The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-13
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Should Praise His Work

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 do not know that I have ever posed as faddist in the logic of giving him. who cries for bread, only stone. 1 l have always felt it were better to feed him into health and strength first
 and then, when he dies, give him any me mortal, costly and elaborate, as you
 choo ose.
 have ever remembered the words writ ten by that frank and brainy old presi- dent of the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Mississippi, Mrs. Ruth
 Green Yerger. of Greenville: 'I fear we are building too many monuments, until we have fed the hungry and cured the sick. It makes my heart bleed to think of the noble sons. who have sacrificed so much for us, and for whom we are doing so little"
 Shiloh Vicksburg, Chickamauga and Arlington are all grand conceptions, and we should spare no effort to complete them grandly to the unufading glory of those who died for us
 Thinking thus, and feeling that this is just the time when Alabama should rear a fitting memorial to one of her sons, who, since mere boyhood has done his full duty to his state his neighbor and himself.
 On a former occasion, when another young man did things that made his name music in the ears of all who heard it, I leaped alone into the breach and carried my point with his state and the great men left in 1t.
 James Rider Randall was my school form mate, my manhoods friend and a
 great grief to me in his passing to the higher life. When the state of Maryland voted $25,000 to erect a grand monument to his genius and labor for his home state I appealed for stay of action until those
 who had been dependent upon him for their living were past want or even dis
 comfort.
 Then the splendid women of his own state. who loved him for a personal
 knowledge of his nature and his genius, and noble women from other states, who had only read and heard of him, and even the generous men, who gave his
 monument, listened to the facts, yielded and acted.
 The monument gleamed through the haze of the future; the earnings from 1t were sent at the very moment on their useful and loving errand. And those great women of other states did their l sEare-Mesdames Cornelia Branch Stone. | then president; Judith Winston Pitcher of Tennessee, and Minnie Wilmer Jones l of Alabama, all spoke and wrote and thought that the labor of the dead poet should blossom and bloom as a blessing l to those who had known him. | James Rider Randall did much for his section. Price Williams, Jr., did many 1 things. more direct and practical for the good of his state. As-soldier judge and l citizen, he began early, was ever &C., curate and as he grew older and more | experienced he steadily fitted the knowl- 1 edge gained to advancement of every in- 1 terest of his state.
 l Wherefore, we may now take thel&tone Happily, in thls case, there is no need to ask for bread. So I now call upon the press, the business and professional men, the social and Confederate organ izations of Alabama to set themselves at once to the preparation of proper, dig nified and worthy memorial to Price Will liams Jr., a citizen who believed that every interest of his state was his city's, and that every interest of his city was his own. What helps Mobile helps all Alabama" said the Advertiser What helps Alabama helps the whole south," added Charles c. Hervey. What helps
 the south helps all the union,' the writer capped it.
 Such memorial need not be grand or
 costly. so long as it be large enough
 and handsome enough to hold his memory
 and to attract seers to it. The Age
 Herald should advise the other papers
 of the state to make the call In one voice.
 and to urge all men who honor steadfast
 courage and the adoption of beauty as
 the principle of life to aid in the prompt erection of this memorial.
 And 1t should be erected, not by the