The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-09
Forum Of The People
Concerning Several Things.

To the Editor of The Age e-Herald:
 Bill Bryan says he is thinking about re- tiring and writing his memoirs. Had he been thoughtful enough to have done this n 1896 he would have gone down in history as really great man. -.
 The generosity of MT. Bowen in offering to resign from the park board if Mir. Phillips win do the same, is very creditable. 1nas much as Mir. Bowen is not member of the park board, therefore, has nothing to resign from, his generosity looks like there IS some thing dead up the branch.
 1 am ready to tell the bowlegged world that can not see any reason for a park Doara at all. Commissioner Harrison is in charge of the parks and playgrounds. He has run the department as he has seen fit-regard- less of the existence of the board-and there is no record where either Mrs. Sharpe or MT. Bowen ever voted against Harrisons wishes.
 The Opelika News is wondering why Bir- mingham, with a population of 131,OoO In 1910, had 230 policemen and in 1924, with population of 250,000 has only 136 regular policemen. Brother Wear has forgotten the fact that in 1910 personal liberty was being dispensed from many of Birminghams liquor emporiums It took two jails to accommo- date the patrons of the imbibers of the afore- said personal liberty, hence more policemen were needed. Now there is one jail less to LOOK after and fewer policemen are required.
 Carrie Tuggle has been called the Booker Washington of the negro women. Having known Carrie for nearly twenty years m personal manner, l can say that Booker Washington in his palmiest days was not m the class of Carrie Tuggle. Booker was not a pure-blooded negro. He was educated by the white people and had the wealth Of the North to aid him.
 Booker could eat with the president Of the United States, He was national fig- ure On the other hand Carrie was ne gro, an uneducated negro woman of the serv- ant class. No northern white friends were at her side. Just a plain negro girl born slave. She came to Birmingham seeking work She married a man of some education and learned from him. Her really brilliant mind grasped the problems of the day and analysed them.
 With heart filled with the milk of hu- man kindness, she remained in Birmingham among her white folks" and began the great est work ever a member of her race at tempted. Under a tree, surrounded by TOUT small posts-picked up from somewhere-with n roof composed of cloth, old pieces of tin, boards, etc., she began her great work Un- daunted by fires. opposition, etc, she carried on until a monument to her memory stands on the site of her small beginning
 While Booker Washington was wining and dining with the white people of the North. While he was filling auditoriums in his lec- lures begging aid for Tuskegee. While he was reveling in fine raiments and the luxu- ries of life, Carrie Tuggle was going about the streets of Birmingham gathering to her motherly bosom the little tots of her race who had no home to shelter them. Wee bits Of human frailty, buffetted by the storms Of l;fa xvare takan tn Enon Ridge md given a new start in life. Such was the life work of Carrie Tuggle. | A