The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-12
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

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 I had fully intended going to the third annual Alabama Home Economics asso- citation which met at the Alabama Girls Technical institute in Montevallo, but was hindered at the last moment. An unusually strong programme was carried out President T. w. Palmer is always on the lookout for something good for his girls.
 The Japanese have been called the Yankees of the East" They are wide awake and the greatest electives in the world. They pick sthe best from every country. For two years a revival cam paign has been going on with the follow ing results; Meetings held. S29s; attended by 566,S52 hearers, and resulting in 21,64i inquirers The campaign starts it's third year with renewed interest
 I was glad to know that the Alabama chapter of the American Institute of Arr chitecture at it's annual meeting voted IllG uCNSSSaly dpPtO OElidLlOi 1Ol lhO CtA- trance of the department of architecture of the Alabama Polytechnic institute at Auburn into annual Intercollegiate com petition in design of the Southern Asso- citation of Architectural colleges. The association is composed of Tulane uni- versity. Georgia School of Technology. Clemson college, and the Alabama Poly technic institute.
 Every now and then readers of papers. magazines and books see references to the fourth estate. Here is it's origin and meaning. Carlyle makes reference to 1t in lecture 5, Heroes and Hero Worship" ," saying: Edmund Burke said there were three estates in Parliament, but in the reporters gallery wonder there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.''
 Marquis O'Ruma says: Individually the Chinese are honest and efficient; but collectively they are not only unable to organize with skill. but there are mys- terious leaks of funds and shifting of re- responsibilities.
 Commissioner John H. Finley of the New York state department of education, addressing the Association of Teachers of English at the Hotel Astor, New York, recently, said in reference to the language spoken in America: ''We seem to be form ing a language that bears remote re- semblance to the English language" He must have overheard the conversation of some college grads.
 Rev. J. H. Jowett, the great English preacher, who has made of his New York pulpit sounding board of wisdom for the whole country, says:
 Crises continually arise which compel us to get rid of exhausting encum- brances. We have become overburdened with the multiplication of harness. It is not always the ordinary load of life which crushes us; it is the increasingly heavy and complicated means which we have devised to draw it. Our yoke is more galling than our burden; the har- ness is more harassing than the load. The complications increase with the years. Society becomes a steel network of hard. artificial bonds, instead of re- maining an elastic fellowship"
 Here in Birmingham we need a course in the art of getting together, not mean ing that every one must joint the same church, lodge or civic body, but that men in the various religious, social, fra ternal, commercial and industrial organi- is the best way to develop a true commu- nifty spirit.
 Each day on one side of the entrance to The Age-Herald building a current copy of the paper is placed, while on the other side is put page from the Sundays Rotogravure. have been greatly astonshed to know how many people stop to read the one and to look upon the other
 Until I came to work on Fifth avenue looked upon it as lonesome street, but I know better now. It's busy thorough fare. Crowds in automobiles pass going to and from the Terminal station and the number of pedestrians grows daily. If you pass my way drop in and see me whether you know me personally or not I'm on the ground floor, just by the door,