The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-18

isting a feeling that the suburbs will have to stand together to get their rights and that they will have to keep watching the city proper all the time. he said. This Is situation that should be remedied. We are all citizens of Birmingham and everyone of us throughout Greater Birmingham is re- sponsible for this debt and We should be willing to pay 1t. The feeling among the suburbs that there is nigger in the woodpilc is doing much injury and ought to be eliminated. The only thing that will do it is a campaign of edu- cation and a big one.''
 F. B. Walker stated that the people of Vivian in some ways were against the issues for about the same reasons cited by Dr. Barrett of East Lake. but added that if they were informed as to the real facts in the case he did not doubt they would vote for the is sue.
 Cleon B. Rogers of North Bir,ning- ham said he believed the people of that section were open minded and waiting for information, and if given it through proper campaign, they would vote overwhelmingly for the bond issue.
 J. B. Lacy of Pratt City strongly in- dorsed the plan for a campaign. stat . ing the people did not understand the
 
 possession of the facts.
 Dr. E. W. Averyt stated in one way he believed it good thing to defeat the bond issue in order to "walse up the people "who own the city" and who assess their property at 30 per cent while the poor man in the industrial sections has to assess his property for taxation at 50 per cent" but added that perhaps it would be best for the sake of the commission, which he heartily supported, to vote the issue and he believed this could be done by an active campaign.
 Is Only Solution
 w. R. Starbuck of Avondale stated he personally could see no way to meet the situation except by means of the proposed bond issue and Ee be- liewed that if properly informed on the issue the people of Avondale would give it a good majority.
 R. DuPont Thompson stated he knew if the people of his section could have heard the arguments presented at the meeting there, they would vote for the bond is. sue and urged the start of an active cam paign.
 Dr. w. c. Gewin of West End, Dr. M c. Scholar, Frank Glass. R. s. Hidden. William Ryan, R. H. Walker of East Lake, J. M Anderson of East Birming- nam, w. Il. Barnard or fTatL Clty ana others all spoke along the same lines.
 Sydney J. Bowie made an eloquent plea In behalf of the bond issue, stating that it was all 8 part of building better and bigger city. He said there was not the slightest doubt about the bill providing for permanent relief of the city passing the legislature.
 The whole situation arose from the fact that the people of Birmingham were try ing to build a modern metropolitan city with the methods in use for operating 300C population towns in 1875, as the laws un- der which Birmingham secured its reve- nues were drafted in that year, during the reconstruction period. Not only would this have to be remedied, as would be done within the next few months, he said, but the debts incurred due to this condition in the past would have to be met.
 The formal resolution unanimously adopted by the conference regarding the appointment of a committee to conduct a campaign was as fofloVs
 "Resolved, That the city commission appoint a campaign committee of repre- sentative citizens of Greater Birmingham, to include representation from all of the various civic bodies of the city, for the purpose of putting before the voters Of the city the necessity of the proposed bond issue for $1. .250,OO0.'
 The commission will name the commit tee within the next day or two