The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-14

The home Is ideally located for sueh a gathering, on the level above beauti-
 ful and fertile valley. with a magnificent view of the winding smoke pouring from
 the engines leaving the city. This ridge is logically destined to be a resort for homemakers who are in search
 of recreation and health.
 The house, built of native logs, Is planned for extensive hospitality. of a
 genuine southern type, and equipped with every comfort and convenience of
 modern housekeeping. Every attempt of the skilled architect is designed with a rural effect, deyising the style of pioneer days, and close to nature. Three hun dred light hearts wended their way down the mountain in the automobile way homeward bound. better for having been given the pleasure of the day. happier in their friends and gladder for their labors After all, duty is performed best when man meets man with a glad hand. when bread Is broken in friendship together. they have truly tasted the genuine staff of life.
 Every eye turned Birminghamward Sun day at the close of the day from Brace vile frightened with pleasure. and every voice echoed good time. Each parting handshake expressed a hearty apprecia- ton of MT. and Mrs. E. W. Barrett s cordial hospitality and an earnest long
 live them all'' was the spirit of the guests
 "Who is happiest of men? He who values the merits of others.
 And in their pleasure takes joy" .ss...s..........sss..... The commission has proceeded on the
 idea that it Is better to expose wrong doing even if in doing so it would be ! necessary to use a few witnesses whose ,ipht ba,, it,. than through fear of bestowing it on | some leave facts unknown and uncovered and thereby give immunity to all. Monopoly Theory Unsound 1 This investigation has demonstrated that the monopoly theory of those con trolling the New Haven was unsound and
 mschievous in its effects.
 To achieve such monopoly meant reek- 1, less and scandalous expenditure of money | it meant the attempt to control public | opinion corruption of government in a sense; an attempt to pervert the political 1 and economic instincts of the people in nsolent defiance of law, says the report Through exposure of the methods of this monopoly" says the brief, ..the in | visible government which has gone far | in its efforts to dominate New Eng land has been made visible. It has been clearly proven how public opinion was
 
 bought were bought; how newspapers that could be handled were subsidized; ; how a college professor and publicsts coterie secretly accepted money from the New Haven while masking as repre- sentatives of a great American univer- sity and the guardians of the interests of the people; how agencies of informa- tion to the public were prostituted when ever they could be, in order to carry through a scheme of private transporta- tion monopoly, imperial in its scope. ''It is inconcevable that these wrongs could have gone on without interference if the men directors had been true to the faith they owed their allegiance to she stockholders The directors illegally or passivelv acquiesc I'd in the efforts of the Mellen- Morgan Rockefeller regime to extend the domination of this corpora tion over the whole transportation field in New Englan1
 Grave Dereliction Wren these directors were negligent and serious losses resulted therefrom, they were guilty of a grave derelic- tion of duty and breach of trust that was morally wrong. It was criminal in It's fruits.
 Directors should be made liable in dividualy. liable to the civil and crimi- nal laws for the manner in which they | discharge their trust. It should be just | as grave to plunder stockholders or the public through railroad lapidary as 1t is to personally rob an individual. '"The splendid physical recourse of the New Haven itself can be called upon | for many year to make good the drain cn Its resources resulting from unpardon- able folly of the transactions out side the proper field in which stockholders
 supposed their moneys were invested se- | curely.
 Honesty and efficiency of manage
 ment of this property a railroad only
 UT dcubtedly will in time restore it's for
 mer standing"