The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-09
so WHY HURRY?

nearly as possible at the exact mean between rush and stagnation.
 so WHY HURRY?
 q can illustrate what I mean" Dr. Craighead told me, "by an incident the other day in the superprogressive city of Birmingham. I went up there on business The man called upon could give me just five minutes We spent 1t on a street corner, he looking anxiously at his watch from time to time, talk ling faster than I had ever talked be- fore.
 Finally I said, Robson, whats your mad hurry? Is anything blowing up? Oh, mo- said he, but I've got so much on hand I just can't get through with lit all Then I'd better come when lyoure not busy. How long are you going to be busy like this?' ''He looked at me collectively. Why, I'm always like this he said. I've got | to keep it up. Got to provide for my children
 Now, that's what I call commercial foolishness." commented pr. Craighead. 'What's the use? Why not let the chill dren provide for themselves? Give 'em an education and start, say l, and let 'em work out their own salvation. 1 "Ive seen many case where iE- herited wealth didn't always stay where lit was put! A man works himself to death to leave fortunes to his children, and a generation finds those same chill dren poor. Money has funny way of Staying with some folks and not with others. Whats the use of so much money, anyway?
 | 'I would rather see Mobile stay me- Idium wealthy and have time to live and enjoy friends and home and nature and sport and arts than to see it among the nn na iva nit inc x1yifh ftS m a n social life gone"
 THIS IS THE SOCIAL LIFE
 Social life That's Mobile. Or so it seemed to me, for I never saw news paper which didn't print from three to
 seven columns daily of social news.
 Sunday papers carry a programme longer than German bill of fare set
 ting forth the coming weeks doings.
 There are the Alabama Colonial Danes 1 and three chapters of the Daughters or 1 the American Revolution. the Daughters | of the Confederacy, the Shakespeare club 1 and the Century Book club, the A. B. L. I s. S. and the Southern Association of 1 College women, Mobile chapter. the pub l lie school improvement circles. the mu-
 sic clubs, the card clubs (and legion IS
 their name), the tea clubs, the relief or l ganizaton and sewing societies. l I also take off my hat Um sorry It
  l tably faded with travel and southern I sunshne) to Mobiles thriving club of l business women, which numbers some l 300 brisk and busy wage earners Of many 1 occupations.
 This Business Women's club has a l clubhouse and recreation home on the 7, eastern shore. a delightful, saltwatery 1 spot at the doorstep of Mobile, where l everybody hies when the thermometer 1 makes it's summer ascent.
 1 The male Mobilans take as active | part in social dongs as their mas and l sisters. You know the story of how the 1 now famoul carnival had it's beginnings, 1 don't you?
 | Well-I have it from the archives of pr. Chaighead's paper that back in 1881 l dozen convivial gentlemen desired to l celebrate the birth of the New Year 1 Passing a hardware store they appro- prated flock of cowbells, gongs tin l pans and garden rakes with which to 1 produce glad sounds,
 With earspltting din they paused be-
 heath the windows of certain friends,