter Bowen were fully reeonciled to that red baby but to the end of their days the sorrow ful experience will leave it's impress.
 We are many sided.
 All of us have at least two sides some of us half dozen. We are composite We are two-or more-in one. In all of us are q Dr. Jekyll and a MT. Hide
 To illustrate.
 There Is you when you are crochety or egrouchy or unjust. The folks at home know that side of you. You sometimes have for your own the bit ter tone. though you love your own the best Then there Is you when you are on the street, in your place of business or in church aisles-smiling. amiable, cordial.
 Are you, then. a hypocrite?
 Not necessarily.
 The Mir. Hyde that is in you appears when you make sharp speeches to wife CT husband or children. You arc not all there. only one side of you speaks. Afterward you regret the nasty words.
 You may be likened to a revolving
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parish at Loughrea, Ireland. until the end came.
 It is said that Martin Luther accom- plished more with his hymns than he did with his preaching, and one can readily believe it. His religious songs were learned by children and grown people throughout Germany, and were sung ey- anywhere The best known of his hymns Is
 Fin Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott'' A Strong Fortress is our God. This hymn was called by Heine "The Marseillaise of the Reformation Gustavus Adolphus the hero of the Thirty Years War" sang it on the morning of the battle of Lutzen, and in the Franco-P Prussian war the Ger mans rushsd into battle apparently in- spired by the slogan, Fin Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott" At the Lutheran celebra- tion in Wittenberg, about 30 years ago, there gathered many of Luther's descend ents and over 1000 ministers. Fifty thou sand visitors were present in the old uni versity town. The venerable Emperor William sent his son Frederick to repre- sent the throne. Proceeding to the Schloss- Iirche, where lies the dust of Luther, the Crown Prince placed a laurel wreath upon Luther's grave. As this was done the great organ thundered forth the stately strains:
 Fin Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott."
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them. Men frequently expand under de- mandng conditions, and when qualified with latent endowments rise with the constant pressure of demand to the ut most limit of eapability.
 There can be little doubt that the de- cline in the statesmanship of the south Is largely due to the drain which has been made on men of great capability to oc- eupy positions in the expanding world of commerce. Broad brained, wide wis., toned and many-sided men used to find their way into politics and command the heights of statesmanship. but in demand to existing conditions they are now found in the offices of presidents and managers of immense interests. As the industrial world has widened, inventive genius has found fuller play and stupendous enter prises have come to demand extraordinary headship These men had to be developed by conditions as enterprises grew and vast plans ripened.
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such men were scarcety to be found.
 With penetrative sagacity he could see clearly at once the merits and demerits of given proposal or undertaking, and to it's utmost limit he could measure it and speak with accuracy of the possibili- ty of it's success or failure. Laden with welghty responsibility which grew com mensurately with the expansion of the railway interests with which he was con nected, 1t is extraordinary that he was able to preserve so remarkable a poise. A man of less ability would have chafed and worn under conditions like these, but with his head raised aoove the clouds of fret and commotion, he was invariably serene It is with pleasure that his form CT subordinates today refer to his kind ly courtesy and ever polite bearing. even to the humblest man. Under the heaviest depression no cloud was on his brow, no tang of tartness in his speech. Of untlr- ing energy and an activity which would have overwhelmed most men Colonel Pol
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man that wanted to enter into com
 petition with Abdul Hamid. On the contrary he appears to be reel sensi- ble feller and man who mite be too high strung to get along peacibully
 with moor than one muther-in-law.
 Cents looking the Senater ovver we can cleerly see that he is a man that would attract considerabul attension in a country where it was populer and perfectly aristocratic and proper in the best sircles to marry hole fee mail semapery at one feel swoop. We can appreesiate just how hard it was to ignore the sweet smiles and pretty little advanses maid him during those trying yeers when he was doing his best to conform with the Constitusion
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BILL VINES ON REED SHOOT

