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TO UNVEIL MONUMENT
Memorial to Joe Wheeler to Be Ded
icated in Decatur
Decatur, May 12.—(Special.)—The
monument erected on the courthouse
lawn by Joe Wheeler chapter, U. D. |
C., will be unveiled on May 16, It .
was announced today by Miss Mary
Lou Dancy, chairman of the com- j
mittee on arrangements.
The principal address will be de- j
livered by Mrs. E. L. Huey, of Bes
semer, state president of the U. D. I
C. Major Hal Hong, of Decatur, will
speak in behalf of the sons pf the
veterans.
A parade will be staged through
the principal business thorough
fares of the two cities,, before the
unveiling. School children and the
public generally will participate.
The Albany school children will
gather at the Y. M. C. A. and march
to Lee street, the Decatur school
children falling in the line of march
in front of the Decatur federal
building.
PRESTON DIES
Huntsvi V • May 12.—(Special.)—
William Preston, aged 73. dropped
dead at his home on Ward avenue
yesterday while playing with one of
his grand children. He is survived
by his wridow and several children.
The body was conveyed to Hyland,
his former home, today.
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Whole
salers
and
Jobbers
Directory
Buy in Birmingham—the
natural wholesale and
jobbing center for Ala
bama.
Read the Directory and
do business with the con
cerns listed. It will be of
mutual advantage. The
Age-Herald recommends
each house mentioned
below as eminently re
sponsible.
Johnston Dry Goods Co.
WHOLESALE
Dry Goods and Notions
2224-26 First Ave.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Doster-Northington Drug Co.
Wholesale Druggists
Surgical instruments and Hospital
Supplies
Manufacturing Chemists
2108-2110 First Ave.
Established 1870
Earle Brothers
Wholesale Grocers
1801-1803 First Are.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Birmingham
Macaroni Co.
Manufacturers of
EAGLE BRAND MACARONI
SPAGHETTI, NOODLES
A Birmingham Made Product
FACTOR? 400 S. 14th St.
Carolina Portland
Cement Company
Wholesale and Retail Distributors
General Building
Material
BIRMINGHAM. ALA.
Wood & Crabbe Grain Co.
Manufacturers
“Mandy" Old Style Rock Ground
Meal, “Winner" High Grade Bolted
Pearl Meal* Pearl Grits, Winner
Cow Feed.
Blumberg Shoe Co.
WHOLESALE
Jefferson Brand Shoes
2216 First Ave.
Birmingham
(Collins & Co., Inc.
Wholesale Grocers
Exclusive Agents
Colonial and Snow Flake Flower
Fashion Self Rising and Velvet
Seifc Rising Flour
Fert & Hunt’s Canned Goods
Shiver’s Ginger Ale
BIRMINGHAM
Birmingham Packing Co.
Wholesale Meats
Packing House and Slaughter
Yards. 3314 N. 24 tn at.
City Store Branch
2100 Morris Ave.
Packing Housa Phone Hemlock 616
W. F. Tyler
President
V. S. Gaga
Vica Pres.
R. A. Porter, Treasurer
Tyler Grocery Co.
Wholesale Grocers
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Goodall-Brown
Dry Goods Co.
.Wholesale Dry Goods
and Notions
P hillips-Lester
Mfg. Co., Inc.
Manufacturers “401” Brand
Overalls, Coats, Pants
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
City Paper Co.
“The House of Service
Manufacturers and Jobbers of
Paper. A Full Line of
School Supplies
Phones Main 7880-7881
2319 1st Ave.
Moore-Handiey
Hardware Co.
HARDWARE MACHINERY
BUILDING MATERIAL
Milt Mine and Electric Supplies
Agricultural Implements
Automobile Accessories
B1RM1NGGHAM. ALA.
FOR GOOD OF
THE COMMUNITY
Diversified Industry Based on Raw Material
Supply the Kind That Brings the Rest
OUTSTANDING value of the new merchant bar mill of the Ten
nessee company to be built at Fairfield works lies in its capacity
for expansion of diversified steel industry in the district. It will make
sizes and shapes required by steel consumers hitherto imported. It will
serve to drive another nail in the independence of the district.
Diversified industries most needed by the district and most sure of suc
cessful operation are those making use of the district’s raw materials.
