The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-08
HELP PIS PLEDGED FORLIBRARYAN AND
 PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Citizens Will Seek To
 Link Two Issues At Fri day Mass Meeting

Sentiment crystallized so rapidly Thursday for joint bond issue for city school expansions and n modern pub lie library that hundreds of civic work CTS made ready to attend the city-wide mass meeting in the city hall at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon 'and urge the linking together of these two issues.
 From every cornef of Birmingham" said Lloyd w. Josselyn, i've have bsen flooded with offers of support in our campaign to take care of the school and library. needs in one bond Issue. The people realize fully that both are essential parts of the educational sys- tenn" ge. .e
 . Archie Warner, secretary of. the all lied labor committee, will preside over the mass meeting. 1t has been called to discuss the city's educational needs, and after the school situation is laid before the gathering there will be many library advocates ready to point out the utter inadeQuacy of the present library quarters, as well as the great fire hazards existing in the crowded library rooms.
 Prepares Data e
 J. W. Donnelly, chairman of the li- brary board, has prepared a mass of information which will be submitted to the assembly in support of the contention that Birminghan can not afford to wait ;lonser sto remedy existine condition at it's public library which iaxt years served more than 100000 persons. .gs iiya X \!
 s"We are sure,'' 1fr. Donnelly says. "that we are. not jeopardizing the school bonds by linking with them q $750 900 library issue. We are strong for the school bonds, but we desire that the library system shall keep pace with the schools in order that, no phase of the city's educational work may be neg lected." Ett, ayE
 Women by the hundreds called or phoned library Headquarters during Thursday and said they could be count ed on to fight to the finish for the pro posed joint issue. The number of men who made similar pledge was smaller but their enthusiasm was just as great.
 Almost without exception, members of the city commission conceded that the library is an important part of the educational system. There was no word of opposition to library bonds, although Commissioner w. l.. Harri- son said he would oppose 'ttentangling school bonds with anything else"
 How Commissioners Feel | President D. E. McLendon declared he believed the two issues were close ly enough associated to Ego together" He indicated his official course would largely depend on the action taken by the mass meeting. ,f
 Commissioner w. B. Cloe, asserting that schools and libraries should go hand-in-hand, made 1t plain he would not make any move that might injure the chances of library bonds.
 q am in favor of letting the people vote at one referendum on all the pro- posed bond issues." he said. 'The is- sues will be separate and they can scratch those which they oppose. But bonds for the fire department ought not to be scratched. We need schools, we need library, we need new fire stations and equipment, and we need still more things. Lets have one cleo ton and decide the. whole business. That is where I stand.'' }--
 Commissioner Mary Echols. one of the ardent advocates of school and h- bfary bonds, did not commit herself as to linking these. issues. She pre- ferred to await the outcome of the mass meeting.
 !. Commissioner W. D. Dickson readily conceded that schools and libraries are closely allied, He was inclined, how ever, to favor "a separate election for school bonds, but was not certain what
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