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yy m- VT( u. -f l. -r MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER ALABAMA JOURNAL THREE SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1955 'And Where She Stops Nobody Knows' 'Don't Get Carried Competitive Bids For New State Building? By Bob Ingram A SHOWDOWN VOTE on a bill authorizing the construction of a multi-million-dollar state office building here has been successfully delayed by an econ By JOE AZBELL 1 '2'x- f.i5-5:? if4sf XL i tL The Alabama Farm Bureau FOR GENERATIONS, the farmer got his dose of fresh politics around the pot-bellied stove or gnawing on soda biscuits swiped from a barrel in the general store. Often he was ill informed about bills that affected him omy group in the Senate. The measure, which was approved by the House with a minimum of opposition, appeared on the Senate calendar for a vote on the 15th legislative day.

However, on each succeeding day a vote on the bill has been postponed, and during the past week Sen. Albert Bout-well of Jefferson led a fight to put the bill off until the 20th legislative day. Under the rather broad provisions of the act the governor, finance director INGRAM and his land and seldom did he know the comings and goings of what he called "high alutin' senators and representatives. In those days, about the only time the politician got whittled down to the farmer's size was at election time or when news of what his "man" was doing in Montgomery got back in home. With poor communication and few folks visiting the Capitol from rural areas, information was flimsy at best.

inia 1 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Miami Herald joe Azbell But today, politics "ain't too wet to plow" as the farmer used to say. Farmers put in their "two cents worth" and when they speak, legislators are all ears. Their interest is being looked after 24 hours a day on Goat Hill by an organization called the Alabama Farm Bureau. When the farmer wants to gripe, he lets out his yelp through the voice of this huge group which has its equals only in education forces, cities league, and labor unions at the Capitol.

The Farm Bureau is a strapping political giant which keeps its members informed of what they can gripe about by sending out legislative reports and a monthly newspaper called the Alabama Farm Bureau News. The current issue of the News demonstrates the bureau's activities. It has these headlines: "New Bills Threaten Higher Tax On "House Approves Bills To Aid Milk Industry As Senate Marks Time" and "Attack On Milk Board Indication Of Move To Abolish System." The editor of the News. W. T.

(Tommy) Mayor, is a veteran Capitol scribe who noses about Goat Hill with other bureau officials smelling out the items that affect the farmers at the branchheads. Five Notable Brothers, Instead Of Four By C. M. Stanley Editor, The Alabama Journal LEnTERS RECEIVED about these Sunday articles are usually regarded as personal, but frequently they contain new information of such importance as to call for publication for the sake of the record. One such letter comes from Judge 'Henry R.

Howze of Birmingham. Judge Howze is a personal friend of many years and a son of the late Judge Augustin Clayton Howze of Marion and Birmingham. I remember Judge A. C. Howze best by his stately dignity on the street and the long cape which he wore in severe weather instead of an overcoat.

"Selma, Tranquil Hill, Rt. 2. June 14, 1955. "My dear Mr. Stanley: In 'Recallng Most Stirring Year In Alabama, you name Boiling Hall as one of the delegates to the 'Secession Convention.

Was this Boiling Hall of Lowndes county? If he was, I think he was my grandfather. My grandfather died when my mother was a very young child, and though my grandmother, who was Matilda Aseneth Jordon, lived to be 83 years old, she told us nothing about my grandfather. Can you tell me where I could get information about him? "Gratefully and cordially, "MARY AXFORD." NOTHER LETTER REFERRING to the third and fourth generations of men mentioned on a recent Sunday comes from Birmingham and reads: "Birmingham, 117 Courthouse, June 28, 1955 Mr. Stanley: Mr. Hill Ferguson has just handed nie a clipping with your by-line 'Four Notable Brothers Born in Marion "My grandfather, Charles Gayle Brown, was one of those brothers.

Incidentally, on May 29th of this year the University of Alabama presented an honorary degree to my son Bradley for his great grandfather who left the University in 1862 to join the Confederate Army It was a most interesting and appreciated article. "Yours very truly, 'BRADLEY BROWN." JT SEEMS THAT up in Ohio these articles sometimes bring on spells of homesickness to a former Alabama man far away from his old home city. Here is a letter from Columbus, Ohio. "Columbus, Ohio, 2405 Summit Street, June 28, 1955. "Dear Mr.

