The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-25
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

Cave man, head of family, tribal chief
 shepherd, farmer, city man.
 To tell the story of the ascent of man
 would take volumes, for all through the
 ages man has been constantly changing ! his status.
 1 The cave gave way to the arbor, the
 arbor to the tent, the tent to a house
 and at this stage came the village, later
 the town. and after awhile the city
 From cave to city 1t took weary years
 of toll and climbing
 The fenced city only arrived after years of struggles, and the walled city
 was well on the upward path, and the city ringed with forts was still later i innovation, and a commissions governed city like Birmingham is a product of
 the twentieth century
 It would be interesting to take up the cave man who sallied forth, club
 in hand. to fight for food and existence, and follow the route that finally landed him in the barons castle. It was "a long way to Tipperary' from the cave man to the "dux," or leader, the Latin word which was Anglicized into duke, forerunner of the later kings
 filled with struggle and romance. From the first struggling cities to the great cities like Venice, the Queen of the Adriatic, and Rome, the mistress of the world, are hid adventurous tales of glory and valor. It's too long a story to be told here.
 The cities grew by the rivers bank, by lake, by sea. Then, as now, water was the great necessity. It was needed for man and for beast, while today it
 Is prime requirement. for manufac- tories. Our need here in the twentieth century for transportation purposes Is that this city shall be on the Warrior.
 Most cities. like Topsy. "just growed up." If you do not believe it, wind through the streets of some of our old CT towns. Peachtree street in Atlanta had COW for it's locator. The mystic maze of Boston's thoroughfares Is evil dence of the haphazard way in which roads were located in the past.
 Now. Birmingham didn't Just grow up." but was planned from the start, and every one of us who use the wide and we'll laid-off streets of the city owe debt of gratitude to the wise men who planned them at the beginning. This fact makes Birmingham capable of development along progressive lines and prepares the way for city beautiful.
 Now, we owe 1t to the men who gave ize the opportunity to make Birmingham city of beautiful homes, city with sufficient recreation parks, a city with well paved streets and sidewalks a city with proper sanitary arrangements, a city with up-to-date schoolhouses, places of amusement, and churches. With these go light, and water, and transportation facilities.
 We owe it to the mon of vision who planned for future generations to exc cute their plans and use wise fore thought in seizing upon the needs Of the present and caring for the days that valley 100000 or more men and women and children who will call Birmingham home
 It Is time for us to settle down. We have passed through booms. We have outlived depressions. This makes 1t of infinite importance that our citizens put men down at the city hall who have vision. courage and capacity, and who will give all their time and energies to making Birmingham the best place in the south in which to live and do busi- ness. I first saw Birmingham when 1t was an overgrown village with all the raw ness of a new town, and I am glad that l got this sight or 1t, for now l that it has become great and grow ing city, I can look back with pride upon it's grown for it has all happened under my eyes, and feel that it is my home and that am a part of 1t and therefore, am very jealous as to who shall rule over 1t.
 l I believe there are many others who feel about Birmingham as I do and that they arc going to see to it that the men
 who go into office on the result of the
 ballots cast on October s will be men who will stand for the community as a l whole.
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