The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-31
CANDIDATES USING BOARD MEMBERS
 AS THEIR TARGETS
Speakers at North Birming- ham Pick Flaws in Work of the Present City
 Commission
By H. W. sCHAEFER

| Making a bitter attack on H. ?
 Burruss, commissioner of public im- provements and candidate for pres ident of the City Commission, w. O. | Broyles, also a candidate for the 1 presidency, told crowd of about 100
 last night at North Birmingham park
 that Mir. Burruss. graduating from
 teachers job at s125 per month,
 had been a failure during his admin
 stra tion.
 Mir, Broyles declared he h ad found | that courteous treatment could not be obtained by residents of Wood lawn when they went to the office
 of the commissioner of public inn provements. but that the residents of Norwood boulevard could and did ob- | tain such treatment, He asserted | that Sl00000 was spent on streets | by MT. Burruss last year as against
 32000 in one year during the Ward l administration.
 1 Charges were made by MT. Broyles
 that liquor is being sold within a
 block of the First Methodist church and within a half block of the city hall by an un- American people un-
 der the protection of un-American n
 men on the pay roll of the city, lie l told of going with friend 10 two l such places where the liquor was
 handed out by immoral women who
 were un-American.
 MT. Broyles made the assertion
 that there are un-American teachers in the schools at DrasAnt
 F. Candidates Present
 The meeting was originally called l by NJ. A. Dinssmore, candidate for
 associate commissioner, who invited | the other candidates to- speak. Those 1 present at the meeting were: Mrs.
 B. A. Cooper, Mrs, Myrtelle W. Shell,
 S. R. Batson, W. H. Barnard, J. E.
 Lacey, J. W. Lacey W. o. Broyles, l W. E. Dickson, w. l. White, Rob
 Adams, Will Mabry, M. A. Hines, M.
 A. Dinsmore, Kelly Smith, W. B. Cloe
 and J. D. Truss. With the exception of MT. Dinsmore, who spoke 20 min
 utes, each candidate was allotted five
 minutes.
 l Although the meeting was sched- uled as the scene of an argument between MT. Dinsmore and MT. Dick son, this debate was postponed until i tomorrow night at Woodlawn, ac- | cording to MT. Dinsmore, who said he would include MT. Truss also.
 MT. Dinsmore was introduced by
 MT. Dickson. MT. Dinsmore acted as chairman during the rest of the eve
 ming, assisted by Jack Bethea of The i Post and the writer. The meeting 1 lasted about an hour and half. ! Failure of the cNy to provide lights l for the meeting was severely criti- | rtz ad hx Ar fnc e were moved under an arc light, how
 ever, and the meeting progressed
 without mishap.
 | Commi ssioners Hornady and Tay-
 Tor and pr. J. D. Bowling, health l officer, received most of the fire
 of criticism directed by Mir. Dinsmore, who was also bitter in his attack
 on certain foreign element in the
 city. He declared fight on this lat ! ter element was his main reason for
 entering the race. These foreigners,
 he said, proprietors of small stores.
 are fn ~lany instances receivers of
 stolen property. obtaining it from
 negroes and gangs of thieves. Attack on Hornady
 l Dnsmore declared Mir. Hornady '
 job had been abolished as far as use | fulness went, saying the board of | education handled the schools and
 Dr. Bowling handled the health de- partment. He said that $2o0,000
 spent by the health department had been spent with no results, going ! to Bowling and other employees of
 the department for salaries. Noth-
 ing has been done, he said.
 | Criticism was made of police off, l ficers of the city. who he declared l were more interested in catch | l;rI-. fln n,, l dangerous criminals. He promised
 that if he is elected the men would
 answer a burglar call faster than
 a whisky call reversing present con- | ditions. The town is now infested with crooks. he said.
 He asserted his belief that wou-
 an would be elected 10 the commis-
 sion. declaring he was willing to have feminine assistance. Streets
 and sewers of the town will not be
 full of filth and trash in the event
 of his election. he also stated
 | Mrs. B. A. Cooper declared that
 she was for better paid school teach CTS, improved parks and playgrounds
 and cleaner town generally. She i stated she had taken care of sS2 ! children in the last 12 years. 1t was
 brought out that Mrs. Cooper is 53 | years of age and Mir. Dinsmore 43. | Need WOman's Viewpoint l Viewpoint of a woman is needed in l the city's affairs. Mrs. Myrtelle W | Shell declared. She advocated city beautiful, with clean streets. clean
 food and clean amusements. She 1T
 dorsed the work of the city amusc- ! ment inspector. She promised to ] fight for the elimination of bootleg | gers and immoral women. Social | hygiene work was urged by Mrs I Shell, who made the statement that | 90 per cent of the immoral women I in Birmingham have social diseases | Federation of his plans to buft 1 paved streets connecting the central portion of the city with the sub urbs was voiced by $. R. Batson. wau announced he was going to ask for i the office of commissioner Of pu.,- liic Improvements. Permanent pavin2 and adequate sewers are imperative needs of Birmingham. Mir. Batson de- ciared. He spoke of the road-build-
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