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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21
LEDGER BUILDING SALE. FEATURES
 WEEKS TRADING
Realty Market Closes With Strong Tone
 Prevailing

Although no transaction of excep- tional size came to light in the Bir- mingham real estate market Saturday, a feeling distinctly confident prevailed. Many of the firms reported deals of i'm portance moving toward culmination and it Is expected that the next few weeks will develop something sensa. tional in trading.
 Generally the tone of the mart at the weeks close was improved over any of September. The market reflected the /. Ledger building deal, which passed the quarter of million dollar mark, and it is anticipated that several transfers will indirectly result from this and other scattering sales of the week.
 Some trend was in evidence toward the entire attention of the marke, as the west of the downtown district but this was not noteworthy enough to gain the entire, attention of the mar. ket, as there remained considerable spec ulation to the east and north. Values on the southside are apparently holding
 
 in the crossing situation. 4 Leasing of the Burnett building to the Parisian through A. A. Gambill last week had its effect on Second avenue, For the most part, however, it seemed that owenrs and prospective buyers | were deadlocked on values although there was some intensive dickering for property sites. Dealers declare this retail move is not the only one which will aid figures below Nineteenth street.
 Sale Holds Spot.
 The deal through Houseal- -Simons for the Ledger building naturally attracted the major attention of the week since it ranks among the four feature sales in the~ market this year. Announce ment that the property will be used for bank came too late for any fluc- tuations and it is said doubtful that any will be in evidence for some little time.
 One of the noteworthy facts of the Ledger building deal was that 1t caught the realty market strikingly unaware. Few brokers knew that the sale was in the air and the number who were ''in" on the ultimate disposition of the uunuus mikHC euSlly pc counted on one hand. Phares Coleman, attorney, who represented the outside parties, kept the trade we'll in the dark. Lit tie advantage could have been taken of the move, however, since few pices around the structure are on the market at any figure.
 Demand in the residential market remains exceptionally strong and agents announced another week fully compar- able with the previous hectic periods. The McDavid agency loomed particu- !arly strong with report of $15O, 900 in homes, semi-business property and subdivision lots sold during the week. Around $45,000 in sales for sites in the first addition to AIilner Heights. Their subdivision, were checked in by the firm. !: 1,- "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21
SALES RECORD
 BELTEVE ED SET BY SLYH ERLIN.

A sales record in the real estate market was eclipsed or at least se- verely threatened Saturday when L. S;utherlin, connected with the Me David agency, consumnated five deals for semi-business property during the morning. ... 4- .ze,
 The trick was pulled mainly through an early rising formula which Sutherlin has adopted to take advantage of the active market. One of the transactions was signed before 6 o'clock and with that through, the agent declares, the rest t'came easy"
 With one sale Tuesday, a piece on Third avenue near the new Ath- letic clubs, for $15,000, Sutherlin's aggregate turnover for the week reached $51, ,000. Excepting the Third avenue property, all of the sites sold were around territory at Sixth, Eighth avenues and Fifteenth street. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21
VAUGHN MOVES
Realty Company Now Located At POPS
 Fourth Avenue.

The Vaughn Realty company, one of the younger firms in the market, moved this week from 2129 Third avenue. north, to POPS Fourth avenue, in the new Caldwell building. The new quarters will give the organization the space required for their expanding business.
 The company was formed in 1919 by Thomas Vaughn with offices in the First National bank building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21
APPOINTED SALESMAN
Partain Gets Off To Good Stand 1
 Local Realty Market.

E. ] Partain, formerly state cashier for the Southern Bell Telephone com pany, Is now connected with the real estate department of the Trustees sys tenn. His debut in the market has been met with noteworthy success. Recent sales include residences at 2319 Tenth avenue, south; 1911 Twenty-fifth street north; 1706 Second avenue, West End, and several lots in Edgewood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21
MUSICAL PROGRAM

Baptist church, Pratt City, announces a musical program at that church Sun day evening at : 80 o'clock. The pro gram will consist of solos, tribes, quartets and songs by the orchestra and congregation. The public is invited
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21
FULTON PUSHES LOTS

paper man here, is in Birmingham pro- noting Oceanside Park, a subdivision near Pablo Beach, Fla. The property, containing 50x125-foot lots. was recent ly opened by Buck, Buck and Marshall of Jacksonville ---.-,~--- --.-,--
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21
BARNETT LEAVES
Realtors Business Left In Hands of
 w. B. Leedy Agency

