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FOUR THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER Fe.rlea Independent FRIDAY. AUGUST 1936 THE PB1SIDE.T THIAK.S OF PEACE Practically everybody wants peace, but not many statesmen are doing anything to insure it President Roosevelt is a notable exception to the rule. At tte very moment mhen Josef Stalin, Russian dictator, is touding a call to arms over the Russian radio and making mysterious references to the imminence of war, President Roosevelt is said by The New York Times to be Interesting himself actively In a better idea than war. According to The Times's Arthur Krock, always a good authority, the President believes that in the event of his re-election in November he will be in better position than any other statesman to take the leadership in a new peace effort, and he has it In mind to invite the leaders of the powers to meet him face to face and talk over the question of war and peace. According to Mr.

Krock the President contemplates Inviting King Edward, Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and President Lebrun of France, and a few others, including Japanese and Chinese, to meet with him at some convenient point to face the issue of war and peace squarely. They would discuss the issue frankly, seek out the moat probable causes of strife, and then refer the question to public opinion Just as Governor Graves of Alabama proposes The Last Touch Of Summer Spang rp i If I it 4 if HI OTv Shelby's Picturesque Personalities sented it i member of the State convention which, in January, with his assistance, passed the Ordinance of Secession. He suffered heavily during the War Between the States in property loasel, but more particularly In the loss of his three sons and his only son-in-law. He died In 1870. Thomas Waverly Palmer was an esteemed adopted son of Shelby.

He was born May IB. I860, at Snow Hill, Wilcox near Fur-man, and attended Howard Collets In 1877-88 when that Institution was still located at Marion. He graduated at the' University of Alabama with an A. M. degree in mathematics, and was Instructor In mathematics at the University from 1881 through 1882.

He was associate professor of this branch of learning in 1882-1883, professor of mathematics from 1883 until 1907 and dean of the Academic Faculty from 1905 to 1907. In May of that year he was elected president of the college at Montevallo, at that time known as "The Alabama Technical Institute for Women." He was chairman of the board of education of Montevallo IntBlS, member of the Alabama Textbook Commission in 1915, and from 1898 to 1907 he was secretary of the not eensua whether. In tne heat cf u.e campaign, he can completely demonstrate the vgJue of the idea and the non-political atmosphere in which he feels it was born. "But the fact that the President, whose chances for re-election appear to observers to be excellent, has conceived such a plan and in discussing ways cf putting it into effect may develop in 193? Into the most Important news the world ha read since 1919." CONFESSION IN RCSSIA The Advertiser is In receipt of the following diverting letter: "Editor The Advertiser: "In today's paper there Is a paragraph-editorial which spoofs and mildly rebukes the Russian conspiratori who had diabolical plans for assassinating wal-rus-mustached Dictator Stalin. Palpably you read- the story of the trial with great Interest and were fascinated by the quasl-ennul of the accused.

But In summing up the denouement you lament: but at last they caved In like a lot of softies. They were profoundly repentant. They said they deserved death. Finally they blanfed old Trotsky for their misfortune. "In the above quoted you are either unseemlngly naive or perhaps you a rent a very studio is reader of your own page.

For on the same page was Paul Mallon more-often-than-not good column which devoted some attention to current police methods of the Soviet. Inlbrlef, he avers that the old method of Inducing a desired confession by application of a rubber" hose is now obsolete, for among the plotters taken prisoner there was many a hombre, who, either through Intense hatred of the regime or natural obduracy, laughed at their own flogging. A more subtle and potent method, consonant with the Soviet brutality which Stalin maintains with reason is necessary and excusable, is the grim threat that severe punlsment will be Imposed on the relatives of the prisoner. "Few and far between Is the type of man that can contemplate brute treatment of a wife, sweetheart, child, mother. To forestall this he Is willing to testify anything In return for a pledge-even though he strongly doubts it Is given In good faith that no harm will befall his folk.

