The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-18
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Best Wishes for Age-Fferald Succe.

i To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Let me congratulate you most heartily upon the first issue of your I paper from its new home, the for. mer Jefferson County Bank Build ing, now The Age-Herald Building It seems to me there is something peculiarly appropriate in the fact that a daily newspaper is being is sued from the tallest building in the South, and one finds himself hop ing and believing that the building. in the depth and security of its foundations. and in the height and beauty of its super-structure, is a symbol and prophecy of what The Birmingham Age-Herald will soon be.
 l would also express my pleasure at the size of your type and the general mechanical arrangement of the paper-making it not only at tractive in appearance, but easy for one to find what he is looking for, and to read it without any strain upon the eyesight or upon ones patience.
 | If it be true-and I believe it is-that our responsibility is in pro- portion to our opportunities, then the responsibility of daily news paper is beyond calculation. because of the many and great opportuni- ties for service, which it enjoys. Sc far as l have been able to Ob- serve, The Age-Herald recognizes the seriousness of its daily ministry to it's rapidly growing number of readers. It seems to stand for all that is. best in private and public life. and therefore has my sincere wishes for it's success in every way. w. c. JAMES,
 Secretary Education Board. $. B. c. Birmingham, Aa., Jan. 1T, 1924.
 The Wiser Policy
 To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 Allow me to congratulate you upon your excellent article in to- days issue, Still Harming Under wood" To my mind your course. as a friend of Underwood, has been far wiser than those who impugn the motives of MT. Musgrove and his following, as well as of Mir. Me Adoo and his following. Both of these gentlemen are high-minded and patriotic Americans, loyal Dem ocrats and good citizens. That Mir. MusgrOye has some followers who may be ''out for the dough-" may be true-probably is; but does any intelligent person think that Mir. UnderwOOd's supporters are exclu- ! nE ba | Mir. Underwood, to he nominated, needs all the sccond-choice votes he can get, or rather think so, and to constantly attack the other can didates as wholly unworthy would, naturally, prejudice their friends against Underwood, or rather this is the way l see 1t. am not on Mir. ! UnderwOOd's campaign committee. though very much for him, but if l was 1 would have endeavOred to first employ all methods to con ciliate." l Mir. MusgrOve has the same right to run as has any other man, and had l been in Mir. Underwood s confidence or on his committee, l would quickly have gently ap- preached Mir. MusgrOve and strong ly urged him, in a kindly spirit, to think of the great value to Ala bama, the South, and, in fact, all these United States, the election of an > Alabamian to the presidency would be, 1 would have told him that, in view of Mir. Underwood S indorsement unanimously by both branches of our legislature, as well as by the Democratic executive committee, that no other candidate could reasonably hope to carry Ala i bama, and that l believed that his tMr. Musgrove s) refusal to compli- cate matters Ill thIs case would sre- suit in unifying our people and ul- , tlmately rebound to his gOod-that notwithstanding that Mir. Under wood was not altogether acceptable to him, eHen from more than one standpoint, that he would win the
 .,.""its of more good Alabamians by supporting AIr. Underwood than by opposing him. l know of many i people for MusgrOve, but they are not bad. just wrcns this time, as all of Us ale apt tU be occasionally Again l congratulate you On your course. J. C. BOWIE.
 Tailade3a. Ala. Jan. Is, 1924.