way ovver looked. They felt slighted. He was evidently parsial and when man gets parsial in his affiliasion with the ladies, he's getting in bad and that's all there is to it. A man may drift all along thro' this Nun dane spheer and think he is a reguler Cut Up, with the James, and the first thing he knows he commits sum little act of this kind and sumboddy yeels for the Hook.
 But with all there protests they failed to prove enny of these charges on the Senater, and he is still opperat- ing round the Senate wing of the Cap ital and he certainly is not the wurst member in that body by a good long Jump. N
 Senator Shoot does not look like a
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When he was first elected to the Senate quite a rumpus was kicked up all ovver the country because it was reported that he had to keep an alfi- betical list of his wives with him all the time in order to keep up with his grosery bills. The Senater declared, however, that the report that he had sum forty or fifty wives was grately exaggerated. He wasn't just cleer on the matter and would not commit himself without reference to the rec ords, but he could state with positive assurance that there was not that menny.
 There was grate wave of protest against the Senater taking his sect in congress on the grounds that man who believed in having moor than
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ing. suggesting. dictating. hour after hour. over a vast area of diversified interests. To lose one's boise under such conditions meant jar and jostle to the enterprises fostered. but to be able to grapple with problems which came trooping in every day meant generalship of the highest or- der. These forces were happily combined in Colonel Pollard. He could turn from one interest to another with ease and fa- cillty and his constructive genius would readily grapple with a grave situation, at- tended by flash of suggestiveness that was phenomenal To him official labors came easy, for he was built for station like this.
 For many years Colonel Pollard lived in Montgomery an honored citizen and most fortunate for the young employees who came within the circle of his influence, he proved how one laden with grave mat ters could still be polite and courteous and thus preserve universal respect, how ever unfavorable the environment.
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one wife must be rong in the Beam.
 Various and sundry old Bachelors all ovver the country protested on the grounds that the Senater was Mo- nopoly in restraint of trade, they ar gured in this land of the free and home of the third term, that it should be unlawful for one man to exhaust the vizzible supply of dress goods simply because he happened to be a swell looking Cuss They wanted to know where they cum in? If few men out in Utaw weer allowed to corner the Chicken" market what is to becum of our free Institusions? It was, they affirmed, blow at free dunn. But the friends of the Senater declared that all these brite and per fectly unjust remarks weer prompted
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Wehn the critic tells you the truth grin and bear 1t.
 Because
 We arise on stepping stones of our dead selves to higher things"
 Haste is one thing. and hurry is quite another.
 Haste, like railroad train goes straight and swiftly on its way to its terminal.
 Hurry, like an aerop4ane into counter current or buffeted by head wings. goes zigzag.
 To illustrate:
 Not long ago I watched two separate gangs at work on a railroad embank- ment. Each gang, composed of like number of men and teams, had about the same number of yards of earth to move.
