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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
Burruss Collecting
 Data For Proposed
 Viaduct Over Tracks

Commissioner Henry Page Burruss is gathering data to present before the board of city commissioners concerning the advisablity of having constructed viaduct on Twenty-first street over the tracks of the Frisco railroad. be- tween Eighth and Eleventh avenues.
 The Rainbow viaduct from First ave nue to Avenue A cost something over $200.000. Of this sum the railroad paid so per cent.
 Because of the insistent demand from residents of North Birmingham, North Highlands and North Side in general. Mir. Burruss believes the time is about ripe to take the matter up and see what can be done.
 The proposed viaduct is the first of several. the street commissioner be- lieves. should be built in the immediate future. Also he is having plans made concerning underpasses in several parts of the city where the contour of the streets and realty would make such an institution more desirable than a viaduct.
 MT. Burruss will lay his findings be- fore the board of commissioners al an early meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
JOINT OPERATION
 OF TICKET OFFICE
 THOUGHT DOOMED
Despite Announcement It Will Be Continued, DissO- lutiOn Expected Soon.
 Railroad Men Move

When the owners take over the control and operation of the railroads next Mon day, they will not abolish the joint ticket office at 2O10 First avenue. established about July 1. 1918, under government con- trol. it is stated. Whether the joint of fee will be retained permanently has not been decided btu it is not believed that it will
 Referring to the joint ticket office mat ter one railroad man said it would be retained until some higher official gNs' the idea that his road is dlscriminated against and then the separation will come.
 The Pennsylvania railroad. it is an nounced. will not go into any joint ar engagement, mad unless II does 1t is hardly probable that the others. will stay in very long. The prediction is made that the end of joint ticket offices will come long before the end Of the present year.
 c. l. Allen who has been general agent here of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic road since the government took over control, leaves Sunday for Jackson vile, his former post. where he will be general agent of the road for Florida and Cuba.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
DRAMA LEAGUE ID
 HEAR HINDU POET Native of India to Make Ad- dress This Afternoon
 At the Tutwiler

The members 0 fthe Drama League are looking forward with interest to the meeting this afternoon at S'30 o'clock in the ballroom of the Tutwiler hotel, when Dhan Gopal Mukerji, the noted Hindu poet and lecturer. will ad dress the league. He will have as his subject 'Tagore, and the Hindu Drama tist," and an atmosphere of the far east will be supplied by the full orien- tai and conventional costume which he will wear on his appearance in Bir- mingham
 Mir. Mukerji is a graduate of Calcut- ta, TolSio and Leland -Stanard universi- ties, being poet of ability and the author of many books. According to reports received in Birmingham, Mir. Mukerji is one of the most interesting speakers who has appeared before the Drama Leagues of other cities, and the appearance of this artist implies a treat in every sense of the word.
 Mrs. w. D. Smith, president of the Drama League, urges all members to be present, as this promises to be one of the most brilliant meetings of the season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
CIVIC COMMITTEE
 ID CHECK CENSUS Chairmen to Complete the Plans for Work at Meet
 ing Tomorrow

The chairmen of the committees from the Rotary. Kiwanis. Civitan and Com munity Clubs will meet tomorrow aft eruoon at o'clock at the Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of complet- ing plans for the work of rechecking inc census enumeration in several dis tricts of ,.le Uty Tn addition George NJ crulkshank, census supervisor, and A. w. Aldridge of the Bureau of Census in Washington. D. C.. who has charge of the work in Alabama will be pres ent at the meeting. J Frank Rush. ton and Murray Brown will have charge of this work and a committee of ten has been appointed from the various clubs to assist.
 The district from Railroad avenue to Tenth avenue north, and from Nine teenth to Twenty first streets will be the downtown section to be checked while d district on the south side, one al West End one at Ensley and a ne- gro district will in all' probability be checked by the citizens committee.
 In order that the work of the enum- orators can be checked it will be neces- sarv for the Census Bureau to return 10 Birmingham the portfolios of these respective districts. Mir. Aldridge re- celFed d message sfsiefuds SldtihE that this would be done. When the committees from the civic organization, complete their work they will turn fl their lists 10 Mir Cruikshank and MT AIdridge who will creck the records of the enumerators and if a discrep ancy is found it is probable that a new count for Birmingham will bs asked
 The work in tlie district outside thi city has been practically completed : only four enumeratofs have not w turned in their books II IS ex,,eete, that all districts will he completed bs Tuesday and wlll De checked hy the tn spectors and forwarded to Washing ,fl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
Theft Of
 Parcel Post Package

