The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-02-16
For Good of
the Community

- Willie LllAlllS OOWu COWll Will lCA
friends if the house which she lett has
been put in order than she does if it was
left topsy-turvy. Folks cannot get away
from that which is close to them. That is
where the test of character comes. That
is where the building up must commence.
When cities introduced the garbage
can they were building up from within.
When they instituted the trash wagon
they were working from the inside out.
When they segregated acreage for parks
they were putting their house in order.
They were letting in the air and the sun
shine; they were making children wax
strong and adults keep strong.
When cities ordered the placing of wire
screens and the abolition of the open
manure pile they were driving typhoid
from the homes When they prescribed
that milk should be pure they were saying
that babes should be safe and have
chance at the life to which they had been
called.
When cities placed traffic men to see
that automobiles maintained due regard
for the lives and limbs of those who walk
they were chasing danger out OF their
midst When they declared that streets
should not be Uttered they were placing
their imprimatur on decency OF self-ap-
pearance.
When these things have been done and
outsiders come and see them done they
pronounce the cities where these things
are done fit abodes for men, women and
children and they feel like making such
places their own homes.
Nothing has ever been lost by working
from the inside and on the inside. 1t is
like character-building When character
is built it speaks for itself in Sc many man
ifestations that men see and realize II and
make their acknowledgements Cities
that build from the inside need sound no
clarion trumpet to acclaim attention. 1t
is a canny and observant world. What
we are as well as what we lack are known
better and sooner than we think.
General Manager Bum is operating
along these lines down at the Chamber OF
Commerce and through the Traffic
Bureau. There was nothing Of the pyro-
technic about his recent two weeks ardu-
Gus work with the Interstate Commerce
Commission, but grave interests OF BIZ
mingham were involved; weighty mat
tiers involving this districts cost OF getting
things in and out of here. He was work
ing for Birmingham's vltals
When the community cluD reccllIiy put
up the street markers there was little
noise about it, but the markers are there
and in the section where they have been
placed thousands Of persons are to be
convenienced.
The Jnnior Chamber seemed no big
thing, but these young men got busy IN the
hour of their organization and are doing
things for Birmingham. They are work
ing for the things right under their noses.
They are the things that should be attend
ed to first. The man who has slept in a
clean bed and taken morning bath feels
better for having done we'll at the start
ing point of the days work and RESPONSE
bility.
One Of the most important things now going on
is the gradual alignment of the agricultural and
urban interests of the county down at the cham
ber The chambers agricultural secretary is the
county farm agent and is intimately acquainted
with the farmers needs as well as with the
farmer himself With this as foundation the
chamber is reaching out for closer and closer
relationship and it is being attained.
It is proposed to furnish the Jefferson
county producer with lists of responsible buyers Of
his products and to establish tribunals within the
chamber whose function it shall be to see that
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