"One might with good reason ask why a government as ruthless and contemptuous of human life as Stalin's goes to the trouble of' a widely publicized trial. Probably he wanted to divert the attention of his vassals. "And thus by means of. a threat against the kinsmen of the conspirators, these men who were capable of winking at death changed their tune, saying they were repentant, that they deserved death, blaming senile old Trotsky who is in exile and who probably had nothing whatever to do with It. All of which Is an Indirect way of saying that Stalin is a benign and great man, so great and benign that they deserve death for thinking of killing him.

Naturally they linked the plot with the name of Trotsky for Stalin would have that once-great name anathema In the eyes of the comrades. "Therefore we are Inclined to be somewhat tolerant of Hearst's red baiting. And wouldn't they shoot me right quick in Russia for popping off like this! Me for good ol' U. S. lalssez faire! "AN ADMIRER." Since our correspondent is interested in opinions on how confessions are made in Russia he will no doubt read with appreciation the following editorial in William Allen White's Emporia Gazette: "The confessions of the convicted old i bolshevists In Moscow do not ring true.

Back of those confessions more or less revealed by the vehemence of the hysterical cries of guilt one sees the torture chamber of the dictatorship. But one would say, having gone through the horrors of torture, a man of steel or stoicism might face death with complacence and still cling to his creed; still be proud of his deeds however black they may seem to others. But one does not realize In free countries how a dictator still holds the lash over his victim after the victim has shed his last drop of blood, suffered his last agony. A dictator, having grilled his victim, holds over the victim's head threat of suffering for the victim's relatives, his wife, his brother, his child, even his friends. It might have been that threat perhaps that made the convicted Russians scream out their guilt In terror.

"Under a dictatorship any dictatorship, where civil rights have perished human life is worthless. In Russia, in Germany and In Italy, under the royal dictators of central Europe, any tyrant can torture any citizen and no one can stop him. So. that when any man confesses to any crime, his confession, which may be wrenched from him by threatening his wife, his mother, his brother, his children, his father, with torture, may be honestly questioned. "Therefore, read these confessions of the old bolshevists with doubt with the same doubt one would have for similar statements under Hitler or A tyrant is a tyrant no matter what language he speaks or what blood courses In his veins.

"It is that tyranny which Is challenging the world. It is the challenge of Communism, the challenge of Fascism. The terrified, hysterical voices of the old bolshevists in court should warn all citizens In free America what we may expect when the great challenge comes in some other hour and day. For it Is an Infection that is threatening the world. We must warjl it off." HOW TO FIND OUT The professor had bought a new car, and was demonstrating It by taking a spin with his wife.

After a while he harrumphed depre-catlngly. "My dear," he said, with a not or apology in his volet. "I'm sorry, but er I'm really afraid I'va forgotten what one do to bring this machine to a halt." "Oh. En os," shrieked tht lady, "what shall we do?" "Now, never mind, dear," consoled her hus band "We'll Just stop at the next garage and ask a mechanic." Brockton Enterprise, News Behind The News By lUCl MALLON WASHINGTON, Alij. 17.

Tha) Houa of Seventy Gabies, which the Stat Department quivered as from an eanhc.u&ke. A hew York morning paper wa earryinf a story that President Roosevelt, if reelected, atught call aJt internauooal peace con ference. And. to make ten worse, the paper sa the eternally reUable Times, whose word is accepted abroad as official gospel. By a.m.

an unidentified authority in the Department managed te Jet the world know anonymously that the ides tu "utterly fantastic." By 18 am. word fell from on high that State Secretary Hull had never suggested such a thing to tht Whit ALL MAiXOM House and vice-versa. By 1:11 p.m, (ufxiriect composure was established to permit aa official statement from Mr. Hull confirming the ttnof-ficial 10 am. denial Now panics are nothing new In the State Department.

Diplomatic hearts are Inherently fluttery. But they never give way to terror before breakfast and only rarely before lunch. The cocktail hour Is usually reserved for emotional strain. What upset the schedule this time was the fact that everyone knew or suspected the unprintable fact that the "utterly fantastic" idea cam from no less an authority than the President himself, who was then riding West. TRUi ROMANCE There are many good reasons for believing that the President once, after dinner, within the past week, toyed out loud among friend with the post-election possibility of initiating a world peace move with Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, tt si.

