The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04

set of speakers closer or more inter- ested attention than was the ease here Monday.
 Plea For Japanese.
 Dr. J, A. Bryan, of the Third Pres byterian church, offered the invoca- ton to the exercises, accentuating l his plea to GCd for mercy to the stricken Japanese people in the hour ! of their great trouble.
 1 Secretary Davis and all present were delighted with the music of the T. C. l. chorus, some 30 men directed 1 by Steve Allsop, who were called on again and again with ringing en- cores. They sang from classic music to the familiar old songs and re- ceived the real tribute that fine mu- sicians love, absolute quiet while they held the floor. They captlvated 1 all
 The softer music was thrown into vivid silhouette by the rolling strains of several spirited marches played l by the band of the Boys Industrial school old and appreciated frien6s of all Birmingham.
 Dr. ElkCurie, in introducing Sec retary Davis. spoke first of the statesman's work in the upbuildlng of "Mooseheart." the great home maintained by the order for homeless children, success of which Moose members attribute to the untiring efforts of Mr. Davis through many years of hard work and constructive thought.
 City Commissioner w. l.. Harrison officially welcomed Secretary Davis to Birmingham on behalf of the city and labor. In part, MT. Harrison said:
 f This is a most suspicious occasion when We have as our honored guest a man not only as the head of the labor department of the United States, but one whom we claim as a son of Birmingham. who has la bored here beside us and knows the | cltys trials and the toll of the la boring man of the district.
 The labor question with Birming- nam does not at all times mean simply the working people, but the laboring men and women. When 1 speak of labor l mean the thousands and mil . lions who are human beings with l longings and ambitions and aspira. | tons that are ever present in their ] breasts.
 T am thinking of their welfare, their families and want to see them on the highest plane where they want to be, to see satisfied their social ambitions, in that social state in life where all want to be, to see satisfied that ambition that is in the blood of us all. everywhere.
 There is not a department of the government of more vital importance 1 than that of labor, so we are doubly glad to welcome here It's chief. Sec retary Davis has and will always have warm spot here in his heart l for the boys and men who put In 1 their time with him in the mill and it Is joy to all of us to have seen him go on up to the head of the greatest department in the United States"
 Dr. Elkourike next introduced Roderick Beddow who told of the l work MT. Davis has done as director | general of that great mother, that greatest mother of orphaned chill dren, Moose heart"
 rDavis and Roosevelt put 1t over,' 1 MT. Beddow said, 'and that organiza- l ton has done more for humanity than any other institution in the l United States It gives the chance to children that many parents are unable to provide"
 J. II. Adams was introduced by pr. Elkourie as that living encyclopedia of the Birmingham district who Is one of the communitys greatest as- sets"
 Mr. Adams spoke of the develop ment and growth of the metal in- dustry In the district, telling of the | early battle for recognition or BIT minghams products, the years ot fight to keep the business going and the dawn of the great period of de- velopment that took the business here from the production of pig iron through the phases of the steel in- dustry to the making of the parts for ships He outlined what Is to coma saving the development from the early start to now Is but the indica- | tion of what Is to come.
 The gathering in the park, when 1 the speaking was concluded, was rounded out with music and the in troduction of many to the city's