Many others, at that date, fa
vored the league only later, for
political reasons, to oppose it.
Thjpre was Henry Cabot Lodge,
for instance.
That story of the president ha\*
ing offered liquor to his cronies
has distressed the “reform” ele
ment. But Coolidge was elected
to his first office, a mayoralty,
over the opposition of the "re
form” element. That element op
posed him because he was attorney i
for a brewery. . ..
PEOPLE'S FORUM
Against Parking First Avenue
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
In behalf of hundreds, yes thou
sands, of the citizens of the city
of Birmingham east of Forty
First- street, and in behalf especial
ly of the committee who are now
and have been for some time la
boring in the interest of the pub
lic, permit the writer to thank
you for the two editorials appear
ing in The Age-Herald, one this
morning, and the other a few
days ago. This is one of the most
important matters that has con
fronted the public at large for a
long time. The more you think
of it, the necessity becomCs^more
apparent. First avenue, the east
ern part of it, is the receptacle,
so to speak, into which flows
every vehicle entering Birming
ham from that part of the coun
try, and it goes without saying
that everything from the north
and east must enter Birmingham
upon and through first avenue.