John McMitlan, alias Sam McMIrlan, a negro charged with violating section 19f of the criminal code, waived preliminary hearing yesterday afternoon before Ken- meth Charlton, United States cornnIts- sioner, and was bound over to the grand jury under SO0 bond. He is alleged to have stolen a parcel post package con- taining one pair of pants and coat from a truck at the Terminal station The package was shipped by tho Superior Tailoring Company of Cincinnati and was consigned to Abe Kessler at Afux an dra, La.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
Business Good At Kress Stores, States
 Vice President

c. w. Kress, vice president Of Kress X Company, operators of five and ten cent stores in all principal southern and western cities, was in Birmingham yes- terday comforting with George Me- Cleery, IT anager of the local store, and locking over conditions
 Mir. Kress stated that business had been good with his company in all parts of the country during the last year. ana that the Birmingham store stood among the leaders, it's increase in volume be- ing considerably above the average of all the stores.
 "Judging from the amount of business dome at our store here l imagine there is q great deal of money being made Ill Birmingham and that everything and everybody are prosperous Birmingham looks like very lively city to me and am informed business generally IS good here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
A NOVEL METHOD OF SELLING MONOGRAPH
 RECORDS IS PATENTED
Goudelock and Weinberg Make Sue cess of Plan Tried in Local Music Store Several
 Months Ago

A patent on novel method of sell ing phonograph records and sheet inu- sic has been granted John M. Goude lock and Roy F, Weinberg, local men. by the United States commissioner of patents.
 The method, tried out in the win- dows of the Clark and Jones Piano Company several months ago drew large crowds to these windows and st- fracted much favorable criticism. It consists of placing on a wall or sirni- lar show .place q greatly enlarged copy of an original musical compost ton alongside of which is placed a phonograph which plays the composi- tion in exactly the same key as the music calls for.
 Messrs Goudelock and Weinberg are being congratulated by many adver- Using experts in the musical field who predict for their patent big re- suits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
Reduction of Local
 Mortality Report

So pronounced has been the reduce ton in the local mortality report so far this week that tho city health authori- ties arc led to believe that there Is a considerable illumination in the prev alence of influenza nsBirmingham.
 number of cases have been reported to the city, but tho report slips boar dates. in some instances. of two weeks ago, so there Is practically little chance to gain comparison on yesterdays number of new cases with previous days
 However, the slackening in the de- mand for nurses adds to the belief that the worst of it is over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
Three Ford Trucks
 For Mail Delivery

Three additional Ford trucks to be used in the delivery of parcel post mat ter at the local postoffice have been re- ceved and placed in storage until the remaining six trucks assigned to Bir- ningham arrive. Already six Ford trucks have been received and they will replace the wagons used at the present time. The other trucks will be used to transfer the mail matter from the depots to the post office We are looking for the other trucks any time now" said Postmaster R. B. Sniyer, "as they have been ordered several months and they will probably be here soon enough to be placed in com- mission by April or May"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
Marriage Licenses

Marriage licenses issued by the probate clerk yesterday are as follows:
 William II. YessieS and Miss Rosa B. Daniel
 Ruel Pryor and Miss Mary E. Smith. James F. Traylor and Miss Annie Mae Cooper
 Robert T. Walters and Miss Alberta Bradford.
 David Emanuel and Miss Clara Lewis. Lee W. Lindsey and Miss Annie B. House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
Sanitsrium Talked
 For Howard College

