The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-09
Mrs. Mary (D. A.) EchoLs

IM1(H E HEAR a great deal about i wv woman being wom-
 ans woman" and a mans
 being a mans man." and when
 all is said and done. it is a mighty safe way to judge of either
 for if man is popular with men and a woman Is popular with wom- en, you can just put it down there is something worth while in either
 case.
 When women speak well of wom- en and men speak we'll of men--vou needn't inquire much further as to ithe character or the disposition of the one on the "gridiron"-for there is bound to be a great big splendid fine character back Of any man who is well thought of by his fellowmen and to a woman who is we'll thought of by her fellow women.
 | Mrs. Mary CD. A.) Echols of Ems ley and Birmingham, and I might say this entire great big prosp district, is "a womans woman," If we are to judge by the splendid things her women friends say ,.bodt her; they hold her in the highest regard, and hang upon her words whether these words happen to be regarding the church, education. welfare, fraternity or social work. for they know that back of her Is sane, rational thinking equipment" which thinks things straight and | things right
 Mrs. Echols chatted with me yes terday about some interesting things connected with her work in Bir- fningham long before she ever dreamed that women would have the vote, or that Birmingham would be governed by "city commission" and least of all, that she would ever be a candidate for the high office iof city commissioner the highest compliment which the city of Bir- mingham can pay to it's own
 When We follow up the Do You Remember" column which The Age Herald has been publishing lately, ana which is So interesting and en- tertalnlng both as matter of news ana as matter of history, I can say that l remember when the dummy ran to Pratt City. and was the only means of locomotion except. of course, horses and wagons; fe- iHeiipor when there were no cleo tric or gas lights in the suburbs; 1 remember when there was at least one murder day in the saloons in Ensley; I remember that there wasn't an ambulance drawn Ly horses, and, of course, an automo- pile had never even been heard of then in Birmingham, except the one owned by my husband, who used it exclusively to carry the men who were hurt in the steel mills which then were just being built, and from the mines to the hospitals.
 Ihat, you see, dates back from my early childhood" Mrs. Eohols said, for I went to Pratt City as A young girl, and was teaching in the Pratt City school, and gave up my position to marry MT. Echols. Nv daughter was born at Pratt City: my husband was born there, and my husbands father, and I doubt if there IS any other family in this city today who can boast of three generations being born in this vii cinlty. My husbands father was porn pe1ore Birmingham was ever heard of-when this section was old Elyton.
 My husbands people removed from Pratt City to Ensley." Mrs Echols said, and my husbands fath- CT was charter member of the church and teacher in the first Sun oay school in Ensley and the first missionary society in Ensley was or ganized in my home.
 Alter the churches were organ lzed, Mrs. Echols continued. we found the need of a central charity organization, and formed the United