The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-21

tional dives and turns.
 Other persons who took the oath of office shortly after 12 o'clock follow. Nathan L. Miller, as lieutenant govern or; William P. Cobb, as secretary of state; J. .. Smith, as attorney general;
 R. L. Bradley, as state treasurer; Fit1- hugh Lee, state auditor; Miles c. All , good, commissioner of agriculture. Samuel P. Kennedy, president, and B. H. Cooper and S. P. Gaillard took the oath of office as members of the Ala bama public service commission. They succeeded themselves. but the law re- quired them to take another oath along with the governor.
 Lawrence Brown of Jackson county and Richard V. Evans of Jefferson county will be the two assistants to the new attorney general Other changes will be made in the several depart ments beginning Tuesday morning. TEXT OF SPEECH The constitution requires the incom- ing governor to submit to the legisa- ture at the beginning of his administra- tion certain information and recom- mendations," began the new governor "fuasmueh as that message is delivered almost concurrently with this address, do not deem it necessary nor indeed quite fitting that I should detain and burden you with recital of the details of the measures I shall offer for the con sideration of the law making body
 Hence l shall confne these remarks to brief reference to some of the policies and principles by which I shall be guided in the discharge of the duties of the high office to which you have called me.
 Profoundly sensible of the great honor conferred upon me, I am not unmindful of the tremendous responsibilities and obligations it imposes. These respons- bilities and obligations can be properly assumed and successfully met only with the singleness of purpose and true con- secration to the spirit of service. It shall be my constant purpose to serve you faithfully and as wisely and well as there may be light given me to show the path of wisdom and right.
 Standing upon the threshold of the second century of our existence as state we catch the vision of a glorious past and a future bright with promise Look
 ing backward 10O years We see the ter ritory of Alabama admitted to full fel-
 owship in the sisterhood of states, fit companion of the original 13 which bore the burden of the revolution and formed the union that has become the mightiest democracy the sun has ever shown upon. With steady step the young state pursues her courage through fair weather and 1oul, through prosperity and adverslty, even through the travail of civil war
 n defense of her constitutional rights, bearing with fortitude the bitterness of defeat and solving in fairness and jus tice the most perplexing problems that had ever confronted people, thriving and prospering and growing greater and greater as the years go by.
 While remembering with gratitude and manifold blessings of Providence which have aided and attended the people of Alabama all these years, it is yet per-, missible to think that no small part of the splendid result is due to the good citizenship which has ever characterized those who have contributed to the up- building of the state. But there is much yet to be done before all our blessings are unfoIded