The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
GROWING NUMBER
 MIGRATING SOUTH
Motorized Americans Es- tablish Many Part
 Time Residences

A short visit to the tourist camp on the Montgomery highway reveals a great many interesting facts concerning the growing group of migratory Ameri- cans.
 This class of citizens, who follow the sun into Dixie during the winter months and journey to all sections of the country in the summer, is growing rapidly. A few>years ago the few who braved the then perifs of long motor trips, with gasoline filing and service stations at long intervals along the route, consisted almost exclusively of persons, who were able to leave their business interests in care of assistants. In other words, persons of substantial means who financed their trips from established business enterprises.
 This class of tourists was dependant upon hotels, and the length of each days journey depended upon the dis tance between cities with comfortable hotels. But this sort of tourist now is a rarity on the road.
 In their stead, we find two classes of warmth-seekers who avail themselves of the hospitality of the Birmingham tourist camp. The first-class consists of citizens who have established two homes. In the summer they reside in the north, which they regard as "home."
 This does not prevent them from setting up a second establishment smaller, usually-somewhere in Flori- da. In both homes, the head of the house finds employment. He becomes half-time citizen in two communities.
 Interesting Example
 At the camp last week, there was an interesting family. The man will spend the winter in Florida, where there ex- ists an over supply of labor, The family in question, had travelled by easy stages from Detroit, where the greater port of the summer was spent. In Detroit, the man said, work was scarce. At times the family was close to actual want, yet enough money was saved to purchase gasoline and tires for the automobile instead of pro- viding clothing and food for the. two children.
 After arriving in Birmingham, with the family financed at low ebb, the man found employment as a carpenter. Liv- ing at the camp, and working every day for a few weeks, changed the cir cumstances from poverty to compara tive affluence. The man was able to fulfill an ambition--although he didn't call it that-of long standing, when he refitted the Lizzie" with new tipeT and repaired q tear in the top.
 But, the junior members of the fam lily suffered. After leaving Birming- ham, the man intended to travel to Tampa. This means that the two children will enter school several weeks late Their education will suffer. Economists say that within a few years, there will develop a considerable class of little education, due to these climatic argonapts.
 Yet by way of recompense, these youngsters gain a knowledge of the en- tire country, which is vastly differ ent-and probably better than that gleaned from school books. The family that visited Birmingham had original ly set out from western New York state. The first trip led to Florida. After a winter there, four-months trip carried the family of four to Cali fornia. After two winters near the Golden Gate and a summer along Puget sound, Florida is again the port of call.
 What the future holds for this fam fly, which is typical of a ever increas- ing group, they themselves do not know. Very often they make no attempt to find out.
 Instetad of "A Man Without A Coun- try,' we have family "Without A Home" and with too much country to travel in.
 COSMOLOGY
 "A man isn't always useful and inn portant because he has rolltop desk"
 ''No," agreed Senator Sorghum. Much depends on whether he keeps his mind on it, or his feet."-Washington Star.