' s. T. Barnett, who maintains real estate offices in the Brown-Marx build ing, left Saturday for three-month' s European tour During his absence the business of the Barnett firm will be handled through W. B. Leedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21
MRS. HOOD IMPROVED
Condition Reported Favorable At St
 Vincent's Hospital

Mrs. James Hood, 372S Cliff road, who sustained broken back when her automobile collided with another on the road from Birmingham to Morris, Ala, several days ago, was reported to be in d favorable condition Saturday night at St. Vincents hospital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21

Sold before noon The frequent result when Age Herald classified ads are used. E
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-21

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
STILL HE LIBRARY

Those who are seeking the inclusion
 O. t.s library question in the projected school bend eleeti'n are not men moved by auy selfish n scest. On the contrary
 .4.eir ,eIvice ia h ost unselfish, being freely anu ~. rsn ntly bestowed in the management of this important public as set. When they ask for better library facilities, they are not seeking merely ad- ditional books or more commodious quar- ers-indispensable as such needs are. Their real concern is to remove the fire menace that now hangs over the present structure like a grim and ever-present shadow of tragedy. The other municipal questions may perhaps with propriety be for a time deferred. But the questions involving human lives, like the schools, and human safety, like the library situa- tion, do not easily lend themselves to delay. Although the schools are admit tedly the more important question, yet it does not seem that the modest library program could either jeopardize the school issue or itself be defeated. Were it merely the question of expanded equip ment, the library issue might wait for the general program, but in view of the fire menace, do those in charge of the edu- cational issue care to assume the respon- sibility of saying the library must wait? |?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
THE "FLAPPER" DRIVER

Many fads aGd follies have been charged to the modern flapper. Volumes have been written to show that flappers of this day and generation are just about like their sisters of other days and gen. erations. Whether they be called "flap- pers" or something else, they are likely to follow their own inclinations as re- spects dress, manners of talking, walk ing and all the rest of it, including their tastes and personal concerns.
 Another hitch has arisen in connection with regulating the individual conduct of flappers of Birmingham as regards observance of the traffic ordinances. Police Captain Brent, who presides over the destinies of the traffic department, publicly declares that Birmingham flap pers are the worst traffic-law violators of all, and do not pay attention to lights, gongs or anything else. They apparently shake their bobbed hair, glance back over their shoulders, sometimes with a smile occasionally with a frown, and uwa,.' they go, irrespective of the feelings of the traffic cop. Perhaps, however, part of this complaint is imagination, for it seems to be fact that flapper drivers have not been responsible for any promi- nent percentage of recent auto accidents and tragedies.
 As a whole, the people, including even flappers, are observing the traffic laws fairly we'll Also most of the pedestrians show due respect to the Boy Scouts when they undertake to keep people from deliberately running into danger. True, the Scouts were reported to be getting discouraged because the city baked at paying for their lunches. The laborer is worthy of his feed, especially when he consciously tries to perform his duty, as any true Scout may be relied on to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14

, The people of this community can not behold except with sentiments of amazement and misgiving the conduct of the county commission in hawking the courthouse property about look ing for a buyer. There has already been set on this property tentative price of $1,20O,000, which there is req son to believe is far less than it's real value. The board complains that there are no buyers, but what astute investor would seek the property at the value fixed, when in the next breath it is intimated that, if the property is not taken at the price fixed, that price will be reduced? It is the part of wisdom to wait until the board is willing to sell the property at one-fourth instead of one-half it's real value.
 The board, however, has, even if unintentionally, thrown one bomb among possible purchasers by limiting that, as last resort, to- dispose of this property, it will cut it up into lots and sell it. Now that is the plan that the possible purchasers may them selves have in mind to follow in their own disposal of it, so doubtless, if the board persists in declaring such ulti- mate purpose, the possible purchasers may be impelled into buying the entire property at higher price than would perhaps otherwise be necessary. To be sure, the board is constrained in this mat ter, not by any public necessity, but by the necessity of defending it's bad judg- ment in buying an alleged new court house site to which it plans to move the county's business activities without defer ence or reference to the will of the peo- pie.
 Indeed, to a man up a tree, 1t looks very much as if the board and the pro- ponents of the real estate scheme in- volved are in. great dread lest the mat ter actually come to vote of the people before it is consummated. Such an even tuality might prove tragic. to the whole privately conceived program. Destroy the principle of democracy, of popular rule, of the inherent right of the peo- blo to Gaeiio these major questions of aah-e nature, ont don't destroy the scheme That somebody will buy the cou House slu', If the plan is persisted jn, thera is no doubt, but to refrain from -H.~ is> n the face of unconcealed ea- g&,e sell is only ordinary business stras.sY. for such eagerness is assur- ance Tn advance that the bargain is go- ing to be made, more and more attrac- tive as time goes on. That a public asset of value at present not easily to be calculated, because of rapidly rising values of contiguous property, is being deliberately sacrificed, doesn't seem to concern the board at all. The custodians ee rublic property seem to have forgotten
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14

