The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10

l Read is a resident of this parliamentary district, having established his home at Browston Hall. His personal popularity is such as to indicate reasonable cer-
 tainty of his election. Not only MT. Reads activity in public affairs, but his work in the development of Old Colony Club interests in England have contrib uted to give him the standing which has won this recognition. Although he went to England from America, where he was associated with me from the beginning in the establishment and development of the Old Colony Club system on this side.
 Mir Read has always been British sub- ject.
 It is sometimes difficult to determine from conflicting and inadequate news paper reports just what Is going on over 1 seas. I found a practical unanimous be- | lief, and many evidences to support it., that Great Britain is rapidly coming back ! to normal conditions in business nno in dustry. Many things that were before ] the war no longer exist Many other con- | ditions are of course, permanently
 changed. But the old stability is there.
 The labor situation, concerning which so many sensational reports have been sent | out, is not regarded as anything to be afraid of. The coal miners demands are l Unreasonable, but the best opinion is that
 they will be adjusted because of the real ! ization on both sides that to lock up the inGustries of nation by coal strike i would cripple the country in way that neither the government nor labor could l tolerate The British government, l am ] informed, is taking steps to avert the l danger of a tie-up of the nations fuel l supply by purchasing very substantial in- 1 terests in oil fields h different parts of the world, so as to be independent of labor organizations for it's fuel supply ir l the future Before I left England the first oil-burning locomo otive to be operated in that country hauled a train from Lon- ] don to Manchester. This was something revolutionary in English railroading, but it was successful, and I understand thai I the conversion of coal-burning locomo I lives into oil burnnrs on all the important railways is about to be undertaken al once.
 I It is of interest to note tlat the Old Col I ony Club system, with the opening on tht | first of this month of the new San Fran cisco Club, now stretches geographicaii, 5000 miles from east to west, from Pari
 to the Pacific. Our worldwide extension planned from the beginning. is we'll unde
 way.
 st Among the members of the clubs inter
 national advisory board are the fonowfn, 5 from this city and vicinity: Louis Il Clark director American Trust and Sav
 sings Bank and president Commercia | Realty company NIOSAii, Pt Sf'ANe't
 Joubert-Goslin Machine and Foundr
 i Compay; Crawford Johnson, presiden
 Birmingham Coco-Cola Bottling Com pany; John l.. Kaul, president Kaul Lum her company; William H. Stockham, pres
 ident Stockham Pipe and Fittings Com
 pany; Theodore Swann, president Soutn ern Manganese Corporation; Oscar Wells
 president First National Bank; w. $ Harlan, Lockhart. Ala, manager Jackson
 Lumber Company.
 1 The new San Francisco Old Colony Clul onened on Friday and occupies larg' part of the ground floor of the St. Franci hotel, including the space that was for !, merly the bar room The club has takel a lang lease on this space, under an ar rargement whereby the hotel provides
 restaurant service in the club dining room and reserves certain number of sleep ! ing rooms for the exclusive use of Ol' \ Colony members. The club rooms includ' \ lounge, reading and writing rooms, Il brary, private conference rooms for tn use of members; also baths and the neces sary offices.