The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-17
Ne,Us ofTuscaLoosa

will result in greatly enlarged vol
 tune of output in the next few months.
 is the concensus of opinion by those who have given the subject study.
 Some time ago the Board of Trade appointed a special committee to work
 on the subject of obtaining a building
 and loan association for Tuscaloosa, and the Rotary club did the same thing, the two committees working in conjunction on the matter Yesterday
 at the Rotary club luncheon several 1 gentlemen from other points who have | had experience in the building and | loan field were guests of the joint com mittees and discussed the matter thor | oughly. continuing at the rooms of the Board of Trade after the Rotary lunch con. There has been determined upon
 building and loan association for this | city in order to assist people who want | to own their homes. and at the same | time induce the saving and investment i of small sums by other people. which money will be put to work in the com
 munity in material and labor and in producing more improved property and | furnishing homes for people who want | to pay for them about as they pay
 rent, but are not able to go down in i their pockets for several thousand dol
 lars at once in order to build
 The joint committee and both civic | organiza tfons are very enthusiastic
 over the idea and it will be only a short time now before this city will
 have a first-class building and loan
 association and building operations will take spurt Numbers of people
 are merely waiting for the concern to start. in order to obtain the money upon easy terms with which to con- struct residences.
 At the last assembly meeting of the 900 students of the University of Ala bama summer school resolutions were passed endorsing the revenue bill as
 prepared by Governor Kilby and sub 1 mitted to the legislature. The resolu- tions also requested all the teachers Of the state to back up the state admin istration in its efforts to obtain suf- | ficient funds to properly finance the state institutions. and particularly 70 pay better wages to the school teach- CTS of the state and in extending the common schools of the state. Dr. w. H. Denny, president of the university, delivered a stirring address to the assembly, urging the members to re- turn to their various communities and be militant in supporting the progress siyes ideas of the governor as regards the financing of Alabama. Fully 99 per cent of the attendance has been of school teachers of the state who were seeking to improve and qualify them selves for better work and better posi- tions. The school is considered by the university authorities to be the most successful summer school ever held at the university.
 Citizens are manifesting great in terest in the proposition opened to them through the efforts of Congress irr1a v, ityor fA c11r> 1xrC Cf hA
 plus army food. Mayor Robertson will
 probably open lists at the city hall to- morrow for orders indicating the | amount desired by each person and
 may require a deposit on each order. It will be necessary to make up a car load. as they will only be shipped !n
 such quantities, but it is thought there will be no difficulty in obtaining a carload. or two or three of them There has been some disappointment regarding the prices at which the sup plies were quoted, the general impres- sion being that the goods would be sold at 20 per cent discount from actual cost price to the government. whereas they are quoted to this com
 munity at cost merely. with indica- tions that this price may be reduced somewhat.
 Congressman Oliver is busy trying to
 get the final figures from the War Department, as many people are hesi-
 tating to order at the present timo,
 thinking that later on the prices may
 be less. He has promised the local au-
 thorities that he will rush the final
 figures at tho earliest possible mo-
 ment, so the clement of doubt and un- certainty will be removed.
 The sugar situation here is some what less acute; one of the local job bers receiving car of granulated ycs-
 terday, and the car ordered by Mayor