the industrial development contemplated by Ford than from the nationwide dis tribution of power contemplated by the power combine, so Mississippi benefits by the same development. Mississippi will need power for industrial develop ment, to be sure, but it is believed that this power can be obtained with, equal facility and in equal quantity regardless of the manner in which Muscle Shoals is disposed of.
 On the other hand, Mississippi, being at present predonlinantly an agricultural state, may expect far more prompt and direct benefit from the prospect of cheaper fertilizers, to say nothing of the possible industrMl stimulus that may be felt as manufa turing makes its way southwestward. When Mississippi be- zines to develop industries she will tap the transmission lines that cross or par allel her state lines, and will be in stronger position than if the Muscle Shoals current were lost in the super power scheme. Besides that, there IS to be considered the national and fun damental purpose for which Muscle Shoals was originally contemplated, namely, as a source of explosives in war emergency. That purpose is still ac- tive and impossible of being ignored. Mississippi may we'll trust the view of her able Senator Harrison, who is out spokenly and unequivocally for Henry Ford's offer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
THE GYROScoPE
By JEAN NEWTON

The layman hears frequent reference to the syroscope, and yet many people are quite unfamiliar with its significance The recent tragedy, however, of the loss. in his flight over the English Channel. of the daring young aviator Sperry brought into promi- hence again the name of the populary ac- credited inventor of the gyroscope, really the man who made its practical applications. FL mer II. Sperry
 The use of the instrument had taken shape early as 1877 in the mind and writings of Bohnenberger. A part was played in it's de- velopment also by the French physician Fou- cault, who is credited with giving to the top like rotating instrument it's name which he composed ,pf two Greek words meaning circle and to view. which implies its purpose of il- lustrfting the laws of rotating bodies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
MIGRATIONS Tnlafln Rloial

Hardly more than half of the people who migrated from the Volga region of Russia during the recent famine there have re- turned. Thousands will never go back, not because of the memories of the days of star vation, but because they have taken root elsewhere. Thus. on q much smaller scale, have been re-enacted those movements of the dark ages that brought hordes of strang- CTS out of Asia and eastern Europe almost within sight of the Atlantic ocean. The in vasiOns are described in most history as a purely military or conquerins motive But the dates are found to correspond with eli matical changes. crop failures. scarcity What those terrifying hosts out of the East were after first of all. was food. Where it was obtainable. there the strangers were moved to settle The touch with the original tribal homes was Iost
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
COOLIDGE WILL PROSECUTE

President Coolidge's attitude towards the oil-lease revelations as shown by his Lincoln day speech is one with which the people can find little fault. For example. the president says; "At the revelation of greed making its subtle ap- breaches to public officers, of the pros titution of high places to private profit, we are filled with scorn and indigna- tion" This is strong indication that the chief executive believes that some of the men now in the public eye are guilty of criminal misconduct. As to the ad- minstrations course, MT. Coolidge goes on to say: "There will be immediate, adequate, unshrinking prosecution, crim- inal and civil, to punish the guilty and to protect every national interest. In this effort there will be no partisanship, no politics. It will be speedy. It will be just. I am Republican, but 1 cannot on that account shield anyone because he is a Republican. l am Republican, but l cannot on that account prosecute anyone because he is Democrat" " Doubtless this means that even Mr. Denby is not being shielded from justice, but is not judged by the president until he has been given trial. The president promises that the prosecution shall be speedy. Yet it has hardly even begun. The prosecutors have not been accepted. The nation receives the chief executive's s words with respect and attention, and looks to him to make them good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
SUDDEN CRYING
By N. ADDING7ON BRUCE

