The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-29
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

I tHS oVulHSAh NdlllS dSsoCidLio1, eo oANAt on flying trip over south Alabama to try and form bull clubs.
 He had been in conference with Chair man salter of Montgomery county, Bruce Kennedy, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and others, and I got in touch with Captain Viii Sheehan, edi- tor of the Advertiser, and he promised 1 to do what he could to see that the Capi- tai City had buyer in Birmingham cn July ?.
 | We sound Bob Seals, the cattle enthu- siast, at the Gay-Teague, and he in1me- diately offered his services when he learned that we could not possibly cover 1 the territory assigned to us. He is cov- ering Tuskegee. Hayneville, Fort De- posit and Prattville. He understands the proposition and is red hot for it.
 We found at Union Springs a commit tee of live wires headed by my hand | some friend. Senator Tom Frazer. We explained the scheme to them thorough i ly. and know in the bunch were some wide-awake cattle men who had han very much surprised if Bullock county l fails to have a representative at the sale, as thoroughbred cattle are attract ing much attention.
 | The next stop we made was at my home town, Eufaula. Now, I have writ ten aboas this beautiful little city so l often that my friends and readers think I am q bit daffy about it, but it is some l burg" Chairman Sparks of the Red l Cross chapter was greatly interested l We saw Bankers Foy, Wild and Merrill. some of the lawyers like the Hon. l Charles $. Mcdowell, and leading mer- l chants, who agred to go to work to try and get up a club.
 Our next jump was to Abbeyille, the county seat of Henry. Here we found l that some of the men we wanted to see | were out at country church attending a Sunday school convention, but we got 1 in touch with few who were left, like Messrs. Newman and Stokes, and ex- plained the big idea to them and left 1 literature, and they promised to Whoop l it up for all it was worth If they do it, Abbeville will be at the auction. | We dropped in at Newville. It is q I well named town, for it is new, but be. | lieve me, it is hustling as is all. of the | towns in the peanut section. We called | on some of the bankers and leading men and extended warm invitations for them to get into the new game of bull, which l is all the rage just at present in the Magic City. and which is spreading out into the various sections of the state. l I maintain that it is better sport than poker, for "hull' is better than bluff. .
 Talk about getting a surprise, but at 1 Montgomery we had conference with l MT. Carey of Auburn, the man who knows the cattle game and the cattle breeders, and the cattle country. He urged us to go to Headland to see Oates & Solomon, and we made note of it, put we had no rdea that we were | of Shortnorns in the state. We had I hired car to go to Dothan. but when President Jones saw a silo and got 2 whiff of bull l knew that it meant that we might as well let our car go on.
 
 Out we got in the broiling sun and down the railroad track he led, and across dusty roads, and into fields, and through a pasture until we had the firm of Oates & Solomon spotted. fine pali of aggressive young business men they T are. They are bankers, farmers aiio cattlemen-young men with vision wii' have the nerve to follow new paths They are the stuff out of which req
 communities are built. They are no kid
 gloved amateurs, but smell of the soil.
 Oates, who makes the cattle end of tht
 business his speciality, looked the part
 He had been down in the pasture over seeing bunch of men at work diggins out water hole, and he was hot, tired and dusty but came up laughing ans opened the conversation by saying h' was living up to the work or fight order. and that as he was too old to b. drafted he was working. He proved l by showing us his hands.
 It was worth the tiresome trip undel
 hot June skies to see now Oates ant T Jones took to one another. Of course the first thing was to get view of th+
 Shorthorn bulls, and he had thre'
 brought out into the lot that were th'
 real thing. know this not of my owf
 motion, but because Fred G.. Jones, th' president of the Southern Cattle asso
 citation. put his o. K. on them. I coui' : see by the way he sized them up ant
 the light which came into his eyes tha
 he meant what he was saying. :.
 
 It was case of gentlemen first
 for after we saw the male beauties w l, started down through the grove to al } open field where the COWS were quietl. grazing We got to see some fine speci mems. As matter of fact, Expert Jone . pronounced them as fine a herd as D had seen in the state. and did not at tempt to hide his surprise in locatln' such a bunch of cattle out of the ca VI section of Alabama. Oates x Soio- mon started a few years back WIZ } scrub stock and registered bull, and P degrees have weeded out the grades l until they now have show stun Clhe are also specializing with Hampshir , hogs.)
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