The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-15
Special Commission Will
 Meet at Tutwiler
PLAN ANNUAL DINNER
Many Events of Importance Scheduled for Action in Chamber of Commerce Circles This Week-Working
 on Merchants Convention

Atlanta, will meet Thursday of this week at the Tutwiler hotel. The com mission is 16 strong and was appointed at the recent general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. south, held in Oklahoma City.
 The matter of removing the Metho- dist university from Nashville to q place to be decided upon will be the subject of the local conference. The Chamber of Commerce and cit- izens in general here will urge Bir- minghamas the place for the location of the university in the event it is decided to remove 1t. The entire board of directors of the chamber will act as a committee to confer with the commission. That Birmingham has a good claim is not doubted and the chamber directors will not overlook any bets"
 The directors committee will see to it that the Methodist commission is entertained while here. The plan of en- tertainment will be announced later.
 Plan Annual Dinner This morning at Il o'clock the en- tertainment committee of the chamber will meet in the directors room to dis cuss plans for the annual dinner of that body, which will be held dune 26 at the Hotel Tutwiler with W. P. G. Harding as guest of honor. It is planned to have a very elaborate din- mer. Chairman Fowlkes of the enter tainment committee has wide repu- tation for planning things that "go'' with snap.
 Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock committee on half holidays (Board Of Trade division of the chamber) has called meeting of about 50 retail store operators in the downtown dis trict. The matter of closing the stores at 12 o'clock on a day to be decided upon every week throughout thes hot summer months will be discussed at length. This matter was brought to the attention of the Board of Trade by a committee from the Birmingham Equal Suffrage association, which urged Saturday as a day to close through the summer. Objections were raised by some members of the board, While others agreed with the ladies' hN iiiothti VIII bc hCNldtu W tuHtsudS afternoon.
 The finance commttmee of the chamber this week expects to do much toward securing the $200O0 fund needed to carry on the work of the organization. Last week, due to the extreme heat, there was little work done. but everything is planned out and just the work of canvassing now is necessary. That the money will be easily secured is not doubted.
 Ford's Successor
 It is considered probable that President Paschal G. Shook will call meeting of the board of trustees for this week to elect successor to A. H. Ford, who re- signed when he left Birmingham to ac- cept a position in Portland, Me. The board of trustees consists of nine mem- bers, the president, two vice presidents and six members elected by the member ship of the body. The board of trustees, under the constitution and bylaws of the chamber. has the power to name the sue cessor of a resigned member, such sue cessor to serve until the next general elec- tion in the chamber Just who will be selected to fill the vacancy caused by MT. Fords resignation is a matter of specula- ton.
 | At the regular monthly meeting of the chamber held last week President Shook was authorized to appoint committee on I foreign trade. the duty of which shall be | to cooperate in every way possible with | manufacturers in extending their trade | thought probable that MT. Shook will relations with foreign countries. It is name that committee this week. | The plans for the entertainment of the convention of the Alabama Merchants as- sociation. which will be held here August 26 and 27, are well under way. The en- tertainment features of the convention will be given under the trade extension bureau | of the Chamber of Commerce. and this bu- I reau probably will meet this week for a | discussion. It Is planned to ask the Southeastern Passenger association for re- duced fares to Birmingham during the | convention. The association usually grants reduced fares to conventions when 1t is assured that there vii be 1000 or more delegates in attendance. There will be between 15O0 and 2000 delegates to the convention.