The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-01
INGALLS, WILL ACT FUR CHAMBER IN OBTAINING QFF ICE:S
Raise In Rent From $472 To $666 Causes Plan To
 Move

The board of directors of the Cham Der of Commerce at a called meeting Tuesday afternoon empowered Presi- dent R. I. Ingalls to act for the board in obtaining new quarters for the chamber after October. The cham bers rental in the Lincoln Life build ing has been raised from $472 to $666 per month, effective october 1, and the chamber management has decided to vacate and obtain another Ioca- ton.
 Two stores on First avenue be- tween Twentieth and Twenty first streets have been offered for lease and offer has also been made of a 50-foot front on the north side of Fourth avenue between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets.
 Mcconnell, White and Terry Real Estate and Insurance company has submitted an offer to build a two- story building on the south side of Fifth avenue between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets and to rent same for ten years at what the board holds to be a reasonable figure.
 Confirm Sn1e.
 The directors completed the legal steps necessary inclosing the deal for the sale of the lot at Nineteenth street and sixth avenue, which it re- gently sold at $6S,50 after holding for a few months with the original plan of building a permanent home there. Final decision was against the location and the lot was sold at a profit of $500.
 to assume the authority to have the legal and moral right to say to the citizens of Jefferson county-'we are going to move the court house.
 ."Every one realizes the need of a new court house. l hope you will sub init to the people d proposal to build a new one. 1 have read of these civic centers, but 1 believe the major ity of people are like me, wouldn't know a civic center if l met it in the road. This is a question of wheth- CT the people want the move, not one of price.
 'I ask in the name of the voters of Jefferson county that you give the voters and taxpayers chance to decide this momentous question.
 "The court house belongs to every man in the county. You are should ering a grave responsibility for five men to say that you have the right to move the court house. l reckon you think you know what you are doing, but if you would leave this question to a vote of the people you would feel better and the people would feel bet ter. For the good of the bar and of the litigants who come here from Leeds, from Trussville and other out lying districts, give the people a this matter over and leave it to the voters"
 Speaks For Axis Club.
 Mrs. Angus Taylor then rose and declared that the Axis club had en- dorsed the action of the board, be- lieving the meInuers were far sighted and had gotten a vision of civic center, and that the club as- sured the board of any cooperation it might be able to offer Mrs. W. l. Grubb spoke of the noise and foul air in the court rooms as a factor fa- vorable to a change.
 J. L, Yancey, president of the Bir- mingham Real Estate board. de- clared that the board could never get another option on the site for less than a figure $50000 in excess of the present one. More than half enough money to build million dollar court house can be realized from the pres ent site in two years, he said. He endorsed the proposition heartily.
 Mrs. Palmer Daugette said the voters had placed confidence in the board of revenue when the members were eIeCteu anu that they were qualified to act.
 John D. Strange, attorney de- clared in favor of new court house, but said the price asked for the new site was enough to provide funds for a court house structure. He warned the board that the voters were preju- diced against bond issues and that the price was excessive, compared with the tax valuations. He declared his main objection to the change in site was that the property should be bought easily for $150,000.
 M. P. Messer, real estate man, said he spoke as a citizen. He said we are living in a progressive day, when we must think and act wisely. He de- clared he was embarrassed as a citi- zen with conditions now and that the insanitary court house of the present had shortened the lives of many lead ing lawyers and members of the