On the way to New Orleans January 4 - 1924, Friday At about 7 A.M., we are at Chattanooga near the Tenn. Ala. line. It is very cloudy and the land is covered with a white frost. The nam of glistudy has a thin crating of ice. At 10.15 we are at Birmingham, Ala with a flood of bright sun-light. Frost is also here but less decided. It is some old south that I saw for the first time nearly 30 years ago. The villages have no beauty and are composed of a lot of poor renters built in streets or open beneath. The fronts are all of gray timber and the farms in the main of corn with some cotton fields. It is a poor county. Chattanooga I did not see, but Birmingham is a good industrial center having back of it the Clinton arm and the tracks and directors of the Pennsylvania. At noon we are at Tuscaloosa, Ala., a tow