The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-07
NEW CIVIC BOARD
 NAMED YESTERDAY
 BY MIR. WEATHERLY
Ladies Will Undertake in General Way to Assist in Management of the
 City's Affairs

The members of the Birmingham wom. ems civic board yesterday were named by City Commissioner Weatherly, ana missioners for ratification at the com. mission meeting next Tuesday.
 The names which will be recommended by MT. Weatherly, and which will bt consented to by his two colleagues are as follows;
 Mrs w. r. Motion, East Lake; Mrs Frank. Eanes. Avondale: Mrs. C. B. Rog- CTS, North Bifmingham Mrs. Maggie Glaze Chambers, East Birmingham; Mrs T. G. McGahey West End; Mrs. k. D, Thompson, Woodlawn; Mrs J. Friedman Mrs. sydney Gilman, Mrs. J. H. Hard Mrs. Charles j. sharp, Mrs. J. T. Doster Mrs. J. II. Wallace. Mrs. Frank Glass and Mrs. P. J. Bowers, city; and Mrs J. D. Ray, Fountain Heights.
 rhe duties of this board are undefined It is said, however that this body of to assist the city government in conduct of the city's affairs.
 One of the first ways this will bt undertaken, it is understood wilt be through movement to educate the house wives of Birmingham in regard to ways and means of herself destroying and con suming a large part of the usual gar bage and refuse which accumulates each week about the home The actual cost of the mere carting of this garbage from the back doors of the homes of Birning- ham is over s40,o0 per year to the city. It is said that by properly conducting the movement the women of Birmingham can be taught means and ways of reducing the amount of the garbage and trash nec- essary for the city to dispose of by half, not only to the convenience of the city, but to themselves as well, and that as the amount of the refuse and garbage de- creases, the number of teams and men required to handle 1t can be decreased until it will be costing 5000 per year in- stead of $ioo00 to cart it away.
 In other ways does this women's civic board intend to assist the city govern ment It will endeavor to keep up a community spirit, to uphold and develop civic pride tending to have individual
 httD tHclf pTtilfiseS III ncd' and attractive appearance, sanitary, free from dangerous accumulations of trash which increase the fire hazard and along similar lines.
 Above all'' Commissioner Weatherly stated yesterday, this civic board will tend to increase the sense of responsi bility of citizenship.
 Back of all this city government anc of this city, and what it Is doing, is ths individual citizen. What the individua citizen is or is not that's what the city can and cannot be.
 'If this movement can, and l believe it will, bring to individuals, the wife ant husband in the homes of Birmingham keener sense of their responsibility, anc of the relation of individual and com, munity matters to the affairs of sthe city it is going to mean much for Birming. ham. We must all realize that being citi- zens of Birmingham is a mutual relation and that upon the actions of one house wife or one man may depend far-reachinp results to others, not only of his com munity, but of his city.
 "The womens civic board l believe is going to greatly assist in bringing about such a realization, and if it does it will be laying the very foundation, the basis of better city,