The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-17
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

| You never know when or where you | are going to meet a real man, but the moment you come into his presence you are aware of it.,
 I get numbers of invitations to make addresses at schools and colleges, and take it as part of the days work to do for me to make the commencement talk at the Blount High school, and as it happened that had no date for the day set I accepted it.
 I got on the train at the ap- pointed time and showed up at Oneonta to find that the county seat of Blount was spreading out over considerable territory and looked mighty citifed with it's fine streets and paved side- walks, commodious churches, well equipped school, comfortable homes and substantial business houses.
 Oneonta is very much newer town than is Birmingham. It is the offspring of railroad When the Louisville and Nashville poked it's nose into the hills of Blount, and rested for awhile, few people came together and soon lit- tie village sprang up and was named Oneonta. Indian experts tell me that in the language of the original tribes which wandered where now the grow ing little town nestles, it meant End of the way" Being the terminus, the new village was christened Oneonta.
 It was in it that I found my man. the one I want to make known to larger public I take him as the best the state year in and year out, without fuss or parade, and with little public recognition, is doing foundation work by installing character into boys and girls upon which is built manhood and womanhood
 T. c. Moore the superintendent of the Blount High school, is to the manor born. He is prophet who is honored he is as rugged as the hills. He is no pale student. but is bronzed and wealth CT beaten end looks like product of the soil. But just because he fails to wear tortoise trimmed spectacles, don't get it into your head that he is isn't scholar.
 He enjoys the unique distinction of being the first man from Blount county who ever graduated at the University of Alabama. It no doubt seemed thing of little consequence when country boy left his home and went to Tusca- loosa and. after hard work, came back home with his diploma--just scrap of paper' No bonfres were built. but well they might have been lit on every hill in his native county for he has been torchbearer among his people
 
 He has been teaching a quarter of a century, and. in that time there have passed through his hands or under his supervision more than 10000 pupils. Talk about opportunity for service and Ia chance to influence ones day and time, where and who is the one to take over the unpretentious lpedagogue who has shaped so many Hives? I place him on commanding pedestal
 l His work has stood the acid test. He 1 has been no mere dreamer, losing him. 1 self in his study. but he has been ac- tive not merely in the schoolroom but out among his own people influencing their lives in scores of ways until at Hast he has put Blount county squarely Ion the side of education and built, up at the county seat the banner high school in the state in more ways than .one The man I have picked for this
 story has been a doer of things. 1 The Blaunt County High school has !, led in Alabama in the number attend ling in the number of boarders. in the humber who have gone to college. One of it's graduates last year was presi-