The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-28

of them will have returned; but how will it be with farm labor? There has been no sudden exodus from the cot ton belt, but a quiet migration has been observed for year or two past. This is going to be serious problem unless the migration can be checked.
 The white land owners most inter- ested should inquire into the causes of the migration and take steps to make the farm negro" better satis- fled with his lot. Alabama's cotton crop will continue to fall off unless we keep the negro on the soil.
 Republicans Will
 Likely Go Slow
 A FEW days after the election re- Z N publican leaders said there would be conference in the near future to plan a reorganization of the c. o. P. But it is safe to as- sume that nothing like a representa- tive gathering will be held until after the congressional elections of 1918 are over. This is good time for the reactionaries to take another long rest, anyway.
 If the democrats give a good &C., count of themselves during the next two years they should be able to win signal victory in 1918. In that event the republicans would stand poor chance of electing a President in 1920, and the old guard reorgan- izers would be in a halting frame of mind. If, on the other hand, the re- publicans should elect a majority of the Sixty-sixth Congress they would be enough heartened to take fresh start in 1920.
 The c. o. P. came near losing it's name and identity in 1912 when Roosevelt turned progressive and bolted. The effort of the republicans and progressives to get together this year on the "anything-to-beat-Wil- son" theory inspired hope in the re- actionary camp right up to election day; but so long as it failed the re- publicans will be put to it to devise any scheme of rehabilitation that might get them back into power at the end of President Wilson's second term.
 The democrats have made splen- did record in the three years and three quarters of this administration. Let the Sixty-fourth Congress con clude it's labors with continued high credit and let the democrats of the Sixty-fifth Congress be on their usual good behavior. This should mean democratic President again in 1920.
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 SteH10grapher Wearies
 of Buc@lic Scenes
 A NE year ago Mary Smith, pret- " ty stenographer of Chicago, quit the turmoil and hurry of city life and went to the farm of James Pankhurst, near Amboy, Ill.,, there to abide and be daughter to the aged MT. Pank- hurst and his wife. She was to receive $3 week in wages and inherit 1000 when the farmer died. The other day Mary Smith returned to Chicago and the notebook or the counter. She had had enough of farm life.
 When Mr. Pankhurst advertised in the papers for girl who would care for himself and his wife, who would be more than a servant to them, in re- turn for the wages stipulated and a $10,000 bequest, his offer received wide publicity. It is said that there were more than twenty thousand ap- plicants for the place. Mary Smith, strikingly pretty and presumably weary of city life, was an easy win ner. She boarded the train for her fu- ture home wreathed in smiles and hap pier than she had ever been before in her life. The sequel again proves the truth of the old saying that money isn't everything.
 q am through" said Miss Smith. q want my right to myself, to my own way of living. Somebody else's rules and somebody else's money can't give me that It's the city for me, and I am wiser girl than I was year and a half ago"
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