Stanley: Just a word to express my personal appreciation for your narrations upon past Incidents and people of Alabama and Montgomery, particularly, in your column of The Advertiser each Sunday. Your reminiscences produce in this transplanted Montgomerian moments of nostalgia and revive memories of bygone days up and down old Dexter and South Court My mother graciously furnishes me with your column. She lives at 1530 Mulberry Street, Oak Park. "Your column devoted to a visit to the old chimney and to Oak Hill cemetery was a delight. Many times have I explored the banks of the Alabama river, gazed up at the old chimney, and rambled around the steam plant.

'INTERESTINGLY, MR. STANLEY, I attended a Memorial Service at the Confederate Cemetery here in Columbus, Ohio, on Jefferson Davis birthday. The service was conducted by the U. D. and there were about 150 of us 'Rebels' in attendance.

It was a surprise to me to discover a cemetery here that kept the mortal remains of Confederate soldiers. There are nearly 3,000 graves of those who died in prison camps hear this city. "I shall continue to anticipate the pleasure derived from reading your future works. "Very respectfully and sincerely yours, FURMAN CAUTHEN, Minister, "Seventh Avenue Church of Christ." STANLEY QLDER CITIZENS will recall that the second wife of Judge A. C.

Howze was Mrs. Nannie Dillard Arrington of Montgomery. Here is the son's letter: "Birmingham, 2828 Berwick Road, June 28, 1955. "Dear Mr. Stanley: As a native of the fine old town of Marion, I read with great pleasure your article in Sunday's Advertiser-Journal about the four notable Brown brothers born in that city, three of whom setUed in Birmingham and all of whom were very warm friends of mine.

"It was a very remarkable family, the oldest of whom was Henry P. Brown, who also became notable in another state. He was admitted to the bar in a Miss Lockett, a granddaughter of Alabama's War Governor, Andrew B. Moore, and then moved to Texas where he was very successful in his profession. He ended his career as attorney general of that great state.

''yOU MAY BE interested in knowing the career of Eugene Brown' son, Atwell J. Brown. Upon the death of my- father in 1927 with whom I was associated for 35 years, I formed a partnership with Atwell Brown and, with the exception of the few years he was in World War II, and I held the probate judgeship of Jefferson county; we were together until 1952 when on account of my age and declining health, I reluctantly had to-relinquish the practice of law, in which I had been engaged for 60 years. Like his father, Atwell Brown is a man of fine intellectual attainments, has become an outstanding lawyer in Birmingham and commands the confidence as well as respect of all our citizenship. It occurred to me that you would be pleased to know something about one of the third generation of the William Richard Brown's family which had its origin in Marion.

"Your articles in the Sunday edition of your papers are always greatly enjoyed by me, especially when they refer to friends and acquaintances of early years, most of whom have passed away. "With kindest and personal regards, 'Sincerely yours, "HENRY R. AN OTHER LETTER ASKED for some Lowndes county information I was unable to supply in detail. It reads: and attorney general would be empowered to create public corporation with the authority to acquire prop-; erty, issue bonds and construct a building at a cost not to succeed $5,000,000. Tentative plans call for the building to be constructed on the property facing the north wing of the capitol, and its architectural design would be similar to the building now occupied by the Department of Archives and and History.

The proposed structure would be used to house several departments which were unable to secure space in the new State Offic building, including the Departments of Welfare, Conservation Civil Defense, Milk Control Board and others. The fight in the Senate over passag? of the bill developed into? a struggle between Boutwell and Finance Director Fuller Kim brell. When Boutwell introduced a motion to postpone the measure until the 20th day, Kimbrell scurried throughout the Senate chamber in a desperate attempt to line up votes. However, by a scant one-vote margin, Kimbrell failed. Bout-' well's motion prevailed, 16-15.

"I am not against the construction of a new office building," Boutwell said, "but no one has shown me yet just exactly what, the great haste is in passing such a bill." "This proposal is far too important to rush it through the Legislature without giving it fair consideration," he continued. "There are several things in. the bill which need to be corrected. I have already succeeded in getting an amendment added to the bill which will require the bonds to finance the building will be sold on a competitive basis." "I am also opposed to the passage of the bill at present as I understand the anticipated rent from the building will not be sufficient to meet the 30-year payments," Boutwell added. "It would cost about a year in additional revenue, and tbil money would have to come from the general fund." "I don't want to be a party to any agreement that would take this much money from education or any other of the state agencies," he said.

