The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Left Ear. at Home

Left Ears at Home
 Former Mayor Frank V. Evans IS giving a tryout to a hearing apparatus which thus far has worked very well. T left my ears at home this morning, he remarked at his office in the A1neri- can Trust building. His friends asked him to repeat the statement several times before they realized that what MT. Evans meant was that he had for gotten to bring his acousticon with him.
 MT Evans went on to say: T made a bargain with my wife to this effect: that I can hear the preacher I will con- tinue going to church Sunday morn ings. If it does not, told her I was going to quit because I could not see the benefit of a sermon which I failed 1 to catch the drift of Indications are that my wife has won, and being a natural church -goer, I am not refretfui that it looks that way
 Young Men ut Work. q believe we young men can aceom- pIish something for the community said Fucker Agee, one of the organ 1 izers of the Junior Chamber of Com merce. 'Twe certainly wish to do so. l IL was a happy thought on the part of 10. c. Bum to give us a show by the cr- ganization of the junior body The | rank and file of us believe that we have started off with a good bunch of nf 70 1n1H 4n 1 real accomplishments
 Ysung Men at work "rhe return of pr. ". R. Hendrix to Alabama, after having served in Geor- l gia and Texas, is good news for the iMethodists of the state, and par.icu- iarIy so here in the Birmingham dis Ben F. Moore. .Dr Hendrix left Us some while back to go to the Atlanta dis.rict. and after some years of service in the tGeorgia capital, was transferred to the Lone Star state. Now he comes tack l to serve the Highlands Methodist church. He is a man of deep piety, scholarly attafnments and is an e;o- Quent preacher
 1 Going Up
 Several punches of the highly co1ored toy balloons soaring above the build 1 ings at the corner of Twentieth street and Third avenue attracted a great deal { of attention from the passersby yester- day afternoon" said Hardie Brown. | When the first bunch of half dozen or more took the air. it vas thought 1 that the vendor had inadvertently re- 1 leased the balloons. pu, when a second and third batch of dozen or more floated skywards, it was apparent that
 they were sent up by design.
 The sender was young fellow who seemed to take much delight in watch : l ing the balloons go up. One thing is certain, his actions attracted much at- l tention, the grown-ups watched the bal 1 looms float westward with some degree ! of amusement but the Riddles look ed | rather wistfully at the toys that were | flying around without an owner, but yet so far out of their reach" Our Young Artists
 "Birmingham's young talent has cer- | tainly come to the fore for a good
 cause" said Mrs. Brenton Fiske. .-The
 artistic ability that the school children
 of Birmingham have shown in design
 ing posters for the doll bazaar is re- markable
 Tt makes us wonder how long it will be before we hear of pictures by some of these young artists in the Paris salon or the Metropolitan gall | V fyp aJ <frc 1<rry Twentieth street next week will be | like going through an art gallery. Look in the windows and behold what the ! young idea can do"
 Words of Praise
 Col Samuel S. Mcclure, the noted author and traveller who lectured here last night, spoke very highly yester- 1 day of the city in general and the ap- pearance of the streets and buildings in particular. Colonel Mcclure has
 visited practically every large city in
 the United States and his comments have more than usual significance. T have been impressed and agree.- ably surprised at the cosmopolitan ap- pearance of your city, said Colonel l Mcclure. -The streets are broad and
 unusually clean for city of this ska. The city is ideally laid off and the 1 absence downtown of 'eyeso-es' one usually finds in many of our big cities is striking.
 T was really surprised at the num- Der and elegance of your skyscrapers. They are truly magnificent and reflect the city's progress and business en~ terprise I know .t is customary for visitors to give praise to places they visit, but can truthfuily say. with out making comparisons. that Birming- ham is one of the most progressive cities have visited in recent years" Ready to Criticize
 There is always some one ready to find fault with those who are trying to do their duty" said w. T. Gilmore ''The police department comes in for a full share of this unjust criticism People are inclined to blame the po- lice department because of the late crime wave that has recently passed over the city. Every time person wanting little publicity stages fake hold-up there are people who wag their heads and say, What is the matter with our po- lice that they cannot catch these high waymen.' In a number of cases we have run down the evidence so far that the