The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-10
 4BUY-A-BALE" CLUB ID BE 0RGANZEDBY THE CIVIC CHAMBER Board of Directors Author. izes Shook to Appoint
 Committee to Act
FIRST MEETING TO
 BE HELD TODAY
Culpepper Exum Introduces Motion to Organize Club-Fair Association and Business Mems League Each
 Willing to Buy Bale

Chamber of Commerce yesterday morn ing President Shook was authorized to appoint committee with authority to Organize Buy Bale of Cotton club ana the official indorsement of the Chamber of Commerce was given the buy-a-bale movement. In the meeting some slight objections were raised to some features of the buy-a-bale plan. but the speakers said, 1t was in the main the best thing to do at this time The point was stressed that whatever is done must be done immediately.
 President Shook yesterday afternoon named the committee to establish the buy-a-bale club. but due to lack of time could not officially notify members of their appointment. He urges that those members seeing their names here printed take it as official and meet this morning at Il o'clock in the directors room at the Chamber of Commerce ready for im mediate work Tt is of prime importance that what is done be done at once" said Mr Shook. and l hope the gentlemen appointed on this committee will attend today's meeting"
 Committee Named
 hC Sohiiiiitlte IS made up or. J. w. Donnelly, w. D. Nesbitt. S J. Bowie, T. Q. smith. J. H. Frye. R. A. Porter and J. Fl. Doughty
 sydney Bowie was the first speaker and expressed the belief that the plan was good. He said that if the people generally could be induced to buy a bale of cotton it would have a good effect upon the situation as whole.
 It is a case of the Begians hold Ia bot. r...1 French, can come to their assistance' said MT. Bowie. "'rhe farmers must hold their cotton until their friends who have money can purchase it from them The citizens of the state who can, should aid in the movement"
 L. c. Frazier of the Gulf States Steel company was the next speaker and told or trip through a part of the cotton belt recently. MT. Frazier said that he passed through approximately 500 miles Of cotton country past miles of fields or cotton white in the boil. and in all the distance there Were hardly a dozen cotton pickers at work in the fields
 The farmer believes that if he can not get more than or cents for his cotton it won't pay him to gather it'' declared the speaker. Tt is up to the people of the cities to help him gather his crop; to advance him money that he may do SC and to buy his cotton at fair valuation in order that he may tide over the time between the first of October and the first of March or April
 Must Sell Some Cotton
 It will be necessary for the farm CTS to hold the great bulk of the cotton and it can't be done by the Farmer unless he has something on which to subsist during the winter. Ina oh fe1r some cotton to be sold, even at price of or cents The farmers simply must live and therefore will have to sell the cotton.
 The idea in the buy-a-bale move ment is to prevent spectators from getting the cotton or making the price too low. The government can't fix the price Of cotton, but the people can and we ought to fix it at 10 cents a pound and buy bale wherever pos- sible''
 J. w. Donnelly said that he didn't be- lieve the situation would be saved by the buy-a-bale movement. In his opinion, the present situation as regards cotton was a problem for the government and the. financiers to handle.
 However" said MT Donnelly, s'this movement may tend to aid the farmer in getting 10 cents a pound for his cotton instead of having to accept 6 or cents. If we are going to do anything we must do it at once Delay will be dangerous. The present sit uation cannot absolutely be saved by the buy-a- bale plan, but it may serve to ward off for a time a dangerous situation and enable the government and large financiers ultimately to find relief
 Culpepper Exum introduced the motion that a committee be appointed to estab- fish Buy-a-Bale of Cotton club. He said he thought MT Donnelly had stated the situation as it exists.
 The buy-a-bale plan may have the effect of insulting confidence in the farmer az to the value of his cotton and will cause many timid ones to hold their cotton for at least 10 cents a pound. against offers of less money" said MT. Exum. If we can create enough demand through this movement 1t will undoubtedly have good effect. The Chamber of Commerce should in- dorse the movement and a committee should be appointed to establish a club.'
 MT. Exum made the last two state- ments in the form of a motion and it was unanimously carried.
 Civic Organizations to Buy Bales The board of directors of the Business Mems League and of the Alabama State Fair association have authorized Presi- dent R. A. Brown of both organizations to buy bale of cotton for each them MT. Brown says he will buy the first two bales that are offered and it Is thought possible both of them will be ex- hbited at the fair.
 Mir. Brown said yesterday that he thought the buy-a-bale plan was excel lent for several reasons He said 1t showed to the world that the business men of the city had confidence in the cotton market, and that they believed t would right itself in time.
 T had just as soon have a bale of cotton as to have $50 gold certifi- cate,' said MT. Brown. Tt is just as valuable and man stands d chance of getting good interest on the money he puts into cotton.''
 Commissioner James Weatherly be- lieves that the buy-a-bae movement is good one. He said: What is good for the President the United States is good enough for me. mo- tice that President Wilson has pur- chased a bale of cotton in Georgia. He knows what is good for the coun- try. and I am willing to believe in what he believes to be right ?
 The buy-a-bale of cotton movement Is the idea of H. A. Wheeling. secretary of the Rome Ga.. Chamber of Commerce and former Birmingham citizen. MT. Wheeling first originated the idea and sent circular to Chamber of Commerce aud ftr if. .><