 One boss. a nervous, excitable fellow, hurried his gang by constant importu- nity Alternately he urged and swore. He stewed and fretted and worried his gang. The other boss seldom spoke. He merely kept his eyes open to see that This plans were carried out. There was no fuss and no hurry. Yet the men and teams fell into fine at the right moment I learned a few weeks aIterward that the quiet man completed his job t-~ days in advance of the other. Haste helps. Hurry is but haphazard. It is usually the fretful mind that seeks to do things in hurry. The trained mind hastens methodically. Speed is not necessarily determined by the number of times the wheels go around. There Is such thing as lost motion. Or the belts may be slipping Hurry merely marks time, while hast marches. directly into camp Ordinarily there is no call for either haste or hurry, but when the urge is on every force must be marshaled, and swift results are brought about by
 making haste. Behind the work mutt be the careful, predetermined plan and the resolute, lesourceful mind which accurately aims tine effort. but there must be no hurry.
 Hurry misdirects energy.
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private affairs to the rescue. It was he who revived this important public utility, infused into 1t new life, and placed it first on a basis safe, sound and solid. The excellent skill here displayed resulted in his being called into copnec- ton with Alabamas chief artery of com merce. the Louisville and Nashville rail- road, and by means of his ability to com mand American and European capital he was enabled to plant it on a permanent basis.
 To know this giant king of finance was to confide In him. His judgment was as clear-as amber, his power of adjustment in the management of vast concerns phe- nomenal his skill in execution rare, his bearing that of one who was conscious of power his courtesy toward his peers and subordinates always respectful, and his integrity unquestioned.
 Facing a great undertaking he meas ured up to 1t. Thus rarely equipped he was a public benefactor at time when
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soley by the spirit af jealousy. They pointed out that there accussers weer verry homely creatures, and couldn't get up a flirtasion throu' core spondints school. They affirmed that sum of there lectures weer as irreg uler as a republican conversion in the ninth district of Alabama. They sed when man with face that looked like cross between fryed egg and Penal servitude raised howl about a question of this kind, it was a sign that sum lady had handed him the Ice Pitcher.
 But there weer uthers that pro- tested. A grate long petision cum rolling into the Senate frum. sum $40 thousand ladies who had newer met the Senator, and whom he had in sum
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and struggle along with one wife. His Naybors on evvery hand was getting marryed every Sunday or so, and of course it was verry embarrassing to him when he was asked by total stranger if he was marryed, and wher he answered yes, then fer the man to ask him-How Much? He could only hang his he'd and say once.
 Senater Shoot is all rite. He is not neer as much marryed as sum folks who newer saw Utaw, but have freequintly been to Reno, and besides that he is a verry useful member of the Senate, if it is possibul under enny circumstances for a Republican to be of enny use whatsoever.
 Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES.
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ZINE of the first to be touched by o the new industrial strsl energy of rail rail, Charles T. Pollard. He came to Alabama about 1S4O, and located at Montgomery, where he exhibited high qualities as a commercial genius and by his uniform courtesy came to impress the people of the capital city not only, but leading men elsewhere in the great world of business. He established wide compass of bus mess relations and the integrity of his character was such that he commanded financial confidence In the highest circles.
 Railroading was a new feature and the
 management of enterprises necessarily colossal, both with respect to. executive ability and financial provision, required the highest qualities or skill and sagacity. Few men of that type were to. be found in those early days and enterprises so vast had by their very nature to develop
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The Items of Expense

