The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

bank sends this post card from Europe:
 What lot we who live. in the United States have to be 'thankfui for."- s-.f sS
 Isn't 1t; too. bad that lot of windy people in America don't realize this!
 If you have in mind buying a low or medium priced automobile. this spring, don't wait until the last mo nnent, lest you find dealers have a long string of names ahead of yours on their list. Many were disappointed last spring. History may repeat itself. IT cara follow the trend of wages and ma terials, prices are more likely to be marked up than down.
 If you are tremendously busy man of affairs, beset with problems and dif- faculties and heterogeneous, or if everything is Hitting along delightfuDy, take time to jolt yourself out of your daily rut and routine and go through the public ward of some hospital, att tend . church funeral or visit siums. It will have a beneficial effect upon you. It will clarify your perspective, If downcast 1t will help to give you 2 fresh grip. fresh determination; if ultra-exuberant and consumed with a importance 1t will help to restore the right mental balance. This week at tended the memorial service held in New York for the veteran, Dr. ,Orison Swett Warden, "the elder brother of the discouraged"
 When one speaker staten that pr. Marden's -inspirationaf books had been translated into as many as twenty-six languages, and when; his close asso- ciate, Walter Hoff Seeley, declared that 100000 letters had already poured in since the doctors death. one could not but reflect that after all. worthwhile service could be rendered humanely in market place, the counting house, the mine or the field. There is room for worth-whiie work for us all.
 The placing of the Southern Rail- way cornpany's common stock on a div idend paying basis is but a forerunner of many encouraging developments which will come to fruition in the south during the next ten years One war threw the south flat upon it's back. An other war helped greatly to put the south on its feet.
 A letter just received from .'califor- nia's: biggest store for men and boys" Sn Los Angeles, reads in part:
 ssWe have just had splendid rain, which we certainly needed.
 q am glad to say that our business showed over 20 per cent increase for the months of January and February over year ago, and have every req son to believe that business this year will be equally as good if not better ehan last. ee., <
 "The new Biltmore hotel is running to -e4g fullest capacity; in fact, they are turning away about three hundred reg istrations every day that they can't take care of. It is marvellous to think that we could have gotten along all these years without a hotel of this kind, and then after we get 1t, within three months they can't take care of the people. sss-
 From all indications more people are going to come here this summer than building activities, 1t strikes me that we should be very busy during the en- tire summer"
 We'll, Congress has stung. us again. We have been kept hoping and hoping that we would not have to pay war time taxes on March 15, 1924, five years and six months after hostilities ceased. Had the politicians been half as eager to serve the pubic as they have been to play their own little pettifogging self-seeking games, we would have been granted the 25 per cent relief urged by President Coolidge, Secretary Mel Ion and every other clear thinking cit- izen at Washington and elsewhere. If business withstands all that has been going on at Washington, no thanks will be due the scheming political jerre- manderers. If you and I ran our bus mess the way Congress runs It's busi- ness we would have no money to pay taxes with. ,
 Is Europe about to start new era !? If so, America will be entitled to most of the credit.--( Copyright, 1924, by B.