The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-11

| Helen Gould TO Finley J. Sheppard. Miss
Gould is a sister of the former Anna
Gould.
Lexington, Ky.-After a hearing that
| teemed with sensational evidence last
ing five DAYS, Richard S. Webb, Jr., as
ssstant football coach at the Kentucky
State university was held for the grand
jury tonight on a charge of having set
fire to the office of Prof. Paul Anderson
last October, Bond was fixed at $500
Cincinnati.-"I will break any set of
men who try to compete with this com
pany. / advise you to get your money
out of the Hallwood company and quit"
This statement was attributed to Presi-
dent John II. Patterson of the National
Cash Register company by w. S. Court
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Together, if you wish to make Birming-
ham great city.
Birmingham is a great city. In its
midst are represented great bodies of in
dividuals of different ideas, different tastes
and different Judgments but this condi-
tion does not seem to be understood by
the great majority of the people
Need Tolerance
1--WE should cultivate spirit of toll
erance If we wish to build up the city
and not split hairs on the policy of this
and that. | have absolutely no patience
with any man who is unwilling that
another man should have an opinion
never fall out with any one because
they disagree with me- | respect the
opinion of every man. In Birmingham
the moment opinions differ friction
commences and there is a total lack of
the get-together, pull together and
stay-together spirit
IT will speak few words about At
lanta to show the difference between
the spirit of that city and Birming
ham. Remember I am a booster of
Birmingham and am speaking just to
show an example of the spirit which
think we. lack.
ATLANTA has a wonderful street called
Peachtree street, and every citizen of
Atlanta believes way down in his heart
that there is not another street like
ii in the world. Some time ago it was
suggested that the street should be
widened to make It still more beau
tiful by encroaching a few feet on
the land of the property owners abut-
ting on the street. Every property
owner promptly volunteered and came
to the city government and said Come.
take a few feet off our property and
widen Peaehtree street that it may be
more beautiful and monument to our
city
Gould this have happened in Bir-
mingham? | am strongly of the opinion
that it could not. / am also of the
opinion that If such a proposition came
up all the property owners would be
after the city commission TO pay them
thousands of dollars out of our i'm
poverished treasury for their property.
Atlanta as Example
Birmingham business men are dis
posed to disparage the business of each
other In Atlanta that is not the case
they have the spirit to build up. Here
1t is the spirit to pull down--every-
one to seek advantage for himself. 1t
is the wrong spirit and it should be
the chief business of the Chamber of
Commerce to put down this spirit and
replace it with a peace on earth and
good will to all men and get-together,
pull-together and together spirit
The fault finding and dissatisfac-
tion which has reigned in our midst for
the past four years can be corrected
in six months by the Chamber of Com
merce. You gentlemen can correct this
evil without the aid of any other civic
organizations by exposing the shams
and cultivating the spirit of tolerance.
You can greatly obviate the evil of
bick ering and bacl<biting which pre-
dominates in the city today. You should
invite all the other civic bodies to CO.
operate with you in creating this spirit
Unity in the community is necessary
and you should unite If you are max
ing concientious efforts at bettering
the city.
II want to see birmingham prosper
1t Is my hearts wish, but a change of
course is necessary to make 1t prosper.
Talk Birmin CHAM: talk it all the time,
but not bad Birmin gham--a name which
Ia.
derstand that there are n lot of short
comings in this city. 1t is not a Utopia
by any means and it will never be
one as long as its citizens take such
keen pleasure in holding up to public
gaze its iniquities.
Refers to Commission
| I'VE of the city commission do not un-
derstand everything by any means. and
we do not pretend we do. We have tc
study thoroughly every problem that
comes before us. knowing beforehand
| that no matter how we decide we will in
cur severe criticism from some source OF
another Recently bright young man
| approached me on the subject of water
works. His plan was that the city should
| float a s5,0O0,000 bond issue to buy the
municipal waterworks plant ! asked this
young man how this money was to be
spent, but on this subject he professe1
entire ignorance, and that Is the condi-
tion of most of the men who approach
the condition with pet ideas. They dc
not study the project they wish pushed
forward and know little of 1t except to
suggest 1t and then think 1t ought to be
promptly carried out
THE city commission is studying the
waterworks problem 1t needs a lot OF
study and we know very little about It,
1t is question for expert engineers to
time whether municipal water plant
would cost s5o00,0O0. With study and
expert advice it is very possible that such
plant could be built for s2,5OO,000 We
| will get this advice and when a bond is
sue for a waterworks is put before The
lvoters rest assured that 1t will be only
| after the problems have been thoroughly
| gone over. ! am looking forward to q
municipal waterworks plant for Birming-
| ham.
| Gentlemen of the Chamber of Com
merce, close with again strongly urging
| on you to endeavor to correct the evil
of dissatisfaction and build up-build uT
! this spirit-brild up a cooperative spirit
build up for our neighbor well a-
| for ourselves. Get rid of the backbitins
and pickering Let us have unity amongs,
ourselves and our city will prosper. Gen
tlemen. get together pull together. stay
4 together"
Judge Lanes remarks were greeted with
much applause. The talk evidently ''wenl
| home" to the members and they were ap-
precative of the little lecture which the