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Of course, the mere operation of bath ing doesn't use up the entire S6 per Sem ator bath of which Statesman John Sharpe Williams so bitterly complains. For instance:
 Massage. sir?"
 Yes" Any particular kind. slr?'
 'All kinds
 'Yes, sir. How will you have your whitewash, sir?''
 "Thicl<, of course,'
 And 1t all costs money.
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r-sTUR EDDITUR:

X NISTUR EDDITUR:
 M Senater Redd Shoot of M Utaw is one of the reel hand sum men of the Senate. The Senater is tall Appoller like looking man with dropping mustach that is verry fetching. Senater Shoot is verry heavy with the ladies-there is nuth- ing to it-when he turns his lamps on the Fare Sex it is all ovver with the prospects of enny uther aspiring wooer. Wooing is sed to be the Sena- ter's long suit he kinder makes speciality of wooing- that is he did yeers ago if all accounts be true, but they say that he has now kinder yeeld- ed to public clammer and refralns frum making enny additions to. his alreddy handsum collectsion of wives.
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Hurry makes friction.

Hurry makes friction.
 Plan your job in advance. Go at 1t calmly and with reserve power. Be sure you are right and then go ahead swiftly, accurately, grimly, inteligently. But, whatever you do, do not hurry.
 Hurry is a wasteful force.
 Make haste slowly.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-23
Women Give Up Fight
To Save Their Home
Being Taken by Law

Realizing that they had finally lost in
the battle to prevent their old home
place at 2S7 Decatur street from being
sold and torn away, Mrs Mary Yancey
and Miss Annie Sullivan, her sister, VINO
had nervily stood guard on the prem
ises, have removed their belongings
from the street. where they had lain
since the women were dispossessed on
Saturday by the sheriff
With tears in their eyes, the two sis
ters loaded their dust covered furnish
ing into two wagons and left the scene,
while a force of workmen demolished
the last vestige of the old pioneer Sullf-
van home. The sisters have rented
rooms in house in Fortress avenue.
Mrs. Yancey still declares her deter
mination to institute legal proceedings
in an effort to recover the property
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-23
MASSEE BREAKS
WITH OLD ALLY
Electric Promoter Attacks Ma
con Mayor for Holding Stock
in Utility Corporations.

MACON. GA. May 2S-A local po-
by w. Jordan Massee that Mayor John
T Moore Is now the largest Macon
stockholder in the Central Georgia Pow
er Company, the Macon Railway and
Light Company and allied public utility
corporations. Mr.. Massee retired from
the presidency of these corporations
rival plant.
Mayor Moore says that because he
discouraged the project and would not
invest in 1t, Mr. Massee has turned
against him. Az Mr.. Massee and the
mayor have been political allies for
eight years Mr. Masses attack on Mr..
Moore may prove serious handicap 70
the latter's chances of reelection.
Mr. Massee said:
IL note that the mayor says Macon
can not support two street railway and
power companies. If my mind did not
work any faster than Mr.. Moores 7
would still be back in Marshallville
pulling the bell cord over a mule
Then he adds that he did not ask the
mayor to invest in his company, the
Georgia Service Corporation, because
the mayor is the largest local stock
holder in the present corporations"
In MT Moore's three races for the
mayoralty Mr.. Massee was the largest
subscriber to the campaign fund, and
practically the director of the cam
paigns
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-23
CHURCH EVADES
HERESY CHARGES
PresbyterlanS PigeonhoIe the
Briggs Case at Louisville.
llama Jim" SqueIChed.

LOUISVILLE, KY. May 23.-That
the general assembly of the Presbyte-
rian church will come to close with
out any heresy charges being brought
to the front seems certain The Union
seminary case. which was sequel
Of the famous Briggs case was quick
ly disposed OF by granting another
years time in which To endoavor to es-
tablish amicable relations between the
assembly and the seminary
Charges of unorthodox teachings in
the graded lessons. and that some of
the members of the board Of publica-
ton end Sabbath school work were MOI
orthodox. caused furry, but il was
quickly settled after vehement de-
NAL of the charge had been made. by
a ruling of Moderator Mark Matthews
that such insinuations will not be per
mitted before the assembly in the flu
ture.
The assembly then authorized the
appointments of committee with DOW
er to withdraw from circulation any
graded lessons found objectionable.
Farmer Jim Wilson Revoked"
The most 'dra site action the assem-
bly, has taken was the adoption of the
resolution which reconsidered the cleo
ton Of Secretary Of Agriculture James
Wilson as Il delegate 10 the Pan Pres
byterian council in Aberdeen. Scot
land. IN 1913 because he acted as chair
man of the Brew ers' congress in Chi
ago last year in the fac; OF a mighty
protest from the religious forces of oar
land This action Of the assembly
bars wilson and makes it necessary for
the synod of Baltimore to name another
IN his place.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-23
DECATUR PEOPLE WANT
HIGH SCHOOL AND GAS

The Decatur Board of Trade will
hold mass meeting in Decatur tomor-
row night at 8 o'clock at the court
house. A city high school, gas service
and more business for Decatur will be
discussed. At the present time there
are about 100 children in Decatur
ready for high school work in order
to secure sufficient high school facili-
ties for these children. The people want
a school backed by the town authori-
ties. Introduction of gas would cause
small families to move to Decatur.
Ways and means win be discussed by
which more business from the sur
rounding country may be brought to
the stores of the town.