The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-15

 southland. They were guests as sew | Decca Lamar West of Texas. re- sponded to the welcome and said: "All the year we've been thinking of coming to be guests of Alabama.
 It's motto appealed especially to me I needed it. Dreams of rest floated
 when arrive I am doomed to dis appointment for l hear that the Ala
 bama United Daughters of the Con
 federacy have changed that delight full and enticing motto to: Here we work" I might have known 1t for the Alabama division has long been
 known for it's splendid work. but I
 did not realize that even they would upset tradition so long established. But if I am disappointed in the promise of rest. l certainly can voice the sentiment of every Daugh- ter of the Confederacy that we are not disappointed in our reception. It more than fulfils our dreams. and your gracious words of welcome are just what we expected from Alabama,
 lovely land far famed for courtesy and hospitality. When we think of
 the reasons we had for wishing to
 come to Alabama 1t is an embarrass-
 ment of riches for one could speak
 for hours and not give half.
 First to use a St. Andrews cross
 upon a battle standard, Tuscaloosa
 in 1540 at the battle of Mauvila, just
 think of it. nearly loo years before
 the landing of the Pilgrims and the
 descendants of those Puritans have
 not found yet that anything hap
 pened over here before 1920. At least
 if we are to judge by the history
 he
 write. First professional race track
 in America near wetumpka, 1854, we
 always heard those Alabamians were
 gay old fellows. First purely com
 mercial town founded in the United
 States, Mobile, under the French
 A shining example of how wise it is to mix business and pleasure. If you don't have the first you haven't
 much of the last.
 T had a friend who as young girl visited Mobile. When she re- turned home she talked of nothing but Mobile and it's delights. Her father said finally: My daughter, I think you were wearing rose colored glasses and gazing through cham pagne colored atmosphere' Good old days before the latest warD First suffragette rally in America called the petticoat rebellion in TIA. Won der if anybody ever told Miss Susan B. Anthony about that? First to adopt Paris fashions. French society at Mobile (New York and New Or leans please note.) First of the cot ton states to establish a public school system, and we all know of your great educational progress not only | for the white race but for the negro. especially through the school founded l by the truly remarkable man of the negro race, Booker T. Washington. | First troops reviewed by President Davis were the Auburn Guards, Feb ruary 16, 1861. First active war | order issued April g, 1861, was at Montgomery, fire on Fort Sumter. | First and only comm sslon Lee ever personally handed recipient, John T. Morgan of Selma.
 ! First Canal
 "First and only commander of the Confederate Navy, Admiral Semmes of Mobile and so on for two columns, but those last two should ever be first. Semmes. the great naval com
 mander and John Tyler Morgan. the | latter a youngster as soldier rising
 rapidly to high rank but not alone
 as soldier does his record stand but
 as great statesman, one of the master
 minds that brought the south out of the night of chaos to rank once more in leadership in the United States government. A man who. if justice were done, would be acclaimed in history as the father of the idea of
 a great canal to benefit the Latin | American countries and incidentally the whole world The Nicuaraugua canal would have been built years
 before Panama Canal. one always as- | ,,or nf ta nr welt.
 Pelham and Fighting Joe Wheeler. | both hsroes. the one giving up his beautiful young life. scarcely on the | threshold of manhood, the other be- l loved and honored by all America, living like Morgan to take a leading | part in the rehabilitation of the south and to crowp a career by proving to the world the undying
 unity of America by leading the charge of San Juan HiH more than a third of a century after Appomat- Itox, beloved and lronored by all
 America. And in that same Spanish American war stands out another famous native son for feat of dar- ing which echoed round the world, Richard Fierson Hobson.
 "Abner Lipscomb wrote the Resolu- tion annexing Texas. We cannot re- frain from brief tribute to Emma Sansome. the wonderful girl heroine who lead General Forrest and his men to the Ford, an incident in- mortalized in the thrilling poem of John Trotwood Moore. It should hold Liace on United Daughters of the confederacy programs every year.
 Host of Names
 "Such a host of names come troop irg. if there were but time to pay them tribute, soldiers. orators, statesmen, financiers. The brilliant lYancy, Clanton. Hilliard, Walker, the Forneys, Hillary Herbert, J. l.. M Curry, Clifford Lanier, Theodore O'Hara, Madam Levert.
 Augusta Evans Wilson. Mary .rohnston, Miss Kelly, Helen Keller and host of others have added fame to your beautiful state. More re- gently the late Senator Bankhead whose Legislative work for federal aid for road building places him high us farcseeing statesmen and bene- factor Of the south"
 John Tilly. attorney of Mont- gomery, traced the reconstruction of the southland during the Civil war period. Hts talk outlined in several divisions, the backward south, some Tor the handicaps that contribute to