The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
ALL CIVIC MLNUTE-M ARE
 CALLED TO AID NV RAISING GIRLS TRAINING SCHOOL FUND
54 Girls Now Being Housed in Seven-Room House at East Lake-The Southside Jail Being Con- sidered Temporary Quarters
By JEFF BAILEY

The good citizen in democracy is
 minute man in all of his civic citations. He realizes that the price liberty IS the eternal vigilance of II of the citizens of a democracy.
 The test of a persons worthiness Q share in the advantages and bene- it's of the community. is it's willing les sto do his share In making the immunity successful. His part may a very unpretentious one, but if e does that part, to the best of is ability, he has won the right to hare in the things that the com unity produces.
 The civic minute man makes up his ind what his rights are-then he pes after them and stays in the trail atil he gets them. But with rights
 responsibilities. Responsibilities
 tn foundation of rights; if no
 izen were to accept responsibilities,
 one could enjoy rights. A demo- atic community is one in which lch individual, enjoying equal rights,
 prepared to assume equal responsi- lities, by doing his best to serve s fellows through those efforts for ae performance of which he seems be best qualified. The community oes not expect all men to be chem sts, statesmen or violinists. It can lot expect all women to be good lread-bakers, good actors, or even .ood mothers. But it can and does expect only that every one shall use his or her best effort to do the things for which their abilities and training have prepared them for.S
 GIRLS TRAINING SCHOOL 4 So. in considering the matter of se- curing funds for the Girls Training school, it seemed that there were none who were qualified to attempt the task. The Civic asociation, through a committed, of which A. R. Dearborn was chairman, failed to get the neces- sary response. But MT. Dearborn did rot falter. He went to the mat with a tenacity that was bound to put Birmingham and Alabama's shoulders to the mat for fair fall before he gave up the ghost. Tn casting around for help, he brought the matter to the attention of the Press club, and received donation of $100 promptly, upon the advice of the directors Of that organization. This put pep into the campaign, and many other subscriptions of a like amount fol- lowed.
 T. Mercer Barnett. president of the Kiwanis club, live-wire orga niza- tion, saw the story about the Press club boys going down in their jeans for a few dollars each, and then backing the move to the limit with their personal interest and pushing the campaign in every possible man ner
 That is the stuff. he said We went to sleep on the job and the rPess bows have taken the bloom off of our story, but we are only too glad to fall in behind them and back them up and get together and pull MT. Dearborn's committee over grade. We had some plans, but we will pull or push, it makes no difference to the Kiwanis club. What we want to do is to make this thing success-get the money, for these girls must have a decent place to live
 KIWANIS CLUB
 And the Kiwanis club gave $100, and there they did not stop. President Barnett went before the city commis- sion and secured the permission of the city fathers to take care of the girls at the Southside jail until a proper home could be provided for them and this matter is now under advisement by the committee in charge with very strong sentiment in favor of accepting the offer of President Barrett and his associates.
 Society is the guarantor of tho opportunity to enjoy and exercise right. That guarantee rests upon the social activity which makes the guarantee q reality. The social standards of the community re- auire all parents to support their children, and children to support their parents during old age.
 The strong. vigorous. capable people in the community give a part of the product of their labor to the weak, feeble, impotent peo- pie in the community. The result ..lr-a a --2