The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-15
AMONG REGRETSTO
NEWSPAPER CLUB
Letters and Messages Sent
by Well Known Men
MANY FROM DISTANCE
Tom Long Sends Long Telegram From
Chicago-A. Mitchell Palmer
Tells Why Be Could
Not Attend
MANY FROM DISTANCE

Although 260 persons attended the din
ner given by newspaper men Thursday
night at the Country club, many wei
known men were unavoidably detained
and sent regrets.
The invitation committee received sever
al letters and kilograms Thursday night
expressing the disappointment of many
invited guests which were not read at the
dinner for several reasons. Those regrets
portray the interest that the affair Gre
ated and the feelings entertained by
those absent fof their more fortunate fell
lows.
From Tuscaloosa J. T. Stokeley wired
ITO my great regret the necessities of
sordid toll enforce my absence. Please
present my compliments to the newspa-
per club and its guests, and express my
deepest regrets of being unable to reach
home for the occasion"
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer OF
Pennsylvania, member of the ways and
means committee, sent this note:
Il am in receipt of the kind invitation
of the Birmingham Newspaper club tc
attend the dinner to be given on March
IS in celebration of the Inauguration al
the first southern president since the war
regret that an engagement of Ions
standing for that date win make it i'm.
possible for me to accept. With kind re.
CARDS I am yours truly,
"A. MITHELL PALMER"
Lieut. Gov. Walter D. Seed, who was
the subject for considerable humor al
the dinner. sent his regrets as follows:
Tuscaloosa, March 13.-"Regret impor
tant business transaction detained me
Best wishes for the most successful ban.
quet OF birmingham Newspaper club.
WALTER d. SEED.
Capt. w. p. Lay, who is known owe,
the state. was i'll, but looked forward tc
the last minute almost to being present
His note follows:
II have been on the sick list for severa
days, therefore 1t will be impossible 70,
me to avail myself of the great pleasure
of being present on the occasion of the
banquet of the Birmingham Newspaper
club tonight.
IF occasion is such as to make Il
proper, please explain the cause of my
absence, and I will be glad that vol
would extend my good wishes to the clut
as well as my regrets and say to then
that | stand ready to foster the interes
of the club In any way possible at am
time.
with kindest personal regards an
yours truly, w. p. I.AY.''
Henry B. Foster of Tuscaloosa was ab
sent, but sent this message:
please express to your committee m,
sincere regrets that I cannot be with yoi
this evening. HENRY b. FOSTER I"
t. l.. Long, in a 200 word telegram from
Chicago, sent perhaps the most unusua
message. 1t is filled with humorous state,
ments, as follows:
Business here deprives me of the honor
of being among the guests of the Bir.
mingham Newspaper club at its banquet
tonight. Geology shows that this ole
planet has been here for million or more
years. although we have no record dat
ing back more than 5000 years-the date
of the earliest writing or printing. De-
stroy today the arts of printing and writ
ing and but few centuries will pass ere
every form of our boasted civilization
and Christianity will pass away includ-
ing all modern, spoken or written, Ian
guages, to say nothing of our beloved
democratic party. Should such happen
the recorded confusion of Babyloniar
tongues among the ancients would not be
trey high in comparison.
wanting an office makes us love ev-
erybody, so here goes. Regards to The
Age-Herald, the News, and Ledger.
Montgomery Advertiser Mobile Register
and Item.- Selma Times, Tuscaloosa Ga
zette and the Alabama press in general
including Hugh Roberts, Friedman. Nor
man, Neill, Garner, Holt, together with
the men who wrote Robinson Crusoe
and Pecks Bay Boy. also the man who
invented hard boiled eggs and first ap-
proved woman's suffrage, who Judging
from the good book was st. Paul. Selah. =