The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-11
BIRMINGHAM THE NEW TYPE
 OF SOUTHERN CITY


 mngham made by certain "New York jour nalst" who claims to have visited this city and criticised it for lawlessness, which, by the way, the citizens of Birmingham are deter mined to stop, the Mobile Register objects to his assertion that Birmingham is typical southern city. The editorial in question was overlooked at the time of it's publication, but we are indebted to the Montgomery Journal for extracts from it, the Journal agreeing with the Registers point of view.
 As quoted in the Journal, the Register says:
 The Journalist would have treated his subject justly had he selected Memphis New Orleans Savannah but, in such case. he would have lacked the material necessary to the adornment of the story. Fastening Birmnsham's denquencies upon the whole south, and declaring they proof of invisible government and extra-esal dominion of evil-minded in the south. is certainly treat ing very unfairly people who. whole, setting excellent example of respect for law and preservation of order.
 Further, let 1t be said, that in condemning the lawlessness that afflicts Birmingham, the jour nast" beyond warrant in regarding the noggings proof that Birmingham is headed straight perdition. and that form of decency and protection of life and health endangered in that city. With quite much grace he would be jus tfied in predicting the ruin of New York the close-at-hand result of the holdups and robberes- yvth-violence that are happening daily in the city the journalist" halls from.
 It is obviously unfair to blame the whole south for conditions in Birmingham, which going to be remeded, and the Register is titled to our thanks for declining to believe that this city is as bad as it has been painted. But, so far as being typical southern city" is concerned, Birmingham does not make that claim and does not wish to do so. Birming ham is typical of the new industrial south, and perhaps the most cosmopolitan of all southern cities, fact to which it owes it's rapid growth and industrial supremacy. There is nothing here of the easy-going complacency that char acterizes so many towns and cities in the south, where much of the ante-bellum spirit survives.
 Birmingham is young and boasts of few tra- ditions. It is rather proud of it's energy, even though some of it may be misdirected. Bir- mingham lives in the present, not the past, and builds for the future. It has different at mosphere from most of the southern cities that dates back to the Civil war, or an earlier pe- riod. With all due respect for the fine old customs of the past, they lacked some of the progressiveness that is indispensable nowa- days for the souths proper development.
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