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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
COMMISSIONERS ID
 DISCUSS THE FIVE
 MILL TAX ELECTION
Election Is Authorized by Constitutional Amend ment Measure Held In
 December

In preparation for placing before the people of Birmingham the Tive mill tax election the first meeting to discuss the subject will be held by the city commissioners this morning at 10 o'clock in the city hall when representatives of thet school authori- ties will confer with the commissioners on the subject.
 In the constitutional amendment election held in December the people 0 fthe state voted to allow forty-two cities, among them Birmingham, per mission to add to their present taxa tion to the extent of mills. Each city will vote independently on the ap- plication of the tax.
 The funds accruing from the five mill tax are the only source from which Birmingham can hope to raise the money to pay the interest on a number of bond issues that have been authorized.
 In all the bond issues represent inn provements to the extent of $4500,000. All will not be floated at one time, but as the necessity becomes too potent to longer put off the improve ments
 First in the list have been placed the two $500.000 bonds issues. one for the improvement of the fire department which is greatly in need of additional apparatus, because of the growth of the city; the other will be the nucleus for the sum needed to build a city auditorium. These bonds have been ordered offered for sale in April
 Other bond items are for additional school facilities and for q new city hall and public library, which last two mentioned will close the programme of improvement.
 Birmingham like the other forty-two cities of the state. carried the amend ment election, but the majority was not considered overwhelming. IL is believed that before the election is called. and 1t may be deferred for some months, that the necessity for the improvements, will have to be very thoroughly advertised before 1t will be sure of carrying, though the election may be called again and again until it does so over successfully, however, if it does lose and require a second or third holding, that will just entail eX tra expense.
 The commissioners firmly believe that the election will carry the first time it comes up because the improve ments are actual necessities and the 1 things the voters of the city have been calling for during many years l The meeting today will consume part of it's time discussing the best means
 of securing interested support for the
 measure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
DALLAS ORGANIZED
 BY MANUFACTURERS
|evier, Benners and Johnson Return From Meeting Held at Selma

L. Sevier, president of the Alabama lanufacturers' and Operators Associa : on, and Crawford Johnson and T. H. enners. members of the board of gov- .rnors, returned yesterday from a visit } Selma. where they assisted in the rganization of Dallas countI for mem- .ership in the assocfation.
 1 A meeting of the manufacturing and |lsiness interests repreSented in the hamber of Commerce of Selma was cid, under the chairmanship of Lloyd ooper. and Messrs. Sevier. Benners nd Johnson addressed the gathering. he Birmingham visitors explained the
 an and scope of work of the Alabama anufacturers Association, which
 ans to secure 1000 members, repre- enting every county in the state. The Rsult of the meeting was the enroli- lent of gratifying number of new
 embers for the association represent ig Dallas county.
 Six other counties have been organ
 ed previously including Jefferson
 ontgomery, Tuscaloosa Calhoun and towah. Madison county will prob ply be the next to be visited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
Big Sisters Campaign For New Members Is to
 Continue Indefinitely

The membership campaign or the b'7 Sisters. which was started several WeeN' ago. will continue indefinitely aecoro'nS to announcements. from headquarters at the Civic Association.
 There is much sickness among the rious committees in all sections of the city and together with the bad weather tbev have been prevented from maNlhs the house-to-house canvass In tneir re snectiye districts, and the campaign VIII he continued until every section or e'' citv has been covered. Since the eriNs started approximately s15.eoo has been re. ported to headquarters. although many or inc committees have not turned III any money as yet. 4,or,
 The committees in the various uepare- ment stores are still at work and they eA rect to make the stores 100 per cent mem bers. The committee from the Big DIS ter organization will look at houses toaaS and it is expected that decision VII pt made next week, when house VIII wps w purchased and the Big Sister home VII be formally opened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
FIREMEN RESCUE SICK PERSONS FROM
 BURNING BUILDING

