Show THIS CITY BUILT WHILE YOU WAIT fourth largest town in alabama full grown in one year HAD A MODEL government permanent settlement aroun U S nitrate plant presented unusual problems by GARRET SMITH the fourth largest city in alabama i peopled cd with soul of dh diver races and d wernal pit P from fin scattered LOP communities la fin every part rd of the end united ed states and canada sprang prong into being almost at irver edged around the great new g government vern merit sin am coulum nitrate plant down on the op open cotton and corn carn fields field at on an the tennessee river dmm the last you year of the world war ivor here her wait waa a problem in city building munte mimic laal government and wi shot tars fare that has hag seldom been equalled equal led and the success at 0 it ita on has bar sever never been excel excelled lOd the job we waa I 1 in the hard hands of the air corporation which had beet under the direction ot or the ord ordnance once D department to build plant aal and city at M ducle le bledde bhoola early in january 1918 thin athla new town led end few temporary but buildings dirge and a pope tell ot of this thin had bad jumped by it ohp middle ot of august to aror more the than 21 WO odo A population lo multiplied by 70 1 in 7 months in the management of the no new banns tow na and army cantonments canton chom ments is the thai spreng sprang up during the we war the old 10 time aji elis that attended the growth or mini broom cities cinea lines have her been avoided by the application of modern welfare a but it nowhere were could chodl thus more mom difficult than at ma shoal he here wa S a material malarial region rege threatened od at the same it time with othor other deadly disrate disease epidemics trans time por tatton thin was wag lacking no iso bearin carl labor was waa available and ad the general labor shortage me BBS at it ita most moat acute M stage anee can coats of labor and supplee lie leaping over night Forsh met militia bladd differed froni from all ane be other new war town him match a li 11 won was to be p permanent randeena rande ent NOW new government choll alid th the e Im managers magers city goir ers went meat had bad to handle the entire reta rate business of the tow town A camp sure vapors cisar department wa put in chaiet of if file maintenance of all buildings building or alra protection ind and sanitation the camp supervisor looked of after er even voir thing from froid the MOMIL of lock lack to the remodeling of group groult ot of huddle or laying beners ors or steam fee in baica maica I 1 I 1 loi in the bachelor contingent a comm commissar ar department was rees necessary essary th boad business department managed RI the a stores to re carlo canteens motion picture thea theaters tera pool parlors parlor tailor shops shop dry cleaning estabill establishments barber e shops news standa a hotel vegetable L b r croul farm and S a hog farm where list 1000 I 1 bog b were ece raised on the wastes from e c ing places it maintained a slaughter house where these thesa hogs were p put I 1 thlin through ifill the regular p a eking aching but louree it operated a inutility chich cleared cleaned 7 pieces B day then there wes a real estate late LAP a that hat tented leaned abid it the tha faron quarters and ad a housing department which assigned to quarters evely bodI excepting the families vintel separate jurisdiction from its HE CO community were mens the file polke polite ahe a lenith health department I 1 in charge ot 1 a S flom new hew york elre star ad with a small office in one me of it the temporary buildings and v a as soon oon fill full grown grew and splendid equipped conditions were nore f favorable osuld to disease the v inter me w as the set seerest Be erest on I 1 record 1 in northern norther an ma home baina the men were wera compelled to work either in deep snow show or mud she atron their ulo knees As a result a pneumonia epidemic developed among the tha that spring later in the file year I 1 t epidemic W was n the threatened mt moreover the file site of the h P plant hint as aa in the heart of the malaria charlt bui bud th the pneumonia epidemic as cheked th the typhoid flutter nipped rapped I 1 in the bud bad and it malaria fuels stamped t PW out A heath health record established shed the little farat itald aid hospital present 13 ly grew rw to a complete modern lion u etli a jurers home and a rep bep state arate dispensary tor for di dental catal eye ear now mim throat threat gentle gen ito uch urinary attry ethics and a n surg Burgl cal leal for or farat uld u work or k during the eight mouth months when allen the death del th rate vas nat not affected by the file in ou and pneumonia epidemics we tiie general health rate to MM per abu sand mud per fe year r which 1 1 louer the than I 1 in I 1 most at cities I 1 in the same latitude lind llin ate and the pneumonia death dealt I 1 hit during the epidemic was ge tower lower find in most moist army cantonments canton ments much ot of too success of the hith h ith aaion Is IB due to the edahl esi nl adit m ht of it the IS duade M le shoal sun 1 dri district Arlet b by Y tire united brutes pill health H faith service ulm ahe education slid and welfare fare mant also 1110 had bad I a vital work amk to 11 pei list imn loi n there was Is a school population ut or ati liuo ahe 8 secretary of 1 we emed Inor ahe community 1 in K amir or of the with flola da and it aid of acome 0 in alir elmar greatest cie me men or of the im country the ton laures of study lady abid i er ecru arild 1 till Ild tenc lieis ft aiom I 1 lia alu a in bent te I 1 biblis hed systems I 1 |