The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-22
OVERLAND CO. WILL | BUY BALE FOR EACH l AUTO SOLD IN SOUTH Automobile Manufacturers
 Will Spend Over S20O,OOO.
 Says Representative | COMMITTEES BEGIN
 CANVASS TOMORROW Campaign of Jefferson County Club to Be Pushed-Traveling Salesman Buys Bale-Burroughs to Ac- cept Bale on Each Machine

F-oefNoH t-~ 10 cents per pound will be purchased from southern farmers by the overland Automobile company. according to an- | nouncement yesterday of NJ. D. Stone, factory representative. who was in the l city. Appreciating the fact that the cotton market has been shattered by the European war and realizing the worth of the buy-a- bale movement, the Over land company has instructed all its agents, representatives and travelling men to buy a bale of cotton at 10 cents per pound and charge it to the account of the Overland company.
 Our company feels that the south is | entitled to our sympathy and our aid g said Mr. Stone yesterday at the News paper club. We have therefore deter
 mined that for every car sold we will buy a bale of cotton at 10 cents per pound We have also instructed our represen- | tatives to buy a bale of cotton for the account of the firm, so that in all we
 will spend about $250.000 in the ..buy-a- I bale-of-cotton'' movement I am very glad that this has been determined upon l by our firm as I cannot imagine any thing which would be more appreciated by the south at this time."t Salesman Buys a Bale John T. Yeatman of Yeatman- Baugh yesterday gave out a letter from trav- cling salesman for the Rosenwald & Veil company of Chicago, who enclosed check for $50 with which he asked that
 Major Yeatman buy a bale of cotton for him.
 The letter. which is only one of many evidences of the widespread interest in the 'buy-a-bale'' movement, follows: Columbus, Ga, September 19, 1914. "The Yeatman-B -Baugh Co.,. Birmingham, Ala.
 "Gentlemen: Enclosed please find my check for $50. Please buy me one bale of cotton at 10 cents per pound, and
 send me the warehouse receipt to Chi cago, care Rosenwald Veil q think the 'buy-a-b -bale-of-cotton' movement advanced by the Birmingham papers and other papers is a great thing.
 and it will surely help to move the busi-
 ness congestion in the south. Every
 salesman travelling in the south should only be too glad to cooperate and buy a bale o1 cotton.
 .'I trust that business is better in your locality With kindest regards to all, beg to remain. Yours sincerely, .L o. WHITE" The Burroughs Adding Machine com pany is sending circulars to all It's brancn houses informing the managers that it will accept bale of cotton as part payment on an adding machine, the bal ance to be paid in cash. Only one bale will be accepted on each machine bought and it will be warehoused The points at which the company will warehouse cotton so bought are Gal weston, Memphis. Dallas, Mobile, Sa- vannah Charleston, New Orleans, and Corpus Christi. Canvass Begins Tomorrow The buy-a-bale movement continues to spread and reports from various parts of the country indicate that minimum price of 10 cents rapidly is being estab- lished. In Georgia, where the movement started, 1t is said cotton has had an ad- vance of ? cents pound within the last 10 days. Farmers in that state are now inclined to hold the staple for 12 cents in- stead of 10 cents, and it begins to appear as though the buy-a- bale movement is do- ing the work for which it was intended. Tomorrow many committees of the lief ferson County Buy-a-B -Bale-of-Cotton club
 will begin an active canvass of the city and county in an effort to secure mem
 bers for the club. The only qualification
 for membership is the purchase through
 the club of bale of cotton and pledge to hold it for & year. or until such time
 as the price is 10 cents or better in the
 open market.
 The movement is to be advertised in Bir-
 mingham by Theiss, Douglass X Ribble,
 bill posters. at their own expense, through
 the medium of the billboard. Huge three sheet posters have been ordered by the firm and immediately upon their arrival
 the work of placing them will begin. The advertisements will read: Rally to the
 support of the south. Buy a bale of cot
 ton at 10 cents pound"
 The canvassing committees. which start
 work tomorrow morning, will meet at the
 Chamber of Commerce at 10 o'clock and
 will begin the work from this building.
 The personnel and territory assigned each committee is as follows:
 Committees and Territory
 Brown Marx Building-W. c. Adams,
 chairman; Eugene Brown, John Yeatman,
 F. A. McElroy. Frank Fowlkes and Bor-
 den Burr.
 First National Bank Building--Culpep- per Exum, chairman; F. H. Wooda,l, Fl. G. Seibels, Frank Lynch and T. A.
 Weller.
 American Trust Building-L. Sevier, chairman; Erskine Ramsay, John w.
 Sibley and S. E. Hitler.
 Empire Building-Samuel Rand, chair
 man: Will Mabry, s. J. Erckert, James A. Freeman. Charles E. Rice and James T. Dunlap.
 Wholesale Trade-James Downey, chair man: H. M. Beck, Murray Brown, w. J. Yeilding, A. B. vandegrift Samuel Earle and Samuel Teague.
 Title Guaranty Building and Jefferson County Bank Building-M. V. Joseph chairman; w. A. Dameron. Alan Jemi- son. H. P. Messer. E. F. Enslen and W. N. Malone
 First Avenue--J. D. Collins. chairman: Joe Saks, w. V. M. Robertson. Jr., A. R. Dearborn, M. W. Canister.
 Eighteenth Street, Fourth Avenue and Nineteenth Street, Chamber of Commerce Milan. Ed s. Moore. James Bailey B. Alden Thompson.
 Twentieth Street, N. & 8. and Farley Building-Oscar Turner. chairman; Craw- ford Johnson, vice chairman; George R. Knox, Walter Stallings. J. F. Rushton
 Second Avenue-J. E.. Shelby, chair man; J. H. Finder, A. w. B. Johnson. Jake Burger. R. D. Burnett
 woodward and First Avenue, Nine- teenth and Twenty ninth, Southside- Solon Jacobs. chairman: Frank Epperson, John Parker. W. A. Stead, H. A, Elkourie.
 Morris Avenve-A M. Taylor H. E. Shropshire, H2 Copeland, A. E. Black stone
 Third Avenue -Bertram Jacobs Colman Blscb, George McCleery, Hale Tarrant,