"There is plenty of time left to pass this biU, and I think it is of utmost importance that we first find ways and means to meet the needs of education before approving an expenditure such as this." High On The Hog CONSPICUOUS INCREASE in expenditures by the State Military Department for active military duty pay has been noted in recent months. On a comparative basis, expenditures out of this fund from-Jan. 17, 1954 through July 7, 1954 totaled $15,238. During the same period this year the expenditures had soared to $84,903, an increase of more than 500. Col.

J. D. Berry, first assistant to Adj. Gen. W.

D. Partlow, said the big increase resulted "because we are calling more mea to active duty than ever before." He said the department had held a number of planning meeting for guard officers throughout the state, and these gatherings had added to expense of the department. "In the past no such meetings were held, and the guard units spent the first week in camp getting the program lined up and the second week making preparations to come home," Berry said. "As a result, very little was accomplished at camp. However, these planning meetings will enable the units to get off on the right track on the first day of camp." Berry also confirmed that another reason for the increase was due to the fact that four men had been called into permanent active duty and "farmed out" for various services.

The orders for all four men say they are to "assist civilian police in controlling traffic" but actually none of them are obeying their orders. Lt. Alvin Bender of Dothan continues to hold fourth as official greeter in the governor's office; Lt. Marvin L. Latham of Gadsden, Sgt.

Roland Johnson of Cullman and Sgt. William J. Russell of Mobile are all on recruiting duty. Sgt. Johnson is a former employe of Folsom's Work-All Battery Co.

in Cullman. This active military duty pay has also been put to good use in sending legislators on trips. Sen. E. L.

Roberts of Etowah received $100 for a trip to Washington, D. C. on "official military business." And this same fund financed the Las Vegas trip of Sens. Broughton Lamberth, Richmond Flowers and Neil Metcalf. In addition to receiving full military pay on this 10-day trip, the men were also reimbursed considerably for their expenses.

This included a standard fee of $2.50 for each breakfast, $3.75 for each lunch, and $4.50 for each supper. These branchhead tribunes eat pretty high on the hog. This past week end more than 20 legislators were flown to Gulf port, as guests of the Military Department to attend a Governor's Day celebration. This expense has not yet shown up on the state's bookkeeping records. Constitution Party NEW POLITICAL PARTY has been formed in Alabama, with its platform obviously aimed at preserving racial segregation in the South.

The Constitution Party of Alabama filed its charter papers in the office of the secretary of state this past week, after an organizational meeting in Birmingham on July 2. Officers were identified as William Jones, Tarrant City, chairman; George R. Carswell, Birmingham, vice chairman, and Mrs. Louise Mabry, Birmingham, secretary-treasurer. While not mention is made in the party's platform relating, to the race question, some of it's planks are aimed at the heart of the issue.

The platform includes an immediate prohibition on all immigration, the election of U. S. Supreme Court members, and tha election of the U. S. attorney general.

The platform further promises to "reaffirm and protect; tie rights of the individual states against federal the revocation of citizenship and privileges of all subversives as discovered; renounce all treaties, executive agreements and military compacts which affect internal law or which impair the total sovereignty of the nation. The platform further declares "the social rights are the rights of the individual and are not to be invoked by federal government bureaus against citizens" and calls for the immediate repeal of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U. S. Constitution which, tht party says, "were immorally and illegally ratified." Mr. Bennett-Ashtray Emptier In Action Salvation Is In Unity gELIEF IN THE basic idea "experience proves that the salvation of agriculture depends on maintaining unity among farmers" will be demonstrated by thousands of Alabama farm familiei during the next few.

weeks as they gather at picnic grounds, in auditoriums, and other sites for their annual county and community Farm Bureau membership meetings. The quotation is from the "farewell address" of Alabama's elder atatesman of agriculture, Edward A. O'Neal of Lauderdale County, upon his retirement in 1947 after 16 yean as president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The "experience" to which O'Neal referred covered the history of efforts to bring farmers together, dating back to the early days of this century and even before. More particularly, it covered his period of activity that began when the Alabama Farm Bureau was created in 1921 and his leadership in succeeding years in development of a national farm program.

