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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-10
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LEGAL NOTICES
Notice

Notice is hereby given that at the present session of the legislature Of the state of Alabama, application will be made for the enactment of the fol- lowing bill:
 An act to vacate the dedication of all streets, avenues and alleys, public highways and public passage way 5. into, through, over, on or across the following described property, situated in the city of Birmingham and state of Alabama:
 Beginning at the southeast (SE) corner of Thirty-second (32nd) street and First Qst) avenue, north;
 Thence running southwardly along the said street four hundred and fit- teen (415) feet to the common rail- road right of way, that is, line run ming parallel with and eighty-five (S5) feet northward of the center of the Alabama Great Southern railroad;
 Thence eastward along said right of way about thirty-four hundred (3400) feet to the limits of the property for merly belonging to the Elyton Land company, that is, the east side of sec
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UpenlngS for HOmeSeekerS
 IN THE COUNTRY CLUB DISTRICT We are opening portion of that beautiful prop erty south and east of Clairmont avenue and Mountain Terrace car line which has been so long admired by the public for its gentle sloping topography and fine trees.
 Before buying ready-built home or a vacant lot on which to build, the homeseeker will consult his interest by seeing what we have to offer in the Country Club district, including this new property, Mountain Terrace and Cliff Road It IS conceded that no other residential section of the city can compare with the Country Club dis trlct in the dignity and charm of viewpoint, nat ural beauty and the other essentials of pleasing environment.
 In this favored, carefully protected locality we have available some beautiful homes already built or Tn the course of erection, which may be purchased at prices considerably below the pres ent cost of construction to individual builders, With the assurance of early occupancy.
 To those who prefer to build, we present very wide selection Of home sites in this new prop erty. No 5O-foot lots but with as much frontage as desired, on modern-buit roadways.
 To purchasers we also offer substantial cooper atlon in the matter of budng-the financing of tiic COllSu uCCOH OI the nome at LOW rate Of 1n- terest, with the advantage of the saving on prices of building material which we have been able to effect by buying in large quantities on oppor- tune terms in the market.
 The list of those who are already building
 or preparing to build lover there" includes
 J. Morton Smith, Jelks Cabaniss, George |,
 Morris, Joseph P. Walker, w. w Hazzard
 w. M. Given, T. A. Murphree and others
 quite a colony in themselves
 We feel we are offering homeseekers something Uh ChO hnxo oo,x, consideration and invite them to confer with us without delay and thus get the privileges of first choice and initial prices on this new property the appeal of which is already demonstrated
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1 HIS is 8 small convenient cot ~ tage of four rooms, being 32 it. @ front and 2S it. deep, exclusive VIZ of the front screened piazza. The outside treatment of the front is symmetrical with center entrance, entering through a vestibule into the main living room that is 20 fl. in. 13 it. At the left of living room are two bed rooms. each provided with liberal sized closets, and a small con- meeting hall. In the rear is the bath room also a coat closet and in addi- tion coat closet joining the front yestibule There is one central chim- ney to acconmn odate a heater in base ment if desired and also the kitchen. In the rear are stairs extended down to basement with platform and grade entrance and above stairs to second or attic story. The kitchen is fitted with pantry cupboards and rear porch with space for refrig-
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eleven 11) feet to the point of begin ming.
 Section 2. There has been doubt and uncertainty as to what, 1T any streets avenues, alleys, public highways and public passage ways, have heretofore
 in any way been dedicated into or
 through that tract of land, set out in Section of this act, and it is the pur- pose and intention of all this bill to enact and it is hereby enacted that all streets. avenues, alleys. public high ways and public passage ways which have heretofore in any manner been dedicated into or through said prop erty. shall forever cease to be public highways. and that all rights of tte public into or through said property as the result of any dedication of streets, avenues. alleys, public high ways or public. passage ways, be and the same are hereby relinquished and abandoned
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orator. this porch to be screened in summer months and glazed in dur ing winter. The estimated cost is $2,500 to S3,000, exclusive of heating and plumbing. There is full base- ment with concrete wall and cement floor.
 The outside of cottage is finished with wide Colonial" siding up to window sills and above is covered with cement stucco and above the windows the wall is divided in panels with half tinbers giving a very pretty effect. The inside finish is Washington fir and floor of oak or maple, with linoleum in the kitchen. The steps at entrance are of selected hard burnt "texture' brick and the wall above grade is finished with pebble dash" surface. The roof is stained red or moss green to suit the taste and all outside trimmings paint ed white.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-10

