The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
Community Sing

Community Sing
 "The Birmingham community sing Is splendid institution and the city should be commended for having it. said J. H. Lamar. The municipal band under the leadership of Gordon Erickson plays remarkably well and is credit to Birmingham.
 r Tt is good to see how the people take up the singing and they seem to enjoy it. There is a saying that U singing army is q fighting army. A singing city is progressive city and one that will always be in the lead in l. any great movement.
 | Tt is a good sign for the develop ment of Birmingham to see how the citizens raise their voices in song as one unit"
 | Dr. Simon Baruchs Death.
 The Associated Press item noting the death of Dr. simon Baruch, and stating that he was the father of the g1 eat financier, Mr. Barnard M. Baruch, would have been also inter esting to the south had it stated that this elaborated scientist and physician | F. M Jackson. My father, pr. R. ID. Jackson, who was surgeon in the Confederacy was several times thrown with Dr. Baruch. They kept up their friendship until my fathers death sew eral years ago.
 T recall with great interest when on trip with my father some 20 odd years ago to New York, that l had a very pleasant visit in Dr. Baruch' s home. 1t was a most pleasing thing t. me to see these two old Confederate soldiers renewing their friendship, and talking over the tryiag days of those fearful times. They were together sew eral days, and 1 am sure they enjoyed | 70 the fullest beng together. l recall lone evening we were dining with pr. l Baruch when Mir. Barnard M Baruch, the great financier, came in in such a good luInor that he acknowledged the fact that he had had very sue cesstul day on Wall street.
 l Mrs Baruch is a Daughter of the ICon1ederacy, and IS very liperal in her | donations to this splendid historical organization.
 "Dr Baruch, after attending lectures on surgical science at the medical col lege of the state of South Carolina, 1 graduated in 1862 from the Medical | College of Virginia, with the degree or M. b. The Civii war being in pro gress, at the age of 22 he entered the army with Gen. Robert E. Lee. He was captured at one time, but prompt fly exchanged because Of the need of | medical men in the opposing forces. | The history of his attachments are | well known to the medlcal fraternity. | His lectures and Writings in his cam pagn for the curative use or water Tn treating many diseases stamps him as 1 one of our leading medical men. He ! was a pioneer in appendicitis SUI gery, Iperformng the Iirst successful opera lon for that disease in 1859.
 Tt will be interesting to read the | history of this man. who has accom- ! plished so much for the benefit or humanity, and l hope to see one pup l lished," sst4
 On the Chicken Run
 Not only did the Shriners enjoy themselves yesterday but they fur nished much amusement for others, said V. W. Moss T was walking alons ] Second avenue which is called Chick en Hun. ycSteIuiy iAeSi itootl "AA~it ( noticed big crowd at one point or the sidewalk.
 I VI went up to see what the trouble was and discovered that the Snriners were throwing chicken feed at tue girls and the spectators had Hneo up on either side of the sidewalh
 watching them The Shriners wotie I walk by the side of the girls for short distance and would soon return
 to start over again. The girls tocf it good naturedly and did not pay any attention to the men,.
 GREENWICH VILLAGE WILNEDNEs! From the New York World
 The sensitiveness of Greenwich Vii Ilage to the reputation for wickednes' !, which it has at last achieved has
 somewhat Gilbertian aspect. That It.
 old residents should grieve over tn !, disagreeable publicity is natura
 enough. But the Village, as it is popu
 larly regarded ais no longer theirs; > belongs by right of appropriation t the restless young souls who have in
 x@--. i.s..liu co.oii.Aed it. AS the pil
 grims of movement away from socia
 conventions. they established a thriv , ing community where art and life an' < lperhaps morals wei free and easy, an'
 now that conservative and prudisl : public takes them al thei. own esti : mate and credits them with real devil ) shness. what reason have they to com , plain?
 Apparently this pale imitation of tn /, Paris Latin quarter set up in sectiol I of New York has been neither one thin. ! nor another. It is just about ba yl enough to shock hidebound Purita . minds and not good enough to be tn fl cradle of new school of American ar ' 1t has necessarily lent itself to com sImercial exploitation and there has bee IVY jingle of dollars about it's stage prop < erty bohemianism. Perhaps it migh \ have succeeded as an. .Texperimentsi Il :. community life if fsits development ha ' not been forced by so much artifica : stimulation for personal profit Bu n how can 1t nourish its ideals of intel .. iectual and moral freedom if 1t has t
 submit them to police regulation? II 7 to be feared that Greenwich Village ha n pursued the phantom of atmosphere while neglecting the realities