The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-03

l l T IS always interesting to hear echoes
 from big things which have taken
 place in community in which we
 live, to really get lat the bottom" of things, as it were, and know the impres- l sion your own home town made on a l lot of visitors and last weeks big con-
 eention held here by the Alabama Sun ! day School association, which brought to
 the city men and women of international reputation as Bible teachers, and Sunday school workers, certainly brings gratify-
 ing results.
 1 There was nobody in all the vast as-
 sembiage of workers who did more val
 liant service than Miss Myra Bachelder.
 the capable and popular secretary of the
 Birmingham Sunday School association.
 and the result of her executive ability in arranging for the practical details of the 1 convention proved her to be a young
 woman of unusual efficiency and fore sight.
 Miss Bachelder has followed our be.
 loved Miss Minnie Kennedy (now living | in Nashville as secretary of the Birming- ham Sunday School association, posi- tion which is fraught with much respon- sibility and vast opportunities, all of which Miss Bachelder has, like her pred ecesSor, shown a splendid knowledge Of and during her short incumbency of the position has established an enviable rec ord for herself in the field of endeavor which she has entered and in which she j! is an influential factor.
 In chatting with Miss Bachelder about tho rnrpnf Sunday school acSOpia finn n vention few days ago, I asked her to tell me what she had heard about the coEvention-the "aftermath" as it were some "echoes" from the delegates and others in attendance and she was de- lighted to give me the glowing account she had gathered in her bright, clever, way.
 "pll have to begin my report" Miss
 Bachelder said, "by telling you that be-
 fore coming to Birmingham two years ago I had heard q great deal about do- ing things Birmingham style,' and I was anxious to know just what this expres- sion meant. I found out exactly when it fell to my lot to assist in providing 200o homes for the delegates to the Ala bama Sunday School association conven- tion. We asked for 2000 homes to be opened for the entertainment of our del- egates and visitors and two CT three days . before the convention started, we had 1O00 more than we needed. They were not boarding houses, either; with few exceptions, they were the homes of Sum- day school workers. These homes were secured in the Sunday schools by key women in each church who worked un- der the supervision of denominational head. These denominational heads were: l For the Baptist, Mrs. N. A. Barrett; for | the Christian, Mrs. s. P. Moore; for the Methodist, Miss Rosa Strickland; for the | Presbyterian, Mrs. Mant Hood. Denom- l nations worked under the direct super vision of the chairman of the homes com mttee MT. R. A. Clayton, and he was a real chairman, who spent the most of l two weeks planning for the comfort of 1 the delegates, and during the convention | staying at the headquarters and looking after the work personally.
 'tWhen I tell you there are numbers of 1 big business men in our city who give
 whole days and weks if necessary to the work, I am sure you are not surprised 1 that we can make a convention show Up we'll" said Miss Bachelder. Some of the speakers and workers commenting upon 1 the convention and it's entertainment have said some nice things about our | helpers. One speaker said: No other | city the size of Birmingham could have entertained convention so royalty; most of the large cities have so many conventions or all klnQS that a sunday school convention gets lost. This was
 not true of Birmingham Another
 worker said: MT. Claytons system of | assigning homes beats any I have ever seen in a large or small city Another
 said: This registration headquarters is certainly up-to-date, you even have a
 piggly wiggly! And many similar com
 ments have been made, all of which were
 most gratifying.
 l 'In commenting on the speakers, the workers say they were the finest we have ever had at a state convention" ]" Miss Bachelder continued. "It was by | far the most representative convention
 held in Alabama since went into Ala