The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-28
COMMITTEE ONFARM MOVEMENT ID MEET Will Discuss Coming Years
 Finances
 MIR. TUTWILER TALKS
Chairman of Important Chamber of Commerce Committee Is Enthu- siastic in Outlining Work
 Planned for This Year

Chairman F.. M. Tutwier. Jr., of tht farm movement department committed Of the Chamber of Commerce. has issued e call for the first session of this com. mittee tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock The assembly place is designated as the directors room of the Chamber oi Commerce. Secretary Hechinger. who Is fin charge of the farm movement, VII also be in conference with the commit tee.
 The new farm movement committee re- gently named by President John w. Sib- lev as one of the most important work ing boards of the Chamber of Com Ynerce is composed of E. M. Tutwiler, IF. chairman. John H. Adams, G. B. Mccormack, M. S. Sloan and J. IH Nor gan The purpose of the initial confer ence of the committee is to thoroughly 20 over the present status of the farm movement department looking towards securing a correct estimate of the opera tion and best method of procedure to bring land developers to this district. The matter of budget for the years expense 10 be requested from the board of directors and financial governors of the Chamber of Commerce will be gone into and the question of promoting the growth and utility of this department will be considered.
 '.The prospects for a most successful wear in this work are entirely favor able" said Chairman Tutwiler yester- day, and the fact that two Of the members of the 1911 farm movement committee have been retained on the 1912 board will give us additional strength These are John H. Adams and G. B. Mccormack. whose experience in this work is to prove very beneficial to those of us who are new in the field
 "rhe principle efforts to be made by the committee, as I now see 1t, are to satisfactorily arrange our pencuniary af- fairs so that there will be no obstacle in that line and to strive to have only the best type of people settling on the farm lands of this county. By this l mean those who come here with suffi- cient funds to establish themselves in the land without being tax on the general public and a people of substan- tal, law abiding citizenship.
 "The original plan of the Chamber or Commerce to set aside s700 for the main tenance of this department may be al tered somewhat as we may agree that the exact proportions of this sum are not essential to do just what we intend at present. But we plan to go before the board of directors and have an un- derstanding as to just what we may ex- tact and if the finances are not forth Coming from that source we will en- ueayer to raise them from some other.
 s'The farm movement department acts as a clearing house for people in other sections of the country wishing to To- cate on farms in the Birmingham dis frict and its mission is to get in touch with those wishing to become truck gardeners or planters here and see to it that they become satisfactorily situated. Strangers coming to this city for the purpose of purchasing farm land are in word entirely at the mercy of the local interested persons, and our office, as I take it. is to place such persons in deals that will be agreeable to all parties concerned and will not cause them any regret.
 "Fhe entire committee appointed by President Sibey is most enthusiastic, l believe, in the progress of this feature of the Chamber of Commerce endeavor, and if it attans that measure of service that the orignators of the department expect- ed it to, I am sure it will be one of the most vital potentialties in the con- struction of a solid Greater Birming- ham"