The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-04

With coal operators recently appearing in The Age-Herald
 Just one of MT. MitchelTs statements seems to be absolutely correct, and that is that he is president of the Alabama Power company"
 1nOculating Employees 1 The Birmingham Railway, Light and PoWer company is continually looking after the interests of its employees" said | brank Hammond. About one month ago the company made arrangements whereby each of them not only had the | privilege of becoming inoculated against 1 typhoid fever, but strenuous effort was made to get every employe to take same The company is offering this inoculation l free to its employees and at cost to their families
 It is very interesting to be part of an organization of this kind and to watch the interest taken by the officers for the welfare of the workers. Our organiza- ton, while one of vast importance and or massive proportion, is, after all, noth- Ing more or less than one big family. There Is always an appearance of good social feeling one toward another" 
 Beauty Means Tax Raises President George B. Ward of the city commission, who has done much in the past four or five years in the city beau tiful movement, believes that his efforts have resulted in impressing the tax equal izers with false values on civic property.
 T have an old house, said MT. Ward, which I have to repair frequently to keep it from falling over. However, through my efforts at gardening and at planting numerous vines, one cannot tell the age of my home. It looks quite re- spectacle from the street, and these tax equalizers could have been easily im- pressed with the thought that it was a valuable piece of property.
 There are other homes in the city which have suffered a like fate. Their owners under the propaganda of the city beautiful movement have beautified their houses and the general neighborhood until passersby could easily believe they were in the midst of a group of palatial resi- dences. Naturally the tax equalizers were also impressed with that thought, and I rather believe that quite a few of the raises in taxes came through the beautifying of homes.
 However, this is only an idea of mine, and it is possible that the actual facts are quite the contrary, so I will continue to urge the beautifying of the city at all times despite all tax raises.
 And MT Ward got out his little red notebook and jotted down the fact that there was a dead tree at the corner of Fifth avenue and Twentieth street.
 To Buy Messengers Shoes
 "In these days of excessively high priced leather and expensive shoes, the Western Union messenger boys are fortunate,' said w. D. Stead, manager of the Western Union here, yesterday.
 "An arrangement has just been made by which the Western Union is to buy shoes in wholesale lots for the S200 messenger boys of the company, and they will be sold to the boys at price slightly lower than the wholesale cost This means that the boys will be able to buy shoes at one-half what they pay for them now at retail stores. To the average boy employed in messenger
 
 one and this will mean a big net saw ing to all of them. Of course the boys do not have to buy their shoes from the company, but from the thanks we have received from them for making this offer, it seems certain that all of them will take advantage of the sav- ing. We will have shoes of a special make which are best suited for the boys.
 There is an interesting little story in connection with the inauguration of this policy. One of the officers of the company noted sometime ago that messenger who came into his office had on badly worn shoes. He inquired or the boy concerning the cost and the number of pairs he had to buy each year, and discovered that there was chance for the company, by buying for the entire number of boys. to save them about half their shoe bill each year." Alabama Patriotic "If there was ever any doubt about the willingness of the men of Alabama to take up arms In defense of the coun- try, the present Mexican situation has completely dispelled that doubt" said w. A. Darden of Anniston, secretary of the Kilby Car and Foundry company, who was at the Tutwiler yesterday. Not only did all the National Guard organizations respond promptly, but the membership of nearly all of them was doubled by new enlistments which were received in time to report to the concentration camp in Montgomery within one week after the President called for the troops
 Then there have been offers from prominent business and professional men from almost every city and town in the state to raise additional regi- ments. companies, troops or batteries l to meet any further needs which the oh Arad all iS