The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-28

| aid, and that cost thousands of dollars. 1 Here they employ three fine teachers, and they are having a fine school. In 1 stones throw of this school is one of the largest churches in the country. and this in a community where therd is nice, painted country home on al- most every 40 acres of land. Just a little further on up the road we come to another modern two-story concrete school, which is larger and cost whole lot more than the first one. Plenty of pretty churches and beautiful homes galore all around this school Every two or three miles up the same road there is a nice, modern schoolhouse, nearly always built according to state plans while every now and then we come to a big junior high school, near ly always taught in a modern two-Story building.
 20 MILES FROM RAILROAD Finally, away back 20 miles or more from the railroad away back in the sticks sure enough, we find a high school of the first order. This is not a denominational school at all, but is supported, like any public school, by 1 the people living around it. They em- ploy several teachers, taking pupils through the eleventh grade. They also teach vocational, agriculture domestic oSiciiSCy MUSIC eApTeSSlOn anu -GVeTy- thing else usually taught in any mod ern high school. It might also be in- teresting to know that in this immedi- . ate community the religious as well as the educational interest Is devel- oped to the extent that ordinary farm land sells as high as $200 an acre. And all this, too away back in the sticks, l where according to pr. Fielder, the | people do not even wear shoes. Now
 these are conditions on one road, and l on nearly all other roads pretty muct,
 the same conditions prevail.
 l While on all the roads leading south of Boaz these same splendid rural con
 dltions are found at present down in | this section, and several miles from town. Plans are already under way to build two fine schoolhouses to cost all the way from ten to fifteen thousand l dollars.
 | FACTS ABOUT ALBERTVILLE Right here almost within a stone
 throw of Boaz and situated on the same
 railroad is the thriving little city of AL
 bertville. The people of this town are
 people of progress. culture and refine
 ment. These things have always been characteristic of Albertville people.
 For miles in every direction from AL | bertville these same magnificent rural | conditions prevail. On every road are
 to be found pretty homes, pretty
 churches and good schools. Here in the
 midst of this thriving and progressive community is located the old Seventh district agricultural school Long before
 the Boaz seminary was ever thought of | boys and girls were going out from this school to bless the world. The work done ] in this school has always been of the | highest order. In the higher institutions l Of learning, in the leading professions | and in the business world the gradua tes of this old school have always taken high rank. Let me, give you a concrete example of the character of work done at this school Some few years ago a small boy, in fact, nothing much more I than 8 mere child, dressed in a little knee-pants suit that cost exactly Sd, stood up in his class and graduated tho youngest member in class of g. Later
 this same boy. and while still very young. volunteered and went with the khaki clad boys to France. After he had been
 in France few months the government 1 decided to send some 15 or 20. boys from the expeditionary forces back to take the 1 full four-year training at West Point Applicants for these appointments had tc first be recommended by their company or regimental commanders and then were Irequired to stand hard written exami- nation to find out the lucky ones. Hun 0lCbo VI pOSb WSAt uP o6dlAoS SiAnl S@- animation. They came from all parts of the country and represented many oi the greatest schools of the country. Now these boys had no political pull, no wirs working could be done in behalf of any Iof them. They all had to stand strictly
 on their merits. But when the papers were all graded this boy, equipped witt
 only the training received at the Sev enth district agricultural school, wal | nd only how from the south to pass this examination sue,
 cessfully. Last June he graduated al West Point and today he is commits lsioned officer in the army of the United States, rapidly forging his way to thu front
 l TYPICAL OF WORK DONE
 All down through the years this is the lcharacter of work this old school has
 been doing, and now, under the magnifi-
 cent leadership of President J. w. Let
 son and his corps of most splendid
 teachers the school is doing even better lwork than it has ever done In addi
 ton to all this, there are 14 rural routes
 going out from these two towns ant
 every day the carriers take out grea stacks of daily Age-Heralds. as well a'
 other greater papers and magazines.
 l And, according to the way lots of peo pie understand Dr. Fielder, all this in country where people do not read no'
 write, or where they don't even wea shoes. Of course am not saying tn tyoung men did not come down to Boa: jjust as Dr. Fielder said, but where yo' find one boy in this country who ha Enever worn snoes until he is l5 year old, you will find 10000 others wear a lleast SIP shoes and B silk sox to match l What's more. in all this country, out side, the town limits. there is absolutel, not a negro to be found and not sin gle family of foreign birth-ah pur' | Anglo-Saxon-abso the best peo jple on earth.
 Now. MT. Editor. I have no ax t
 grind. I am not a candidate for an
 office under the sun. l am not resi- dent of either Albertville or Boaz, bu only a plain citizen living on my owl I little farm, trying to make an homes living by the sweat of my brow. l hav' Inc land to sell. and the only scheme Q Immigration in which am interested | that which comes in connection with tha jold-fashioned candy pulling which Judg Brandon describes so beautifully. Whil h am willing to give the Boaz seminarl credit for all that it has ever done, ant certainly no man wishes for it nor abundant success than I do. still l au tnot willing to let the impression go o'i Ithat it stands as great missionary in stitution in . country where the sun Iheht of civilization has never shone. an that it Is the only agency trying to re deem the people from heather darknes,
 Backward. ignorant. isolated" ar