The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05


 that he was particularly glad that the l Board of Trade was an affiliated or ganization with the Chamber of Com.
 merce. He recommended the appointment | of Beard of Trade committee In the Chamber of Commerce, which he request ed President Ewing to do. He told the at all times to extend his aid in any
 manner whatsoever. Mir. Shook was cor
 dially applauded.
 l J. R. Hornady president of the Bir- ! mingham Newspaper club, was next called upon to speak and received cordial welcome. He gave a few "reminiscences
 of the old days and then came on down
 to cooperation. Mir HornadS stated that | 1t always made him excessively tired to
 hear a person who resided in Birming-
 ham speak of the spirit of Atlanta. He I was here interrupted by Secretary Rad cliffe, who sprang to his feet and ex- claimed feelingly: Shake orr that" The i two men shook hands amid deafening ap- plause. He completed his remarks with
 an appeal to those present to get to- gether and pull for Birmingham.
 pr. J. H. Phillips, J. II. Finder, John
 Sparrow, Sidney Lazarus, R. V. Evans
 c. H. Milan, E. F. Wilkerson J. D. Ros-
 enberger were among the other speak CTS.
 | President Ewing brought up the mat ter of appointing a committee to look
 into the proposed placing of advertising
 on trash cans. saying that the Board of
 Trade was opposed to such; that it did
 not jibe with the city beautiful idea and
 that it interfered with the merchants
 making their store fronts attractive. He appointed Colman Blach, chairman; Nor | ris Berk and J. II. Finder, as a con-
 mittee to take up the matter and this
 committee will Work together with the
 Ad club committee.
 ! MT. Ewing brought up the matter of
 inaugurating membership campaign in | the near future and after some discus sion it was decided to do this The fol- lowing were appointed as a committee: Colnlan Blach, chairman; J. H. Finder, 1 J. D. Collins, ]. Frank Rushton, w. T. | Cox, W. J. Adams, Bert Jacobs, A W E. Johnson, James Burger Oscar c. Fur ner. P. IT. Linnehan and J. D. Rosen- | berger. The committee was given power to conduct the campaign as they saw fit
 and to appoint subcommittees where they deemed it necessary. The campaign will
 probably be started within the next two weeks.
 The president will appoint the standing committees at later date.
 Ewing's Address MT. Ewing's address in part follows: First, l want to express my appreci- ation of the great honor that you con ferred upon me in making me the chief | executive officer of the Board of Trade for the coming year, and to say in this connection that my appreciation of the honor is only equalled by my realization of the opportunities and responsibilities 1 involved and a knowledge of how hard l it will be to measure up to the high stan- I aud. lS.r 'The membership of the Board of Trade
 as most of you Know, is limited to the | merchants and manufacturers of Bir- mfngham, and l. my official co-workers and the executive board for this year would like. I am sure, to see this word limited changed to including" all the merchants and manufacturers of Birming- ham, particularly our retail merchants. We sometimes hear it stated that we do not work together. I am not go- ing to argue that question or make a
 statement in the affirmative or the neg ative, but simply say that if patient is sick the doctor generally emphasizes how really sick the patient is and then
 his credit for curing the patient is all the greater. If the patient is very. very sick he generally-ealls in others for con sultation so that in case anything hap pens wrong or the patient dies he doesn't f bear the blame clone.
 ''Without admitting that we are very sick along this line, I am going to call in not only the gentlemen on the exec utive board for consultation but am go- ing to call al lthe merchants of Brming- ham to help diagnose the case to the end that they may also be responsible and share in the credit and glory of our complete recovery, health and wealth.
 Without encroaching in any way upon the work that the Cha fnber pf f'ap,toaroa the Business Mems league or other civic orga nizations have to accomplish for Bir- mingham, the Board of Trade has it's pe- culiar and specific work in behalf of the mercantile interests, some of the prin- cipal items of which may be set out as follows:
 Matters of city license and taxation generally. affecting merchants is, of course, vital importance to the merchants