The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09
Sociologist Writes About
 Welfare Work Found Here
Dr. Graham Taylor Visits Birmingham and Tells of the Human Side of the Steel Corporation'-Great-
 y Impressed by What He Found

pr. Graham Taylor of Chicago, one of the contributing editors of the Chi- caso Daily News, who recently spent several days in Birmingham, publish ed an interesting editorial article in the Chleago Daily News of April F under the title Human Side Of the Steel Cor poration"
 Dr, Taylor is one of the leading sociologists of the country. In addi- ton to his newspaper duties. he is professor of social economies in the Chicago Theological Seminary, founder And resident warden of the Chicago Commons Settlement and president of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. His Birmingham article reads as follows: &
 By GRAHAM TAYLOR
 Human Side of the steel Corporation
 Steel corporations are charged with being as hard and cold as their prod uct. Whatever cause there may have been for such a charge they certainly have human side to turn to one who. seeks it down south in Alabama
 At first sight of its many plants one sees only their inexhaust1ble natural resources right at hand, their mighty mechanical power. their marvellous. productivity. Bike vast panorama. | almost the whole scene of their achievement unfolds to the vision of one who stands on a little ridge ris- ing out of valley stretching away from the city of Birmingham.
 NATURE AND MAN POWER JOIN
 Within a radius of twenty-five mites from that point of vew lies an area unparalleled for it's natural resources. Sklrtins the nearby horizon of ex:st-, ing hills columns of smoke curl up above coal mines. limestone quarries and iron ore deposits so rich that they gave the name of Red mountain to the range of hills they underlie. Hero nature has fairly thrown together everything needed for the production Of steel. while streams flow toward the tide water at Mobile which bear Ito the coast these steel products and the coal to transporI or reconstruct them.
 Here are the fields and forces of the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Company the Chickasaw Shipbuildlng and Car Company. the Steel Products Company---all subsidiary to the United States Steel Corporation. At resources anI forces of nature so stupendous, allied with manpower so masterful in discovery, so gigantic in machinery, so productive in results basic to civil ization. one stands in reverence From these deep mine shafts of coal and ore, lying almost side by side. nature it. self seems to light the blast furnaces which set the very heavens aflame. Those gigantic cranes moving silently and smoothly overhead. or swinging their giant arms to lift tons upon tons at will. seem something more than me- chanica1. more than human.
 BUT WHAT OF HUMAN BEINGS Like new creation seems that fleet of steel ships growing on the ways at ChicIgasaw, until they float off, some of them to cross the Pacific, others the At lantic, bearing abroad the steel products of these subsidiary plants.
 Spell bound though one may we'll be at such combinations of nature forces and man-power, yet they suggest nothing mother-like in nature, nor anything really human in this man power They still seem somehow more materialistic than human.
 What of the 23.000 men whose figures disappear down those mine shafts, fit like grimy specters before those blazing