The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-08
News Of Tuscaloosa

f ing counties or the state to contract for printing wherever they pleased.
 I President Seeley points out that Mem | pshis, St. Louis, Atlanta and other print ing concerns pay no taxes in the state | of Alabama have no investment here.
 employ no men here and it is only fair | to patronize home institutions The question will be taken up at the meeting | of the league here the fourth Sunday m ] August and pressed.
 | Congressman W. B. Oliver has tele- graphed Tuscaloosa authorities to make known the fact that wholesalers or job bers or even retailers short of sugar can obtain it by making their wants known ! to Judge R. E. Milling, chairman Lotus jana Sugar commission, 917 Whitney buldl l ing. New Orleans, who has charge Of the amount of sugar stored for the army, not now needed, and who also has authority | to allocate sugar from the supplies or I the Louisiana crop.
 The sugar shortage is acute in Tusca- loosa and the canning and preserving of I summer fruits has come to a practtca! standstill on that account. Some of the | smaller stores are charging 15 cents pound for sugar, and many of them nave none at all.
 Tuscaloosa county furnished over one million feet of the lumber used to mahe | the grandstand and arena where the | Willard Dempsey fight was held. it was | learned today. the Trotter Lumber com pany shipping over a million feet to A.
 Trotter of Cleveland. Ohio, who handled
 the deal.
 | The appropriation of money by the leg | slature to match the funds supplied oy | the federal government for the promotion | of vocational education in Alabama has | resulted in a tremendous interest being manifested in vocational training for , teaching this line of educational work at 1 the summer school now attended by about 1 1000 teachers of the sttae at the Univers- Iity of Alabama
 l The share of Alabama of the vocational 1 fund is over $45, 600 and with the state | appropriation of a similar amount, gives
 a decided impetus to common sense edu-
 cation" and the teachers or the state are
 anxious to qualify for the rather rigorous requirements Five courses are offered
 in the summer school of the university vocational guidance, history of the de lvelopment of industrial education, shor 1 mathematics, methods of teaching in vo- cational schools and administration of vo- | cational education; the latter being thf | most popular course and considered a' meeting the needs of those who have the responsibility of leading in vocational edu- cation in their respective communities | Many prominent speakers and opponents
 of vocational education have been here to assist in the work; the first being pr J. H. Phillips, superintendent of the Bir- tmingham schools. He lectured for week | Prof. J. B. Hobdy, director of vocational education in Alabama lectured during the | second week of the summer school ther l followed Lewis H. Carris of the federal board for vocational education at Wash ington, and Prof. ZebuLon Judd, head o1
 the department of agriculture at Auburn Twelve agricultural and vocational higt schools have been established in the state | this year out of the vocational education funds, and as many or more are Sched' uled for next year according to the plans being made by the educational department
 of the state.
 Dr. George H. Denny, president of tho University of Alabama and chairman O the Tuscaloosa county campaign for tht
 raising of funds for the Alabama me
 morial to our soldiers who died in France
 states that the drive will be started il
 real earnest this week. Last week onl,
 a third of the money needed was raised due, so states the committee, to the small ness of contributions. Where the solicit |
 spot they got four bits. Where tel
 dollar bill was confidently looked for
 ward to, they were lucky if they got
 instead of hard luck story. Wher
 s250 was expected $2.5o was handed out
 and so on.
 pr. Denny proposes to throw some ad , ditional pep in the work and raise tn
 amount assigned this week. The cam
 paign has been tagging in the county also
 outside of Tuscaloosa city. The negroe
 seem to have put a good deal more en
 thusiasm in raising their quota than tn
 whites have displayed.
 Showing what determina ton can do |
 spite of handicaps, there is a 20 poun
 cabbage on exhibition at one of the loca
 stores, raised by L. F. Williams, a one
 armed wholesale trucker who has 4t
 acre place about two miles from towr
 Fifteen years ago when he bought tn place it was so poor that five acres woul be required to raise a bale of cottor
 and if 10 bushels of corn was gathere , per acre 1t was considered fine cror , Mir. Williams has steadily pulled tn place up until he makes a bale and
 half of cotton to the acre; 75 to so bushel of corn, and raises amazing quantit ! of fine truck which he wholesales. H
 does a great deal of the work himself i l spite of having only one arm. He haul | the street sweeping from town every da , or so and has put as high as 40 wago loads on an acre. MT. Williams says tha anybody can make living on any Ian in Alabama if he will stick to it an mix brains and energy with his farming : and declares his place was so poor whe , he took it "a man couldn't raise ro' f on it or an umbrella, or even his hopes. l, Now it is probably the richest place , the county.