The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-20
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

man who was hurt in the Walton trag- edy, called in to get a. contribution made ito The Age-Herald by a nameless friend, pr. Blackwelder states that MT. Rus sum, who is now in St. Vincents hospi- tai, is improving and will soon be able to be out againV He spoke with enthu- siasm when commenting on the grit and optimism displayed by MT. Russum
 l came up from Montgomery the other night with ex-Governor Jelks We talked about many things. The greater part of the conversation was about books. Few people are aware of it. but MT. Jelks is one of the best read men In the state He told me dog story out of Dickens and told 1t in way that made it truly bit of art. It revealed the tender side of the man.
 Down at Montgomery l got to shake hands with Judge Henry D. Clayton. studied law in his office It was under his tutelage that I was admitted to the bar. I remember being in Washington shortly after he was installed in his beautiful suite in the Congressional building. It was with pardonable lawyer pride that he showed me the rooms where he presided as chairman of the judiciary committee. His father was a great law yer and a just judge. said: 'Henry, I wish your father could have lived to see you wear your new honors." It was one of his regrets that the honor came after his fathers death. Now he is federal judge. Here is the man who joys in his great success in the legal profession
 Saturday there was lot of fat light wood in bundles higher than a mans head piled at the corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-hrst street, by an enterprise ing Greek, between a telegraph post and a tree. Sundays cold spell did the work. Today the pile has Vanished. It looked just bit odd to see & pile of kindling in such prominent place.
 hope our people will turn out to see the equipped exhibit cars of the South ern Sociological congress when they roll in here. The cars will show the benefits of sanitation and proper hygienic living. Notice will be given of the party's arr rival and the location of the cars. It's good idea and ought to accomplish much in the way of bettering living con- ditions.
 The Rotogravure Section of The Age Herald is already winner The public te ul,o,x,iro i+S O annrooio tion Inv tbe Iibara1 way it is buying the Sunday edition. It has boosted the daily both in the cities, towns and country. The picture in last Sundays paper showing Luther Burbank, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford,f with Edison in the center with arms about his companions, was enjoyed by many. It was a great trio of men who have done things Burbank, the plant wizard; Edi- son, the electric wizard; Ford, the auto mobile wizard-each one has a smile on his face and a flower in the lapel of his coat. Every man splendid type of American manhood.
 Sitting here at my desk in The Age Herald building on Fifth avenue, I'm re-
 
 years lived the Well brothers. It's good news to know that Col Marcus Well Is finding his strength down at Biloxi. He has been valuable citizen. His latter years have been given to study of po- Htical prophecy. It's no easy role, yet Even in the last prognostication about the presidential election, he came much closer than the eminent Colonel George Harvey, the maker of Presidents
 
 Once more Harry Thaw's vicious career is thrown upon the screen, showing the ugly side of the profligate life of the nouveau riche. Its tale to adorn moral; it's story to illustrate the verity of the text, 'The Wages of Sin Is Death" My heart goes out in sympathy to the mother who bore him. She knows the bitter truth of the proverb.
 
 Then comes the fight, the legal strategy. to outwit the law. The Thaw case did more to discredit the law in the eyes of the people than has any other cause
  discredited judges suspicioned, courts suspected expert testimony ridiculed, ju- ries made a laughing stock. Many an editorial found it's way into print showing the surer justice of English trials in con- trast with that of our American ones.
 Thomas Lawson of Boston hates dull time. He is one of the greatest adven- turers of modern times. Agree with him or not, what cares he, just so long as you give him space. What furore he made in his expose some years back in Every body's. Yes. you could hardly wait for the next installment. His language was catapultic Newspaper English seemed tame in comparison to his vivid word effects. After few years retirement he is once more in the spotlight. This time the play is staged at Washington. It is not a question of who threw that brick, but who sprung that leak I be- lieve he has at last overplayed his hand, and that sensible people will put him down as a cheap and incyrsDle sensation alist
 The coroner of Jefferson county Is . busy man. It's an important office. l believe John R. T. Rives, who succeeds Charles l.. Spain, realizes its importance, and is going to give the county good serv- | ice in his administration of the office.