The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-22
LOOK CAREFULLY
 BEFORE DECIDING Committee Is to Decide on Location of SlOss By
 Product Plant

It will probably be next week before
 the committee of directors of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company reaches a decision regarding the proposed estab- lishment of $1.00O,0O0 by-product plant in this district according to announce
 ment made yesterday by officials of the company.
 Henry Parsons, w. H. Goadby and T.. c, Camp. prominent capitalists, who com pose the directors committee. will make complete tour of the district and look over all the properties of the company kefcre reaching any decision regarding the proposed developments. They spent sometime in the offices of the company here yesterday going over routine matters and later visited the furnace at North Birmingham Today they will go to ths ore mines and later in the week the other properties will be inspected.
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 the truth of this Commissioner Hornady said
 My personal affairs are of no interest to the public. I always believe in giving the other fellow credit for sincerity and therefore 1 have nothing to say at the present time.'
 BRINGS IN DATA Commissioner Barbers latest tirade be- gan while the city commission was at re- cess in the council chamber awaiting the announcement of bids on street improve ments. He said:
 If I had known we were going to wait would have brought my file and talked a little."
 By all means get the file." said Com missioner Ward, with a grin at the news paper men who yawned appreciatively at the prospect of more "Barberism.'' The socialist member of the city com- mission retired to his office and returned in few minutes with a file of papers and started his speech. He opened with a long statement as to the reasons why he had granted clemency to persons con victed in the recorders court After reading the statement. which was far from antagonistic to him, MT. Barber requested that it be printed in the minutes of the commission proceedings Mir Ward made the motion and it carried unanimously Commissioner Barber then dramatically opened a letter and said: This is letter from prominent cti- zen of Montgomery which comments my stand as to the censorship of moving pie lures. It further says that the newspapers all favor the moving pictures because of the revenue they secure from the the- atres. The letter says all the newspapers are subsidized
 ALL ARE SUBSIDIZED Commissioner Barber talked for about l 10 minutes on the letter in regard to cen sorship of moving pictures and news papers being subsidized, and then he said :. "A high official in one of the local lpapers has told me that no news item 1 or editorial was printed without first going through the hands of the advar- Using office.
 Tt is common knowledge that the newspapers are subsidized I do moi blame them for siding with the motion picture shows. They get money for it, the same as they get money from the telephone trust which has its hands about our throat. Col. w. T. Gentry of the telephone trust himself stated in this council chamber that he advertised
 only to secure the goodwill of the press"
 q do not believe that snapped Com missioner Ward.
 Tt is a fact nevertheless,'' tersely re- piled MT. Barber although it is prob able that you were not on the city com mission then. MT. Gentry was asked why he advertised in the local papers and he replied: To secure the goodwill of the press He also said: We consider money spent with the press the best money that we spend How about that?"
 "Pve never heard of that statement" replied MT. Ward. but it Is my inn Ipression that the telephone companies advertised to secure more customers to tell of the aGFantages of telephones,
 of the difference between long distance and local phones and in general to advise the public on the constant im- Iprovement of their business" Commissioner Barber laughed at this statement of MT. Ward and replied:
 They had an advertisement in the