The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-04
Divisions of Organization

| Dtcu utClucu tO dCScpl AOA ,, period of three consecutive years. Divisions of Organization .sThe Duties of Divisions of the Or ganization-The membership is the organ 1 ization There are two divisions of mem bers, and every member serves on both divisions. These divisions are: First, 1 bureaus second, business council. 1 Bureaus-There are six bureaus-civic, mercantile. industrial, agricultural, traffic ard transportation, convention and pub l licity.
 Business Council-The business coun- l cil is a body for discussing and de- | liberat ting upon all questions that may come to the attention of the chamber. Members of every trade and profession will be assigned to their several divisions, 1 each division will then constitute the business council.
 "The duties of the officials of the or ganization are summarized as follows: 'sThe board of directors will continue to act as the executive body of the organ izaton. Their action is final. "Officers-There shall be a president, two vice presidents and a treasurer "The general secretary shall be the ex- ecutive head of the whole organizat tion, subject only to the authority of the board of directors.
 "The office force shall be appointed by lUG general -S6CItlcTN anu SIlsill bc it- sponsible to him alone.
 Proposed Business Council Business Council-The business council is body for discussing and deliberat- ing upon all questions that may come before the chamber. Every profess sion and trade is represented by Ia separate subdivision in the business council. For instance, lawyers are in one group, druggists in another. shoe dealers, physicians, railroad men, real es- tate operators, etc, are classed in their several subdivisions. Every division then elects two representatives who shall rep resent that division in the business cOun- cil. Consequently, the public opinion of
 the body represents every interest of the city and cannot be overbalanced by the vote of one interest having a spe- cial concern in the question before the council. It follows that the responsibility for the general success and activity of the chamber devolves upon the business eoun- ell, and consequently upon the whole membership
 "Bureaus-Every member chooses the bureau in which he will serve Some of the activities of the civic bureau will be as follows: City planning in all it's phases, playgrounds, parks, boulevards. etc; street lighting; sewerage. etc.: gen. eral Identification of the city; improve liicIll OI -iOduSt eilcOQTdStlutHt Ol tH6 Of- ganization of juvenile and garden clubs; the erection of public comfort stations and rest rooms; cooperation with city and state authorities for fire prevention; CO., operation with state and county officials on bond issues. taxation, etc.; scrutiny of state and national legislation affect ing Birmingham.
 The work of the mercantile bureau will comprise the initiating developing and executing of plans for increasing whole sale and retail trade in Birmingham Co., operative action among the merchants will be encouraged and home buying stim-
 ulated Various expedients to stimulate home buying such as style shows, subur- ban days. dollar days, etc., will be fos- tered. Rules and regulations for the pro- lection of members of the chamber from
 unworthy advertising and charitable prop ositions will be put into effect. ''The work of the industrial bureau will be to encourage the industries already established here and secure new and de- sirable industries together with the dis couragement of industries not suited to this vicinity. Further than this, the in
 dustrial bureau will attempt to collate
 and put in comprehensive form such in
 formation as may tend to place Birming-
 ham upon a sound ana profitable selling basis
 'The agricultural bureau will concern ltSelr With the promotion of all agri- cultural activities rur Jefferson county
 and northern Alabama. The principles of
 diversified farming will be emphasized
 and a local farm demonstrator employed
 to push this work. A satisfactory system of farm credit will be considered. to- gether with the encouragement of grow CTS organizations, betterment of market facilities and the fostering of fruit vege- table and general agricultural shows It is hoped to establish permenent exhibit
 of farm produce in Birmingham. The traffic and transportation bureau
 will concern itself with such matters as
 quoting of freight and passenger rates,
 prosecution of claims. checking of ex-
 pense bills. collections of overcharges, re-
 porting of tariff changes. routing of ship
 ments, interpretation of laws, rules, etc; :; improvement of passenger and freight ser
 vice to and from the city.
 Not the least important work of the
 bureaus will be that of the convention
 and publicity bureau.
 This bureau will endeavor by intelli-
 gent and continuous effort to establish
 Birmingham as a popular convention cen
 ter To this end, the publicixing of Bir-
 mingham, will be pushed forward vigor-
 ously in order that the people of the
 whole United States may be acquainted
 with the desrability of Birmingham as
 convention center and as a permanent
 home. Not the least important phase of such publicity work will be the education of the people of Birmingham themselves"