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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03

lively low material market rents will be high in spite of the thousand new houses, because new houses are expected to pay a fair return on the investment, regardless of their cost
 One very important item in house cost is labor. In the north and east many of the building trades are on strike, refus- ing to accept a 20 per cent decrease in wages. Here in Birmingham the build ing trades have voluntarily adopted tn, decrease in order to do their share stimulating new building.
 Those who have only $1,00o or $1, 800 and want home of their own, will find the home building and loan companies willing to advance them two dollars for every one dollar they already have. This makes it possible for every one to have at least a modest home of their own. Information about small homes costing from 5000 to $3,O0O I will be glad to give to any one asking for it.
 GET AN ARCHITECT
 The owner s interests are to secure the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03

most available service, suitable design,
 best construction and most economical
 expenditure of funds. These can only
 be obtained by employing, not as a lux
 ury, but as a necessity, a competent and reliable architect The owner will
 be most benefited by choosing an arch
 tect before deciding upon anything else
 connected with his building project if possible even before fixing the building site, thus gaining from start to finish the service of the experts technical ex- perience and knowledge in every phase
 Of the problem.
 l Do not expect gratuitous designs, any
 more than free diagnosis, prescriptions or briefs. Each building requires spe- cial time, study and labor-the archi- tect's capital.
 It is true, that many architects are too busy with large structures to spend , time on small residences. but there are some 'architects specializing in the small homes, and would rather build several small homes than one big building. Ter, small homes at 5000 apiece, with an architects fee of s100 each, will make 1t as worth while to handle as one $2ooOo building, although the architect must spend more time on the 10 small houses. | Find an architect who wants to build your small home It will save you money and give you a better house. An Illuminating phase of the exposi- | tion is the number of people who want modest homes, five, six or seven rooms, but want them built in good locations. Inquiries about lots in Milner Heights, Mountain Terrace and Arlington Place have been far more numerous than ques- 1 tions about lower-priced, less desirable property. People are beginning to real ize that they cannot run big houses without servants, and servants are hard to get and harder to keep.
 Because of this people are moving into small homes. where one servant can do the most of the work, and they are | finding more time to really live.
 Direct sales from the displays in the Chamber of Commerce. auditorium prove that people are eager to buy the kind of things that the exposition is showing. Because of this fact more of the ex- hibitors will be on hand this week to show visitors just what they have to sell and the exhibit will be more worth while because of this fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03
THIRD PRIZE
@1O.-Donated by MT. Robert Jemison Jr. Awarded to MT. Horace C.
 Carlisle, Pratt City, Ala.
 GOWN YOUR OWN HOME"

Carlisle, Pratt City, Ala.
 GOWN YOUR OWN HOME" That inalinable instinct born of ma : ture and begotten of God, implanted in the breast of the brute and embedded in the bosom of the bird. to provide a home for itself and for it's offspring. exists half hiddenly in every normal human heart, making the building of home. be it ever so humble. the high est and noblest work of man, for out from the home come the issues of life.
 There is an old maxim--whose truth is . treasure. that every bird likes it's own nest" began in the Garden by Adam and Eve way back in the begin ming. when nature was young. when wrong lay asleep in the lap of love and sin slept unquickened in the loins of life--that lives anew in the human pair of this delusive day, when God has joined together, and whose sacred union He has decreed: Let not man put asunder.
 The stability of government rests fundamentally upon the pernlanency of the home, and the permanency of the home rests largely upon the abiding in- terest of it's resident builders there, whose constructive task is a divine pleasure that never grows old. brighter and sweeter, on and on, to the perfect day.
 Mighty America, the outstanding ex- ample for the nations of earth. can never hope tocome fully into her own as long as her fortunate landlords are allowed to live in increasing luxury from the exorbitant rents exacted from her unfortunate poor, and the homes of the humble who kneel at her feet are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03
HOME OWNERSHIP IS SUREST ROUTE ID
 BETTER CITIZENS
Anderson Submits Some Stray Thoughts In Connection With the Present
 Campaign
ny HARTLEY ANDERSON