record for ship production was esta5- lished at Hog Island the first year it was in operation, 47 steel cargo car riers aggregating 367,775 deadweisht tons having been sent down the ways up to August 5, it's first launching an niyersary
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the post of ambassador to the United States.
 Although Viscount Grey's eyesight IS failing rapidly, the advices said, there was tendency in American circles in London to couple the vis counts name with the statement of Andrew Bonar Law. the governments spokesman in the House of Commo;s, $, intimating that person who had been high in political life would be offered the position.
 Hog Island Breaks Record
 By Associated Press
 Philadelphia, August 9.-A worlds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-10
GREY IS OFFERED POST OF AMBASSADOR
 TO UNITED STATES
Rx cssnciafad Press

By f.ssoctated Press London, Sunday, August 10.-The Sunday Observer announces that the post of ambassador to the United States has been offered to ViscouIt Grey The newspaper says that Vls- count Grey has not yet reached de = cision.
 A dispatch from London August said that Viscount Grey had been n,en- toned upofficially as a possibility for
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! @'!' E'IJ;5e1:|J] he Placid Place
The Placid Place

Perhaps you have been left at the dock You had taken time As looked at the headed for the blue spaces which you been hungry all the year. of the port of those brief AngloSaxon words, TOO LATE
 Incidents such these stick like burrs in memory They bob up from time time and you unpleasant 
 You may however have another experience which will stay with you every the and year after shake it off.
 ARE YOU GOING TO BE "LEFT' BY BIRMINGHAM?
 That the question for to decide Your friends business acquainances waking They buying sites and business They do not intend that Bmng ham shall GROW AWAY FROM THEM.
 You may have the thought but the difference between and them IS that they acting and you may have in mind right beautiful residential lot which intend to buy have had for long on fine piece of business property You haven't bought believe that at time hereafter you get on your termsthat prices will be lower that's GROWING EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR, and that nobody you were thinking about that particular piece real estate Finally decide to buyand that's where the jolt comesT HAS BEEN BOUGHT BY SOMEBODY ELSE And then you find that other property which had considered so desirable has beyond the price which you have bought what had set your heart little you will recognize that will have to take what's efthat the matter lection and the fixing of the price beyond your control In other words, you have been LEFT BY BIRMINGHAM
 Don't let it happen. Birmingham Realty Company
 2llS First Av .nue
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This year. for the first time, women are seeking election to town councils in Holland
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Let It Happen

Ever get left by train? If so, you know how it happened. You toyed with with time-you had a hay idea that the whole universe, including the rail- way system, would have to wait on you. We'll, you got to the station and found the train gone-maybe only 100 yards away, but gone. And then you had a lonesome, sickly feeling.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-03-18

from New Mexico was represent
ed as being unaware that he was
a citizen of the United States. 'lf
this man understood the question
which had been put to him, which
seems very doubtful, l can only
say that the incident is far from
representative. The patriotism OF
the spanish,speakihg people OF
New Mexico was sufficiently
demonstrated in 1916, when the
President called for volunteers
to protect the bar der from Me
xican invasion. At this time a
war with Mexico. was fully ex-
pected. 1.-The Spanish-speaking
citizens Of New Mexico enlisted
more, readily and with greater en-
thusiasm than the English
speaking citizens Of the State. 1t
is we'll known that the largest
and most efficient companies on
the border we're drawn from our
Spanish speaking Counties. This
record has been continued
through the present war; No div
ision in France has had a higher
reputation than the s9th, made
up largely of New Mexico boys
and among the latter5both in the
[casualty lists and the citations
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-03-18

commended that the compulsory
,ge limit be raised from IA to Is
FeaPs. :
In addition, the Governors le-
,islative program provides for in
creased school facilities for illite-
.'ate adults, including night school
three times a week. This is in
in line with the latest recommenda
ions made by the National Amer
sanitation Committee and the
Anerieanization Bureau Of the
Department of the Interior.
The general impression con
7eyed by your correspondent,
namely, that the effect of the lie.
gislation recommended by Gov.
.rnor Larrazolo would be to sub
stitute Spanish for English as the
language of the State, is, l believe.
lirectIy contrary to the facts. The
Governors plan proposes to make
the teaching of English more (noi
,ess) effective. He points out that
he system in use during the seven
wears of Statehood ''has failed ia
give the results expected"-thai
S, a common language UNIVERSAL,
nnderstood--a-n-d- attributes
this failure in part to the practice
of sending teachers who speak nj
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-03-18