There has been some more talk of late about the possible establishment of a large sanitarium at East Lake by Ala bama Baptists. The Baptist convention tentatively voted s2J0.o0a some time ago for the nucleus of sanitarius and pos- sibly a medical college
 It has been suggested that if the sani- t4 rum is built and medical department incorporated, that the plant be conducted ;ts a union of Howard College. but as the idea is so far so nebulous. there has been rothing done about it yet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
Rushton Outlines Plan
 To Pay Teachers More
Member Board of Education Suggests High School Pupils Pay 25 Cents Weekly Tuition and Grammar School
 Students Buy Books When Able

More for teachers is facing the first faint flicker of probable dawn. w. Ruhton member of the board of edu cation, believes he has solution of the problem.
 Mir Rushton and
 city financial working possible scheme they could think of teachers whom all of them think due better for they But yesterday all eu tions had with possible assistance from the five-mn additional with three half of the five mills the teachers wants the
 looked until Then MT Rushon made his 6on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
PEARSON TO CINCINNATI

Clarence H. Pearson, who has been chairman of the Birmingham district freight traffic committee the past severaA months, and a member of it ever since it was created about August l, 1918, leaves Sunday for Cincinnati, to resume his old post as assistant general freight agent of the Alabama Great Southern. Mir Pearson is native of Birmingham, and for several years before going to C1ncin- nati three or four years ago, held re- sponsible positions here in the freight traffic department of the Alabama Great Southern.
 Hugh r. Latimer, agent In charge or the joint ticket office, and prior to that division passenger agent of the Alabama Great Southern. is reported to be graduai- ly recovering his health and is expected back in Birmingham in few weeks. lie will continue in charge of the joint or fee. 1t is stated. MT. Latimer wene to Asheville, N C., last June to recuperate' and later was in hospital in Baltimore for several weeks.
 ]. H. Stanfiel, general superintendent of the Southern Railway, with headduar- ters in Birmingham, whose promotion 10 the office of general manager of the west ern lines of the Southern, wTtn neadduar- ters in Cincinnati leaves Tor the onlo city in two or three days. He will be- pin his new duties next Monday. He will be succeeded by J. w. Wasson, trans ferred from an eastern division.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
E. T. WILCOX PROMOTED
Is Now Assistant Freight Traffic
 Manager

F. T. Wilcox, who was with tho Fr1sro in Birmingham and afterwards was made assistant general freight agent of tho seaboard here. and who during govern ment control was general freight assnt, has been appointed assistant freight traffic manager. with office at Norfolk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
DEVIATES FROM PLAY

The Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic will deviate from it's former policy Of having only one division and one super intendent, and beginning next Mopday it will have a general superintendent or transportation, and two division superin- tendents in charge of transportation and traffic. The division headquarters will be at Birmingham and Fitzgerald, Ga.
 c. E. Brewer will be general superin- tendent of transportation
 V. B. Whitaker, formerly general agent of that road here, comes back next Mop day as superintendent of the Birmlng- ham division in charge of transportation and traffic, and R. II. Mckay will hold a similar position at Fitzgerald. Ga. in charge of the Brunswick division.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
Mission Board to Meet

An executive meeting of the mission board will be held this morning at II o'clock, at the First Methodist church. The regular meeting will follow at 10:30 o'clock this morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26

