The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-11
Representatives from Every
Section of State to Attend
Dutch Luncheon at Noon
THE CAMPAIGN PROPER
TO BEGIN FEBRUARY 1
Official Campaign Headquarters Will
Be Opened Today In Chamber of
Commerce Building to Work
Out Complete Plans

from practically all sections of the
state. the great Alabama crop d.
versiication campaign will be or
ganined officially mt Dutch
luncheon mt the TutwiIer hotel mt
IL o'clock today.
Offfcfal campaign headquarters
will open today ON the second floor
of the Chamber of Commerce build
ing and from now ON the prelimi-
nary plans for the hir campaign
during the month of February will
be whipped into shape Just as
speedily ms possible. These cam
paign headquarters, under the per-
sonal direction of w. II. Baug hman,
campaign director, Will be open
every day from now ON until the
campaign Is launched February
and II Will be through this office
that an itinery will be planned for
the campaign workers which Will be
made to cover every section of the
state that decides to Join in the
movement.
President Paschal C. Shook of the
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce. I'M
der the auspices of which the campaign
viii be conducted, will preside at the
meeting today at the Tutwiler. Tele-
graphic invitations sent to all sections
OF the state have been accepted and a
very representative attendance is ex-
pected. William p. Redd, who has been
elected chairman of the general cam
paign committee, will be the active
mead OF the organization work
No set programme for the meeting
mas been made. 1t is probable it will
be thrown open for general discussion
before the campaign is formally or
ganized and plans made by which sec
lions of the state which still are UNI
represented may be given another
chance to join in the movement From
now on until the campaign is formally
launched with agricultural speakers and
lecturers and expert demonstrators in
February, an active publicity campaign
Will be waged throughout the state in
order to let the farmers know exactly
what the movement is and what it in
tends to do.
The only thing necessary for any
county or agricultural community to
join in the campaign and receive a
place in the official itinery will be to
organize a local committee and send a
formal invitation to the campaign head
quarters here or to the secretary of the
Birmingham Chamber of Commerce fol
the speakers to come. There is no ex.
pense whatever attached. The only re-
naming work for the local committee
OF county or community after it has
sent in its request to join in the move
ment. will be to make preparations fol
the transportation of the campaign
workers from place to place through its
own territory, providing it is not or
the railroad, and for the housing anc
boarding of the speakers during any
and such time as the official itinery
shall be made to have them appear a,
each given meeting place
1t appears already that between 81
and 40 counties have decided to TAX,
part in the crop diversification campaign
and it is very probable that befor.
| the campaign is really launched Febru.
| airy 1 that many more will join in.
| The plan of the whole campaign will
be one of education by having noted
| agricultural experts address farmers
mass meetings through the state. The
aim of the campaign will be to demon
strate to the farmers of Alabama how
to make larger profits out of farming
Arkansas Campaign
| The leaders hope TO make the Ala.
bama campaign greater than the on,
| just held in Arkansas. and which brok,
all records for the number of meeting
held, the attendance and the territor,
covered.
| The Arkansas campaign was inaugur
ated by the leading business men an,
farmers of the state and the Littl
Rock Chamber of Commerce with thu
purpose of aiding the people in rails
ing what they eat and keeping at hom
the $70,0O0,000 sent out of the stat
every year for food and feedstuffs
Among the leaders in starting the worl
were Carl Baer. secretary of the Littl
Rock Chamber OF Commerce.; e. ]. Bod
man, Moorhead Wright, H. F. Auten
George Rogers and other bankers an,
merchants who are almost as wei
known in this state as In Arkansas
Governor Mays called a meeting OF al
the leaders in banking, merchandising
farming and railroading to make tn
campaign the most effective work o
its kind ever held in the United States
H. S. Mobley, head of the Farmers