Raw materials in the iron and steel industry are the same as soil and cli
mate in agriculture. They are bed-rock. What is founded on them strikes
deepest into the foundation and rests most solidly there.
Industries grouping about the production of cement are dotting the
face of the district. A new one started this week. Alabama Concrete
Products is making concrete sewer pipe. A. T. Newell is making a con
crete slab for road purposes that promises revolution there and a tre
mendous tonnage of cement. Fence posts, benches, vaults, roofing, tile
and a host of other products are made of cement.
Birmingham district is the greatest cast iron pipe producer on earth.
The U. S. Pipe alone has bought 76,000 tons of iron for its Alabama
plants. The Standard Foundry has resumed making pipe in the old
Lynchburg factory at Anniston. Central Foundry is making it at Besse
mer and National and American companies in Birmingham. It goes over
the face of the earth.
Anniston has more pipe shops, water and sanitary, than any city in the
world. The sanitary pipe shops there and in Gadsden and Birmingham
•'re on full turn and behind in deliveries. New business has been turned
down by some makers because books cannot stand more entrances.
Birmingham face brick, paving brick, furnace brick and common brick
and Birmingham hollow-tile, sewer pipe, silos and other forms of the clay
workng art are sold into a half dozen southern states. Beauty and
variety of clay products increases every year.
Water power is a great industry itself and is being applied to every
manner of enterprise where machinery-driving force is required. Coal
mines find it profitable to use electricity rather than the steam pro
duced by coal at engine room’s door.
Steel fabricating, the latest of the industries to consume a raw ma
terial, is progressing by leaps and bounds. Some plants have become
large and numbers of smaller ones have located and are forging to the
front. All these will be helped by the new merchant mill of the Ten
nessee company.
Ingalls bridges and buildings are over the south and in foreign coun
tries. The Virginia Bridge and Iron, one of the largest and most success
ful steel fabricators in the country, has bought into Birmingham and the
territory which it covers. The Southern Steel is not more than a year
old, but it has all the business it can turn out in the way of tanks, filling
stations and other forms of fabricated steel.
Welded Products company, established 1919, is known from Birming
ham to New Orleans and its products have caught the attention of
Latin-America. It welds steel tanks and other forms of structural steel
into one piece productions. It buys most of its steel in Birmingham and
will buy all as the Tennessee company varies its production.
Gerson Iron works is expanding into extensive manufacturers of mer
chant bar iron, reinforcing bars for concrete and a patent steel fence
post. Texas alone will take all the fence posts turned out because out in
Texas wood is a rare commodity and steel posts are lasting.
Our coal goes into by-product ovens to be salvaged into thousands of
products.
Blessed and fortunate the district where finishing mills stand atop its
raw materials. Everything else follows automatically.
Yours for upbuilding,
STARLIGHT
By IDAH M’GLONE GIBSON
The Thrilling Experience of Virginia Fairfax in the Movies
OLD LOVE LETTERS
My eyes were red with weeping
after reading my mother's letters to
my father and his to her,, because
deep in my heart I knew that with
all the wild emotionalism that was in
my love for Theodore Stratton, and
in all his protestations to me, there
was nothing that was in any way
like the lovely spirtitural something
which permeated my fathers and
mother’s letters.
Again and again T read them over.
They probably would have been called
old-fashioned today. But there was
real love in every line.
In one of them my mother said: "I
love your letters, Ralph, dear. I read
them over and o'er. I kiss them
and talk to them, and then hide them
near my heart. But letters, sweet
heart, can never take your place, al
though I love thorn, although I could
not live without them just now.
"They open up avenues of antici
pation, thoughts and dreams. Day
after day I repeat ihe prayer of my
heart, 'How long, how long before I
shall be with him?’
"Do you know that every man in
the distance looks like you? And my
heart almost breaks as he comes
nearer, for my expectation has ended
in disappointment.
"But God is good to us, dear one,
and it will only be a little time when
we will be together and I will be
your wife.”
And in answer to this my father
wrote:
"Beth, darling, you cannot imagine
the peculiar emotion that your letter
gave me. I supposed that I was
unique in thinking that every woman
in the distance looked like you.
"I rather hesitated in telling you
this, thinking that you might not
understand. But sometimes, dear I
will hear a voice in the next room.