He suggests that those pupils who att tend the high schools, who are financially able to pay tuition to the extent of 20 cents week. Also that the five lowest grades of the grammar schools now get ting free books, pay for them, that is those children whose people can afford to pay for books.
 Both propositions are for only such period as will help tide the city through the existing severe financial stringency, the tuition to be dropped and the lower grade books again issued free of cost Just as soon as the income of the city is read justed to suit its needs.
 The elimination of free books would save the city s40ooo year. High school tuition of 25 cents a week would give an ircome of at least S20,00O annually.
 WOULD HAVE $170,00O These sums could be added to one of
 the 5 mills of the proposed 5-min tax have $170,o00 to add to the salaries of teachers, which would be an increase of from $20 to $4o month more than they are now gettlns, 10 De granted dS lHe board decides.
 There are very few high school pupils,
 MT. Rushton believes, who would find it difficult to raise 9 cents a week. and, with ordinary care the books now in use in the five lowest graoes of the gram mar schools could be made to last a
 year or so, especially if parents will take
 greater interest in seeing to it that they are Sot abused.
 | Nearly year ago 1t was that the board | of education and city commission began 1 their work to try to secure better pay l for Birmingham teachers. MT. Rushton says that the city commission and the board of education have taken deep and sympathetic interest in the activities Of the teachers during the past few morShs ir their efforts to get better pay, but until the idea that occurred to him yes terday during review of the situation with James NJ Jones, Jr., city comptrol- Ter he, like the others, could but wonder what the answer would be.
 Shortly after their first discussion last April the members of the board of eau cation made plans, and later arrange ments. to borrow s4o.0o0, which they event. lually secured, and with which they made the $10 month raise in teachers salaries V hich became effective last month. This I fund will be exhausted within six months, and unless the money is secured from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26


 MT. Rushton is frankly shouldering the responsibility for his proposition, for he has not yet made the proposition official ly to the board of education, but he has talked it over tentatively with pr. N A Barrett, president of the city commits sion and ex-officio chairman of the board of education, who from the first presentation of the subject, was greatly impressed by the value of the plan.
 An idea of what the board of education has been confronted with can be had from the naked fact that the salaries of the teachers and the educational administra- ton exceeded the entire income for the support of municipal education in BiF-' mingham.
 The salary pay roll for teachers and the administrative staff takes in exactly 500 persons The combined salaries amount to SS25,0Oo.
 Not counting the heavy monthly incl dental expenses, the net sum that the operation of the school system entails this year is $SS3,ooo.
 The board was faced with an unavod- able deficit before the schools opened to begin the years work
 ! The income of the schools had but the slightly advanced taxes to count on for help, which would be, at the outside, some 5000 from the city. HUN UT NEW DC Possibly the thing the board of educa- ton is most eagerly looking forward to, from the standpoint of finance alone, IS the erection of the new buildings, because they are paying for rented quarters right now S40,0O0 Repairs on old school build Iings are costing approximately $S5,Ooo i annually, which, with other incdentals this impromptu housing entails, mesWs the expenditure of at least $l0OOOO aff- nually that can be saved when the new buildings are erected and occupied. | Just as soon as a little more research and informal discussion is attended to-, the matter of the trifling tuition fee in the high schools and the temporary eiimi- nation of free books will be brought by | Mir. Rushton before the board of educa- i ton for definite action.
 It is the expressed aopinion of officials who have thus far looked into the mat | ter. from what they have learned of the idea, that Mr. Rushton's plan will be adopted and put in practice temporarily until the stress of existing financial con dtions is relieved
 | The matter is due to come before the ! hoard of education for consideration at it's next regular meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
RUsHToN RESPONSIBLE

some other source the slO a month raj can not be continued.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-26
MEATS AND MILK

turing the HeCeSSdTy HdUulllS lHciueul
 to the sale or distribution of same. under refrigeration at such low temperature as
 may be necessary to efficiently and eff
 fectively prevent spoilage. qualification or decay.
 Sec 5. It shall be unlawful to pro-
 duce, manufacture, prepare, keep, store,
 serve, dispense, distribute, sell or expose
 for sale any article of food or beverage
 for use as food for human beings, in, on
 or about store, building, room, enclosure
 or other place or premises which is not
 kept at all times and continuously clean, sanitary and free from flies, insects,
 reaches, vermin, dirt, filth, rubbish and offensive, obnoxious or objectionable odors.
 Sec. 6. All foods. milk and it's prod
 ucts, vegetables, fruits, drinks, liquids and beverages as provided in this ordi- nance are hereby declared to be impure, unwholesome. unsound. adulterated, con- taminated. filthy, unfit and unsafe for use as food for human beings when not kept stored, refrigerated, sold, offered for sale, served or disposed of in strict accordance with it's provisions, and the health officer or his duly authorized rep lresentative is empowered and directed to prohibit the sale serving or dispensing, or distribution of such foods, vegetables, fl uits drinks and beverages by condem- ration, confiscation. destroying, or dena- turing as provided in ordinance No. 66o-C. ''Sec. :. Any violation of this ordinance shall be punished as provided by Section l21e of the Code of Alabama of 1907"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1920-05-01
OF Special Interest To Dairymen

