The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-01

-HE railroad brotherhoods will ac-
 cept an eight-hour day ana straight overtime instead of the time and half, as first demanded, and II that be granted before Monday there will be no strike. The railroad com panies have been insisting on arbltra- tion and the employees have been stuo- born in their opposition of it.
 President Wilson, who has been straining every nerve to prevent
 nationwide calam- Settle on the ity, which would Eight Hour Day result from "tle-
 up" of all traffic, has been an earnest advocate ot the eight-hour proposition from the day he undertook to act as mediator De- tween the brotherhoods and the rail- read executives, and democratic lead CTS in Congress are giving him their cordial support.
 The railroad situation affects 10o,- 900, O,OOO people. A strike would not only cause fortunes to be swept away, but the small savings of wage-workers would speedily vanish. Every indus try and every business would be paralyzed. The masses would suffer the bangs of hunger. The strike or der. if allowed to become effective Monday, would precipitate condition as terrible as war.
 There must be no strike. The broth erhoods are officered by intelligent and cool-headed men. If week or more is needed for Congress to consider and adopt measures applicable to the sit nation. the brotherhood leaders could in all probability be induced to sus- pend the order already issued to meet the wishes of Congress and the Presi- dent. But, best of all at this Junc- ture, will be an agreement between the railroads and the men without any further delay Then let Congress pro- ceed to enact such laws as would make "tie-up" of all the carriers in future years impossible.
 <1Today public opinion must be felt. It is unanimous against strike.
 
 x N CEAN GROVE, where Billy Sun NJ day is conducting ten days preaching campaign, is one of the few summer resorts that lays claim to distinct religious atmosphere, yet the acrobatic exhorter finds there far less
 response to his Billy Sunday Prays appeals than for Apathetic Clergy in notorious
 ly wi c k e d y cities. The auditorium, with seating capacity of twelve thousand, is filled every night but the number of sinners who Init the trail" has been compara- lively small.
 In most of Sundays campaigns his acting has seemed like second nature and his startling wit has had the ef- feet of spontaneity, but at Ocean Grove he has struggle to be original. The lack of excitement is not hard to find. The people who gather at this famous place are exceptionally de- corous and, not being numbered among the ungodly, are satisfied to watch MT Sundays grotesque antics and listen to his audacious characterization of mod ern society.
 For the apparent absence of sym pathy with the more serious part of his preaching, he planes the parsons who are nominally lending their sup port. And especially does he find fault with them for not going among the congregation and urging men and tvomen to the mourners' bench. He finds that if the clergy would only get tworked up" the rest of his auditors would do likewise.
 Here is one of Sundays uri1de prayers: "God, help the ministers who uit up here on the platform, pull their winiskers, and try to look pious." These <. fsxs few men wear Mr. 1lurhes is one of the few-and it may