What Is the Farm Bureau? To the non-farmer, it may appear to be merely another pressure group which he reads about in Washington dispatehes and legislative stories a selfish group whose principal aimis to soak the consumer and shift the tax burden to other shoulders. Thousands believe this. The Problem Is Prosperity JCTUAllY, LEGISLATION is only one interest of Farm Bureau albeit an important one. Its aim and activities cover a wide range of endeavors to raise rural standards of living and thus benefit the entire state and nation, according to Walter L. Randolph, president of the Alabama Farm Bureau and vice president of the national organization.

(There are many who believe Randolph could have moved into the national presidency when a former president resigned last year if he had desired.) "The problem of maintaining prosperity in agricuture is exceedingly broad and complex and involves many different lines of action not only in agriculture but in othtr fields," Randolph said in referring to the general policies of the Farm Bureau, which is the world's largest organized group. "Our policies always consider the general welfare. It is fundamental that full employment, high productivity, and a good distribution of income, after taxes, must be maintained throughout the economy in the interest of the general prosperity which is necessary for continuing farm prosperity," he said. Alabama long has been one of the leading Farm Bureau states in the nation in the matter of membership, and until last year, when Kentucky forged a few hundred ahead, topped the South. Approximately 73,000 families were enrolled during the last year, representing some 300,000 individuals, out of the national enrollment of 1,609,000.

Rather than conflicting with the efforts of other farm groups 4he cattlemen's association, poultry industry, dairy-, men and others it serves to coordinate their efforts in behalf of agriculture generally. These efforts lay emphasis on education and farm-through-market research to enable farmers to get better- use of their land; maintenance of a "parity" principle which simply is a device to place a fair exchange value on farm products in relation to costs; expanded foreign trade; a sound national economy; a high, net "spendable" income with a minimum of controls. Full Parity pHE GOAL WE seek is a condition that will permit farmers to achieve full parity," Randolph said. "Government programs for agriculture should be designed to help farmers achieve this objective but we do not consider it the responsibility of the government to guarantee profitable prices to any group. Farmers have no illusions that their interests are adequately protected by price guarantee alone." In fact, it is pointed out only 23 per cent of the national farm income is from the "basic" crops which are Included in the price support program.

The proportion is higher'in Alabama, with its heavy cotton and peanut acreage, but still many thousands of Alabama farmers do not grow these crops and are not affected by what non-farmers often refer to as "government sub-Idies. The Alabama Farm Bureau Federation was organized at Auburn January 30, 1921, by representatives of several counties in which local organizations had been set up. An account of the meeting, carried in The Advertiser the following day and written by P. O. Davis, now API Extension director, outlined a talk that included 42 states at that time: "Pleading for the great basic industry of agriculture, he urged that it be made a profession on an equal basis with other professions and let it be known that the Farm Bureau does not propose to make a fight on any individual or organization, but that it does propose to investigate and make recommendations and, when necessary, demand that the farmers' interest be protected, since the success of all business interests are directly or indirectly dependent upon the success of agriculture." The Pioneers MONG THOSE ATTENDING the pioneer meeting from Montgomery were Jesse B.

Hearin, who recently retired after many years with the New Orleans Production Credit Administration and who was then manager of the Montgomery C. of the late Harry E. Snow, then manager of the Montgomery Stock Yards; Extension Agents Lem A. Edmonson and Mrs. Mamie Thoring-ton, the latter now retired.

The biggest delegation, consisting of 14 men, went from Autaugua County which has maintained a strong Farm Bureau through the, years. They were led by Judge C. E. Thomas, Will Howard Smith, and County Agent John B. Mitchell.

Montgomery County's Farm Bureau, numbering approximately 1,500 families, is headed by John A. Garrett, Snowdoun dairy farmer who also Is director of dairying and commodity services of the Alabama federation. The annual meeting and barbecue usually is held in September. All other counties hold meetings during summer and fall to elect officers and delegates to the state convention, while legislative committees and directors are active throughout the year. Growing each year, the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation now has three mutual insurance firms serving its membership with insurance and special farm services ranging from safety programs to mailbox identification projects It is a far cry from the old days of over-tbe-fence political gossiping and exchange of farm methods by word of mouth.

The Farm Bureau, in representing more people than vote in an average state election, is powerful ytt Its power lies at the branchheads. By Burns IWOULDNT get mixed up in that cigaret vs. cancer business for a million dollars. That's strictly up to the scientists and manufacturers. (At last reports, more doctors were testing cigarets than are tending to the sick.) Whether any one smokes cigarets or not doesn't concern me in the least.

