The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-02
LEADING CITIZENS ID DISCUSS CITY
 GOVERNMENT PLAN
E. H. CabanisS to Preside at Meeting to Be Held on
 Tuesday Evening
 of This Week

E. H. Cabaniss will act as tempor- ary chairman at the meeting of the citizens committee. which will be held in the auditorium of the Cham ber of Commerce at p. m. Tuesday night, to consider the form of gov ernment for Birmingham.
 Sixty acceptances had reached the office of the Junior Chamber of Com merce Saturday afternoon. Nine out of every ten replies have expressed sympathy with the objectives of the movement and willingness to serve.
 It is considered probable that the citizens committee. after perfecting a permanent organization and electing officers. will make a study of differ ent plans of city government reach a decision on the question as to whether a change in form is needed in Birmingham, present it's report to the public and then endeavor to ob- tain legislative action whereby a ref erendum election may be held to al- low citizens of Birmingham to decide what plan of government they want. if a change Is deemed best. What ever action is taken will not affect the present city commissioners any new plan proposed would not so into effect until terms of the present commission have expired.
 The Junior Chamber of Commerce, which is calling the meeting Tuesday night, is on record in favor of the oity manager plan for Birmingham, as the body recently indorsed the re- port of its city government com mfttee. which devoted seven months careful study of forms of government in this and other large American mu- inequalities. However. the junior chamber Is careful to define it's po- sition with respect to the citizens meeting In It's letter Of invitation. which read:
 Spirit of Call.
 Tn organizing the comittee of 100. we ask no indorsement of our plan. We merely ask the members of the committee to pledge themselves to better government for Birmingham and work to accomplish this. It Is our hope that the committee of 100 will adopt our views, because we believe that careful investigation can lead to no other conclusion; but all we are asking the committee to do. Is to consider carefully every form of government and endeavor to obtain for Birmingham that which Is best"
 Are Not Pledged.
 The personnel of the citizens com mittee has been selected with a view to it's representative character. M. Fl. Sterne. chairman of the Junior Cham Der of Commerce city government committee, explains the committees effort has been to enroll men and women who are representative of every interest and section, but not to ask members to serve in the capacity of representatives of any organi1a- ton, interest or geographical sub- division. Those who attend are not asked to pledge themselves to any particular plan or even to a change, but only to the broad fact that they will use their best efforts in behalf of better municipal administration.
 Tt is on this common ground--the interests of tho whole comnnunity-- that we are meeting Tuesday night."' said Mir. Sterne In behalf of the Jun- for Chamber of Commerce. "On this common ground we hope and believe that every interest in Birmingham can come together. because good gov erninenL IS matter or immediate personal concern to every citizen.
 The response we have received in- dicates a general recognition of the need for improvement in our city af- fairs. We feel that Tuesdays meet ing will be one of the most represent ative gatherings of its kind ever held In Birminghsm."
 Among those who have alEeady &C., cepted are:
 Some Acceptance~.
 F. H. Cabaniss. Judge W. I. Crubb, D. B. Dimick, Louis Bowen, Borden Burr. Jacob Burger. Mrs. Richard F. Johnston. M. F. MoreIand, Mrs. Solon Jacobs Rev. J. F. billiard, pr. Lola Nj. Taylor. J. H. F. Moseley, pr. M. r. Dabney, W. B. Fowlkes. P. c. Ratiiff, Mrs Erie Pettus. F. R. McDavid, Mrs. Brinton K. Fisk, pr. W c. Farrar, l.. T. Beecher, D. H. Brown, w. ]. Stacey, Mrs. A. J. Bowron, R. H. Wharton. Eugene L.. Brown. Sidney J. Bowie. R F. Riley. R. F. Johnston. Dr. Frank F. Majors. Reese Adamson. Judge F.. H. Dryer, Mrs. D. s. Litton. Sam c. King. Mrs. Kenneth Charlton, Louis Maenza- Judge ]. T. StokeIy, Arlie Barber, John Bethea. Mrs A. Leo Oberdorfer, Evans Dunn, J. R. Slack, W. D. Tynes. Miss Annie V. Lynch, l.. Sevier, pr. Fl A. Elkouris, R. I. Ingalls,, ". B. Hamilton. Lee Me- Griff, White E. Gibson. Nat Barker. Chester G. Bandman. Herbert Cobbs. E. B. Irwin. T. J. Kidd. NJ. M. Ullmal, h. D led