The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-27
For Good of
 the Community

does not require great numbers. A few of the earnest and Well-informed lit erally move mountains.
 The Jefferson County Anti Tuberculosis association was organized several years ago one evening in the Chamber of Com merce by ten men. Among them were Judge B. M. Allen, Mat Sloan, now of New Orleans, and R. s. Douglass. They raised a small amount of money, placed tent on Red Mountain and the work was begun. Dr. Eaves has done the rest. The germ was good and the smallest kind of force was all that was required to put 1t over.
 Many years ago the w. C. T. U., a small band of women, founded Mercy Home. It was in little old frame dwelling near it's present commodious habitat What Mercy Home is today all Birmingham knows.
 Mrs. R. D. Johnston conceived the Boys Industrial School Like Peter the Hermit she stuck to her slogan until it reverberated throughout her land. Be- hold the school is there and accomplish ing great work for thousands of Ala bama boys.
 Not many months ago about twenty Birmingham retail merchants met one evening in the Chamber of Commerce to organize the merchants of Alabama into an association for their mutual benefit. They could have been counted on the fingers of mans hands. But they knew what they were about. They knew need. They organized with those few men on the charter roll.
 The Alabama Retail Merchants asso- citation now has it's membership in prac- tically every county in the state. Three to four thousand retail merchants owe it allegiance and are banded together to se- cure that to which they are entitled. A small reduction in the license schedule was made in Birmingham for this year. First fruits of cooperative effort.
 The Chamber of Commerce recently obtained the services of County Demon stration Agent H. l.. Brown as secretary of it's agricultural department and it's agricultural committee. Already the committee has decided to purchase thirty five pure bred Jersey calves for the boys of Jefferson county, financing the deal for them and providing expert instruction in care of the calves. This fall the half grown calves will be disposed of at auc- tion and the boys will net the difference between cost and the sales price.
 Cooperating with the dairymen of the county a testing association is being formed. It's object is to eliminate the poor milk-producer from the herd. This will be done by scientific test of each ami mals food and the results.
 Things like this do not sound big, but they are big. Wherever there has been a boys calf club, better stock has been taken on by the farmers of that neighbor- hood. Wherever there has been boys corn club, better corn has been raised in that section. Wherever there has been girls canning club, the farmer women of that county have awakened from set and backward ways and adopted the new the economic, the kind that make life on the farm worth while.
 Our young men have placed street markers and caused holes in streets to be filled The whole community feels al trifle more self-respect for having these things done.
 The Big Sisters come as in a night. Katharine Inn arises almost the next day. Nn4hiro vnrv hip 9h011t that fny. dicn1av