The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-30
Central Market One of
 Birmingham's Needs

l x * # Central Market One of Birmingham's Needs | ID BIRMINGHAM has long been a D great produce market and in recent years the bulk of eatables has been grown on pastures and truck farms of Alabama
 Our market places have increased 1 rapidly They are scattered on many streets and in the early morning all of them with their fresh vegetables, butter, eggs and poultry, fish and meats, present an attractive appear ance.
 But for the convenience of con- summers Birmingham needs a central | market where all produce could be | assembled under one roof. Interviews in The Age-Herald have made plain l the advantages of such an institu- tion. By this means buyers compare prices and quality. In no other way can economic results be obtained. The | big buyers, such as restaurants and hotels, as we'll as housewives, would 1 be alike benefited.
 The City Commission should take this matter up and as soon as pos sible work out a scheme for financing lit. In most large cities central mar kets are distinct show features. The utilitarian phase cones first, of course, but the markets are made also to add to the city beautiful. | Birmingham Is crowded with civic clubs. Let them cooperate and strive to promote the central market idea General von Ludendorff is said to have offered to raise an army of 100000 men to fight the bolsheviki The allies will think twice before intrustng von Luden- dorff with an army of that size.
 < < ' 'B. L. T." of the Chicago Tribune, calls lHardings speech of acceptance a mess of words" Farley Christensen used diff ferent phrase, meaning the same thing, when he called it "all bunk"
 * # # A critic says Henry James was lonely all his life Anybody who refuses to speak and write the language of the com mon people is bound to be lonely.
 * # Y Governor Coolidge is strong for the American hearthstone. Still, statesman should be something more than fireside companion. In some parts of the benighted south lar gings are still made a public holiday. But why object. if the "hangee" enjoys the publicity
 The Greeks have convinced the Turks that they fight about as we'll as they did wien they smote the Persians hip and thigh.
 Mc,Adoo will gain additional prestige py going on the stump for Cox. since it was never conclusively proved that he sought the nomination.
 If police keep arresting men believed to be Leroy. it is reasonable to suppose that sooner or later they'll get the right man.
 Alienists pronounce Chicago gunman crazy. but not so you would notice it." : That is why we have alienists. > v * !: *
 We are intrigued by another trunk mys- tery How do some of the beauties of the screen keep em on? s # # + . What has become of the old-fashioned editor who used to write editorials head ed Swat the Fly" j. E z
 Jack Johnson who claims he whip any man alive, is more or less meekly taking orders from jaier.
 
 It will be bit hard at first to accus- : tom ourselves to the idea of Citizen Villa e as a humdrum country gentleman. a *S*
 Franklin D. Roosevelt is about as tall ,, as Vice President Fairbanks was, but his ,, waistlne is more conservative. f * * E
 The governments relentless pursuit of draft dodgers will be viewed with in- terest by the profiteers. .. x E a While dreaming about his landlord, a New Jersey man shot his wife. Let the = fair rent board begin to function!
 
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