The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-13
MEN. w o N EN
 A ND THIN G s

Back in the heated days when the amendment" was the bone of con- tention in Alabama politics, and men were read out of the prohibition party who failed to advocate it. l was onessof the speakers used in the campaign.
 , I recall that one of my most fetch ing stories before temperance crowds was the query used to put It was like this, after having worked my audi ence up to pitch of enthusiasm I would say:
 If sap sucker won't suck sap. what right has he to- be called sap sucker?
 The inference, of course being that if prohibitionist wasn't for the Amendment" what right had he to claim that he was a prohibitionist. Nowhere is no telling just what enemies fellow may make when on the stumI Not long while ago [ was at a country gathering. was told that prominent Baptist, and a former friend of mine. was mad with me because I had publicly called him "red-headed woodpecher.'
 
 l was anxious to learn the time and the place in which 1 had so per sonatedn him as our ''darSy" friends call itA and was surprised that it was in a debate when K made use of the question outlined above concerning the right of sap sucker to go by the name, if he wouldn't suck sap. This was all he had to go on for telling it ever afterwards that l had called him "a ed-headed woodpecker." He just happened to be in the crowd and took it to himself.
 got to thinking about the above incident over the question which is now agitating Birmingham over the "jitneys.' It just popped into my head:
 What right has "jltney" to call itself a jitney" if it charges dime to Nhaul people?
 It seems to me that the Birming ham Railway, Light- and Power com pany has right to enjoin the use of the name where the operator of an automobile charges over cents for carrying passengers.
 The people hailed the. advent of the 5-cent ride in ap automobile with joy and counted on it to reduce the cost of living when the street railway went up to~7 cents; but when the "jitney" operators began to climb with the public service corporation, the public soon learned thatsft had to pay it didn't make any difference with which crowd it rode, as it meant the shelling out of extra pennies.
 I suppose this is one reason why the average man in the street" re- fuses to get excited over the matter and is willing to let the receiver of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company and the city com and the public service com and the "jitney' operators fight it out, well believing that in the end he will. have to go down in his pocket and pay the added freight. He has gotten so used to being held !, that he has become reconciled.
 If the Birmingham Railway. Light | and Power company wants to keep alive the 'jitney" question, they can do so by pressing it's demand for an Scent fare with ? cents for trans fers, for as sure as the Alabama pub lie service commission grants 1t, just so sure will the "iltneys" get new lease of life in Birmingham; but if T it wants to be rid of them, it can bs easily done by returning to 5-eent fare with a s.cent charge for trabs fers. I am not holding brief for either one of the parties&h the contest, and have not been called upon and may be incompetent to advisej them, but If the "iitney" operators were to em- ploy me as their counsel, l would Eetf in behind Receiver Bradley and work | for the raise he askss but should he design to consult me, 1 would say, l knock the props out of the "jitneys" by making the popular move of mak- ng the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company the real "jit- ! neysOof Birmingham.
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