The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-14
MANY VOLUNTEERT ID WORK ON HIGHWAYS ON GOOD ROADS DAY Prominent Citizens to Wield Pick and Shovel on Public
 Roads Tomorrow JERE GWIN ISSUES
 BROAD CHALLENGE Workers to Meet at Jefferson Bank Building at l O'Clock.
 Road Working Implements
 Will Be Provided

Active preparations are being made for the celebration of Good Roads Day to- morrow and several hundred citizens Of Birmingham are expected to don overalls and wield pick and shovel in the effort to put the public roads of the county in good shape. The city and county ot- ficials will furnish the implements and
 expert supervisors and the citizens are
 asked to furnish the manual labor on
 the day.
 The Civic association is actively De-
 hind the movement and at the head
 quarters in the Jefferson County Bank
 building is book in which the Volun-
 teer works can register
 Many leading citizens have already
 signed up" for road work tomorrow and
 it is understood that all the present mem
 bers of the city commission and the
 candidates for their respective positions have volunteered for service on the road
 It Is also understood that the board oi
 revenue has volunteered it's services and
 that President Jere Gwin offers to do as
 much work as any two officials of the
 city county or state.
 OFFICIAL COSTUME The official costume for the day will be overalls and straw hats. The workers will meet in front of the Jefferson county bank at 1 o'clock and receive their as- sgnments and be hauled to and from the place of their labor. Enough trucks and private cars have been secured to convey all the workers. Picks and shov- els will be ready at the places where the work will begin and tho road supervisors will also be there to direct.
 All kinds of materials are to be used to fill up the holes. Frank Req states that he is going to use some of the steaks that he has been offered in the cafes for paving blocks, as they have more elastici- ty than the regular paving blocks and are fully as durable. Secretary Harold states that he has a favorite tooth pow der that he is going to use literally in filling up holes in the First avenue road.
 HOLIDAY FOR WORK Tomorrow is the first time in the his tory of any city that half-holiday has been declared for work. and all the mer- chants have been asked to turn loose as many of their male employees as they can spare on the condition that they come out and work. The committee has issued the following appeal to the mer- chants of the city to do all they can; "The employers subcommittee in charge of Good Roads Day urgently appeals to all employers to release as many of theit | male employees a s possible who will agree ] to participate in the work on Wednes- | day They should report at l o'clock 1 D. m at the Jefferson County bank cor ner, where conveyances will be provided All names of those who will participate H.. A$r.x 1f hd Birmingham Civic association. It is the patriotic duty of all who can possibly 'io so to be on hand and to assist in this work, as by so doing they will be directly contributing to the welfare of the Whole community
 JOHN T. YEATMAN, Chm 1T. J. CRITTENDEN, HARRY l.. WHITE, JOHN DSHAZO.
 "R. DUPONT THOMPSON"