The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-13
Today Observed in
 Memory of Jefferson

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 Memory of Jefferson 7THoMAs JEFFERSON, born in 4 Albemarle county, Virginia, on April 13, 1743, was Americas s greatest exponent of democracy.
 This being the anniversary of his birth, the day in Alabama is legal holiday. It is the only state that thus keeps his memory, but his na- tive state has honored him in many ways
 Next to George Washington, lief ferson is recorded as Virginia's most iIlustrious son of colonial days, and throughout the United States his memory is cherished wherever demo- cratic principles are strongly en- trenched.
 Jefferson was a scholar of rare ac-
 - complishments- best educated man of his time. He was a carefully trained lawyer, but lacking the gift of public speech practiced little at the bar He was, however, a man of uncommon energy and, being of a po- litical turn of mind, performed feats of remarkable value in, laying the foundations of a republican form of government.
 Had he done nothing more than write "A Summary View of the. Rights of America" the basis of the Decla- ration of Independence, he would have been easily entitled to the high place he has occupied on the roll of fame The federalists regarded Jeffer, sons teaching as ultra-radical, ane much as conservative politicians of g later day regarded radical socialism But there was nothing of the de. structiye tendency in his policies. His democracy as he exemplified it during the revolution and throughout the early period of the republic was the 
 democracy of today. It was sound democracy and will be the bedrock ot American freedom for all the years i to come.
 MT. Jefferson was twice elected President, and could have been elected a third time, but refused the offer. Jefferson's first administration was marked by reduction of the army and navy and the diplomatic estab. Ilishment; some reduction in the civi departments, but above all by the Louisiana Purchase. When on March 4, 1909, he retired from the presidency, he had beer continuously in public service forty years. He was never an office seek. CT, but once accepting an officeal trust he filled it with singular ability and characteristic zeal. 1 Jeffersonian democracy will never lose its vitality. It is here to live as long as our free institutions live ane las long as education is cherished. | Great herds of seal are reported mi. grating northward toward Behring sea This may or may not indicate an in creased output of seal skin coats fol next winter.
 ' The moral reformer is getting read, to swat the beach beauty who dares t, let the interested public see that na | ture has been kind to her. 1 x E E MT, Taft pursues the even tenor of hi way, happy contrast to other states men who seem to think their career are still ahead of them.
 One of the tragedies of politics i the way presidential lightning plays al around favorite son without eve striking him. l Getting a passport continues to b. the chief obstacle that stands betwee, an American and the speedy assuaginl of his thirst.
 While conditions may have improve, in Petrograd and Moscow, neither cit, is in a position to cater to the touris trade.
 MT. Fosdick says Americans are re garded in Europe as quitters. Further more, the charge is susceptible c proof.
 1 Paderewski will return to his dutie in the Polish Diet, where his abilitie are even more noticeable than his hair