The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22

ness college and originator of the correct method of teaching bookkeep- ing.
 lessor Ellis, land many of our pupils are now serving in fine positions with the
 government. From The Age-Herald of flee young Mir Willingham came to us
 and took our course in bookkeeping; the result was he had fine government po- sition offered him and he is today some where in France in the quartermasters
 department of the army. Dozens of other men and women have secured fine gov-
 ernment positions as bookkeepers ana stenographers.
 There has never before been such a chance for women in business Profess
 sor Ellis said, "and to show you the preponderance of the feminine sex in our
 college, may state that we have at pres ent 300 women and about F men. The war has taken practically all the men and the women seeing their opportunity have taken up a business course and are preparing themselves for work
 'I have established schools at six other cities in Alabama, . Professor Ellis said,
 lat Cullman, Carbon Hill, Jasper, AL bany, Anniston and Albertville, and every school is filled with pupils"
 Professor Ellis opinion in matters re-
 
 toned, for none stands higher in the estimation of the people of this state than this pioneer educator ana business man. Professor Ellis was connected for many years with the county schools; later ar filiating himself with the business col leges of the district and finally estab- fishing his own school, purchasing the Spencer college and incorporating it as the Spencer Ellis Business college. which s- 2 Io41 rarn- gressive of all the colleges of similar na- ture in the south.
 The worthy object of the pupils of the Spencer Ellis Business college in giving their talent and time to the entertain ment for the benefit of the Red Cross deserves recognition and appreciation by he patriotic people of this community. prsing to see the amount of nerve dis played by the men in this service, men whose usual peaceable occupations give no hint of the grit, and talent they possess for this kind of work.
 "In no case has a shot been fired, nor has any bodily injury been in- flcted upon any one. In fact so we'll have our men laid their plans and executed them that in no instance has the person sought been able to offer any serious resistance
 IN NEARBY TOWN
 One of the recent cases was that of two slackers in a nearby town. In this instance one Of the sIackers had been seen on the street by the sheriff who knew he was a stacker and as such was being sought by gov ern1nent agents, but for reasons best known to himself, the sheriff had Tailed to make any effort to arrest him. When our men went in search of this man the sheriff accompanied them to the door of a stable and pointing to one of the~ several men therein, said there is your man gave one of our men a shove that sent him through the door and then beat it. in true Hun style, evidently not caring to partici- pate in the fireworks that he expect ed to follow. Confronted by the de- termined and well-armed A. F. L. men, the stacker, like any other man of good, sound judgment, surrendered and quietly accompanied his captors
 In nearly every case where we have had to take deserters and slackers among our native population. we found that the men who had failed in their duty to their country, did so because of ignorance of the crime they were Frequently our inyesti- gations revealed that these parties had l SNNOihC iuSllINtS dl tue llSt1RaIlOn or | other people. who had instilled into | them fear of severe punishment. per- haps death when returned to the army. |
 When assured by our men that they i were in no danger of bodily harm. | they agreed to come along without | Further trouble. In many instances I | have written to the commanding gen. 1 eral of the camp to which they were 1 to be returned explaining the circum- l stances and requesting clemency for | the deserter or stacker as the case 1 might be-
 "A few deserters and slackers have l when assured that the ywould not be | shot or subjected to other violent | treatment have found that in near l " every case these young men want 1 to do their duty when they learn what | t is but either through family in- l fluence, the meddlng of others, | they have remained away from camp | when on furlough. or failed to go in | to the call, and then when ' their long absence made them desert CTS or slackers, they were afraid to report"
 MT. Milner stated that through his organization several German aliens had been apprehended and interned and they had investigated and re- ported on the activities of others whose sympathies with the Teutonic powers had led them into difficult, sit uations.