The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14

The origin of the term Dixie" is interesting the country again The gen tral explanations of dictionaries and hand-books is that the term came from the Dixon of Mason Dixon," but we have seen others-such as the one which argues that it was derived from cer. tain northern plantation run by a man named Dixon--a model establishment from the point of view of labor condi. :ions. The right of the matter seems to lie in the explanation advanced by the pamphlet issued by the Citizens Bank of New Orleans ten years or so ago This bank, it appears, issued notes printed in England and French, the ten dollar note bearing the French word dix in large letters completely spread over tie face of one side. Rivermen spread these notes all up and down the country; they fell into the habit of saying they were going back to Dixie land" CT we're going South for dixies. '' | Dan Emmet, of course, popularized the term and gave permanence to it by his song. Are there other or better ex- plantations
 "The Texas Review" is undergoing something very like sea-change. The University of Texas has relinquished its claim to the magazine which is to be published now by the Southern Methodist University, with Jay B. Hub bell, editor; George Bond, associate edi- tor; and Herbert Gambrell managing editor. MT. Hubbell tells us that he hopes to put new life into the publica- tion setting as his goals a distinctive Southerwestern flavor, variety, and vital contemporaneousness II am par ticularly anxious to get in touch with young Southern writers who are just getting foothold or who are still un- known--.if they can write" the new editor affirms. The first issue will be the October number.
 Thomas Dixon has recently been at work developing the continuity" for a motion picture based on his new novel of the Klan-'"The Black Hood which, we undestand, he expects to rival "The Birth of Nation" in pop ular. Dixon, by the way, is celebrating his sixtieth birthday by building log cabin study in the woods near his kcountry home, "Currituck Lodge" in the forests of Currituck Sound in North Carolina, near where Whites "Lost Colony" landed on Roanoke Island. Once the new structure is com plete, MT. Dixon plans to begin work on a projected trilogy of the American Revolution the first volume of which sto be called ''The Rescue"
 For us the high water mark of our recent reading has been the new Gullah book by Ambrose E. Gonzales With Aesop Along the Black Border" !" published by the State company. We are no expert in the matter of dialect of folklore, but since Joel Chandler Har- ris first enthralled us we have found a very real amateurs satisfaction in the subject, and we question whether any one today is more at home with the material than Mir. Gonzales. The book is unique from several angles, but the particular charm we found in it came from the fact that Gullah thought and Gullah life were revealed through stories made familiar-by Aesop-to every reader. The old Fox and the Grapes" story, for instance, every one knows but when Gullah tells it through Mir. Gonzales the thing reflects a life new to us, a life rich in racial mean mgs.
 We were interested, too, by an ob seFvatiOn the author makes in his in. troduction. Frequently enough we have seen the statement that the legendry and folklore of the negro is but a suppressed and yelled expression of his discontent with his lot in America. The Rabbit of Uncle Remus, we have been told, is but the weak creature, the slave brought these myths from Africa, lying to protect himself from the harsh ness of his cruel master" MT. Gonzales however, argues definitely that "the slave brought these myths from Afric whence also he brought his racial characteristics.
 Sometimes during the next month, ol perhaps early October, Braithwaite's Anthology of Magazine Verse" fol