The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-18
ANOTHER LANDMARK
 GOES IN HUNTSVILLE
Mcdonald Building Being Razed to Make Room
 for Business Block

Huntsville, August 17.-(SpeciaI)- )-An- other old land mark that has stood in Huntsville's business center for many years, the Mcdonald corner. is being torn down today to make way for handsome new building. The Mcdonald building was among the oldest in the city and was iirst put up as an opera house. Many of the most noted ante-bellum stars nave appeared there and for great many years the old theatre was a prosperous in- stitution. For a quarter of a century. however, the building has been used as a cafe and the upstairs has been closed William F. Struve has bought the prop erty and will erect a handsome business block
 Clarence L. Watts, former private secre- tary for the late Congressman William richardson, and later candidate for Con gross in this district has passed the state examination for admission to the bar and has opened law office in this city. Westmoreland & Baldridge,~physician nave taken a lease on the Mcdonald resi oence on Jefferson street and will operate private hospital The hospital is lo- cated across the street from the old Huntsville hotel site.
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 Schemes for financing the cotton cren proposed by Senator 1ioke Smith of Georgla and others are not seriously con sidered. Leaders see a boomerang in euch proposals. which smacks more of no1i- tics than of practical application. The government can aid in financing the cot ton crop only through aid to the banks as III all other crop movements. For lne government to get directly behind cotton and attempt to finance the cron oirectiy from the United States Urea s,,rv would mean that there would be n si,,i lar demand with just reason iron, othar commodities in need of help.
 The Clark Amendment
 Memners of Congress who opposed the a.eu Clark amendment to the JJn- derwood tariff bill puttine a nrohibitiya tax on cotton exchanges which ,vou,d so cordlns to officials of the New York cot- ton exchange have put the exchanges out oi business, point to the present situa- llon as Justification of their opposition to the Clark amendment
 because of the. utter decentralization ul prices stock and cotton exchanges nave been closed since the war bo1 gan. Now there is no fixed marLat sor cotton. A buyer in one section may ar oitrariiy fix price that he will pav TOT cotton, which may be from to cents lower than a price fixed in some other locality. While perhaps If is worse now than 1t would have been under normal conditions without cot ton exchanges where the trading in cotton fixes the market yaIue and maintains it, it nevertheless serves to illustrate how absolutely the farmer would be at the mercy of the buyers 1T there were no authentic place where liked market price is obtainable at all times.
 Metz Is Investigating
 Ihe friends of the cotton manufac- turers in Congress are now busy on the alarming feature of inc s,tuation to the spinners. This feature of the cotton situation has been entrusted to representative Herman A Metz of brooklyn, N. Y, who is president of H. A Metz & Co.,, importers of dve- stuffs and chemicals. Mir Metz declares that unless something Is done in or der that the United States may get her supply of dyestuffs from the man
 
 many, that cotton manufacturers and wool manufacturers as we'll in the Uni ted States are facing a very grave sit uation
 On the strength of the war the stock of dyes in the United States has al ready advanced 100 per cent Because of this advance in dyes, woolen and cotton goods-dyed goods-advanced from 10 to 25 per cent and by fall are sure to go higher. MT. Metz de- clares that all the first class dyes and ink come from Germany, and that 1t is made under German patents. fully protected in this country. He points out that though the mills over there may be closed down. they have a stock of dyes large enough to supply the world for three months The biggest users of these dyes are Germany the United States, England and France Since all of these countries except the United States are at war. if there was some way to get the stock of dyes at the mills for use In this country the stock might be sufficient to last until the war was over and trade restored
 MT. Metz is now at work on some plan with the state department of per hitting ships. by agreement with the warning nations, to bring this stock of dyes to the United States The task, he admits, Is great one, but he also declares that desperate chances must be taken.