4 demonstration in the operation Of
a milking machine will be held on the
Bacchus farm. near Cherry Hill, Sat
urday, May / at 1 p, m County
Agent knode u"~es al rmiIk producers
to be present at this demonstration,
as il will afford an onnortunity to see
in operation a very important labor
saving piece of machinerv
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-07-09
FARMERS MUST ORGANIZE

/ attended an interesting meeting
of farm organizations last week, pre-
sided over by Charles S. Barrett,
president of the National Farmers
Union. Recently encouraging signs
have appeared of the determination
of the farmers of the country to or
ganize more thoroughly and force on
congress and public opinion gener-
ally, consideration OF their problems.
Activities OF the Grange, the Farm
.ers Union, Society of Equity, the
Farm Congress, the Farm Bureau
and similar organizations, function
Ing through the National Board OF
Farm Organizations and their indi-
vidual national officers, indicate thai
the producers as a class are at last
awakening to the need of concerted
action. ! am in hearty sympath!
with this movement and shall do my
best TO encourage the pull-togethe
| opAl II illAOHE ldl llltt hE iGdcOl
the farmer has remained the unde
dog is because he failed to organic
and cooperate and work as a uni
for those things that farmers indi
yidually want and need. Co-opera
ton and organization are the road
TO attainment for the farmer an
when the producers of the land ar
organized they will find that the
will be listened TO by congress an
all branches of the government.
am glad TO see signs of decided prog
ress in all directions. Local farr
organizations and individual farmer
should be more active in maxim
known their wishes in the way G
legislation Senator Capper.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-07-09
MEREDITH EULOGIZES FARMERS

The farmer of today is an up-to-
date, practical, intelligent, home
loving human being ! want you to
get that. That isn't just common
place. He is an up-to-date, prac-
teal, home-loving human being. He
is moved by the same emotions that
you are moved by. He has the same
love of family. He will sacrifice as
much for them; he will do as much
for their comfort, ana yet a lot of
advertising men don't seem to be-
lleve 1t. You think the man in town
will buy this or that or the other
thing for his family. but it never en-
ters your head that the farmer
would. But you remember that he
has the same emotions and that he
is just as human as the rest of us.
He is just little more thoughtful
than many of us; he reads a little
more on the average than the rest of
us. No matter how we in the cities
may pride ourselves on our intelli-
gence, the farmers of America read
men, more than the people of the
cities, positively, and he thinks while
he reads. He thinks more clearly
than the rest of US, and he is hardly
q selfish as those of us who must
crowd into an elevator a dozen times
day and rush for a seat. I have
seen you city fellows do it-rush for
a seat in the subway, you know, and
then get into the elevator first
why, you quit your desk five minutes
ahead of time in order to get "a seat
in the restaurant.
The farmer has a different train
ing, He is a little more generous
than that, He is a little more gen,
erous that we in the cities who have
different training. This is re,
Elected in his attitude toward his
| 'AANA MS Country, ana we
may well congratulate ourselves to-
day, you and I, that this is true when
the two great forces in industry are
lined up to see which one may ge;
possible advantage of the other. and
when neither side is worrying par
ticularly about the interests of tn,
other.
This great body of clear-thinking
solid, substantial farmers of thi
country is an anchor to the wind
ward. They always have and Away
will serve their country we'll In peac,
or in war. and are body OF citizen
to which each and every one OF u
owe just, generous. fair and squar
deal in every way.
I would like to say this about thi
Just, fair, square deal to the farmer
> An evening could be devoted TO tina
subject, again. A man came to De