The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-09

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 They do not need to raise any cotton in this country this year, for they have so much on hand now that the warehouses will scarcely hold it, and the strange part of it is that when 1 went into the Marion Central bank the whole office force was singing, It's Long Way to Tipperary" as though they had not care in the world. Mir Wells of the First National in Birmingham thinks he is some banker no doubt. and his deposit bal ances bear that out, but he ought to get into a country and see how bankers smile. And that Marion Central puts on style, | can tell you: they have electric fans, all kinds of marble finishngs and teller well nigh as pleasant as Chisolm. l have often wondered if MT. Wells knows just how much of his banks success is due to his paying teller The banks here are pros- poring and seem on a sound basis. but just what they are going to do with this year s cotton crop I do not see unless they build some more warehouses.
 1 doubt If the press of Alabama, and especially The Age HeNald and Montgom- cry Advertiser, know just how much they have contributed to the sum total of human happiness by their crop diversifica- ton campaign. On every hand one sees evidence of the changing conditions in Alabama, but more especially here in Perry.
 Has to Divide HonOrs
 My last trip through here one only heard of Bates as a cattleman. Now he has to divide honors with Suttle and a lot more fellows who have entered the game. They have some stuff down here in beef breeds that would delight the eye of con- roisseurs like w. s. Lowell And the oats they are harvesting. There is not a farm around here but what has a goodly sized | crop all of which are being harvested l in splendid shape. They have novel way of planting Johnson grass on their l terraces, and were running mowers cut ting the hay along these same terraces. l l never saw a wod cut of the prophet Sa amuel, but they have here a man that exactly fits my conception of Samuel in the person of Editor Greer of the Stand ard, who leans back in his chair, sur | veys the scene and judges Israel through the columns of his paper. Just now he appears somewhat riled because tick erad- ication is not running like Rick Wood
 wards yacht, and he has proceeded to read few lectures on diplomacy to the men engaged in tick inspection. Poor tick 1 inspectors; they catch-it "gwine and
 cumin." The little fellow does not want to be made to dip, the big fellow is up in arms because his big investment stands a chance of being wiped out and whichever way the inspector turns he is censured | but I left the Samuel of Marion chewing | tho cud of reflection and mayhap the
 coming issues of his paper may be less
 caustic, and flowing more with the milk ] of human kindness that abounds there | Speaking of weekly papers, this town is
 fixed up. l went in the Times office on
 business and the manager hardly had 1 time to greet me so intent was he or ! getting out what appeared to be rush
 job of printing.
 Plenty of College Spirit
 Marion is proud of her colleges and she
 ought to be. They have the full college ! spirit here. As one goes up from tn,
 depot he has to pass the campus of on, | college where on the boards is blazonet in letters four feet high, Marion Ii, Tu lane 10. 1 wondered if they would run
 this great big advertisement if they hat
 been defeated. They have good build ings and splendid grounds for their ath
 letic contest, but if all of the business mer pursued the policy of mailing his letter.
 on the train that one gentleman seem, doing, l doubt if Marion would long re main as a second class office. Speakini of postoffices, the town has the bes equipped office in the country. It hal the best of furnishings and seemed to be eourteously and efficiently handled. 1 I ran across my old friend. J. B. Reid down here and I saw him do a iIttle act of kindness that touched me and served to show that this old world is eoot place yet.
 There is an old negro who is blind ant who attempts to make living selling Ipeanuts at the train. Just before tht train come MT. Reid went up and calling | the old negro by name, Duke" and tell 1 ing who he was dropped coin .lto tho | old negros hand that will serve to keeI i the wolf from the door for week
 1 Marion needs ginger, it needs som, | hustling cattle man like Derby who, I an
 told, was educated there It needs tt have more attention paid to corn ant silos and less to calculus and geometry l I listened to one man whose income i! derived from a farm. He was about tn, most versatile man I ever listened to ant l marveled that "one small head could carry all he knew" but I was told tha he could not set 16-inch heel sweep t, run out corn middles, nor did he know thing in the world about the practjca operation of an ordinary mower Ina
 seems to this clod hopper to be wrong for the negro can only acquire education save as he is trained, and that trainins | must of necessity come from the Landlord to be truly effective.
 Judges Sons Are Famous
 I saw this afternoon the sons of { judge renowned for his erudition run ming successfully a goodly sized farm I where the hay was being piled up in boun | teous heaps, and where the barn Was run ming over with oats thought of the ol, saying that The who makes two blade of grass grow where but one grew be l fore is greater than the whole race O politicians" and the sons of that judg are making dozen grow in place of one | Perry is coming and coming fast 10 tn point where she will be regarded as tn
 great cattle county of that section O Alaabma.
 The gospel of making Alabama fee, herself has spread abroad in the land
 the press has. and is performing grea
 work in arousing the people to the yalu
 of our lands and what worshipping at tn
 shrine of the goddess of diversificatiol will do.
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