The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-23
BIRMINGHAM MAY
 HAVE EXPOSITION Would Celebrate Admission of Alabama to Union TO BE HELD IN 1919 Committee Appointed by O'Neal to Further Proposition-Object to
 Celebrate Progress Made by
 South in Past Decade
TO BE HELD IN 1919

Montgomery, August 22.-(Special)-A national exposition celebrating the iVVth anniversary of the admission of Alabama to the union as a state. will be held Tn Montgomery, Birmingham or Mobile in 1919 # the efforts of a committee appoint ed by Governor O'Neal today to perfect temporary organization are successful.
 The exposition will be called the Ala bama Centennial and New South exposl- ton, and will also celebrate the wonder ful progress made by the south in gen eral and Alabama in particular during the past decade.
 The project bears the Endorsement of the governor, representatives ill Congress, senators and state officials.
 Oscar Underwood, chairman of the ways and means committee of the House of Representatives. writes that the plan is an excellent one and should be sup ported by every patriotic Alabamian.
 Senator Joseph F. Johnston heartily in- dorses the plan and makes number of valuable suggestions.
 The committee from the state at large appointed by the governor will discuss the feasibility of the proposition and will rerfec. tentative organization. The commercial bodies of Mobile Birmingham and Montgomery will be requested to name committees to confer with the state commjttee relative to which of the three cities is the most suitable for such an exposition.
 Dr. Thomas M. owen, director of the department of archives and history, has been named as temporary chairman of the state committee, but permanent chairman will be named by the members of the committee.
 At . meeting of the Montgomery Busi- ness Mems league Thursday night, a suggestion session was. held at which every one present was invited to offer a suggestion as to the betterment of Mont eomery. Governor O'Neal offered as his suggestion the plan for holding the na- tional exposition in this city in 1919.
 The committee named by the governor IS as follows;
 pr. Thomas M. owens, Montgomery. chairman; Charles Mcdowell, Eufaula [; Richard W. Massey, Birmingham; AL bert Bush, Mobile; A. D. Pitts, Selma Dr. George H. Denny, Tuscaloosa; Dr. Charues c. Thach, Auburn; Col w. L.. MClefuA, AfnlStOn, jOnH H. w dtdVe, Jr, Huntsville; J. l.. Clay, Selma :; George II. Malone, Dothan; F. T. Hol- ingsworth. Gadsden w. P. Lay, Gads- den; Paul Stevenson, Montgomery; Jack O'Connell, Mobile J. J. Arnold, Anniston w. E. Skeggs, Decatur; Fox Henderson, rrov; II. Powell, Tuskegee; T. g Frazier, Union Springs; William E. Yerhy, Greens boro; W. O. Mulkey, Geneva; C. A. C'Neal, Andalusia; J. E. Green, Opelilta; T. Y. Sanford. Opelika; R. L. Glenn. rlorenee, pr. Blair, Sheffleld; Robert Newman Abbeville; J. H. Key, Russell- ville H. L. Stevenson. Jacksonville; Wal ter Oates, Headland; Stafford Betty, Montgomery: w. T. Sheehan. Montgom- cry; Frank P Glass, Birmingham; Pat J. J. Lyons, Mobile; F. H. Wall. Athens; c. Greene, Pell City; McLane Triton, Pell City; Owen Julian, Tuscumbia; A. $. Vardegraaff. Tuscaloosa; George Il. Searcy, Tuscaloosa; John c. Webb, De- mopolls; Senator Lovelace, Brewton; John A Burnett, Greenville; o, A. Lane. Green vile: John A. Rogers, Gainesville; J. E. Feed. Center; Richard Hunt, Fort Payne; George w. Darden, Oneonta; W. w. Cor bett. Ozark: Harry L. Martin, Ozark; Frank de Graffenreld Scale: Ben Wad- dell, Girard. George H. Parker, Cullman, and M w Rosson, Cullman.