The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-05
Some Of The Needs
 Of City Of Birmingham
Leading Citizens the City Suggest Some of the Things That Are Needed to Make Birmingham Even Greater Than At Present Tme-New Hotel and Small In
 dustries Most Needed

tions for such nefarious practices should be forever removed by the abolition of the fee system at the next session of tho legislature. Our prisons should be i'm proved and the unfortunate prisoners presumed innocent until shown to be guilty, and treated accordingly. Even after convicted they should be so man aged as not to shut the door of hope for a better life.
 Such action of the legislature I con- sider the greatest need of Jeft rson coun- " and therefore of Birmingham, whose growth Is but the means whereby the county has grown"
 Judge Robert N. Bell
 Said Judge Robert N. Bell of the city
 court: There is no doubt in my mind as
 to what is the most crying need of this
 community. and that IS a new courthouse.
 The people of county whose population
 is 226,Oo0 should be utterly ashamed of a
 courthouse like the present enc, which
 would not be considered adequate for a
 county of 3o.000 people.
 'When the citizens of Birmingham con-
 sider the present conditions: how ladies
 who are called as witnesses must wait ID
 a dingy corridor among q crowd of
 negroes and roughs; how tho offices of
 the high county officials must be con-
 verted into jury rooms; how .he major
 ity of the rooms are heated ty such an
 antiquated method as the open grate--
 when the citizens consider this 1t seems
 lnconceivable that they are not of one
 accord In the desire for a decent court
 house.
 Nearly every other county in the
 state has courthouse too big for the
 courty, and not too absurdly small, like ours."
 as Judge Frank Cahnlan "A new courthouse, first, last and all the time,' said Senior Criminal Judge Frank Cahalan. ''It cannot he said that his is county need and not one of Birmingham's, for the interests of the city are most vitally affected by the courts of justice.
 "The needs of the city are manifold. but no movement deserves more atten- ton at present than that for a new court l. house and jail. Build 12 story court house with a twentieth-cen;ury jail on
 the top floor, and you have accomplished the greatest thing in the interest of hu-
 manity which is possible under present conditions"
 Sheriff E. l.. HigdOn "The most pressing need that Bir- mingham has at present Is hotels" said Sheriff E. l.. Higdon last night. At present the hotel facilities are woefully lacking for city of Birmingham's size. An illustration of what adequate hotel facilities mean to the city was given during the past summer when
 Birmingham lost three great conven- tions for the lack of hotels. Conven- tions are one of the greatest mediums of advertising of cities that exists. and it is painfully evident that something Is lacking when three conventions pass LID a city as was done during this year. Emphatically what Birmingham needs most Is more and better hotels" Chief George H. Bodeker "In my estimation what Birmingham mosts needs at the present time is a greater civic spirit and pride." said Chief of Police George H. Bodeker. "A great method of building up a city both commercially and in population is the attraction of small industries. i have always thought that one secret l of Atlantas growth was these small l industries. The civic spirit should be extended in other lines as well and II should be Good Birmingham" instead of Bad Birmingham" as it has been in the past"
 f Sterling A. Wood Sterling A. Wood said: What Birming- l ham most needs is that every trade calling and profession from bootblack to | the ministry, should cultivate an esprit I de corps, The limelight of our census percentage makes us the Mecca for all Many men want to make short cuts to l position and prominence. If each trade l and calling does It's duty then all such | will soon be short circuited This will | lead to civic and commercial honesty I both of which are questioned, but such honesty we should have at any cost"