Manager Town Plannine-Low Cost Housing
 To me the one outstanding feature in all the essays submitted in the Why You Should Own Your Home" essay contest was the phrase, 'It makes you a better citizen," or words to that same general effect This simple statement must be true, or it would not be so unanimously used by the good citizens who thought enough of the well-being oi their fellow men to urge them, through these essays published today, to own their own homes.
 I wonder how many people in Birming- ham know that the Own Your Home" movement, which now is slogan used throughout the United States, and which was a forerunner of the Own Your Home Expositions' which are being staged by many of the larger cities of the country this spring. was started
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03

at the tender mercies of the proud who defy the stsrs.e The highest hope of American eXpe- diency is a united nation on this side of the sea, where all men are created free and equal, and so remain each su- preme in his own within, to him his home, his house of abode, as insepara- ble from him as the wife of his bosom. where love is the law, where right is the rule, and where prayer is the prac- tice that never dies--where every man may dwell safely and securely under his own vine and fig tree, and no man. nor set of men, can make him afraid For, man with a family and no home of his own is like hen with brood, and no place to roost;
 Your rent bills, as often as ever they
 come,
 Are timely reminders to own your
 own home;' For pride and improvement have never
 been known
 To sacrifice but to their coveted own.
 Chorus
 Home home; town your own home;" Let no cause prevent you from owning
 your home.
 A kindly contentment so sweetly allures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03
Own-Y our -OwnHome Exposition Continues Another Week

right here in Birmingham by one of Birmingham's most progressive citizens Hill Ferguson. Thousands of people owe him vote of thanks for providing the necessary initiative to overcome the usual apathetic inertia of the renting class as whole. Had we more such broad minded, publc-spirited citizens, al- ways on the lookout to see where they can do something, or start something to help mankind as a whoole, there would be less tendency toward slump, busi- ness would be always good because they would make it good, and because busi- ness boomed there would be no danger of bolshevism in it's various forms. Peo- pie would be too happily busy to have time to listen to agitators and pessim- ists.
 Pessmists right now say building costs are too high No one has yet proved it to me I have proved other wise to several hundred people during the past week. When a man paying $100 month reC@ ~<r an apartment can build a home of his own, which is big ger, better in every way. with more comforts, with space for a big garden, with no neighbors overhead to wake him at night-in other words, a home, for around $4,0O0, the cost is not high.
 COSTS ARE RELATIVE
 Statements as to costs are relative. On the basis of pre-war prices, many things in the building material are stir somewhat high, but compare them with clothing, with shoes, with groceries and wages and you will notice that the pro- portionate cost above pre-war levels is only the same or less with building ma terials that 1t is with these other neces- sary things.
 Comparing building costs with rents, # is far cheaper to build now than it is to rent. where in 19l6-17 it was far cheaper to rent. Until we have at least 1000 houses under construction rents are going to stay high. Unless those 1000 oGses are built at the present compara-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03

the same audience Clark spoke without notes and when he left the floor Presi- dent Roosevelt grasped his hand heartily and said: You are a man of unusual good sense"
 That meeting, or that speech, brought great change in MT. Clark's life. The very next month President Roosevelt ap- pointed him member of the arbitration committee, agreed to by operators ant miners, for the settlement of the now historic coal strike. Four years later, President Roosevelt made Mir. Clark a member of the interstate commerce com mission. Both President Taft and Pres ident Wilson have honored MT. Clark with reappointments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03
SECOND PRIZE
$15--Donated by MT. Robert Jemiscn, Jr. Awarded to Louie Hall Live ingston, 15I6 s. Fifteenth street, Birming ham. Aln.
 


 Birmin 2 ham, AIn.
 aWHY OWN YOUR OWN HOME.
 Preachers may preach standards and morals until the crack of doom cities may wage all the wars they please on vice; mothers may weep and despair, but conditions will improve only when people realize the necessity for real home making; realize the folly of try ing to rear families in hotels. apart ment houses, and furnishef rooms.
 Own your own ho,ae and life itself will have new meaning marriage will really be flor better" instead of lon atmosphere breeds contentment, and is always good for what ails you" It Is human nature to want value re- ceived, and isn't it strange that null titude are seemingly satisfied with paying rent. What do they get in re- turn A shelter, a place to sleep in, a house. The same money applied as payments produces "a home And what an incentive. man never knows the exteSt of his energy And enthusi- asm until he owns his own home. Only then does the jack of all trades" per feet each one, as does woman attain full womanhood and learns that house. work means helpmate instead of drudge With so many real things to think of, she forgets all that's base superficial. and with a garden and chickens and hubby's digestion to con slider, she hasn't time to worry about what Fifth avenue and Paris are wear ing.
 Tn your own home. there is always room for children. They cease to be incumbrances. and unavoidable nui- sances, and become something neces- sary to ppiness-something to love and coddle-something to smash win dows and tear papering from the walls. But nobody can kick about it when you town your own home"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03
Railroad Ruler Once Brakeman

