The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09

, pictures (which nobody was), I met one Of the prettiest girls in Jacksonville I've ever seen, little Miss Gladys Baker, just l9, and adorably sweet and attractive. She was offered a fabulous sum by the Tannhouser Moving Picture corporation while l was there to "sign up' for pie lures, but no indeedy. not Miss Gladys, with millionaire beaux sending her or chids every day and showering her with beautiful courtesies. while every love sick swain in Jacksonville is worshipping at her shrine.
 1 And what dye think? Little Miss Baker is a newspaper girl. We almost signed up as another pair Of Dolly Sisters" because | she does things sort of like l do-"inter- | views" She's the bright particular flea l ture writer" of Jacksonville's afternoon . paper, "The Metropolis owned and edited by my good friend, MT. w. R. Car ter. MT. Carter has built up splendid newspaper by his cleverness and ability. knowing the newspaper game from begin ming to end, and one of the things that | impressed me quite forcbly in chatting with him was his appreciation of women in the newspaper game. He is awfully proud of the work that Gladys Baker does and Helen Ingram and little Beulah
 
 deed, he has corraled a quartet of Jack sonviles very brightest and most attrac- tive girls, all acknowledged belleS in. So- ciety but withal interested in their news paper work.
 The morning after I arrived in Jackson vile and, of course, you'll pardon me for talking about myself for moment, the progressive Metropolis sent little Miss
 Wilson for an interview with me. My picture and all the trimmings, and my friends, let me tell you secret, I almost died of stage fright Really I was as shy as a debutante at her first party. gasped and floundered like nice little lady-like fish out of water, and all l could think of to say was just
 Well this is out-Dollying Dolly l P. S.: I didn't give the "interview'- the less said about me the better. N
 Speaking of interviews. little Gladys | Baker did an awfully clever one with James Montgomery Flagg. It was bright, spontaneous and different. This pretty girl has all it takes to make the clever newspaper writer; but she won't; she's far too beautiful and far too attractive to stick" I predict she'll be snapped up and married. whether she will or no,
 for what else can she do with the homage and attention paid her so lavishly and so graciously?
 T. Camp Joseph E. Johnston, which has
 for two years past been such an addition
 to Jacksonville, is now merely simula-
 crum, a mirage, as it were. Formerly
 numbering some twenty odd thousano
 men, it now has only about 5000. anc these are being discharged in large mum
 bers daily. The camp is composed or Quartermaster department, a remouni ,station, and a motor transport corps
 Mai Gen. William P. Duval was in com
 mand! while Col. Fred L. Munson ano Col Charles l.. Willard were among th'
 most popular officers there.
 1 The war also took to Jacksonville the immense shipbuilding plants which em
 ployed something like 30,0O0 men. ant
 this plant is small city in itself. thu , housing arrangements for employees cover ing a large territory, besides the tremen
 dous building for actual work. Here tht Ferris type of boat was constructed
 made of steel frame work, wood hull ant concrete. Also most successful type O
 submarine chasers was made here. Il fact, about 40 per cent of the subma rlnes used by the American navy Tn de stroying the enemy boats was the typ'
 constructed at the shipbuilding plants a
 Jacksonville.
 The moving picture plants about Jack , sopvlle are numerous and interesting l employing large numbers of people in tn I various departments Thus you can ge a slight idea, with the camp, the ship building plants, the moving picture stu l dios and the rest, of this rapidly grow -