Mrs. T. Wells Tells
HowCuticuraHealed
Blisters On Baby
"When b»by was three months
old she broke out In little clear blis
IUC Olio*
\ ters would break and ahe
1 would scratch them, caus
J mg them to become in
' flamed and form large, sore
J eruptions. They were all
' over her body, even in her
hair. Her hair fell out and
became dry and lifeless. She could
hardly stand her clothing, and we
could not pick her up without hurt
ing her.
"The trouble lasted about five
months. I began using Cuticura
Soap and Ointment and in two weeks
could see an improvement. I con
tinued using them and she was
healed." (Signed) Mrs. Theodore
Wells, R. 1, Box 47. De Ridder, la.
Improve your skin by daily use of
Cuticura Soap, OintmantandTalcum.
■wthlMthatrlU. Addraw "DiHimUt
Smp ihtfM without aiu|.
and so sure am I that It is yours, I
will rush in, often to find a perfect
stranger whose voice never, by any
possibility, could hold the sweet in
tonation that is yours.
"You walk with me, talk with me,
you are ever within the sight of my
eyes, the sound of my ears, and yet
I keep you secretly within my heart.
I never speak of you to anyone.
"You are mine, only mine."
My head sank down upon my arms
outstretched upon the desk before
me. Tears wet my cheeks and
dropped unheeding on the written
page lying open in front of me.
I wondered why I was crying.
Surely one would not grieve for those
who had known such bliss as this.
And then I knew.
The love that had been given to me
was something entirely different.
Theodore Stratton had said: "You
, are mine, only mine,” to me. but he
wanted to possess me only as he
might possess a rare \'ase among a
number of other rare objects of art.
To my father in all the world—in all
heaven—there was only one woman,
| and that one was my mother.
I It was a long while before I picked
I up the little diary and glanced at the
faded brown ink which my mother
had left upon its pages.
"Monday: 'Some way, child-of
mine, I seem to realize that you will
j never know me. Perhaps it is be
l cause I have been too happy. Per
haps it is because I know that this
crowning touch of ipotherhood. added
to the Joy I have in being Ralph's
wife, would make me happier than
I the ansrels. and so r fppi it is not
i to be.
“Tuesday: Today I bought a little
pair of kid shoes. So tiny, so soft,
so seemingly useless, and, oh, my
baby that is to be, I see the little
helpless feet in them. God grant
your feet will never grow tired of
the long road. God grant that you
always be led into cool paths, toward
Elysium fields where love abides.
“Wednesday: I passed on the
street this morning a young girl with
tragedy in her eyes. Her clothes were
shabby, her hat was old, and her
shoes were run-over at the heels. An
icy hand gripped my heart. Some
way, Baby-that-is-to-come, I kn6w
that you are going to be a girl, and
what if Fate should some time deal
you a blow that would make you look
like that girl i passed this morning
and I were not h« re t»> help you?
“Thursday: 1 wonder i> my father
will forgive me. littk-daughter-that
is-to-be? He has gre.i prfde of family
and race and surely h will come to
understand not only >our father’s no
bility of character, 1 i;t he will have
gained the knowledge that Ralph's
ancestors were even better than his.
Oh, baby, I miss my father after all.
He is a good man. and you will for
give him when you know him.
“Friday: Today Ralph brought me
a wonderful rattle. He told me that
he had picked it up In some old
antique shop. It is of carved ivory
and silver bells, and on one of the
bells is engraved a crown. There is
no name, however. Ralph promised
me to look up the different royal
insignia. I am dreaming, little prin
cess, that my baby will use the rattle
of the queen.
“Saturday: I am not feeling very
BOARD OF ENGINEERS
SHOULD INVESTIGATE
SHOALS FOR PUBLIC
McClellan Statement Appar
ently Having Effect Upon
Senate Committee—Other
Studies of Proposition Said
to Be Selfish
By HUGH XV. ROBERTS
iTashington Bureau. The Age-Herald.
500 Diividnon Ituildin*.
Washing-ton. May 12.—(Special.)~
While Senator Norris’ characteriza
tion of the Henry Ford offer for
Muscle Shoals as ’’unconscionable’'
may or may not have telling effect
on the Senate committee on agri
culture, or on the Senate, the sug
gestion of Dr. William McClellan,
president of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers, that a board
of engineers be appointed to investi
gate the possibilities of Muscle
Shoals for the government, has al
ready exerted obvious influence.