Fire, which is believed to have origi- mated in the upper floor of the two- story frame building at 72i south Twenty eighth street, yesterday morn ing did damage to amount approxi- mately $l,50o, according to Fire Chief Middleton. A major portion of the roof was burned.
 Mrs. M. E. Hodge. wife of NJ. E. Hodge, fireman, who was intthe house at the time, was rescued from the burn ing building. She is said to have been stricken with influenza at the time and her condition is regarded as serious.
 B. C. Jewell who occupies room in the house, and d convelescent, was also rescued by the fremen. Most of the furniture and personal property of the family of E. w. Lind sey, who occupies the upper floor, was badly damaged by the smoke and wa ter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
DAIRY HERDS TESTED
 FOR TUBERCULOSIS

Dairy herds from which Birmingham secures it's milk supply are now under going the test for tuberculosis
 Officials of the United States depart roent of agriculture and from the state department of agriculture are in charge of the work. In previous years the tests were made by the government lone, but the last congressional appropriation Was not sufficient to cover the entire neia and in Alabama the state found it neces- sary to join in the work that 1t might be thoroughly and quickly done.
 The tuberculin test is serum prepara- tion injected into a COW. A high temper ature following the injection almost in yariabIy develops if the case is positive All affected cattle are killed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
RAINBAW VETERANS TO HOLD MEETING AT \ CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Iolonel Screws and Lieutenant Colo nel Smith to Be Present and Have Message for the Boys of the
 Fighting Fourth"

The weekly meeting of the Mortimer H.
 lcrdan chapter, Rainbow Division Veter- Ens, will be held in the rooms of the Eiyic Association tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. A large attendance is desired Is several important committees will re- |crt upon matters which are of interest |p all members of the organization.
 Plans have been completed for the Rain low dance to be held Monday night, february % in the ballroom of the Hotel |utwiler. This will be in celebration ot he second anniversary of the entry of Ihe Forty-second division into the benches. Memoli's Band will furnish the
 husic, which will be quite contrast to he music furnished some two years ago
 y the receiving party, the Germans
 .Colonel Screws and Lieutenant Colonel . .nith, formerly of the One Hundred and Ixty-seventh infantry will be present |unday, and both will have a message
 pr the old men of the Fighting Fourth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
TUGGLE INSTITUTE
 SUNDAY PROGRAMME

The hour for the chapel exercises at Tuggle Institute will be held from c. clock until 5 o'clock beginning today This change is being made so the clt'- zens and community workers can join in with the students in a joint programme.
 Every sunday afternoon from to
 o'clock a programme win be rendered, when white and colored speakers wiiS take part.
 George Washington's birthday Will De celebrated today at the institute, and a l joint programme will be rendered in the 1 temporary chapel on the Tuggie school grounds. Frank F. Glass. Judge Hugh I Locke and Mrs. J. A. Bray will speak IT K. Moore, member of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church choir. will sing and assist the children in the plantation melodies. The singing will be specia l feature
 Special arrangements have been made to accommodate white friends
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Rockefeller and Foundation Work

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 We are receiving at this office numbers k letters stating that in response to Bwspaper advertisement of d s25,00 re- fard for a cure for influenza to be test a by this foundation and Johns Hopkins fnivedsity, the writers are forwarding or Ire prepared to forward remedies for our kvestigation. Some ot these letters have eferred specifically to your paper.
 Numbers of supposed cures for many diseases are brought to our attention con- tantly. The recent newspaper announce f1ent has greatly multiplied these applica- icns. The Rockefeller Foundation is de- oted chiefly to work IT. public health and
 nedical education. The Rockefeller Insti- <e for Medical Research is devoted to Icientific study of few diseases. Care
 ,I painstaking. prolonged research, ex- Ieriment and proof have been found nec-
 ssary for any progress in the cure and l, eyention of disease It has proved to Is entirely irnpracticable to attempt to |est the great number O. alleged reme0Nss krhich are referred to us.
 Such announcement as has been made IS
 ntirelv without our authorization. May
 ge ask that you take action to correct the
 ,Isa impression created. Very truly
 ours. ED" IN H. Is. s.leHi ie I.n, ..
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Birminsaanl
 st Broadway, New York, February l6
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21