The only way to do tt would be on a personal man-to-man appeal. He had reached no conclusion. was merely considering the possibility. Ha thought he might do it, if the situation six month from now developed encouraging prospects; and then again he might not. In the meantime, there was certainly no domestic hazard Involved in supposition.

Like the prospect of no-tax-Increase, the possibility was indefinite, but nevertheless all water on the Roosevelt campaign wheel Internationally, however. It wa different. Diplomatic frictions ar tuch that the merest official suggestion carries dire thoughts. In the light of current bickering, th idea may be' truly utterly fantastic. At least tht tremulous diplomatic Virtuosos thought and took th edge off another tru romance.

TOURING This drouth trip upon which the President now is embarked will certainly appear to nonpolltical by comparison with his next one. It ha not yet been decided officially, but the last week In September he will start wlft iwing around the western circle. He will go through the northwest, touch every Pacific Coast State and return to concentrate la tha Middle West and East during the last two weeks of the campaign. His final campaign peeohet will be in upper New York State, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Most of his advisers now agree the swing-trip Is advisable, but he probably would (o anyway.

STYLE You may hav noticed fh scene at the President' first pause on hi non-poliUcal drouth trip. It wa at Wlllard, Ohio, and it was only a pause, because the White House announced the first stop would be Bismarck. 1'. D. However, engine and train crew must change.

The train paused for operating pur pose. Mr. Roosevelt did also. He asked tha crowd around the back platform how things were out there and received the snappy re sponee: "All right, ince you hav been In," This is the new campaign style which cause admiring chuckles from all In hi entourage. He used it first on hi flood trip through Pennsylvania and New York a few week ago.

He made no political talks, did no hand shaking, but at each town he would Invariably appear and observe: "Thing certainly look lot different around here since I was last here in 1932," or if he had not visited the community in 1932, he would sk th crowd how things were. Those accompanying him thought this pointed psychology brought better jsult than speeches. is in Hollywood. The Hollywood they spoofed I Title for Heywood Broun' stuff: "Column Left!" Oscar Shaw always looks as though he had Just sliced up to burst Into song. Wonder If Frank Morgan keeps laughing that way around the house, too? And If Barbara Stanwyck tunes in on Frank Fay's broadcasts? Just wonder boy! Gelett Burges and Austin Strong were look alike 20 years ago.

No lady of Broadway has kept continuously in th news so long as Peggy Joyce And without a press agent) Pto one can top Wheeler looking the wise old OWL Or weai a collar so tight as Albert Mander of the SuVi staff. Add constant companions: Vincent Astor and his sister's divorced husband Prince Obolensky. The old Friars Club is taking on a haunted look. Theodor, the famed head waiter, in his morning coat with lapel carnation. And last of the pearl grey derbyists.

William Goadby Loew. Never see a white suit or a billiard table that I don't think of Mark Twain. The wag. Ray Perkins, And his authoress sister, Mrs.Jfulton Ourslcr. With every Page One marital mixup "No.

21" seems to winnow a mention. Those Ned Sparkeses studying the racing forms and dreaming the futile dream. But don't we all? a a a- a Rummaging through an old desk drawer today I came upon a note, I once wrote Will Roger reading: "Dear Bill: Why don't you write a Sunday piece on vittles you like. Food as a topic is usually a bell ringer." Across It he had scrawled: "Pot likker, corn pone, middlings, turnip greens and chili and that's all I'd have to say." And that is enough for even Brlllat- Savarin to say. a a a a I never fall to obey the "Step up a little closer, gents of tht pitch man.

Last evening, oil West 46th Street. I was pressing up when I felt a tug at a hip wallet. In a flash I grabbed a hand. And turned to look Into the white face of a good looking boy, certainly not more than 19. He was stricken with the most agonizing expression I ever beheld.

