The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-27
FINANCE COMMITTEE NAMED ATLUNCHEON
 AT TUTW|LER HOTEL
District Committeeman in University Fight Named
 by Shook
AID CLUB TO DEVISE
 AN INDICATOR
Stallings Gives Brief Outline of Y. NJ. C. A. Campaign-W. P. C. Harding Says University Would Be Great
 est Institution City Could Obtain

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 The naming of finance committee was the only feature of the luncheon at Ii o'clock yesterday at the Tutwiler of the central committee perfecting plans for raising a fund of sl.oo00O0 for the establishment here of a university of the Methodist church. south. Webb w.
 Crawford is chairman of the commit- tee and associated with him are Rob- ert Jemison, Jr., and ] w. Mcqueen.
 The attendance yesterday was up to the
 standard set the first day. practically every member being on hand.
 President Shook announced that he had
 select the team captains in the several districts but would not make them pub lie until all had consented to serve. It will be the duty of three men in each district, vet to be announced, to select the team captains in the districts. The men selected for these posts then will name their workers, each captain and
 worker pledging himself to do certain
 amount of work a day--two. three or six hours.
 The question of an indicator of how
 the fund was growing, to be placed on
 a prominent street corner, was discussed. President Shook said that man climbing
 a ladder. the clock and the thermometer indicators had been worked to the limit
 and suggested that something new and different be decided upon.
 Ad Club to Decide on Indicator 1 After much discussion, during which the
 suggestion was made that a brick build- ing, with each brick labeled to repre-
 sent a certain sum of money. be erected
 in the downtown section, the matter was
 referred to the Ad club for settlement
 M. V. Joseph said that if was the busi-
 ness of advertising men to have ideas and for this reason the committee decided
 to ask the club to decide upon suit able indicator of the progress of the cam paign.
 ". s. Stallings, secretary of the Young
 Mems Christian association, was called | upon to speak and gave a brief outline | Of the campaign which secured the money
 to build the present Young Mems Chris
 tian association. MT. Stallings said that l 1t was important to start the work off right, to have good working plan be- 'ore beginning and then to carry 1t | through quickly.
 l The committee adjourned at 2:3O o'clock until 1 o'clock today. Mir. Shook said | that the time limit on the luncheons
 would be made one hour. beginning to- day and that members of the committee could attend the lunches with that as- i surance.
 1 Mir Shook received a letter yesterdav from his father. A. M. Shook. who Is at Tracy City, Tenn. In the letter Mir Shook pointed out the advantages such university as the Methodist commits sion proposes to establish would be to Blrmlngham and among other things l said:
 The opportunity of a lifetime is now presented to the people of Birmingham Jeferson county and the state Of Ala- bama If you secure the location of the great Methodist university for voar city 1t will be the greatest achievement birmingham has ever accomplished. It VIII be worth more. viewed from more uifferent standpoints, than any other one thing that has been done for Birmingham or that will be done by this generation The city of Birmingham can get what 1t goes after, provided a sufficient amount Of Intelligent, well directed energy Is ex pended In united, cooperative effort Nashville secured the great Peabody Nor mai by a determined effort. The state or tennessee was induced to give $250. 900. the city of Nashville S2O0,0OO and David son county $l00,000. This, supplemented by more than s1,000,000 of private sub scrlptions, secured the location of this great school for Nashville.
 Largest Interest in Nashville ne interests represented by the Meth odist church in Nashville have been in- comparably greater than any other one interest in that city. These interests in Nashville have for sometime furnished 20 per cent Of the posfQ1 blJc 70 Vile, the large publishing house furnish ing the larger part. There are more than HOO boys now attending Vanderbilt uni- versjty, and have the authority of two of the great bishops of the church for saw Ing that 70 per cent of these boys came out or Methodist homes. It took Vander- bilt 30 years to build up to it's present size. Today the Methodist church with It's more than 100000 followers coupled With its financial strength and wisdom can duplicate Vanderbilt in five years. This is Birmingham's opportunity | hope 1t will not be lost"
 w. P. c. Harding, member of the newly created federal reserve board. vesterdav gave it as his opinion that university such as the Methodist commission pro- poses to establish would result in ex- penditures from the students of upwards of s6O0'00O year with local business men and merchants. He said that there was '.'N~'f VI VI idStiiiS Dtnellt 10 De 0er1Ve0 rom such an institution that he hardly knew where to begin in speaking of them
 The establishment of such a univer- slty would mean to Birmingham what Vanderbilt does to Nashville said MT Harding. "It would mean to Birrning- ham what Harvard does to Boston and what Yale means to New Haven. With out reference to the great refining influ- ence of the university and It's power as a moral and educational force, the d- rect financial returns from it's location here will be very great.
 T am of the opinion that each student will spend between $500 and s7b0 A year while attending the university, at least not less than $600 on an average and if there Is an attendance of 1000 which would be comparatively easily had, the amount spent here would be approximately seo0- GOO year.
 T have looked tho field over and can touch on nothing which would be of such vast benefit to Birmingham as the loca- ton here of the university. As presi- dent of the Chamber of Commerce last year, was constantly in touch with vari- ous enterprises and while there are many which handle much money I think there are few. very few, which spend all their money in the city in which they are To- cated This, the university promises to do. There is nothing outside the city which 1t could want. Birmingham can furnish everything any university could wish for. and 1t stands to reason that what is needed will be purchased here at home instead of going elsewhere for if.