The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18

in the state of Alabama a fusion be-
 tween the temperance, farming and labor
 forces of this state, which will catch
 fire in time from one end of this nation
 to the other. and starting from the Pa
 cihc coast to the Atlantic, will drive into
 the ocean the old reactionaries and the
 fossiliferous old asses that have stood
 in the way of the progress of this coun-
 try for more than half a century"
 As Senator Underwood, recently leader
 of the democratic hosts in the House of
 Representatives. and propably soon to be
 selected as leader of his party in the
 Senate, has been in Congress only about
 twenty-five years, the moral" candidate
 for the Senate must be referring to the
 elder statesmen of the old south: Nor
 gan, Pettus, Vest, Lamar, Roger Q.
 Mills, Daniels of Virginia, Vance of North
 Carolina, Benjamin H. Hill and Toombs
 of Georgia, Yancey of Alabama, and
 other "fossiliferous old asses of that character. That fateful phrase is the
 same one which was employed by the candidate in a moment of uneasy exhila- ration just before the primary in 1914 when, as manager of RIP. Hobson, he asserted that the people of Alabama were about to sweep certain fossiiferous old asses into oblivion. The majority was
 only $500 against Hobson.
 TERRIBLE THREATS Next follows the assertion that unfor- tunately there are two candidates against Underwod, when there should be but one. He modestly withholds mention of the proper one, but asserts:
 q have fought Underwod in season and out of season; I never have supported Tim in any of his races since he has been in public office in this state. Six years ago l was after him. and I intend to lkeep after him until we retire him from public life in this state"
 Up to this terrible threat-notwithsfand ing which Senator Underwood seems to have struggled along to leadership in House and Senate-Musgrove has not given expression to single thought that could suggest an issue, a public ques- tion, or subject that would not be ruled out of order in the United States Sem ate. His effort up to this point has been plain buffoonery, or Pullman smoker jokes or childish confessions of his sorry ability to think on his feet. From now on he lashes out lion fashion. Observe:
 q have fought in season and out of season for the cause of prohibition, and I expect to continue in the fight so long as I live. I felt complimented by being
 designated by the moral, Christian and temperance forces of this nation as their leader in favor of the eighteenth amend ment It does not behoove me to state to you what I did in that matter He certainly must have ben busy too busy to account to Mrs Adelaide Everhart until the United States court stood him LID against the bar and shot
 decree at him.
 MAKE THE SCHOOLS SUPPORT : THEMSELVES
 MT Musgrove next takes up the sub feet of education and asserts that speak ing as business man, some radicai changes should be brought about in the public educational system of our coun- 1 try, and if I should be so fortunate as to get to Congress, I believe I can do something along that line etc | He is tremendously worked up because, I to use his statesmanship language, such | a body, such bunch, and such crowd | and such force is leaving the fare><. | for the cities"
 l Musgrove wants to hold them on the farms through the schools and the ] churches, so that the boys and girls T>ii have the advantage of two and maybe | three years at Auburn, and when they | leave there be able to produce Tor them selves a living and have a vocation when
 they leave this school, and I believe in 1 time you will see the national govern ment supplement the funds of the state
 to an equal amount when that is cared 1 for by the state; something along the line ! of good roads, possibly I am not pre- l pared to say but do know that you can 1 take in a state like this, where 80 per cent l of its energies are in agriculture, and make the schools produce an amount ! equal to that which they cost, and when 1 they do that the school teachers sal- | aries will be settled, because if they are able to produce amount equal to their 1 cost, or to double their salaries, l sub | init that the community will not care 1 There you have it! Isn't it simpler The 1 teachers are to double their own sal
 aries The schools are to produce an amount equal to their cost! Musgrove | has solved a difficult problem Just let ! him do it. He adds:
 T feel like I can do much along that
 line, which I would take great pleasure