Dr. McClellan declares that all pre
vious investigations have been made
at the instance of interested indi
viduals of corporations, and that
the government is entitled to some
consideration. He adds that such an
investigation as he proposes would
bring to light the course which the
government should pursue in its own
and the consuming public’s interest.
Dr. McClellan makes the follow
ing statement:
"The Muscle Shoals proposition has
been under active discussion by bus
iness and technical men ever since it
was started in war time. This dis
cussion has become more active
since the government has had to de
termine what it would do with the
unfinished work. My own opinion,
and I find that I am in agreement
with those whom 1 have met who
have had to do with large projects
of this sort, is that the government
should not act except on the basis
of unbiased, competent, professional
and business advice.
Is Commercial Matter
“It 18 perhaps not unfair to say
that all those engineers and busi
ness men who have made a de
tailed study of the matter thus far
have done so for some reason of
their own. and not from the stand
point of the government. It must
be understood that the disposal of
Muscle Shoals is not a technical en
gineering proposition but is a
commercial matter. The only way
for the government to get an im
partial review of the commercial
and engineering features of the sit
uation is for these two committees
jointly to request a group of not
less than five engineers who have
had adequate commercial experience
in large projects to take all of the
data, statements and reports which
have been submitted and report to
the committees what the govern
ment should do.
“I will engage as president of the
American Institute of Electrical En
gineers. or through the Federated
American Engineering societies tft^j
see that such a. committee of en
gineers with commercial experience
is placed at the disposal of the
congressional committees. Such a
committee of engineers would. of
course, not do any technical design
or make any technical recommenda
tions of any kind. They would
merely recommend the general
scheme under which the problem
should be solved from a business
standpoint.
Alienate Plants
"Pending such an investigation as
to Just how the project should be
handled, certain fundamental propo
sitions should be accepted. First the
government under no circumstances
should alienate its nitrate plants
until an adequate plan is agreed
upon for the completion of these
nitrate plants or the construction of
nitrate plants at some more favor
able point should this be found.
“Second, the works at Muscle
Shoals with any construction equip
ment should be protected at once so
that It can not deteriorate during
the period that the investigation is
in progress as to what the final
plan should be. Such protection of
Interrupted construction work is
very common among commercial com
panies.
“Third, while fundamentally I am
very strongly of the opinion that
the government can well afford to
appropriate money to render streams
navigable and also to regulate flow,
particularly at headwaters, so as
to make them more available for
water power, nevertheless I do not
think any large sum of money
ought to be appropiated for this
project until the report on the gen
eral plan which I recommend above
has been received by the two com
mittees.
“Summarized, my definite recom
mendation to the two committees at
present would be:
“First, protect the existing con
struction and equipment so that it
cannot deteriorate and. second, in
vite an engineering board of review
to recommend to the two committees
of Congress a general plan of proce
dure In connection with Muscle
Shoals.”
HARDING TO SPEAK
Mobile. May 12.—(Special.)—'W. P.
G. Harding, noted financier and prr -
idem of the federal reserve board,
with headquarters at Washington, lias
accepted an invitation to address fhe
Kiwanis club of this city next
Wednesday* At the time Mr. Harding
will be here attending the sessions
of the Alabama Bankers’ association.
well today. Come soon, my sweet, to
comfort me.
"Sunday: I knelt at the chancel to
day and prayed, prayed that you, my
child, would some day be as happy as
I have been. I cannot wish you more.”
Monday—Virginia's Mood.
JONES CAB AND
TIRE CO., Inc.
“Man on «ho Job”
1821 Third Aon Phono 3S7
BESSEMER
RESINOL
Soolhinq *nd Hulinq
No wakeful hours of
itching torment if
you appjy freely this
cooling ointment and
bandage lightly.
Jry it
tonight
ithast
ens the
heating
At All 4w^utl
THINKS WORLD CRUEL
! ♦•ay Arrested Yeai After His A1-!
leged Crime
Decatur, May 12.—(Special.)—Oliv- j
' er Gay, of Cullman county, thinks !
perhaps that it is a cruel world, j
About one year ago a large still was !
raided in Cullman county and the
elder Gay and one son were arrest
ed. The still was said to have been
one of the largest ever taken in the
state.