Spanish to schools in districts
where the people speak no En-
glish. He recommends that in
such districts as these the tea
chers should have knowledge of
both languages. To quote the
Governor:
at is difficult to see how the
English language can successful
| ly be taught to Spanish-speaking
children who live in exclusively
Spanish speaking communities
where they have no opportunity OF
speaking English with other chill
dren,. unless the teacher in such
schools is able to speak both the
English and the Spanish langua-
ges. fuently so that he can ex'
plain to the children in their own
language that which they read in
the English language" :. i
It is clear from the above that
| the. primary object of the bill
which. closely follows the Gov
ernor's recommendations, is to in
r. I
Icrease, and not to abolish, the use
of English in New Mexico.
Your correspondent. makes
good deahof an incident reported
lin the National Geographic Ma
gazine in which am enlisted mar
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-03-18

Spanish-AmeI'ican names predo-
There can, of course, be no
question as to the common object
which we all hope TO attain in
New Mexico.
1t is true, as you state, that at
present interpreters are still he
cessary in the courts, and to a
certain extent in the Legislature.
This state of affairs must, OF
course be done away with a.
speedily as possible. The teach
ing of English must be compul
sorry and universal. On those
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-03-18

matters there is, | believe. no
difference of opinion in the State.
The only question is as to the
best means Of improving the si'
tuation. AS the employment of
teachers who cannot speak
Spanish has failed to- give, the
resultslwe hoped for, it would
seem only just to give the Gov
ernor's program Il fair trial and
net condemn it beforehand as an
attempt "to create Spanish
speaking State on the border of
Mexico"
Bronson n. Cutting.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-03-18

| way whose line from VladiEostoI
to- Omsk and Russia is the only
way by which manufactured goods
and SUPPLIES are obtainable 9
Holding the Siberian front,
which is a short distance west Of
the Ural Mountains, against the
army of the Bolsheviki of Russia,
there is the Siberian army of the
Omsk Government. This army is
composed Of very young men,
whose officers have had little mi
litary training and service. It is
essential to. the holding of this
front that this army be strengthen
ed by the presence of the Allies.
The arrival of the French Gen.
eral Janin with his staff was a
great moral comfort to this army
and to the population Of western
Siberia. But they need the pre-.
sence of some allied forces. :
The most important aid which
the Siberian Army has received is
the presence of the Czerchoslovak
Army. Which, up to recently, has
been sufficient. But the Czechos-
lovaks are worn out. They have
fought long and bravely. They
have been told to hold till the mo,
ment when the war would be over
in Europe Then their great allies
would come to release them. But
the war has ended, yet the Allies
have not arrived. The private
soldier of the Czerehosloyak Army
has a remarkable political sense.
He understands perfectly that
3olshevism must be fought out
and the soeialist.revolutionist pro-
tected, because Bolshcvism means
autocrac;y and social revolutionisml
means democracy, but the soldiers
do not understapdi. a. ,Nhy. they
!. should ll. alone alone bsaf BE- + faae a burden Of
tie Allies; We cannot expect to
- tie Czcefos pks repain at
Che front. til iindefinislyy,i IL If II is a duty
ana a necessity for the, Allies to
release them, and the Americans,
because they have not been in the
war so long, are considered the
best fitted to give the aidso greatly
needed. One American division
would he quite enough to take the
place of the Czechoslovks and
make the front absolutely safe, as
the Bolshevist army of mercena-
ries, although stronger than a few
months ago, are poor lot.
If no aid is given, and if the
Siberian front breaks, the unfortu-
nate refugees of Omsk and other
cities would fall. into the hands
Of the Bolsheviki. This would not
be to the moral credit of the, Allies.
by far more important events may
resalt if the Bolsheviki should OBJ
tain control Of Siberia.
First-of all, the Bolsheviki would
find the food prodlIcts which they
need badly, and would be enabled
to maintain themselves a long time.
Some people say that as the Bolslie.
visit regime is bad, it cannot last.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-03-18
VEys.-1>@> -. -.LATEST~WORED NEWS -
THE SIBERIANs FROM