In answer to an inquiry regarding the credibility of the 0ften-heard stories of sud den graying of hair, I would say that the consensus of medical opinion holds that such grayng is entirely within the realm of pos sibility. Indeed, it is difficult to see how a contrary opinion could be held, in view ot the we'll authenticated character of some of the instances reported. Several of these are as recent in occurrence as the World War, and are vouchsafed for by medical men them selves. Thus the Italian physician, Lutati, tells of twenty-four-year-old artillery cap tain whose hair turned gray during the bat tie of Piave.
 In all such cases emotional excitement is undoubtedly the immediate cause of the gray ing. Anything which causes profound emo tional shock-bad news. bodily peril. the peril of some loved one, intense anxiety, grief or fear provoked by whatever cause may serve to turn the hair suddenly gray or white. Even the emotional excitement of temporary insanity seemingly is capable of producing the same effect In one unusual case-reported by Landois--a sufferer from delerium tremens was so terrified by his hal fluctuations that his hair and beard became gray.
 But to recognize that sudden graying may follow emotional excitement is one thing To explain why it should follow emotional ex- citement is quite another. Medical science as yet is unequal to this task.
 ouc HteulCdi ScIeHtlSt, JO DC sure, the emt- nent Metchnikoff, once proffered an explana- tion, which for a time was greatly favored. It purported also to explain the ordinary graying and whitening of hair with advance in years. According to Metchnikoff, the white corpuscles of the blood, the phagocytes. may also act as chromophages. or destroyers of color. Their chromophagic power and range of action increase with age and under the impulse of emotional excitement. Then. he theorized, they become capable of absorb ing the pigmented granules of the hair and digesting them partly on the spot and partly after carrying them into the root of the hair '' Loss of color, evidenced by graying and whitening, is the inevitable result of this pro cess.
 But the Metchnikoff explanation hardly commands assent today. In the light of pres ent-day knowledge of the effects of emotion on the glands of internal secretion, it would seem more likely that sudden graying is to be explained by reference to some subtle ir- regularity of glandular action.
 This. too. however. is still no more than theory, scientific guesswork. Research may validate or invalidate it. As stated, the fact of the matter is that science at present does not know the secret of emotions power to change tn ecolor of the hair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
EIDE DUDLEY'S RHYMES

Said Sias McGuggin, in Peeweeples store {:
 It am very often that l make a roar,. but had | my way I'd condemn to their doom the fellows who turn out this stuff called perfume. This mornin my daughter come downstairs to eat. a'bringin odor so turri- ble sweet it made me right sick and I put my foot down. Says :: Cut that out r And l wore deep frown. My daughter asked what and I told her Perfume Saws |: Do you think you're rose in fulI bloom" My wife says: Don't worry. my dear; he's fool-important round here as wart on mule 1 picked up my hat and left 'em at once They've lost me for good, Oh, I'm nobody's dunce. I'll get nice room at McDougals hotel. They'll never defy me no more with that smell'' Sis right and I'm for him." Jed Peeweeple said Them odorS Is awful They go to my head He's !nit home for good. Oh he'll never go back. \ Will Is q thing that he never did lack. '' Just then the town clock in the steenle struck one Old Silas jumped up and' lie left on the run. Its time for my dinnere. reckon, said Si. I've got to % home or I'll miss apple pie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-14
PLANS FOR. THE PORT
{ Mobile .Register)

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 auch progress has been made on the pre- liminary work of developing the port of Mo bile with state aid of $1000O, GOO that the docks commission now has two plans before 1t for consideration. Not only have two plans been submitted to the commission by General Sibert, chairman and engineer in charge of the undertaking, but General Sibert says two more are held in reserve. if the first two are found to be impracticable
 The citizens of Mobile andSOf the state of Alabama thus have the assurance that Gen. eral Sibert. on whose technical skill and Knowledge success of the port project largely depends, is covering the ground carefully and IS preparing for every contingency that may be met.
 Two important considerations are kept in view One is that the future growth of Mo. bile must be provided for, which means that i the size and location of docks, slips and other equipment must be such that they will serve the port Tor many years to come. It will be the utmost folly. fact recognized by Gen eral Sibert and his associates, to supply fa- cilities here which will be outgrown in 4 decade Fifty years is not long period of time to provide for in rebuilding and enlarg- ing a seaport.
 The one factor that the commission is con- pelled to keep in view, at all times is the necessity of showing profit with the new equipment. The future of port development depends on the success which attends the initial outlay of $5.OOO,OOO. Under the port enabling act. the full $10,OO0OO0 does not become available until the first $:5 OOO. GOO investment has shown profit. General Sif- bert and his associates have not lost sight Of this objective. It is emphasized in all their preliminary work, and is an important and decisive detail in the plans now under dis cussion. Whatever construction program is adopted it must come within the limitations imposed on, the commission in its expenditures and must insure profitable operation.