Oliver Gay escape*, it was said,
and went to Ohio. He itly he is
said to have returned Cullman,
but officers received a tip on the
visit.
Thursday morning he is said to
have left Cullman with a party
uhich included his mother and oth
er relatives. The party was travel
ing in two automobiles, on of i
which having been used, it was stat
ed, by Gay on his return from Ohio. I
When the two cars reached the
river here, officer* had secreted
themselves on the boat. After the
cars had gotten aboard, officers
stepped forth and took Gay into
custody. The party was returned to
Cullman.
WILL INCORPORATE
CLUB FOR HUNTERS
Huntsville, May 12.—(Special.)—
Ai tides of incorporation for the |
Byrd Spring Rod and Gun club have j
been prepared for filing. There J
will be thirty-two corporators, each j
owning $500 of stock and an exten- j
slve game preserve is to be estab
lished in the Byrd Spring region. !
which has been a famous hunting '
I section for many years. The officers j
: are: D. S. Blackwell, president; M j
M. Hutchens, vice president; J. M. 1
; Kirkpatrick, secretary; Jeff H. Ter
, ry. treasurer.
\ Besides the officers, the directory
is composed of Cary Gamble, M. R.
I Moorman. W. F. Struve, R. E. Sprag
! ins and Wells Stanley. ,
The club will build a club house
and an automobile highway from
Whitesburg pike to the game pre- |
serve and several of the members
expect to have their own hunting j
lodges. The spring and branch have %
already been stocked with nearly
30.000 black bass from the govern
ment hatchery at Tupelo, Miss.
OPEN BIDS
Plans Being Made For Butler County
High School
Greenville, May 12.— (Special.)—
Bids were opened by the Greenville
board of education on the proposed
Butler county high school to be lo
cated in Greenville, yesterday aft
ernoon. E. F. Hetrick Engineering
company, of Birmingham, gave the
lowest bid including a heating .sys
tem, and T. H. Waiswrlght, of At
more, made the lowest bid without
the steam heating equipment.
The board went Into executive ses
sion after the bids were opened and
derided to advertise for bids upon
other plans calling for a different
construction during the next ten
days.
The bids amounted to several thou
sand dollars more -than was expected
which prompted them in not award
ing the contract at this time.
SPRING STORM DOES
DAMAGE IN MADISON
Huntsville. May 12.—(Special.)—A j
considerable amount of damage was |
done in »ne northern and we stern
part pf Huntsville late yesterday
afternoon by the waters of a cloud- ;
burst which occurred several miles
i-orth of the city, in the Blue Spring !
creek region. Water rose in many |
homes two to three feet in depth i
and the flood swept the race track
of the Madison county fairgrounds, \
swept through the Huntsville foun
dry and also washed out other man*
ufarturing plants and ruined many
gardens. In spring branch bottom
the water rose several feet and
drove many people away from their
homes for several hours.
clusters, but are found scattered
throughout forests and hidden in
dense under growths.
BIRMINGHAM
NASHVILLE
JACKSONVILLE
NEW ORLEANS
II
WHO SAYS THERE’S NOTHING NEW
BENEATH THE SUN
KNOX
CAPS
$2.00 up
This Knox Tuscan at $8.50 is a direct refutation of
such a pessimistic assertion. The soft, slightly sau
cered brim gives it the ease of a “Vagabond” feather
weight felt and permits it to set securely on the head
in the face of the stiffest breeze.
You can have it burnt, bleached or in a new coffee
shade that is markedly individual. This new Knox
style thought is but one of the many different and dis
tinctive ones shown in Birmingham exclusively at
Porter’s.
OTHER SMART HAND-MADE STRAWS
AT $3.00, $4.00, $5.00, $6.00, $7.00 *
Everything Men and Boys Wear
1922-24 First Ave., Birmingham
Keep This Pirate
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Careless mixing of "lubes” means expensive fix
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smoothly with "heavy.” "Extra heavy” won’t
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manufacture are exactly alike in weight or
consistency, so buying a quart here ana there
without tne proper attention to weights and
grades is the sure way to fouled spark plugs,
scored cylinders, hot motors and other engine
troubles. To make motors run smoother and
costs run lower, put your lubrication trust in
Better Stick to
the Standard
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