The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-01
ELABORATE STORIES ABOUT BIRMINGHAM Survey Will Be Received
 Here This Week MORE THAN 200 PAGES Articles Will Deal With Every Phase of Life and Industry in the
 South's Coming
 Metropolis

= It Is a significant fact that the first is- sue of the leap year. 1912, of the Survey magazine. which has national circula- ton of large proportions. should be al most entirely devoted to 200 page treat ment of the civic, social and industrial conditions of Dixies new industrial giant Birmingham.
 This resume of this comparatively young municipality just beginning an- other year of anticipated prosperity is expected to create much local interest and the publication will be here at several of the magazine stands this week as the issue will be distributed on January 6.
 The Birmingham survey will consist of a series of articles written by members of the Survey magazine staff and local writers in collaboration and will no doubt attract attention to the city and state from all points of the country The growing influence of Birmingham not only
 in her relationship to Alabama but 10 the nation as whole will be the basic current of the compositions. The pub lie questions of the death rate from tu- berculosis here, the railroad division of the city. the cost of living from lack of garden truck, the homes of the employed at the industrial plants, the form of mu- nicpal government and other pressing matters of general concern will be dis cussed by a group of trained men and women.
 The contributors to the Birmingham is- sue include two local authorities in deal ing with the subject matter allotted them. Miss Ethel Armes, author of Coal and Iron in Alabama" who has written "The Spirit of the Founders, and William Me- Grath, secretary of the Associated Chal- tiles and the Anti-Tuberculosls associa- tion of Jefferson county who has es- saved "Conservation Of Health," are both of Birmingham. The other articles, "The Birmingham Workman by John A. Fitch of the Survey staff; Sanitary Con- ditlons and Needs" by Morris Knowles, civil engineer; "Conservation of Chila- hood" by A. J. McKelway. secretary of the southern states of the national child labor committee; Crime by Shelby M Harrison of the Survey staff. and "Bir- mingham's Civic Front" by Graham ldy1Of or tils survey, Will pe tne pIlH- eiple treatises of the varied phases of the south's coming metropolis.
 Advance notices announce that ''The Spirit of the Founders is as full of ad- venture and conquest as the story or q hundred sea captains and paints In graphic words the development of the citys natural wealth by the rugged in- 1,tg trfa -,tn nr fpio uine local color is promised in} the ac- count telling of "The Birmingham Workman and the description of the labor forces of one of the steel centers of America will no doubt make enjoy able reading.
 Sanitary Conditions and Needs' is classified as the first rounded presentation of the sanitary problems of great indus trial dlstrlct-the primary clements of water and waste and other factors in sanitary regulations US distinct from pub lie health regulation. "Conservation of Health" will deal with the tuberculosis scourge in this city and the problem of the threatening alleys versus the housing proposition. The lack of compulsory edu- cation, the backyard position of Alabama in child labor legislation, the new juvenile court and recently inaugurated industrial training will be tho theme of "The Con servation of Childhood" Civic factors and clements at work to wrest tho mill stones from the neck that have retarded the advancement of older industrial cities are the Fundamentals of "Birminghams g Civic Front" To the fee system and con- vict lease method will be given several pages of the article "Crlme," and the whole is to make stirring tale of a stirring town.
 The cover of the first leap year Issue will be a special design of Birmingham modelled in clay by Signor Moretti. Fac ing hard facts for the sake of the future and the official organ of the national or ganized charities and social workers, the Survey is primarily magazine of impor- tance in the social structure of this country.