I don't know which was the more embarrassed. I dropped the hand and walked away wavey with a faint giddiness. Somehow, I feel sure It wa his first attempt at picking pockets. a In big and minor crises, the human mind so 1 often move sluggishly. There wa something I might have said or done for that young man that, not beyond possibilities, might hav veered him from a dangerous road.

Aa mpty stomach and a wallet within easy reach Is a temptation no person dares say ht would resist, And should this, by some miraculous chance reach the lad' eye, I'd like to talk things over with him in the strictest confidence. He ha nothing to fear and maybe something to gain. a a Motto: Carved on the table in the bar of a certain club is this quotation I think from Twelfth Night: "Put thyself into the trick af singularity 1" a a a a Reflection: I sometime wonder whence come the paste with which labels are stuck on bottle and the paper on cigar boxes so sempiter nal you can soak them forever and still there' always one little corner that cling. Not many men can tear the band off a cigar in lea than four strokes. M'fH c.

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aad aa tandara. Talavaaaa; rtre-lU'ta tfefartmaat tVaa Aa DaDartnast COSTLY POLITICAL BLUNDERS Why Is it that experienced politicians like former Oovernor Bennett Conner ef Mississippi and former Mayor Stoney of Charleston, South Carolina, fall into ueh disastrous errors of Judgment as each ef them has Just done? Harrison has beaten Conner by around 65,000 totes, carrying all but two coun ties In Mississippi. Now Conner Is no political baby. He is a veteran politician. He ran for Oovernor of Mississippi three times, beini elected He Vis once Speaker of the House.

He knows every politician in Mississippi. He knows large numbers of in every county. In view of the recently demonstrated strength of Harrison, why did not so astute a politician as Conner know of Harrison's strength before announcing against him? Conner did not run to vindicate any noble principle, of government He did not run to vent a private grudge. He ran solely because he wanted be United States Senator and thought he had a good chance to win. As it turns out there was never a time when he had the slightest chance to dislodge Harrison.

What Interests The Advertiser is how It it that a veteran politician should fool himself so badly. The question would not be worth raising If veteran politicians everywhere at all times had not shown themselves now and then to be Culte as erratic In Judgment as Conner did. Bilbo, for instance. Bilbo ordinarily knows the state of public opinion in Mississippi as well as any man. Yet he, was fooled.

He must have thought that Conner could win. At least he professed himself to be confident that his private grudge and Conner's ambition combined would be sufficient to unseat Pat. In South Carolina Senator Byrnes seems to have had a walk-away from the beginning. He was renominated by a vote so large as to make his two opponents ridiculous. Yet at least one of these opponents was an experienced practical politician, a man presumably capable of looking at political situations realistically and Judging them with some accuracy.

It turns out that he showed no better Judgment than one who had never had any experience In politics. It It one of the seven wonders of the world how trained politicians frequently fool themselves absurdly. Vanity, we suspect, Is the wily villain that betrays them. Because a few flattering Intimates tell them they are men of destiny they find it easy to believe as much. Soon they regard themselves as irresistible.

SECRETARY DERN PASSES Secretary of Far Qedrge H. Dern, now dead, did not make a deep Impression upon the country. His personality was little known, his opinions likewise due partly, perhaps, to the fact that in the latter years of his life he was in ill health. Nevertheless under Secretary Dern the United States army grew in size and efficiency. has been said that the American army today is more efficient than it has ever been before in time of peace.

Land forces and air forces, like the fighting arms of the Navy, are at a high peak of effectiveness. Secretary Dern believed in military preparedness and encouraged the men of the service to do their best. The morale of the service Is high. The President himself is an earnest advocate of military and naval efficiency and naturally -executives chosen by him to give force to hit point of view would be in sympathy with his ideas. Secretary Dern was a quiet man of force and intelligence.

Mississippi's Pat-Mike fight was more one-sided than fights of that sort usually are. Usually there is glory enough for all. Moving days, most trying of the year, are Just around the corner. Landon's speeches are not so hot as the Kansas sun. A lot of people, due to their pride of opinion, are sore because prosperity- is returning, but most of us are very well satisfied.