From the Nations Business.
 For 16 years, 1890 to 1906 Edgar Bras tus Clark, chairman of the interstate commerce commission, was chief of the Order of Railway Conductors of America When Theodore Roosevelt was serving as President, in what is loosely called his first term, he made speaking tour through the south, timing his journey so as to be in Chattanooga during a convention of the Brotherhood of Loco motive Fireman, of which organization he was to be made an honorary member.
 MT. Clark also went to Chattanooga and Mir. Roosevelt and he talked the same night from the same platform tc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03

The owners interests are to secure the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03

Your heart to hovel if only it's yours. For love mixed with labor can soon
 overcome The faith of hovel and make it a
 home. There's only one debt in this dutiful
 day That gives the heart perfect enjoyment
 to pay For, soon as it's yours. from its pillar
 to comb, Your dream has come true and you own
 your own home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03

A 5-year-old cocoanut tree begins to yield SO nuts year. It is estimated that 1000 nuts will make 25 gallons Of cocoanut oil, which Is used for soap making and candle making. The huslss are useful also; they may be turned into cordage. brushes or mating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03

"Quackless' ducks, known as the Mus covy breed, have been introduced into the United States from Russia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03

A gum which is said to have all the properties of rubber is obtained from the candlewood of Arizona.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-22

must be taxed. How much better it
would be to have a simple, worka BILE
plan that would not cause hindrance
in investments, withdrawal and with
holding of capital from industrial
channels, and the incidental tightness
and tenseness that make living condi-
tons more or less unsatisfactory to
everybody.
Let's Try Thie.
If II should appear that there is
justification for hesitancy on the part
of congress to try forthwith a general
sales-tax plan similar to that which
Canada has adopted, which taxes the
sales of middlemen as well as manu-
facturers. why not try the plan pro-
posed by Senator Smoot, to levy a
manufacturers and producers tax of
three percent on goods sold for con-
sumption or use without further pro-
cess of manufacture?
Or, If not that plan, why not try a
modified general consumption or
turnover" tax plan, levying a half of
one per cent, or even a quarter of
one per cent. or such rate as may be
estimated TO produce the required
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-22

amount of revenue, not to be appliCa-
bic to foodstuffs and products. but TO
apply to expenditures.
The proof of any tax plan is in the
working thereof-and in the working
only. Hence my belief in giving the
sales-tax theories a test
Each stockholder in our vast cor
poration knows that simplicity in
managing our affairs, the elimination
of red tape and of complex regula-
tons that can be understood only by
experts-aId about which even ex-
perts disagree, so that regulations
have to be further egulated-would
mean more success in our business;
in other words, more prosperity in
way of dividends" for all.
So it is up to US to strive toward a
time when thrift and production may
receive every encouragement from
our board of directors; when useless
extravaganza may be in the same de-
gree discouraged. II we work to-
gether conscientiously toward that
end, we shall surely again see normal
times, reduction of prices, and the sort
of prosperity to which we are entitled.
We can be just as patriotic in peace
times as we were in war times. And
now, as much as in the days of war.
is the time when the United States of
America, Incorporated, needs a
friend
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-22
Wireless Telephone News From Everywhere

Amateurs of Pershing are discussing
the installation of a receiving set in
that town, to take advantage of the
musical. news. and other programs
which are being put on by so many
agencies. Several Pershing amateurs
are interested and are consulting with
Cambridge City amateurs as to the
possibilities.
Greenville Up To Date.
According to a report from Stocker
OF Greenville, there are nine or 10 re-
ceiving stations in that city. every one
equipped with audion bulbs, the crys-
tai, If 1t was ever used by any, having
been discarded. In addition to these
modern detectnrs. two o. the stations
are equipped with ampliflers and one
with regenerative set.
Improve Lynn Station
Gerald Beetley of Lynn has just rails
ed his aerial by 80 feet, to a height
of 81 feet. and reports a great i'm
provement in the operation. He ex,
poets soon to make additional improve
ments. The amateurs of Lynn, Beetly
included, are using crystal detectors
and getting ve-y good results, even be
ing able 10 get in CIV work, though
with better success with music than
with voice.
Chicago Opera
Several amateurs of Richmond and
other cities have reported hearing the
Chicago opera. but much more family
than on the Saturday and Sunday pre-
ceding the opening, when the wireless
was being tested out. 1t seems IN.
doubtedly true that the Chicago sta
ton, KYW, is not sending out as
strong signals as when it was testing
Snider of Connersyille, reports that
even at 9ZJ in Indianapolis, the Chi
cago station comes in very weakly
Several of the Richmond amateurs
have managed to get KYW tuned in.
but not satisfactorily, and Leapley OF
Cambridge City. also reports it very
faint.
The best report yet has been given
in by Charles Emrick of Eaton. Using
a regenerative set with one stage of
application, he succeeded Monday
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-22