Little change was noted yester- d,x in the influenza situation in Birmingham. The prevalence or good, warm weather seems to m dicute that there are not so many new cases. for many of the doctors have had time to file reports 'hey have been, carrying about with them for some days.
 A bit of news that the heaith authorities were glad to get was the government report on the "fi", situation in the forty-six largest cities In the country. This shows the death rate from influenza Tn Birmingham to be next to the low est in the entire list.
 Pittsburg leads with 53 deaths to each 1000 inhabitants. The average for the number of cities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
PRESIDENT FISKE
 OF METROPOLITAN
 LIFE HERE TODA I
Will Address Birmingham and Ala bama Representative of Company at Banquet at Tutwiler Tonight
 on Business Conditions

To their representatives in Birming- ham and Alabama, the Metropolitan 1ifa Insurance Company of New York win give it's annual banquet
 The big private dining room or the Tutwiler hotel has peen secured anu inc feast will be served at z O'CLOCK this evening.
 More than hundred mempers oi tbe staff of the company will be pres an+ as well as many of the officials of the big financial institutions
 Haley Fiske. president of the com
 pany, will be present and will de- liver the annual address. which, 1t IS said will deal with the business stu ation in the country. particularly the south. from several interesting angles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
MEN ARRESTED IN
 OPELIKA ON CHARGE
 OF CONTEMPLATING

c. II. Reinisch and F, c. Fullwood ac- cording to information reaching the sherin's office, have been arrested in Opeika, where they are being held.
 A warrant has been sworn out against both men before Judge A. B. Abernethy charging the altering, counterfeting or forgery of a check.
 It is stated the check was in the sum of s1O0 and was drawn on the Conner ciaI Trust Company of New York. J. D. Swann swore to the warrant. T. F. Pat terson went to Opelika yesterday to get the prisoners
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21

M. V. Joseph. president; Joseph H. Loveman, vice president and treasurer, and Leo Loeb, second vice president and general manager of the company, have been in New York several days. They are expected to arrive home tomor- row.
 The Sadowsky Interests have re- gently purchased interests in some of the largest department stores in the country, including such establishments as Nugent's in St. Louis, Blass in Little Rock. and others of equal i'm portance in Memphis, Louisville. Cleve- land and San Antonia.
 Mir. Sadowsky. the principal owner of the Sadewsky Interests is said to De one of the largest cloak manufac- turers in the United States, with fac tories in New York. He has only re- gently branched out into the depart ment store business.
 According to the information obtain able here yesterday the Sadowsky ln-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
SEVER TO SPEAK
 TO COMMUNITY CLUB

L. Sevier, president of the Alabama and Operators Associa- on, will talk to the members of the |ommunity Club this afternoon at l clock at the Southern Club. He vii,
 lave as his subject The Work and |ims of the Alabama Manufacturers
 lad Operators Association" | It is probable that some important nd interesting announcements regard Rg the proposed auditorium vii. be 4 $de by Morris w. Bush at this time 6id this announcement will be of in erest to all members of the club, as Tell as citizens In general.
 | In addition, a splendid musical pro- .ramme has been arranged and Presi- |ent James Simpson requests all mem Iers to be present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
Lecture on Civic Art at Meeting of
 Alabama Art League

