The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-27
LETTERS TO EDITOR
LETTER FROM DIR. LANG

LETTER FROM DIR. LANG
 To the Editor of The Age Herald.
 Dear MT Barrett: l have read with interest your letter to the public in today's Age Herald, cohcerning the ganization and purposes of your paper. As l am interpreting what you said there as letter" to ycur readers, l am going to reply at once.
 just want, as one of your read CTS, to let you know that I have had for long, and have increasingly, a great confidence in the kind of news giving and public leadership which The Age Herald stands for. l have felt that there was steadiness about your paper which was in fine keeping with the material and spir- itual steadiness of the city and sec ton of the state which the paper serves. There is no part of it's make up do not enjoy. It's editorial page, the page l best like in any paper, is always to me both informing, and always challenging, even when I do not accept all it's conclusions. I like the brevity of the discussions not because they are brief but because they are compact; l like Frank Willis gossipy column because it hu- nanlzes and at the same time in forms, and I thoroughly enjoy Mid dlafon Ra al fa And Med Brace" is a friend of us all of too long standing to need more than warning that he may not ever be allowed to disappear from the page under some such name as "E. W. Barrett"
 Continue to give us your paper with it's spirit of vision and leader ship for the city we look to, and if we don't oftener write to you to tell you we like it, scold us gently as you may properly do, and We will write our appreciation. Very sim cerely yours. GEORGE LANG.
 Tuscaloosa, September 25, 1921.
 COOPEh To the Editor of The Age Herald: read your story of the life of Mrs. B. A. Cooper, and just feel that want to add a bit of history more, so that Birmingham people can know just how full her life has been of service in many hundreds of dif- ferent ways.
 As one who has worked with her, I want to tell you some things which she has never mentioned. A lot of girls are anxious to see this printed-at least 25-girls for whom she has secured positions and girls with whom she has worked as su- pervisor during the United States census of 1920.
 Her faith and helpful supervision and encouragement held us all to- gether, and enabled us to secure one O. the highest ratings given after this territory was rechecked by MT. Dampier. rechecker for the census taking.
 All during the census my work led me among the poor and needy. When l came across a family in need. all 1 had to do was to call her. She was there at once. On one Saturday night I called three organ nations which promised to investi- gate on Monday. The family was that of a widow, who herself was on pallet without coal or food, and with child years old. The weather was extremely cold. Mrs. Cooper came that night-not Mon Cay-and with the help of a number of other individuals it was made possible for the two to exist until Monday to give the organizatio a chance to investigate and help.
 Among the girls who were out of work during the most trying unem- ployment period, Mrs. Cooper was never too busy, when we called her to secure or try to secure a position for a working women, or a place for her to board.
 When the call came to help the wylam sufferers. although not a member of committee, she went out immediately to secure aid for them, and got clothing, money ana food. She never seems to think any | thing she does is more than ner duty. The quiet good she is doing for she is always on the alert tc assist the unfortunate-would fill 6 book Nobody knows all of it---I nor anyone else. She is strong and sym pathetic and kind, and is right or the spot when there is trouble, and comes ready for work.
 She has held many families to- gether by her wise advice. She is 6 living example of what woman can be. I was in her home a shorI ] time ago when three little orphan children. whom she had given g home, ran away from their newly adopted house to come back to her | Sympathetica1ly and kindly sh soothed their fears, and quietly per suaded them to return to their new guardians. Their own mother ccult not have been more patient or lov ing. She then telephoned thei guardians, and, for her sake. tn, children promised to be good ant cbedient.
 With Mrs. Cooper it is, as Long fellow puts it in the Village Black smith:
 "with the toiling, rejoicing. sorrow
 Onward through life she goes