Il - i
They do not know the passivity OF
the Russian people. Czarism was
a bad regime. Still it lasted for
centuries. a.
Such a victory would also enable
the 2 Bolsheviki to circulate ther
propaganda in China, through
Manchuria. Some Bolshevist pro-
Ipaganda has already been direct
ed towar the Chinese. These are
Offensive reasons for the holding
Of the Siberian front. 1t can be
done easily, as / have said.
The beneficent results of holding
this front would be:
First-That the Bolsheviki in
Russia would very likely fall in a
short time from want Of food, if
Ukrainia as well as Siberia were
equally enabled to resist them.
Second-Even if the, Bolshevist
regime did not fall Immediately,
it would be possible for the Allies
to do much for the political re-edu-
cation Of the Russian people in ST.
beria. We could make them un-
derstand that all Governments are
not like their former regime or the
subsequent disturbances, which
made most Of them 1disgusted with
civilization and led them to the
other extreme. They do not know
that there is a form Of govern
ment and cilization which will
benefit them. The Allies must
teach them this. The proper ope-
ration Of the Trans-Siberiah Rail-
road would assist greatly. This
would enable the people Of Siberia
70 get manufactured products. If
the front is Held, Mr. Stevens, the
American engineer WHO WHO has just
been entrusted with lie charge Of
managing, the tn railway will sli'a!eeed
with. that task. = 2'.i'a. / j
Moreover il, Wopllld Wsogplllds be Of the ut
most ilapo.fitanee l1ats9If 1ats9I thf F. future uptre of
American indslltry ,tt.qp,, ttqp, receive raw
materials, /, from .Si4eerHa Siberian and and to
send them manpfactturEeed products.
Siberia is nearly as rich rich !. as the
United ST States in Iq natural pplrqft.ls resources
Before the war. Germany i. " was trad,
ing .Siberia's raw material for her
manufactured products. Only one
Of the Allies is able to take Ger
many's place, and that is the Unit
ed States because Of the latter s
enormous manufacturing power. II
the United States does not enter
this enormous business, then Ger
many will take back her old place.
/ -
Speaking from the political
point of-view, one would be short
sighted who could not see that the
question of tomorrow will be the
question Of the Pacific as the ques-
ton of yesterday was the question
Of Europe. 1t the United States
| is to be a factor in the control Of
the Pacific, it is essential that the
United States have a. strong posi-
tion in Sibcria-and open-door pc
LEY for a fair commercial eompe-
tition.
E =
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-03-18
LANGUAGE IN NEW MEXIC'
English to be Taught by Teachers
Who Must Kno,v Spanish Too.
Ry Ryonsou U Cgtting..

EN0ttSH 20 DC uuyiet w
Who Must Knov Spanish 700.
By Bronson II. Cutting. !
TO the Editor of the
Ncac York Times:
Asa citizen of New Mexico for
the last ten years and an editor
of one of the daily papers, The
Santa Fe New Mexican, L feel
that it is only fair to correct some
misleading statements made by
your anonymous correspondent in
a letter published on Feb. %.
The stament that .'there is nc
compulsory school law in New
Mexico shows in itself that youi
correspondent is unfamiliar with
the educational system in, the
State. We have long had a com
pAsory school law, and the pre-
sent Go, ernor, in his latest mes
sage to the Legislature, has re
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-03-18
WHY THE ALLIES SHOULD
HOLD TIL LINE AGAINST THE
BOLSIIEVIKI THERE
BY Official Observer.