At the regular meeting of the Ala bama Art League held at the ballroom of the Tutwiler last night. the first of series of lectures on civic art was given Hugh Martin presided over the meeting which was well attended, and Dr. J. Fl. Phillips. superintendent of schools, gave the lecture, explaining the lantern slides which were used to illustrate the devel- ol ment of civic art in various ci.sT.
 Dr. N. R. Baker, county superinten- dent of schools outlined the aims and purposes of the league. Miss Margaret McAdory at a business meeting held by the members after the lecture read the constitution, which was adoptd by the members.
 The next lecture of the series will be given March 19 by W. T. Warren, arch- itect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
Gouernment Report On Local "FZu' Situation Encouraging

mentioned is 32 deaths per 1000 inhabitants. The rate for Bir- min:ham is IS deaths per 900 fn- habitants. There is one city with trifie better showing. In the list the next city above Birming- ham in the computation has had 22 deaths to each 1000 inhabitants.
 The list is complete to February 14 in regard to the period of the epidemic's spread since it's appear ance this winter.
 With each report of the cities there is an additional fraction of one or two tenths.
 In view of the governments fig ures. Dr. J. ID. Bowling. head of the health department. considers that Birmingham has not suffered so much as might have been sup posed, though there have been from 2.000 to 5000 cases of the maIady in the city this winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
MEETING TODAY OF SAFETY ASSOCIATION

The Alabama Safety Association will bid it's regular monthly meeting in he auditorium of the Chamber ot |ommerce at 1:30 o'clock this after bon.
 | An interesting programme has been |Franged for the meetnig and all Rembers are urged to be present. All |thers interested in the work of the
 ssociation are invited to attend ths Beeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21

terests do not buy outright the stores in which they become interested. but merely take over 49 per cent of the capital stock and put some of their representative in active connection with the various institutions.
 Loveman, Joseph and Loeb is one of the oldest stores in Birmingham, hav- ing been established nere over thirty years ago. the first store being To- cated on Second avenue. They built and moved into their present handsome home about twenty-five years ago.
 The capital stock of the company common and preferred. is s2,0O0, 000 and in addition to NJ. " Joseph, Joseph H. Loveman and Leo Loeb large num- Der of Birmingham men own shares of stock.
 Loveman. Joseph and Loeb il is be- lieved, do the largest volume of busi- ness of any department store in Ala bama and are among the largest in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
NeuU York Interests
 Acquire Big Holding
 hL., J. &L. Company
Sadowsky, Big Cloak Manufactures Reported to Have Secured Forty-n Per Cent in Local Department Store-Messrs Loveman Joseph and Loeb on
 Way From New York; Arriving Tomorrow

Through reported to have been closed yesterday the Sadowsky Interests acquired forynne cent of the capital Loveman Joseph Loeb Company, said be the largest department store south of the Ohio river.
 obtained yesterday out abou matte
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
Finish Criminal Docket

Yesterday morning the capital docket lin the criminal division of the circuit court was completed. It will not be taken ul. until the week Of May 3 Several e >cs that were to have been tried this Week have been carried forward Illness of at torneys and witnesses caused mos, the postponements.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
|25, ,000 Cash Is Paid For Apartment House By Fred s. Dunlap

Erred s. Dunlap, president of the Hagan- iunlap Drug Company, yesterday bought ] e two-story brick apartment house at Se southwest corner of Avenue F and
 .wenty-seventh street for s25,000 cash. . The transaction was handled by the liver Realty Company,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
Glee Club Cancels Engagement

The Alabama University Glee Club. which was to have appeared in a Tut wiler luncheon today, and at the Sunday evening dinner. had to cancel it's en- gagement on account of the Hines of one or more of its members.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
Sacred Harp Singing

The Christian and Sacred Harp sing CTS will sing all day Sunday. February 29, at the Jefferson county courthouse. Everybody is invited
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
First Meeting March ?

