The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-16
RESURCAM
BY GEORGE EAVES, D. D.

that poor folk shall not be robbed by cheap pretences. These are a few direc- tions in which a morals court could 60 invaluable service. There Is being brought to light the view of the city as a family, with common interests, instead Of the old view of the city as a congeries of humanity brought together to prey on one another, to get rich by exploiting one another Rather men find they can get richer by saving one another, by aid ing, guiding, comforting. protecting one another. In their generation the sons of this world are wiser than the sons of | light, the greedy and cruel wiser than | the tender hearted and phlanthropc l But in the end greed proves short-sight- ed, and bumps up against heavens bank ruptcy court. No better investment can be made than a well managed court of morals in the modern city. Without 1t womanhood Is being pushed, wheeded,- dragged to the obscene altars of Daphne. rot indeed, where beauteous groves dig nifty the scene, but where sordid dirtincss slouches above neglected street corners. There is a sense in which. if a city | cuoostS liSt lilt hluSuOll Ol pou 1hh His righteousness, all other things will be added. It is going to be proved to the hilt that not by advertising but by pro- viding her citizens with right conditions a city makes it's fortune.
 Hence take it as most opportune that our Birmingham should have it's commits | sion begin work at Easter. I hail that as a good omen. I do not ask the splen- did gentlemen who have been appointed to become meddlesome and offcious and irritating; but I venture to put into words some hitherto vague but vide spread desires for civic welfare that are now attainable and that most insistenty cry to be achieved. It is all though the conscience of the community voiced itself in the commission. saying, T shall arise''-Resurgam.
 | Late in January I bought for good av- craze price pair of shoes the man who | sold them assuring me that they were of fine wearing quality. By the middle of March I had for my feet shapeless things that might have been picked up from an ash barrel. I examined them | and found the inner sole to consist of some soft, punky substance in. which chopped-up bits of leather appeared. I took them to the dealer and was assured that now and then any grade of shoes might turn out badly. But that deaisf
 license ought to be revoked. f--- sssse
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 s practically no de- ft.4A nf HH -,a,nln against such fraud except C costly defense of experience? Yet in the long run there is nothing like leather to make shoe-mans profit. nothing like hard steel of the finest kind to save the cutlery trade of Sheffield or the needle business of Redditch, nothing like solid character to profit business men, professional men, or the man who sweeps the street or cleans the barn. A Manchester manufacturer once showed me through a vast mill where all sorts of cloth lay ready for shipment to every corner of creation. In one room were
 beautiful white caicos of perfect weave and strength and finish. in others were
 cheaper fabrics. Stopping at one place
 he said: "See this?" It was a mass of
 bleached stuff looking heavy and solid,
 bolt upon bolt piled up and stretching down a long WarenOuSe. mat IS TOT tn8 India trade" he said. He took up a strip of it. hanging loose. and rubbed 1t in his hand producing a powdery sub | stance on his fingers. Plaster of Paris he observed with a smile
 | It turned out that for the cheap India trade wherein competition was keen then and is not less keen today, the de- mand for heavy cotton cloth Is also a demand for cheap a cloth as can | Ea rrOdnped Tn meet that demand and competition the wretched native is SUD- piled with cotton texture whose thin ness Is concealed by a cunning dressing of clay, which comes out in the wash and diaphanously leaves the wearer sun- der the necessity of another yard and half. for which he must hunt up a few more paltry but hardly attainable annas. We expect our rev city government | to put cotton in the cloth though it leaves out the dressing of clay. All in good time it will lead the way to a nicipal art gallery, library, technical high-school, running at night, and some other municipal boons, without adding greatly to our taxation. Meantime let it get in the saddle. cut graft out by the roots wherever discovered, and save our | lives, daughters. our homes, and our regulations, save up physically and save us morally from the diffused microbes, bacilli of moral and physical corruption. | Incidentally may I recognize as sign of the social Easter that voice is being raised among the doctors, demanding that the city's convicts should not be re- | ouired to sleep in chains Why did not | the ministers make this demand?' asked friend. Well, I for one, had no idea | that even reactionism or cowardice or l official "cussedness'' in Birmingham could be so-eXcuse me-damnably cruel as to insist that so much as mad dog should sleep with chains on his feet. | Thank you, Dr. Parke. Let us put it in | the plural this Easter, and say, by the | favor of God. Resurgemus! we Will | Arise"
 Skyscraper in Liverpool | From the London Daily Mail.