As Um alleged ancestors of some of our eld famllls Adam and Eva hare much to answer for. Columbia state. Oh, they've answered in full, as we understand It. It is their descendants who must face the great ordeal of explaining and repenting. Oene Talmadge tells a Georgia audience 6f his objections to Miss Frances Perkins.

He says she's married and has a child, yet she goes under the stage name ef Miss Frances Perkins. He intimates that if the Georgians make him Eenatc-r he will do something about it, hut does not sajr what to do in connection with the labor disturbances in the steel plants of this State. In reporting the development of this extraordinary Idea In the President's mind, Mr. Krock goes on to say: "The President has said to his friends that, if he is re-elected over the Intense opposition he is facing, he believes he will be in the best position any American President has ever been to promote the cause of world peace, and he has given several reasons. One is that his prestige will have been greatly Increased, which will lend additional weight to his initiative in the matter of a conference.

He will have entered upon a new term of office, of fixed duration, in the course of which he can greatly assist In any peace efforts on which the conference may agree. "The President, recalling the paramount position of Woodrow Wilson In the world in 1918, feels he is fortunate In possessing several accidental advantages over that President at the Versailles peace conference. As he sees them, they are: "The 1937 meeting would not be meeting after a long, bloody and bitter war, but in time of peace. There would be no victors, no vanquished and no spoils. There would be no treaties and covenants to frame and have ratified, only personal interchanges and a set of general resolutions important because of the Identity of the signers.

The meeting would come at a time when the President was entering upon a new term, not halt way through It; at a time when his pres tige had been freshly certified, not when it was imperiled by a forthcoming political battle, as in 1918. "For these reasons, and because the President feels certain that such men as he proposes to seek in conference couid not meet on the subject of peace and fall to succeed in stamping out some of the seeds of war, he is revolving his idea more and more in his mind, and his estimate of Its possibilities Is growing. He feels that, even if the conference amounted to no more than a gesture, it would be a powerful one and certain to delay war if not avert it for a much longer period. He thinks that would be worth the effort and the risk, although he has not yet determined that he will attempt It. Much will depend, if he is re-elected, on the responses which will come to the diplomatic 'feelers' that will precede the actual dispatch of notes of invitation.

"The President, as he considers his plan, has concluded that King Edward VIII and President Lebrun, rather than political heads of thajr States, will be the more representative and effective conferees. The King, as he sees it, symbolizes the entire British commonwealth of nations, which no other Briton can do. The President of France Is a fixture over a period of years and is the symbol of the republic. "Stalin, of course, is the effective head of the Soviet State and the proper member of such a group, as are Hitler and Mussolini. If the plan comes to fruition the conference which will assemble will number the most powerful group since the eighteenth century meetings at Vienna and Berlin, which settled the affairs of the continent.

But it will be much more powerful because of its world-wide character and because it will be intended as a focus of public opinion lnstea dof designed to draw a military cordon around the vanquished. "Whether the President will make known his plan In general or in detail before the election is not known to the few persons with whom he has discussed it. They are equally uncertain whether he will go through with it, even If elected, because he is not sure himself. But the concept has fascinated him; he returns to it often; and it would not be difficult to convince him that he has made a new discovery in world leadership for what he considers the greatest cause of mankind. "One reason which may restrain the President, even if he decides definitely on his Idea, from making a detailed public statement in advance of the election is the certainty that the Republicans will classify it as a campaign device.

They will say, he has told his friends, that it is an attempt to gain re-election on the Wilson Issue of 1918, 'he kept us out of anefprobably deride the plan as a romantic gesture, certain to yield barren results. The Hearst Press and The Chi cago Tribune, he apparently believes, will view the project as certain to involve commitments abroad and as the forerunner of an International policy more objectionable to them than membership In the League of Nations. He it By MIRIAM BREWEK XICBAKDSON Beautiful Shelby County, with its softly wooded hills and romantic background. Is namesake of Col. Isaac Shelby, Revolutionary soldier, who served the cause of American In dependence heroically at the battles of Point Pleasant and hard-fought King's Mountain, and later became the first governor of Kentucky.

