The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-18
MEN, WOMEN
AND THINGS


you for breakfast each morning in The
Age-Herald.
Now as bright and chatty and humorous
as are the encounters of Andrew and
that to produce them uses up all
the gray matter of the author, for be it
known that these stdelights on domes-
ITCHY are but side lines.
I 1 should say that the real work of Roe
Fulkerson, he of little hair but much
brain, is to edit the Kiwanis Torch.
periodical of personality, and the official
organ of the Kiwanis clubs of the United
States and Canada, and sometime later
Of the big round world. for it has Wis
1 ions and the punch to make them come
| true.
1 like that claim OF it's being "a pc
riodical of personality" for it shows
better than the minutes of the Birming-
ham convention or any cut and dried
resolutions that it stands for ideas and
men rather than for business. Mercer
Barnett, first vice president of Inter
national Kiwanis. and local president of
the Birmingham club, has corking good
article in the issue on THE Spirit of
Kiwanis." .
I say this in spite of the fact that some
! Of our mutual friends have tried to
create jealousy between me and my
nephew as to which of the two is the
greatest toreador. 1 can afford to be
generous towards him this morning for
Dan Monroe, in the circulation depart
ment, told me that he had received a let
ter from one of The Age-Heralds out
of-town agents asking him to give his
love to Frank Willis Barnett the great
est bull shooter in Birmingham"
| This is why 1 am SO free to quote the
following from MERGERS article: Some
five years ago a Mr., A. s. Browne OF
Buffalo. to use homely smile, laid
goose egg, and it has Matched out into
a bird of paradise. CThe Indian braves
are willing to admit that they have both
nerve and imagination) The goose egg
was the Kiwanis club and 1t promised to
grow into homely sort of organiza-
ton with the somewhat selfish motto of
/ You trade with me and I'll trade with
you"
He goes on to explain how Mr.. Browne
builded better than he knew, for the
men who came into the organization
brought with them vision which reached
beyond anything which the founder had
dreamed Mercer credits the change
which came over the spirit of Kiwanis
to the purifying baptism which it got
through the war; causing it to change
it's slogan from eve trade" to 1--WE
isefve," ready to stand for all that is
best in the life of America.
| I really did not know that my nephew
was such ready writer l had learned
that he was fast forging past me as
speaker, but now he is about to Guido
me with the pen, as you win see when
he says: Organized for pleasure and
personal profit, we are yet ready to sink
| these considerations Immediately duty
calls Organized for service, we yet man
age to pick the flowers of joy and human
companionship that grow along the way
Born in the last days of an old world
that has for ever passed away, Kiwanis
was forged in the furnace of suffering
and of sacrifice. She was not last in
: the days of war, and we expect to do our
part that she shall be first in the day
of new and glorious peace
! Now I think he put, it neatly, POLITICALLY
and strongly, but instead of worrying
about my laurels 1 take pride in the fact
that my brothers. son is making good
in social, business and civic spheres. Just.
so long as it's kinsman l will not get
excited. I'll look on it as did an old
editor friend of mine whose son, in
heriting his fondness for gaming, was
eclipsng him in the sporting world with
] the result that between the two the in
come of the home was in danger. So to
save the situation without giving up the
ruling passion father and son agreed that
during the county fair they would make
bets on the races only with one another
so that the money would remain in the
| family.
| I congratulate the Kiwanis on their new
idealistic platform, but 1 see that the
advertising manager of The Torch is
running true to form and is not going to
! hide the facts under bushel that it is
now being mailed to over 10000 live XII
&Tanians in l56 cities and is fertile field
for advertisers. I do not reprobate his
action in letting it be known that such
! is the case, but on the other hand COM
mend him for his responsiveness
| If man is over modest he will never
go far in the advertising game or amount
to much as a reporter, or be known
, outside of the office If he is an editor,
F, and this being true, it is refreshing to
read the following which is inclosed in
a box and inserted among reading mat
ter: Ibid you ever notice that there are
! two rs in Kiwanis? We have one in
| front and one back, so we can see our
competitors going and coming, mostly
going" I do not know whether this is to
be credited to the advertising or editorial
department, but all the same it speaks
| well for either.
! Under the department what They Are
| Doing," the editor claims that he reads
all the circulars which come to his desk
and comments as he reads. note the
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