The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-31
Will Be Waged ON Aggres-
sive Lines to Arouse Gen.
eral Public Interest
SUGGESTIONS MADE
FROM THE FAR WEST
Suburbs Will Be Urged to Cooperate
to Insure an Interest Which
Will Extend Over the
Whole City

An active campaign to show the people
of Birmingham the true value of an au-
ditorium and urge them to vote favor
ably on the municipal bond issue. for an
auditorium at the general election Sep
tember 10 will be started by the Cham
Der of Commerce auditorium committee.
Paschal Shook, chairman, tomorrow The
auditorium committee and the convention
committee will meet Jointly tomorrow.
and it is probable that the two commit
tees will cooperate in the publicity cam
paign that will be conducted from now
on until the election
The campaign will be waged along ag-
gressive lines. The press will cooperate
with the committee as the main factor,
the other mediums by which the commit
tee will reach the public being the street
car advertising, picture show displays
and public meetings. 1t is said that
nearly all of the suburbs have agreed to
hold public mass meetings and local citi-
zens win make addresses on the advan-
tages and need of the auditorium
Small buttons will be ordered and dis
. .tributed among the citizens. asking every
one to work for the auditorium and sig
Nifty his favorableness to the plan by
wearing a button. Chairman Shook has
been in correspondence with civic bodies
in many cities in all parts of the country,
and his correspondence in regard to audi
toriums in other places in every case is
very satisfactory to the proposition and
will be made public through the press, it
being believed that there can be no better
arguments than the actual experiences of
cities who already have tried out the
auditorium problem.
Chairman Shook is in receipt of sub
scription of S. from former Birmingham
man who has heard of the auditorium
movement here and states that he is for
Il, heart and soul. He is the first man
to subscribe anything to finance the pub
licity campaign. Mr.. Shook has also re-
ceived letter from Will Mudd, for
mer Birmingham man, who is we'll known
here and who is now in Los Angeles. Mr..
Mudd is still strong for Birmingham Fe
states he has seen several auditorium
campaigns put on in other cities and he
offers suggestions to Mr.. Shook which
the latter considers very valuable. Mr..
Mudd tells how the citizens of San Die
go, Cal. conducted their campaign for
an auditorium He states that the street
car company gave free advertising space,
that the picture show managers gave free
use of slides which we're flashed on the
screens, and that the newspapers gave
unlimited space to presenting the argu-
ments for the bond issue. On the day OF
the election citizens furnished their pri-
vate automobiles to carry voters to the
poles and the bond issue was an easy
winner states Mr.. Mudd.
The question that comes before the
voters of Birmingham September 10 is
not the bond Issue itself, but they are
merely to register their wish as TO
whether or not they desire to vote on a
bond issue for an auditorium. If the ma
jority vote favorably, and there appears
to be no doubt but what such will be the
case, then the real bond issue election for
not less than $500 900 will be set for a later
date. 1t is hoped to have the building
ready for conventions by next summer,