He was reelected in 1812 and during his second administration left his gubernatorial duties to lead the Kentui klaru at the battle of Thames River. It was In this fierce and gory conflict that the Indians lost their great leader Te cumseh. Shelby County was organized by an act of the Legislature passed Feb. 7, 1818, from territory taken from Montgomery, which at one time comprised most of the center of the State Something of the valor and enterprise of Its heroic namesake must have entered into the hearts and minds of Shelby Countlans, for this section has produced some of the finest cit izens of the State, many of them having ma terially aided in the building of Alabama, During its long political history Shelby has been preponderantly Democratic, yet at times leaders, who fought under the banners of other parties, have had considerable influence with their Democratic constituency and have repre sented it in the Legislature. One of these was William M.

Ktdd, an ardent Whig, who served Bhelby In the House of Representatives In 1842, and again In 1844. Mr. Kldd was a leader In the Tippecanoe clubs throughout the State and labored ceaselessly for the election oY President William Henry Harrison, who was the beauideal of the Whig party. James M. mbora left a pleasant memory and an honored nam In his beloved county of Shel by.

He was a planter on a large scale, with an education considered liberal at the time. He rep resented Shelby in the House of Representatives in 1831 and 1833, and served In the Senate In 1834. He was again In the lower branch of the Legislature In 1839, and In 1847 he returned to the Senate from Shelby and Bibb. Mr. Nabors was a strong Democrat and stood so well with his party that he was selected to place in nom Ination the name of Dixon H.

Lewis for the United States senatorshlp at the Joint session of the two houses, which met In convention on Dec. 7, 1844, after the resignation of Senatot William R. King. Dixon H. Lewis, Democrat, and Arthur F.

Hopkins, Whig, were the nomi nees, and the vote stood 85 for Lewis and 45 for Hopkins. Though the name of Leonard Tarrant Is close ly associated with Talladega, where he resided for many years, yet he was Identified with Shel by In the early part of his career. He represent ed Shelby in the House of Representatives in 1831 and 1832. He was a Democrat at this time, but In 1836 he espoused the Whig cause and soon was in full alliance with this party. At the time of the execution of a treaty with the Creek Indians in Alabama, President Andrew Jackson appointed him agent to superintend the sale of their reservations by the heads of families, and he served In this capacity for two years.

Inl standing between the greedy land-buyers and the ignorant Indians, his Integrity and unswerving devotion to duty were fully tested, and President Jackson's confidence in him fully justified. He served as Judge of the county court for Shelby and was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. No history of Shelby would be complete without the name and honorable record of Samuel Wright Mardls, who was born at Fayettevllle, June 12, 1800. When still a young man he accompanied his father, Reuben Mardls, to Shelby County, and with his only education from an "old field school," he studied law and was admitted to the bar In 1823. He soon indulged in his natural flair for politics and represented Shelby Jn the Legislature In 1823-1825, 1828, and 1830.

He was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses, serving from March 4, 1831, until March 4, 1835. Later he removed to Mardisville, Talladega County ki 1835, and continued the practice of law until his death at Talladega, Nov. 14, 1836. He was interred in Oak Hill cemetery and sleeps in the breast of the second Alabama County he faithfully served. Judge Oeorge David Shortrldge of Shelby was one of the handsomest men of his time, a gentleman of great urbanity of manner who possessed the most attractive social qualities.

He was a native of Montgomery County, where he was born Nov. 10, 1814. He came with his father, Eli Shortrldge to Tuscaloosa In 1826, and became a Supreme Court clerk two years later. He was one of the first students to matriculate at University of Alabama, but did not graduate. He read law in his father's office, was admitted to the bar In 1834, elected solicitor abaut same time and then removed to Montgomery.

