The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-12

Bowling Green, Ky. June s.
 ,Specialy-These kentucKians are not so nigh and mighty after all-they seem to be just plain folks and eat | corn bread and cabbage with that same fondness that Jiggs manlfests | for homely food. I.have been with a lot of farmers today looking over growing crops. fat cattle and oil wells. The alfalfa appears to mean ] more to them than oil royalty and they have no illusions as to what will come to them from natures un- derground storage.
 They have some beautiful farm houses and I have travelled today over pike built by the Confeder- ate soldiers during the war which is in a fine state of preservation and which could be made as smooth as glass for around $100 per mile. These roads are built of ground rock and the heavy traffic that passes over them does not make any rXts. have seen heavy trucks carrying oil supplies, tanks and such other stuff that would smash up our roads in some parts of Alabama by making two trips, but here they run them day after day and do not even make a dent in the hard rock.
 Today they have had a hurry up job taking care of we'll that blew in for 1900 barrels and I have seen men working in gas fumes that almost blinded them to provide tanks to care for the oil that Dame Nature is throwing out for these good people. met a young lady today who is employed in a bank, who now has an income of over $500 per day as result of the yell. and strange to say her head is not swelled up, nor is she putting on airs at all She is just one of those whole souled. pain, shrewd business women that you meet in this territory. If I were a young man like some of my bachelor friends in Birmingham I am pretty certain that I would be camping on this young lady's door step and reminding her that "Barkis was willing" not because of her sudden wealth but because of her many kind traits and her sunny disposition.
 While working in the bank she learned of the lease and picked 1t up at a bargain, even though her bank thoughF she might be taking on an investment that might fail to pan out, and she let it out on drilling contract so she was not out any mon ey except for the lease. It has paid her, and will continue to pay her for many years to come. The strange part about the game is that she loves to match her wits against those of the men in the game, and really believe she gets more pleas ure out of turning a good lease deal than she does her royalty in the Davis well. Her present ambition is to outshine one of the shrewdest men in the game here, and l have bet with her that she will put it over.
 I rode out today over the most beautiful country in the state outside of Lexington-for mile after mile you could see corn in checkered rows with alfalfa on every side. They run to red cattle in this country and seem to prefer Herefords on accc unt of their rustling qualities, although cannot see that they need to rustic in this fine grass. It is also a straw berry country and they ship from this point in car lots as much as Mir. Holman does down in Sumter. They have a practice here that must have been borrowed from the Bible--hey set aside one day during the season when the pickers are given all they can gather. I met young chap to- day who had gathered enough for his mother to preserve all that they needed and in addition the boy sold enough 10 keep nm m soua water money for some days. The soil here seems well adapted to berries al though it is the first country I ever saw where one could see alfalfa on one side of the road and strawbelrie" on the other. Kentuckians believe in homes and they keep them pant ed and looking spick and span. They also believe in churches judging by the numerous, spires that l have seen, and my whole idea of them has been changed. They do not drink to ex- cess, nor play poker as much as story writers would have us believe. The drilleis sometin es get Hold of little cheer, and when one of them becomes intoxicated his friends refer to him as getting his feet wet" Speaking of whisky. l passed to- day by the abandoned plant of the Deep Springs distillery where for