But one thing does completely puzzle me. Perhaps in the long run I'd better have stuck to some uncomplicated subject like nicotine and diseases. What I'm about to say may prove more dangerous in the long run. But my question is, why do members of the female sex ero berserk at the 8 1 lJi BENNETT 1 Bennett It just seems to me as a non-smoker of course that an ashtray is like a fireplace. It necessarily becomes a little grimy as a result of its natural function.

You can't imagine a wife who would run in and swab out a fireplace after every burning. Well, that's the way I look at ashtrays. Naturally they'll get somewhat soiled from use. But the average lady of the house seems to feel that a used ashtray is a personal challenge to her ability as a homemaker. They seem to be perpetually expecting an inspecting officer in white gloves.

It seems women would be satisfied with the accomplishments already made along these lines. Anybody'll tell you that left to his own devices, a normal man would fleck the ashes to the floor, which is of course the proper plaee for them. I've often heard it repeated that ashes are one of nature's best-known weapons against moths. Many years ago, when woman apparently decided men were having too much fun smoking, but that there was nothing she could do about it, she invented ashtrays. QF COURSE, I go along with the wife who would crack the noggin of husband or guest who dawdles over bis coffee, using cup and saucer for an ashtray.

Nothing is more repulsive. I agree with the lady who dumps ashtrays to forestall doodling. An ashtray, comfortably filled with ashes, is like a child's sandbox. When the surface of the ashes has been pressed smooth, an expert can take a burnt match stem and like an artist, conjure up a bouse, bird, or species of squares tnd circles. Such doodling, I confess, isn't in taste.

1 don't blamo milady for heading it off. But this is the only exception. But I'm still stumped as to why the sight of an ashtray awakens in the odinary housewife all the latent traits of a newly-striped top sergeant, or grizzled navy chief, giving bsrracks or bulkheads that final going over just before the inspector arrives. They've invaded every other field known to man, so why do the women folk now have to muscle in on one of the very few privileges ieft to the average male, that of smoking peacefully and unmolested without having an ashtray jerked way almost before he can stub out bis coffin naiL A ft i 4 'Ceremonial Relaxation Of Segregation' Jonathan Daniels In The Virginia Quarterly Review HERE will be, indeed as there has already been a good deal of ceremonial relaxation of segregation everywhere. The colored people will go to the banquet.

They may be even ostentatiously not bunched together. Exceptional people, artists, intellectuals, professional men, baseball players, will be given exceptional treatment. Every token will be paid to equality. Tht best, least prejudiced, and most expensive schools and colleges will admit that one Negro child, and everybody will be very nice to him, indeed. The number of such token men and boys grows.

Perhaps because I had the license of a Southern state on my car, the operator of in elaborate motel in New York told me that he did not admit Negroes but he had one, very nice Negro major who always got a very nice reception. Some such men and boys often seem pioneers for the Negro race. Some white men regard them as protectors for the white race too as samples which by denying segregation protect it as well. In our times it becomes increasingly hard to know who is and who is not Uncle Tom. The very strange thing is that some cf those who most bitterly speak the phrase unconsciously are cast in th sight of a peaceful, clean, little cigaret ash, lying neatly in the place designed for it? Women get some funny notions.

But there is nothing that drives one into a frenzy like the sight of a slightly-used fag in an ashtray. Red flags to bulls are as nothing compared to tobacco embers in a receptacle. I hope I'm not ending a beautiful friendship as I reveal how I recenUy spent an evening with a man who is married to an ashtray emptier not a woman, just an ashtray emptier. Anyone can understand keeping the silver polished. It seems perfectly befitting that plates be kept spotless.

I admire wives who see to it that mud is kept off the carpets. But why any woman should stand on a point, nose quivering, constantly in wait for someone to finish a smoke so she can empty the ashtray, is beyond me. HOSTESS for the evening seemingly hovered over everyone's shoulder with a wet cloth. Before the coals were cold she would have grasped the ashtray, dashed to the recesses of the kitchen to empty it, and return triumphantly to the parlor, shining as she moved. During the course of the evening my friend had at least six ashtrays shot from under him.

It must have been quit disconcerting. a.