The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17
HARRY AYERS IS MUCH IMPRESSED
 BY MOBILE VISIT isits City With Kilby and Finds Remarkable Change
 in Sentiment
EMPLOYMENT IS ON
 TREMENDOUS SCALE
lys Mobile Should No Longer Be Regarded as City Which Is in Favor of the Liquor
 Traffic

Harry M. Ayers. editor of the Anniston ar, who has been making a tour of 'uth Alabama with Lieut.. Gov. Thomas
 Kilby, in the interest of the latter andidacy for governor, arrived in the ty with MT. Kilby yesterday evening.
 e says the Anniston candidate has de- sloped great strength throughout that ectlon of the state. All south Ala ama, he says, is very prosperous, and
 speaking of the great development talk
 g place at Mobile, MT. Ayers said:
 A veritable revolution has taken place
 Mobile during the last two or three Pars, during which time public senti- lent has almost completely reversed it.
 if There was time when Mobile bought itself absolutely dependent on phn Barleycorn; that it's schools would ose and its storehouses become tenant ss without saloons and breweries, and l that day the old-line politician thrived the Gulf City.
 A change has taken place, however, nd in the change 8 false philosophy has ben exposed. Instead of subcellar pol
 
 ith their wonders to perform, instead of Fsinuating, seductive personalities who alked the streets and rose in public Eaces to find gullible men to grind their elfish axes. there are big men with a Eg vision in charge of the city's af- |airs today. and the community spirit is tilitant.
 
 LIQUOR IN BACKGROUND The man upstate who thinks of Mo- : le today in terms of booze will do |Iobiie an injustice, for Mobiles city bidders have put John Barleyeorn |le background, and they are content bat he remain in permanent exile. ''The positive, forward looking citi- Iens of Mobile today stand for law en- prcement and community development Yong constructive lines. Their brew kies are idle, their saloons are closed Ind they have actually been holding |oung Mems Christian association cam |aigns in buildings where liquor once as sold. But Mobile is far from pessi- istic; instead, it is about the most op- Imistic city 1 have ever seen.
 There was a time when the average ban ill Mobile walked the streets slowly, Ind sometimes unsteadily, giving the |lggestlon of one who, as Sassafras says "The County Chairman had a great |lture behind him. This was in the day |hen the alluring notes of the Regina |oated out upon the sidewalk from be- lind stained windows and screened |oors. The average man today is alert, |alking with the quick, nervous step of he who has work immediately at hand \ be performed; and in the place of the |egina's siren-lilxe tones the new Mo- He hears the song of the hammer and he saw-a music that is being trans |ted into millions of dollars that re- |iain in the city in the form of pay rolls Ind which is within reach of every man ho has a will to claim his share. Mobile has it's war babies along with |early every other port city in the coun- |y, and thousands of new workmen have |een given employment in recent months It several snipbuilding plants and along he docks. It is also near enough to the Mississippi camps and Fort Morgan to |ct some Of the money that Uncle SaJH \ turning loose to his soldier and sailot |,ddies. But it may be said that Mo.