The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-25

| 2,50O unemployed ex-service men who have been taken care of in the Chow House. We give them meals and lodging for a week and then some of them move on to another city hear ing of jobs. Perhaps they find 1t has been an Illusion and back they come, but we are always glad to have them. We average from 40 to 50 ex- service men day--the smallest num- Der we've ever had being here right now.
 Is that because times are getting better and more jobs in sight?" asked. Perhaps" saiC MT. Green wood. 'I don't know; at any rate, | they come and go-some of them so hopeless over the situation-that if it hadn't been for the chow house they'd have put d bullet through their heads and been done with 1t; especially the married men with fam lilies dependent on them.
 La: week l brought the matter of financing the chow house before the Creek American club and $50 was given for maintaining it. The Amer ican legion, with subscriptions from kind hearted Birmingham people, is trying to keep 1t going but better than that would be our citizens giv- ing the boys work they don't want to be idle and dependent upon the chow house, not a bit of it. They are used to work and want 1t and need it.
 MT. Arthur Greenwood, to my way of thinking. is just about one of the biggest hearted, most magnanimous, splendid citizens Birmingham pos sesses. His generosity and kindness to the boys who served in the trenches with him-brothers under fearful and terrific circumstances-is a passion and pleasure; just as some men like baseball others tennis. others motoring, and they spend their money on fl, so Arthur Greenwood loves to help his fellow men and he spends his money most generously and willingly, furnishing absolutely free of charge the quarters for the chow house in the building which he has leased-sheltering 40 or 50 men day and night.
 People, listen You men who have jobs to offer. drop in at tn, chow house and see if there's stenogra- pher in the bunch a blacksmith, a newspaper man, a booKkeeper. a me chanic, a chauffeur, a shoe clerk, and if you've got that sort of job to give some one. ask these boys if they'd like to have it, and bless your heart When the Roll is Called Up Wonder" your name will be there all shining and white like Abou Ben Adhem's- leading all the rest"
 Sergt. G. B. Bern -rd, the incest sort of boy with the frankest, most honest face you ever saw. will tell you what the fellows who are there can do. He has followed Rufus H. Bethea, who for more than two months gave his services as Sergeant Bernard is doing, as head of the em- ployment bureau, trying to secure jobs for the men out of employment.
 Now I've told you my impressions of the chow house, the splendid work that Mir. Arthur Greenwood and the American legion both are doing for these splendid boys who fought for us when we were threatened wi kalsersm, who gave their splen aid young bodies for us. losing their limbs. their hearing laeir eyesiEht. and while I'm not golng 10 sen aaea- talize on this oiYlous phase Ina situation, for none of nse sea ae reminded of the rice deeds our t yn performed, I am s ng 10 mention tst this:
 Suppose. for irEtaaoa, let Us drop back, say to about this tinfe Of the year 1917, when I Jthers' hehrts were bleeding and their eyeg filled with tears as they pieken bp inc ness S. papers each day and regd If frw the cruel German were stauehtefl iig our boys lover Ihere asd woadf r.