The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-03

else take it over. You see the nigh
 collared fraternity eating her pies with much gusto. Is it not strange
 how the good Lord balances things Spller took the pies to help the old lady along-now the pies make 1 Spillers place sought for. Split in- 1 finitive' religionists will say that the
 Lord had nothing to do with it, but l old fla shioned hell fire and brim- stone fellows like me sand Judge
 Stiles know whole lot better. Long
 may the old lady live to make pies
 Time was when I thought the
 greatest railroad in the world was 1 the Alabama Great Southern. I was willing to accord the Louisville and
 Nashville a place in the sun also, and after knowing Superintendent | Brooks and watching the Louisville | and Nashville do business l came to l the conclusion that maybe the Ala
 bama Great Southern did not know | it all, but you will have to hand it to the Central of Georgia when it 1 comes to eXpenditious movement Of perishable freight. 1 saw them dur ins the peach season swing 2,00O
 cars in about a week, and 1 realized
 then that they were ralroading.
 Right on top of the peaches came 1 the melons and as the crop was
 enormous care had to be exercised | to keep the cars shunted out of con | gested markets. Now they are nov i ing cotton and the way they make | things hum leads me to opine that | it might be a good idea for Super | intendent Smith of the Louisville
 and Nashville and Horace Vance of | the Southern to run over here and | see how the other fellow swings | npri S h q h1ac a ac f,ai ie~t,t
 l think that l found out the secret of the peach movement-every car is
 carefully inspected before it is sent | out from Macon, and they also keep crew of top notch inspectors on
 the ground at Fort Valley, and other
 heavy shipping points. to see that
 every car is in perfect trim. The re- suit was that out of 2,000 cars they did not have single hot box, or
 set out single car for any defect while operating over the Central during the peach season.
 The Macon passenger station is A beauty, really better looking than
 ours. It has an enormous passenger train business to handle as every
 fast train going into Florida seems
 to pass through Macon. Their super intendent of terminals is man
 named Whippler, and he wears the 1 smile that never comes off I have seen him swing excursion business that would make my friends Gift and McGlemery rush around a bit. Whippler brides himself on keeping
 the cleanest passenger station in the | United States-it $ a gem of clean
 liness, but rather think that Gift would challenge him on the cleanest. l want Gift to come over here and | meet Whippler for I am sure they | would get some pointers from each other. Whippler's motto is Laugh and the world laughs with you
 weep and you weep alone" I have l watched him all day and he cer- tainly lives up to his motto
 l like these Macon people-any number of them eat collards and
 drink buttermilk. They may have
 Maggies at home same as have but
 when l meet them on the streets
 they are just plain ,olks. They have
 done one peculiar thing in that they
 have elevated an honest man and a 1 banker as mayor of their city Think of banker accustomed to running
 his business inside income trying to 1 run city where the whole aim seems to be to create deficit and
 issue more bonds. Then they have varied things by electng fine l | these high falutin, self seeking kind,
 but mother who has three or four | children and who actually knows l how to make fried pies. From what
 l gather she is not ashamed of the
 children or her ability to cook She
 ran second on the ticket. and that, | too, without any expensive campaign | Georgians are funny people--they ac-
 tually vote for people because they l believe them fitted for the office
 and are not looking for any personal ! advantage They look forward to q | business administration and this ma | Williams has made a success of hts ! bank, but l am free to say that I l cannot see why an honest man want; ! to put his hand in the lions mouth. l How many politicians do you know i that are absolutely honest and who I do not trim their sails to catch each
 passing breeze? How many of them really want to run things on a busi-
 ness basis? Down deep in our hearts
 do we actually want that business
 basis to obtain? How many candi-
 dates in the coming campaign back
 home want to get Birmingham with in her income? Don't all speak at
 once. BILL SYKES.