The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-05
CAMPAIGN TO SELL
POTLATCH BUTTONS
WILL REOPEN TODAY
Reorganized Teams Will Be
Stationed on Downtown
Street Corners
VOTING IN THE TWO
CONTESTS is HEAVY
East Lake Celebration Committee
Meets-Long Discussion of Final
Details of Last Big Event
of the Festival

ing forces the potlatch button selling CAM
paign will reopen this morning with re-
newed vigor, 10 teams working the down.
town street corners from IL to o'clock
today. next Monday and Tuesday.
For the last three or four days the
teams which have already sold several
thousand buttons have been taking lit
tie needed rest, have been attending to
their personal business and now are
ready to Start things again for the big
potlatch festival, which is to be held
April "a and 25 to celebrate the pros
perity of Birmingham and vicinity.
Instructions were issued yesterday by
General Campaign Chairman Oscar c.
Turner to all the captains to get into
personal touch with their workers this
morning before starting work and make
their preliminary plans He also asked
that every one of the members on the
teams--make efforts to get into commun-
ication with their captain before II
o'clock this morning when the work be-
gins each team on prominent down.
town street corner
More Buttons Being Worn
latch headquarters for all persons who
have buttons to wear them, there has
been very noticeable increase in the
number of buttons seen on the street
! Nearly every prosperous looking man
that passed any of the downtown cor
ners yesterday was wearing a potlatch
button. Chairman Turner stated yester-
day that this was important now as every
man who is not wearing button to-
day will be tackled" by the teams
working the corners Any man who has
one and is not wearing 1t on the suit he
has on or has 1t lying at home unused
is warned to hunt it up today and wear
it religiously from now on. The time has
arrived when the silent influence of the
potlatch button is commencing to be felt
in many ways the man who has one by
2 all means must wear 1t, and the man
who hasn't one by all means must get
one.
Voting In the two potlatch contests is
heavy. Many of the polls downtown were
busy yesterday but of course no indica-
tion can be secured of how the ballots
are going. The special committee of %
Elks, headed by Ben +. Barbour has
been working hard and are soliciting
votes from every one of their friends.
Ladies of the churches and of the anti
tuberculosis association are also working
hard, canvassing the residence districts
in some places and asking the women of
the city for votes If they have them
and if not asking them to buy button
or hatpin and secure the franchise.
Details of Last Big Events
The East Lake celebration committee
of the potlatch organization met yester-
day and held prolonged discussion of
the details of the last big Indian cere-
mony of the potlatch festival. They en-
phasized the point that this celebration
was being given exclusively for those per-
sons who Are Good Indians" and have
potlatch button. No one without a
button will be admitted to this last
crowning event of the celebration for
money or anything else.
The floats, which are being made out
at the fair grounds, and which are to
be used for the two big parades are
nearing completion. 1t was stated yes
terday that over half of them are now
ready.
The enthusiasm for the potlatch fes-
,tival has been growing every day of
Vile past week. People are talking
about Ii almost everywhere now. Many
persons have come to the chamb err
headquarters and asked for buttons
within the last few days Chairman
uIitT yesterday lndl The IeS-
tival was an assured success on scale
even larger than the committee had
al first hoped.
The chairmen of the committees
which resume work today have the
privilege, according to statement by
Mr.. Turner yesterday of adding any
persons to their teams they desired The
reorganized teams and the corners
which they viii work today, Monday
and TUE Sday are as follows.
Committees at Work
Nineteenth street and Third avenue
corner: II. c. Bryson, chairman; G. w.
Pratt, vice. chairman; Roy Kay. Louis
Gelders, Frederick Gunster, E. w.
Hunt Stanley Adkins, b. f. Barbour.
w. II. Beaven. S. M. Bornheim, G. w.
Hall, w. b. Harper, r. j. Heflin.
Drennen Company corner: A. M.
Douglas. chairman; Frank Drummond.
vice chairman; I. B. Graham, J. T.
George, w. d. Tynes. James Bonny-
man, 3. Brownell, G. A. Calhoun, r.
b. Fowlkes, NJ w. Canister, C. M. Good
man. J. II. Hard, John C. Henley.
Empire building corner: J. A. Coxham,
chairman; w. J. Wheeler, vice chairman;
w. G. Kilgore. p. p. Patterson. Harry
Jones. Hugo Black. w. C. Johns. r. w.
McInturff, w. f. Donovan, r. l.. Ezelle,
Asa l.. Roy, r. B. Kelly.
"A.
Thompson, chairman; P. J. McGeever,
vice chairman; c. w. Burney w. o.
Broyles. Charles 7. Smith, r. A. Ribble,
Il. l.. Hendrix. Joe Sinszer, G. A. Jones,
a. d. Smith, c. X. Duncan, Max KarpIes,
Henry Hiden, b. c. Horton. y
First Nation. bank building: Carl
Scales, chairman; w. r. Mabry. vice
chairman; J. NJ. p. Otis, John w. O'Neill,
A. j. Arrant Max Boxer A. f. DeBow,
Henry Meyer, Herman Saks.
Brown-Marx building corner: H. F.
Latimer, chairman, J. T. Dunlap, vice
chairman; w. d. Nesbitt, i. f. Stovall,
r. M. Tutwiler. Jr, w. T. Warren, j. L.
Davidson. ]. Frank Rushton, M. ]. Dill
lard, Eugene Flies. A. M. Jenkins
Woodward Building Corner-Solon Ja-
cobs, chairman; r. I. Brooke, vice chair
man; John L. Parker, j. B. Shelby, w. c.
Adams, Alan Jemison. ]. Fl. Dean. T. c.
Cairnes, Horace Hammond, A. ]. Bowron.
Nineteenth Street and Second Avenue
Corner-J. Duncan Baugh, chairman:
Coleman Blach. vice chairman; J. r.
Yeatman, Bert Jacobs H. A. Speilberger,
George McCleary. f. d. McIver B. q.
Burton, George Blinn, ]. d. Rosenberger.
American Trus. Building corner-c. 7.
Sibley, chairman; o. B. Fremont. vice
chairman; J. III. Carr, r. T. Huffman,
George Oliver, r. P. Cheap, w. C. VIM
bish Sam Blake. Burgeine, George w.
Conners.
Florence Hotel Corner-Dr. II. A. Ell
kourie, chairman; w. II. Fruitticher, vice
chairman; s. J. Erckhartt. A. r. Dear
born, +. A. Davis. F.. B. Clarke, Joe
saks, II. E. Shaw George Calvert. Her
bert Baum.