The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-23
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

If you were present at Capitol park on Tuesday night at the publication of the amendists you got to hear the opening prayer made by Dr. w. B. Crumpton president of the Alabama Anti Saloon league.
 As he stood up he was the incarnation of the temperance propaganda, for the final victory which perched on the prohi- bition forces was due more to his untir- ing work, than to any other single indl- vidual in the state.
 He began to fight the legalized saloon at time when it put any one who did so in lhe 'crank class but Wash Crumpton as he was then called was a country preacher who mad backbone and sneers.
 He took for a motto early in lie, "Everlastn2ly at it. and his famous ex~ pression about the saloons became the slogan of the prohibitionists in the state. We are camping on their tran and our camp fires will never go out crowd would never sleep until Alabanla went into the dry column for good and all.
 1 I will never forget something which the late James B. Hawthorne, the fla nous southern Baptist pulpit orator, said {, to me when l told him that I had 1 to make Birmingham my home. Said he: Wash Cruinrton is the state secretary of the Baptist work. He is d strong man. but he must have Ingun in him, for he never lets up if he gets after anything or anybody Perhaps it is the "Injdn in him which kept him trailing the salcoI I in Alabama until he put It out of com. mission.
 l Now, I know fairly well the political, ! social, religious, and industrial leaders l in Ala oama, and I say it without fear of contradiction that few if any them | have so impressed their lives for good | Cil ttlC ciitttN StdtG sAS Has w IN. M uiisP ton. who has stood in the forefront of every civic fight for righteousness n the state for two score years
 I am paying this tribute to him new l while ha lives, for in spite of the fact that he is still hard worker, and doins valiant service, he has reached ripe old | nI al, baS of tl, rtteey
 the old heroes into her lap. and I want | him to know that but voice the serti- I ments of thousands when I pin th.s flower on his manly bosom.
 The life of w. B. Crumpton ought to be an inspiration to every country boy in the lanl. He was but boy when the
 war betwecn the states broke out, amt like many other brave lads, he ran away and joined the Confederacy at the ayt l of l5, and did more than his bit to upholt, the flag of the southland. His lecture oi his fligh- and episodes is one of the mos thrilling things I have ever listened tc about the civil war. and his book Is moro
 entertaining than novel.
 \ It tells of the adventures of two Ala
 bama ooys and takes them as far as Cal ifornia. About 10 years ago when I va.
 out on the Pacific coast I visited nii
 elder brother and from his lips got th'
 story of his trip overland and of his aw
 full desert experiences. He was four SCOT,
 years of age but hale and hearty. H lived just across the bay from san Fran
 cisco and William Randolph Hear,, owned the, adjoining place. and spsi tmuch lime there in his early manhood l es
 Now, ln spite of the fact that pr
 Crumoton, like many other men of tn
 south. put In four years in the school D the Confcderacy, and therefore failed | get "a college education. vet when tn , lwar was over went to work and becam
 self educated man, and entered th