In 1836 he represented Montgomery In the Legislature, but 111 health caused him to return to his Shelby County plantation. He soon recuperated and resumed the practice of law. In 1846 the Legislature elected him to the bench of the circuit court, and he held this office until he resigned In 1855 to accept the nomination of the American or Know-Nothing party, for governor, In opposition to Governor John A. Winston. The contest was bitter and exciting, the two candidates, both of whom were excellent speakers, addressing multitudes who gathered to hear them.

Judge Shortrldge's party' ras in the minority nd Governor Winston defeated him by some ten or twelve thousand majority. Later he removed to Selma and practiced law with J. R. John. In 1861 he returned to Bhelby and repre Alumni Association of the University of Alabama.

During his nearly 20 years' residence of Shelby he was an ardent and tireless worker for that county's welfare and progress, particularly along educational lines. Henry Brazeale Walthall, famous stage and screen actor, and the best Interpreter of Confederate roles, is Shelby's most distinguished native son. He Is the most distinguished because his face, acting and character have penetrated every nook and corner of the globe and he made the world understand and accept the character of the Confederate soldier and his place in Southern history as a real and vital thing. Mr. Walthall was born at MaUory's station, March 16, 1878, the son of Junius Leigh and Annie Mallory Wallace Walthall.

The father was a native of Virginia, who removed to Alabama, and at the outbreak of the War Between the States enlisted In the Southern Foresters at Mobile and was later promoted to a captaincy. Henry B. Walthall received his early education in his family, being tutored by his two aunts, Miss Miliene Malory and Mrs, W. W. Wallace.

He attended Howard College a year. In September, 1900, he went to New York and after being in the city only three days began working as a super member of the Murray Hill Stock Company. Later he went on the road and played with Henry Miller and Margaret An-glin for four years In "The Great Divide," and "The Faith When war was declared between the United States and SDain In 1898. he volunteered and served as a private In Com pany u. nrst Alabama Volunteers, and when peace was declared he went to England with mr.

Miner in "Tne Great Divide." Returning to the United States in lBlo entered the motion picture field with David Wark Griffith. Among his screen successes are ine Birth of a Nation." in which the role of the young Confederate colonel, Ibsen's "GhOStS." EdZBX Allan Pna'a The Avenging Conscience." and "The Scarlet Letter." His most recent success was with tha lamented Will Rogers in "Judge Priest," when he played the part of a Confederate chaplain. Mr. Walthall's most arresting role, outside of Confederate portrayals, Was that of President Francisco Maredo in "Viva Villa." His last role was in the "China Clipper." He married Mary Charleson, a motion picture actress. He died June 17, 1936, at the Pasteur Sanitarium at Monrovia, near Hollywood.

and was Hip oldest actor in pictures in point of service. Henry B. Walthall's great mission in lif. the interpretation of history, particularly Confederate history. His outstanding achievement in this was the "Little Colonel." In "The Birth of a This Is on of th tmiv pictures of all time and It is still helna ahnwn though produced more than 20 years ago.

It has reached the far windy corners of the earth and it has been said that the moon Is always shining on a picture theater which Is showina this remarkable film. It was a hue success fi nancially and has over $30,000,000. In portraying the part of the colonel, Mr. Walthall displayed moral and physl- courage oi a high order and a certain wistful cultural charm. The world had become confused in its vision of the Confederate soldier by reason of war and reconstruction propaganda, and Henry Walthall clarified him and made his personality and character one of heroism and romantic beauty.

Every country. State and section should not only preserve its history dui see tnat other countries and Dosteritv un derstand it. In order to do this Its history must be Interpreted In the terms of understanding of each succeeding generation. Mr. Walthall magnificently interpreted Southern history to at least two generations, and If the South Is wise It will not permit hi work to fall to the ground.

New York Day Day By O. O. McINTTRB NEW YORK. Aug. 27.

Thought while strol ling: No one can appear so twlttery as Miriam Hopkins. Or so dead-pan a Alice Hughes. If Frank Knox ever needs a double, he should whistle for Bill Hawkins. Bugs Bser has a pair of wrestler shoulders. All the Algonquin crowd.