night in getting the opera with fair
audibility.
Ohio Adopts Wireless
According to a recent news item,
Ohio will furnish her county agents
with wireless telephone market re-
ports every day, the reports being fur
nished from the bureau Of markets to
the wireless telephone station of Ohio
State university at Columbus, whose
call Is SKI. The reports will be broad
casted from this station daily, begin
ming in January. The time has not
been announced yet
Cambridge City Situation
The building which is being erected
City to house their receiving station.
will be finished this week, and instru-
ments will be installed as soon as pos
sible. The building is small, about
eight by ten feet, only large enough
to furnish a shelter, but il marks the
first example in this vicinity of an at
tempt to furnish a special location for
wireless. The station will be some
distance from any possible interior
ence by strays.
Photographs by Wireless
That We may in time be entertained
by wireless movies as we now hear
wireless musical concerts, is the sug-
gestion of an article in the December
issue Of Popular Science. For the first
time, experimenters recently succeed
ed in transmitting a photograph across
the ocean by wireless. This was ac-
complished by similar means to those
used in transmitting photographs by
telegraph, which many will remember
was done last winter
Public Interest in Wireless.
That wireless biography and tele-
phon are coming to be more and more
seriously considered by the general
public and that more interest is being
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-22

scientific magazines is complete now
without one or several articles on
wireless, and news items constantly
tell of new uses of the wireless, for
conducting business, transmitting
news, and other uses that seem even
more varied than those of the land
telephone.
Illustrating the demand for wireless
news is the fact that the Popular Sci
ence and Popular Mechanics maya
zines recently gave directions Tor
manufacturing receiving sets, while
one devoted its leading article, to
wireless. Another, the Scientific
American, the December issue, gives
a complete review of the scope Of mod
ern wireless telegraphy and telephony.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-22
Here Is Good News

A western physician has discovered
a harmless Pile remedy known as
Hem-ROid. In many cases of years
standing all distress quickly disap-
peared. A. 6. Luken drug Co sell it
with money-back guarantee-Adver-
tiSement
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-22
Will Investigate Death
OF Countess, Film Actress

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22.-Tke
authorities here planned to investi-
gate today the death of the Countess
Du Gala, As. film actress. who was
found dead in her apartments Sun
day night. The investigation it was
stated would focus about empty
phials said by the police to have
been found near the body. The
countess was the wife Of H. c. Blunt
ing, of Buffalo, n. Y.
What is it keeps the baby sweet
And sterilizes fathers feet
And brings us happiness complete
Blue Devil Advertisement
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-22
HUSBAND AND WIFE WRITE

Mr. and Mrs. James Carson. COiurn-
bus, y. ", sign a letter saving. We
have both concluded We shall never be
without Foley Cathartic Tablets and
believe them to be essential to good
health They keep the stomach sweet,
iiNer active and bowels regular They
lousness. sick headache, bloating sour
stomach. gas on stomach, bad breath
coated tongue. Not habit forming. A
q. Luken Drug Co, 626-62S Main St
dNertlscment
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-22
SENATOR WARREN SAYS DEPRESSION TRACED
TO UNJUST TAXATION OF OUR PRODUCERS

Editors Note:-Franci- f.. Warren is
chairman of the committee on appro-
priations for the United states senate.
NJ the nation knows this means he
must be main of unusual ability. of
~ wide knowledge, of keen appreciation
or financial problems and situations
ana an expert OF economies. On him
rests responsibility that would stag
Hcr the average man and 10 him there
looks 100,0O0,000 citizens for the wise
diEtributlon of the vast sums to which
they contribute.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-22

shown its commercial and economic
possibilities is proven by the greater
space given to these subjects in cur
rent periodicals. No issue Of the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-22

The latest portrait of Or. Thin
Iung peng.
While DR.. Chin Yung Peng is the
resident of the recognized republic
of China he has contro! over but
part of the country as the people
-: South China have established
rhei own republic With Dr. Sun
Vat Sen as president