The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

i: Commerce.
1.-THE feature of my administration will
| be movement for the erection of a great
public auditorium to seat 5000 or 5000 peo-
pie and make Birmingham a real conven-
| ton city," declared President W. p. G.
Harding yesterday afternoon, after maxi
| ing public his committee appointments
to serve the Chamber of Commerce dur
| ing his administration. one of which is a
strong Auditorium committee
'sThere will be a meeting of this COM
mittee very soon," added Mr.. Harding,
"and active work will be started on the
movement which I hope will give Bir-
mingham a large public auditorium dur
ing my administration as president of
the Chamber of Commerce. 1t is one of
| the largest needs of the city and one of
the most important. I consider the COM
mittee named to handle this matter
very efficient body Of men and conf
IDENTIFY anticipate results
The auditorium committee as announced
by Mr.. Harding yesterday is as follows:
Paschal G. Shook. chairman; H. L. Bad
ham, Eugene Flies. r. f. Collins, a. II
Ford. John L. Kaul, Erskine Ramsay, r.
II. Baugh.
No Definite Plans Yet
Mr.. Harding stated that he had no def
mite plans in regard to the auditorium.
that all he had done was to appoint the
committee and consider the matter tin
| his own mind and that as soon as the
| new committee could hold meeting def
shape.
The completion of the long list of COM
mittees to be appointed by each new
president was arrived at yesterday noon
by Mr. Harding after several days OF
painstaking care and investigation into
the ability and willingness of every chair
man and member to serve upon the COM
mttee on which he was placed. A meet
ing of the trustees and directors was
then called and the list was submitted
to them for approval according to the
constitution of the organization. This
approval was given and several OF the
directors took occasion to commend Pres
ident Harding on the wisdom and care
with which it was evident he had made
the appointments. The committees were
then announced.
A new feature of the work of the
chamber during the Harding administra-
ton may be division of responsibility
as to the committee meetings. 1t was
stated yesterday that in all probability
the committees would be divided into
two sections and that the first vice pres
ident should call and always attend the
meetings of the one-half and the second
vice president do likewise with the other
half, President Harding attending all
| meetings whenever possible. j is believed
this will give better results from the
committee work.
New Committee Named
A new committee named by Mr.. Hard
ing is the Travelling Mems banquet COM
mittee. Harry Jones is chairman of this
committee and 1t will handle the prep
arations for the annual travelling mems
dinner given by the chamber and all
other banquets of this nature.
Another new committee is the vocational
committee. This committee was recently
appointed during the last few weeks of
the Sibley administration but will not
enter into active service until under the
Harding administration. The committee
| is the connecting link between the local
chamber and the United States Chamber
| of Commerce. of which the local body is
| now a member. There are only four vo-
| cational committees of the United States
| chamber in the country the committee
| of the local body also being counted as
| one of the committees of the United States
| chamber
| During the Harding administration the
resumption of the monthly meetings of
the chamber is also being considered. 1t
| is hoped to have regular monthly meet
| ings of the committees and in this con-
nection it is said to be probable that the
entire body will meet once a month.
The work of the new administration
will begin at once. stated Secretary w.
| c. Radcliffe yesterday. Little booklets
| giving the new Officers trustees direc
| tors and committees will be published
| just as soon as possible"
| The meeting of the trustees and direc-
| tors yesterday to pass upon the commit
tee appointments of the president was
| the first this year and the first to be
presided over by President Harding. The
| election of officers was held on February
Z. the annual meeting was February IA.
and the committees were announced yes
| terday, February q. President Harding,
| Vice President Oscar G. Turner and Sec
retary Radcliffe have all been working
very hard within the last month.
New Committees
! The list of committees as announced
yesterday follows:
| Railroads and Transportation-M. p.
Northington, chairman; s. W. Lee Has
kin Williams, r. II. jenkins. II. w. Cof-
| fin
/ Industrial BuIeau--J. j. Yancey, chair
man: b. b. Burton. II. G. Seibles, NJ. w.
Offutt, J. ID. Kirkpatrick.
| Auxiliary to the industrial Bureau--L
Sewer. chairman; Lee Clary J. H.
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