The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-01
Alabama Business Mems League Takes Hold Of Its
 Work With a Vim
BABE IS MADE PRESIDENT
 OF STATE ORGANIZATION
Advantages of Agricultural Develop ment of the State Are Discussed As Well As Other Inn
 portant Subjects

Montgomery, November 30.-(Special)- Passage of resolution calling for a sub scription of $100,000, with which to secure } publicity for Alabama, and the election of officers, occupied all of this afternoon al the session of the Alabama Business league. Secretary Joseph B. Babb of the Birmingham commercial organization was made president of the state league, and Bruce Kennedy. secretary of the Montgomery boosters was made secre- tary and treasurer of the state organza- ton.
 It was the sense of the delegates that s1oo,0O0, raised among all of the commer- clal organizations of the state, would give the state a fair start on it's publicity work. A subscription of S135 was raised among the delegates today with which to begin work
 Officers, in addition to the first two named above, were elected as follows: First vice president John Craft. Mobile; second vice president, A. s. Preston, Jas per; honorary vice presidents, First dis- trict, E. L. Russell, Mobile Second, I. c. Haas, Montgomery; Third, F. l.. Craw- ford, Dothan; Fourth, w. A. Davis. An niston; Fifth, C. w. Hare Tuskegee; Sixth, J. H. Cranford, Jasper; Seventh, W. T. Brown, Ragland; Eighth w. F. skeggs, Decatur; Ninth, W H. Taylor, Uniontown. Board of directors, McLane Triton, Pell City; l.. B. Farley, Mont gomery; Albert P. Bush, Mobile: V. R. Adkins, Selma, and w. P. Lay, Gadsden
 Benefits of Agriculture
 tIt4so At-l.< and the advantages that will accrue to the state from its increased productivity. was the salient feature of the session to- day of the league. Under the general head came a discussion of farm demon- stration work and it's value to the state; Immigration, and its good to the state; cooperation and its need.
 Thrown in as a side line was the ques- tion of publicity, wherein there was discussion of the part played by country newspapers in the upbuiding of the com monwealth. The latter subject was ably and judciously handled by c. W. Hare of Tuslxegee, editor of the Tuskegee News.
 fve-minute discussion of the general topics, following upon the three leading addresses of the morning. carried the session well into the afternoon, from which the delegates emerged with en- thusiasm written in their faces and with evident Inspiration which had been gleaned from the addresses.
 KoIb's Address
 The address of Reuben F. Kolb com missioner of agriculture-elect of Ala bama, sounded the keynote of the days session, his theme being, Agriculture in Alabama" around which he wove a thread of ingenious manufacture and inspired hopes. In all probability the commission er-elect IS one of the best posted men on agriculture in the south, his long posses sion of state offices giving him an expert idea of Alabama's capabilities in this di- rection.
 Captain Kolb stated in the first para graph of his address that the state today \ is on it's greatest agricultural awakening condition, he said, which is bound to put the state in pre-emnent position as one of the strongest sections in the q United States. The speaker referred to what Alabama has already achieved in an agricultural way. but expressed himself at the same time as confident that the commonwealth has not been making use of its resources as it should
 Immigration was pointed to by the speaker as being one of the greatest needs of the state.
 Demonstration
 H. L. Moss of Montgomery, state agent of farm demonstration work addressed the convention on "Co-Operat ton in Dem onstration Work" and made one of the most pronounced hits of the week. The speaker referred in glowing terms to what the United States department of agricul- ture is endeavoring to do in the way of elevating agriculture throughout the coun- try, and besought the delegates present to lend every aid with the end in view of telling the farmers how best to care for \ and cultivate their acreage. Mir Moss re- f..f ,f,l, l,. do in Alabama in establishing demon- stration farms in all sections of the state the success of which," he. pointed out will serve as lasting lesson to the farmer to teach him what can be done
 Tt is first nature with us to be shown And it Is right For if we, by experi- ment. can prove conclusively that diversi- fled farming is paying investment more so than any single crop why we have then taught the greatest lesson that can be learned." - Agent Moss. in the discussions which ensued, was promised the cordial support \ of the league.
 Immigration To Alabama
 Speaking on the general topic of I'm Si migration to Alabama R. H. Walker of Athens, recently appointed commissioner of immigration by Governor Conner scored a triumph when he told of lines which he now has out for the corralling of Swedish and Norwegian and Germaf farmers That his subject was considered the livest cone of the week was made evil dent by the frequent applause which punctuated his remarks, and by the in- terruptions which he had.
 Commissioner Walker unfolded in fev paragraphs the difficulties which he hss already encountered, and which he wi still encounter, in his work, but wit it all he took an optimistic view of tl ls future, especially if assured of the heart co-operation of all the commercial orgaa izations of the state, The commissions a.etated as his policy the bringing of mo a
 farmers to the state. wherebv z . F on an intelligent basis could
 to the utmost extent.
 Af he conclusion of the address
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