The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-20
M E N, w o M E N
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Did things happen lively around the house yesterday morning? If not 1t must have been a childless one, or all the children beyond school age, for in homes where there were boys and girls ready for the opening there was hurry and a hustle to get them off on time.
 My, what an army of school chill dren were on the march Monday morning. They came from the homes of the rich and the poor, from the homes of the high and the low, from the homes of the white and the black Some few marching willingly, but most of them with regrets that va cation was at an end.
 I watched with interest "a little boy trudging along alone, holding tight his lunch and books. I was giaddened at the sight of many merry groups as they went along laugh ing and guying one another. The weather seemed mighty hot to go 10 school, and somehow my heart went out in sympathy to the scholars as well as the teachers who had to face the September heat indoors I passed several of the grammar schools and the lines were forming to enter for getting placed. The placing of the boys and girls in the proper grades is always difficult True it is that many have received their promotion, and only have to find the right room, but quite few attended summer school in the hope of either making or skipping a grade All this has to be threshed out.
 If you walked down Twentieth street between and 9 o'clock in tn. morning you saw crowded sidewalks CT both sides, for every car coming | into town had brought the high school boys and girls who were vending their way to the temporary buildings. Perhaps it gave you just a tightening of the heart as you harked back to the days when care free you were a lad and by your side was a iassie whose books you carried with a feeling of proprietorship. The column in The Age Herald which is attracting so much attention by receiving some of the early his- tory of Birmingham might we'll carry under the head of Do You Remem- Der" a paragraph like this: "bo you remember when the Paul Hayne building was looked upon as a won derful piece of architecture, and peo- pie used to make trips on the South side to admire it's size and beauty?' If you don't, I do
 Now it stands as a daily reminder for it's temporary use in serving the junior high school students, empha- sizes by it's crowded rooms the neces- sity of haste in completing the new
 
 cd the temporary makeshifts which were made obligatory by the fire and the state of the city's treasury, l ! marvel that such good work was the part of both the teachers and the student body.
 If there was a rush and a scramble at the various school buildings in the morning, it was not to be com pared to the jostling crowd of boys and girls and tired fathers and mothers down at the school book de- pository at Loveman. Joseph & Loeb's. Everything had been done which could be done to facilitate the handling of the throngs, and while the waiting had been minimized. yet it was no pleasant job to have ones list wrapped up.
 Beneath the excitement of the day there was quiet undertone that the man who for more than 30 years had been in the incarnation of the public schools of the city. had been trans l lated to that city of peace where there is no noise or confusion, and as citizen of Birmingham I took prid in the fact that such a character as Dr. Phillips had lived and worked in it. The best way to show our love l for him and the schools which were to him as children will be to get in | wholeheartedly by Dr. Glenn, his uu- derstudy for quarter of a century, upon whom his mantle has fallen x<1fh %, A@