The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-30
TRAINING SCHOOL
PARADE TONIGHT
About 5000 Men Expected to
Participate
SESSIONS YESTERDAY
Barrow Talks on the big Brother
SESSIONS YESTERDAY
Barrow Talks on the big Brother
Movement-Wants 200 Men to >
Act as Friends to Boys
Without Home Ties

Christian men and one district alone says
1t VIII have at least $50 men in line of
march. II the other districts do anything
like as well, and it is claimed that they
will, there will be at least 5000 men In
| the parade.
Every man in the city of Birmingham is
invited to take part in the parade and In
the mass meeting for men at the First
Baptist church Immediately following the
demonstration. There Is no charge to
enter and no admission tickets will be
required at the doors of the First Bap-
tist church. The ladies of the churches
Will review the parade of the men as it
passes Sixth avenue and Twentieth street,
after which they will proceed to the First
Methodist church to be addressed by
Mrs. George Geyer of Xenia, o. w. C.
Pearce of Chicago will address the mems
meeting.
Route of Parade
| The route for the parade is as fol-
| lows: Begins at Nineteenth street and
Sixth avenue; south on Nineteenth to
First avenue; east on First avenue to
Twentieth street and north on Twentieth
to Sixth avenue. The paraders will pass
in review before their wives, sweethearts.
mothers and lady friends at Sixth and
Twentieth and will then proceed to the
First Baptist church Automobiles will
precede the parade and the speakers will
| announce the meaning and purposes of
the demonstration.
The sessions of the Bible training school
yesterday were we'll attended w. C.
Pearce made the opening address, TAX
ing for his theme Sunday School Evan
gelization." The conferences on meth
DDS followed this and Mrs. HamilI, Miss
Kennedy, Mrs. Geyer and Mrs. Bell were
in charge. DR.. w. ]. Williamson deliv-
cred the third of his series of addresses
on the book of Philippians and the les
sons of the several departments were
taken up. Adjournment for supper fol-
lowed and when the sessions were re-
sumed at o'clock the showings of the
graded unions were made. The reports
We're flashed on a sheet with stereopti-
con machine and one of the most inter-
esting of these was one which said that
the mems graded union in Birmingham
had geo members, which was the second
largest in the world. The conferences
,'of the various departments followed this
showing, with Mrs. Hamin, Miss Batchel-
der Burr Blackburn. A. X. Wright and
w. c. Pearce in charge
DIR. r. ]. Bateman made the first ad-
dress of the evening and took for his
subject, THE Temple Pillars" DR.. Bate
man said that the pillars of the temple
OF the Lord were the men who overcome
the world: who overcome self and s.n.
He said that sin and self were synony-
nous; that in the scripture either of the
words could be substituted for the other
without disturbing the rhetoric of the
sentence in which they were used.
Dr. Bateman closed his address with a.
high tribute to Frank s. Barrow, who
has Just been appointed as the head of
the big brother" movement now being
fostered by the Birmingham Sunday
School association. The association has
only recently taken over this movement
and Mr.. Barrow is the first to head it.
DIR. Bateman asked Mr.. Barrow to come
TO the rostrum and say few words.
"Big Brother" Movement
Mr.. Barrow in his short talk to the
students presented to them the meaning
of the big brother" movement in Bir-
niingham. Said he: There are in this
city and district. k wn to those of us
who are doing the !, rk, about 200 boys
who are the victims of unfortunate cir
cumstances; circumstances to which they
have not been party in creating, but
which Is causing them to lose many of
the things in boyhood that will make them
good citizens when they reach man.
hood.
"In many cases these boys have lost
either their father or their mother, and
In some instances they have lost both,
This means that they have to throw aside
the protection of home and schools and
so out and work. 1t means that they
have to take on themselves the RESPONSE
bilties of manhood while they are yet In
a period of boyhood or adolescence And
even in some cases where these boys have
both parents it has been found that one
or both of the parents were unfit for the
duties of bringing them up in the proper
atmosphere.
There is in Birmingham today 200 boys
who are not in school, either because
they have had to be the wage-earners
of the family or because of the economic
conditions which surround them. In some
instances it has been found that the boy
did not want to go and, not having the
proper home training, did not do SO. All
such hoys finally drift to the juvenile
court. In the homes have tried to pic
ture there Is no one to compel the boy to
stay in school, and his drifting to the
juvenile court comes in the natural course
of events. Practically none of these boys
attend Sunday school. When asked why
some of them say that their clothes are
not as good as those of the other pupils,
and others say that they are scoffed at
when they attend.
What these boys need is a friend for
every day in the week and a friend for
Sunday morning as well. What they need
is someone to be a brother to them.
What they need is someone to fill that
aching void In their lives; something that
cannot be found in the juvenile court.
They want such a person for every week
that is to come for several years.
Need 2G0 Men
s'These big brothers will have to
be secured from the adult Bible classes
of the Sunday schools of Birmin ham
There is to be found the timber from
which we are to secure the big brother.
The men chosen must be OF sterling
character, of clean lives and men of
boyish hearts. And the true Bible class
is made up of that sort of men. We
want 200 volunteers to become big
brothers and we are going to get them.
We are going to every Sunday school
in the Birmingham district and when
we come we want you to have prepared
your classes for our coming. We want
the men volunteering to give their time
to the little fellows. to be to them what
they would be to real brother. Place
the boys in school If possible, visit him
and be a companion in every possible
way. In short. give the little fellows
all the friendship, the love and the
big brothering' he needs"
Mr.. Barrow is probation officer of