The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-22
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

l am glad that Oliver Cox is once more in the field as an editor. For many moons he frightened up the Rotary club with his scintillations in Rotarygrams
 
 He held his light aloft weekly, but now we will have to wait month before we can walk in the wake of his torch which is only to shine once month, but if he lives up to his old reputation the glow will last easily for % days. lished weekly which was always a loser financially. His answer was illumina- tive to those who were his intimates, for said he, T must have a medium in which to express myself" I am glad ! that friend Oliver is going to have that privilege.
 He comes to us this month with "Bir- l mingham," q monthly published by the 1 Chamber of Commerce to boost the city with payrolls of g, 2,ooo,o0o week" This being more than true it almost seems like carrying coals to Newcastle to have to use publicity to push the Magic City ] But it is symptomatic of the times that 1 the bigger, the business the more it re- l lies on publicity. Time was when there were some interests in America so pow erful that they hid themselves behind closed doors, but now none are so great that they can go in the face of public opinion.
 i By the way, the back cover of "Birmlng- ham has that very striking figure of q woman which is being used in the maga- zines and as posters in the fourth Liber- l ty Loan. The drawing is striking, but the wording goes straight home, for it says: T Am Public Opinion" It takes this text and drives home a sermon that l no man ought to miss.
 It begins. "All men fear me-" and all men stand or fall.' It's short preachment, but every one of the eight paragraphs burns itself into the very core of one's soul and no stacker can read it or hear it read without cringing"
 
 An editor shows his ability not merely 1 by what he writes, but what he puts in or keeps out of his paper, and Oliver i Cox in featuring on the back page the triotism gives evidence that he is sure enough newspap per man and not a mere amateur.
 But he is about as free from the scissor habit as any man l know who sits in an easy chair,H for he does not have to clip for he has knack of knocking off chips of wisdom from the tree of knowl- edge and camouflaging them as to make them his very own and give them an oliveresaue flavor. If you doubt this, both he and John Sparrow will admit it, 1 l learned to know of Divers bright ness long before l became a Rotarian. for my office for years was at the Bir- minghsm Publishing company. where Secretary John Henley prints the weekly pap" which puts pep into the "Rotes. It+was in this way that used
 
 press when the dew was still on it. i
 For some seasons it was only "caviare" to me but now it's my regular food, and although Oliver is no longer the chef who prepares the savory dishes. his man. tie or, to keep up the figure, his apron 1 has fallen on Clarence Lloyd, who uses 1 enough ginger to bring up even the jaded l appetite of the members who have to ! eat one of Fred Shreman's lunches every Wednesday, or get fired if they balk or sidestep four meals
 l But this started out to be about "Bir- l mingham,' the Chamber of Commerce monthly. and not "Rotarygrams.' tho Rotarian weekly. The first edition is printed on good enamel paper, and shows Imp the pictures very clearly The head ing is attractivA showing skyscrapers.