BY NssacIzteu f'ess so -,, r:. washington, February 2o-Ihe first
 heating of the bankers committee on Ehip securities appointed py .hair,hsn Il 2 Payne of the shipping ooaro. wii oe a;a March 2 in New York city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
Didn't Denounce Men of
 South, Says Mrs. Jacobs
Words Ignorance" and "Superistton' Not Used, She Declares-Was An Explanation of Failure of South
 ern States to Ratify Suffrage Amendment

Anybody that at any time at Chicago or else the of the south auded northern men guilty of distortion of fact declared Mrs Pate Ruff Jacobs suffrage leader when she arrived in Br mingham yesterday afternoon from Chicago. of the The Age
 
 meeting the National Suffrage Association resented
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21

hicago last Saturday.
 Reese, chairman of the Tennessee Sui , frage Association, Tenth congressIonal district, and member of the local board of education had announced that fight would be led by Tennessee women for the removal of Mrs Jacobs as member of the national women's decoratic executive committee
 The basis for the fight it was declared I by Mrs Reese, was the speech which Mrs. Jacobs made at a ratification ban quet held in connection with the National Suffrage Association meeting in Chicago, | in which Mrs. Jacobs was alleged to have described southern men as characterized lby Ignorance and insncerty and pound in tradition and superstition" It was 1 charged that after this denunciation of the men of the south Mrs Jacobs ''lauo- | ed northern men as the ones who had been the salvation of the suffrage party and who had made possible the passage of the Susan B. Anthony amendment
 SONG ABOUT UNDERWOOD
 Mrs. Reese was also credited with re- claring that Mrs Jacobs had made an | attack on Senator Underwood and that her speech had animated song in which the name of Underwood, Lodge, and others were proclaimed as fossils"
 The statement of the attitude of the Tennessee suffragists as published in The Age-Herald yesterday morning created a sensation in Birmingham and throughout the state.
 Local suffrage leaders who attende the meeting at Chicago and who returne prior to Mrs Jacobs declared that there
 vas nothing objectionable in the speecf
 of Mrs. Jacobs and there was no attacS made on men of the south.
 The only adverse criticism heard re- garding the speech of Mrs. Jacobs came from members of the Tennessee delega
 ton" declared Mrs. John D. McNeei
 who attended the Chicago, meeting. ''Th'
 speech seemed to make a most favor able impression in all other quarters ss
 far as 1 could ascertain. With the ex
 ception of some criticism from Tennes
 see members, every other remark l heare was one of commendaton,
 "As to the song referred to, Mrs. Ja 1 cobs knew nothing of that until sh' reached the luncheon, where the sheet
 containing the songs to be sung wer' distributed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21

FhEntu Wltu q COPY cA IbC A containing the story and wearing fur coat more suited to the chilling blaAs of Michigan boulevard than the balmy sunshine of Birmingham. Mrs. Jacobs arrived on the Seminole Limited. hoi physically if not mentally
 T am unwilling to believe that the statement published in. The Age-Her- aid this morning attributed to Mrs. Isaac Reese of Memphis is correctly transmitted, as it is full of inaccura- | cies," declared the national suffrage leader upon her arrival. Anybody who asserts or states that 1 I at any time at Chicago or else 1 where have denounced the men of the south or lauded northern men is guilty l of distortion of fact, she continued. Tt happened that the speech that
 made at the ratification banquet of the l National Suffrace Association feo- ! ruary 15 az Chicago was not an im-
 promptu one, and was carefully pre- pared beforehand. and two Of the Birmingham papers carried verbatim accounts of it.
 EXPLANATION OF FAILURE
 1T did not use in any part of it the | words ignorance or superstition as ! l what I said was an explanation of
 four southern states failure to ratify
 the suffrage amendment.
 Tt is a little difficult to understand | why the Tennessee women should l rush to the defense of Senator Under
 wood, who is an Alabamian, and sup
 posed to represent Alabama men and
 women.
 MT. Underwood's name was only in- | hot i had
 inc following words: There is we'll founded belief that the defeat of sui frage in Alabama was the first skir-
 mish in, the Underwood campaign As to the song to which reference | is made in Mrs. Reeses article, l had nothing to do with writing it. In facs | did not know of it's existence untii | reached the luncheon table, where IL was sung.
 In the Memphis dispatch, which wa nnhlished in The Age-Herald yesterda morning. it vras declared that Mrs lsad
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