| Having just returned, after
spending two months in Western
Siberia, ! am impressed by the
opinions expressed by. Americans
and others coming from Siberia
Of conditions in that vast region
which are at variance with my own
opinion, formed after careful ob.
servation and study.
| This is due to the fact that most
of the allied armies's 5 representa-.
YES, and in particular the Amer.
leans. are living in the eastern
| part, called the Maritime Proyir.
| ce'', where conditions, from eco
nofnic, : political, and military
points of view, are very different
from what they are in the remand
er Of Siberia, although the whole
of Siberia is under the authority
Of Admiral Kolchak's Govern
tnent, the seat of which is at
0m TX, in Western Siberia. -
The population of Eastern ST.
5eria is largely Of the worhmen s
class, because it is composed Of
more recently settled immigrants,
and because the former regime had
established there large prisons, the
doogs of which were thrown open
by the ;Bolsalevikii during the time
they dominated q Il the country. ~ AT
Chat time the people adopted THE
| Solshevistl doctrine. going SO far
n some places as. to N murder l|l the
Iilehoolmasters, as members Of the
"intelligentcia, J" The = majority Of
She peasants n are esirSt rStill Bollssheyikif
'ecarse they, experienced during &
| .he short Stime Rolshevism flourish-
| ID there what to them were E,,,.. hsne-
ieial + acts, ,spGh4 ass taking taking their
lsieherjy yneighbors', land, i fishing in
| be- State 'sisivers, and, freely max;
,ng3 their own Yodka: -i...l :. .<.
Inothe central and, western see.
| ions. Of Siberia, where the peas
,nts. are richer, but have suffered
heavy acquisitions Of the Bolshe,
Wiki to. obtain food for the unem-
pfoyed workmen OF. the cities, Boil
heyism is a doctrine far less ac-
epted by the masses. In the west
rn. part everybody feels that the
| 3olsheviki are not very far away
'eyond the Ural Mountains, and
hat if the military front defend
d by the army. Of the Government
It aOmsk was to break down, they
would fall into the hands Of the
Bo1sheviki. In Omsk alone half Q
million refugees, mostly women
md children, who fled eastward
rom Russia ahead Of the Bolshe
yist wave, are living under severe
conditions, no manufactured OBJ
ieets being obtainable on account
# the practical suppression of the
fraffic on the Trans-Siberian Rail
| * A
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-03-18

prevent a better understand
chess of the human race. If
States will need Porto Rico
prefer with Latin-America,
1nercial and spiritual relati
mindedness and short-sighte
lose our Spanish entirely?
''# But History proves that tt
useless; right in the contin
the, South, there are regions
ed long ago into the United
territories, continue to cling
guage, Spanish. Just now,
discussion in New Mexico,
the following, two commune
from The Ncao York Times:
Santa Fe, n. NJ, March Re
ports which have gone out con-
cerlling the recommendations
made by Governor o. A. Larrazo-
10 in, his address before the State
Legislature When it convened OH
Jan II, With referring to 't,eaeliing
Spanish and English in the
schools of New Mexico have been
distorted. Many people are Of the
,opiffion tlrat the teaching Of Both
Spanish Ind English will'be made.
eoimilpuisSsaArys ,iillp iSsA ys1l9s Such, howetvetii!,a is,
no not the ease. l'ffie Governor i'll his
message to the Legislature. said'
s'.fsSrerfenee shows eonclusively
that our public schools i'll the ru-
raj distffcts;a settled principally
by spanish-speakipg Peqple, have,
not given tieEesqlts ldxpeeqseesd pIe Of
them; this, am sure, is due
principally to an insufdciency in
the law, brought about by over
sight or possibly by lack of ex-
perience in dealing with the pc
culiar problems presented i'll those
districts. It is difficult to see
how the English language can
successfully be taught to Spanish
. d
speaking children who live in in eX-
clusively, or almost exclusively,
Spanisk-speaking communities
where they have no opportunity
of speaking English with other
children, unless the teacher III
such schools is able to speak both
the English and Spanish langua-
ges fiuently, SO that he can explain
to the children in their own Ian
guage that which they read i'll the
English language.
81 therefore recommend that
Il law be enacted requiring that
all teachers in the public schools
in such rural districts of our
State as are inhabited principal
ly BY Spanish-speaking people be
{ able to speak, read and write both
& the English and Spanish langua-
ges, in. so far as they may be
practicable; that is, in so far as
4 such teachers can be procured,
and that said teachers be requir-
ed teach the children to trans
late their English reading into
: ;1the Spanish Language, to the end
that they may understand that
which they read"
Bills now pending in the State
Legislature seek to carry out
esthe Governor's recommendations
They provide that Spanish must
be taught in all high schools, col
and English must be TAUGHT
in; rural schools where there apr
any great number of pupils oi
Spanish descent. Rural schools
made up exclusively of English
speaking pupils are not affected
A pupil in high school, university
or college will not be obliged t
study Spanish, even if the pending
sbills pass.
No attempt is being made tI