The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
Joint Meeting Held Yester- day and Call Issued for Active Workers in the Cause.
COMMISSION IS NOT
 COMMITTED TO ANY
 PLAN FOR BUILDING
Various Offers of Aid Are Made and Campaign Will Be "Whooped Up" This Week.

Additional plans for the campaign in favor of the auditorium bond issue were decided on at a meeting of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary club, the Ad club and the auditorium committee of the cham Der.
 Morris W. Bush, president of the Chamber of Commerce, presided at the meeting, which was held in the di rectors' room at the chamber.
 President Bush stated that the pur- pose of the meeting was to make fur ther detailed plans for the auditorium bond issue campaign. He expressed the opinion that the school and the audi torum bond issues would carry. A speaker from the Chamber of Com merce is to address a Sunday meeting of Labor's Volunteer Cooperative Git izens and Educational association, President Bush announced
 H. K. Miner. chairman of the audi torium committee of the Chamber of Commerce, reported that D. M Lewis, pre- sident of the Ensley club, would be one of the speakers at a meeting Sat- urday night at Wylam and that other speakers would make addresses in fa- vor of the auditorium bond issue in the different suburbs It was stated that no special advantage would come from holding a general mass meeting in the city in favor of the issue. MT. Milner reported that he had written to all the ministers in the city asking them to preach a sermon Sunday in favor of the audit orium.
 H. M. Beck suggested that small pamphlets be printed and given to the wholesale and retail merchants to en- close in their correspondence with oth- CT merchants in the city. This idea will be carried out at once
 FLYING SQUADRONS
 President Bush suggested the advisa- bility of sending out flying squadrons in automobiles to the suburbs to talk to the people in favor of the audi torium bond issue. He also thought it advisable to get the newspapers to publish daily until the election the resolution adopted by the city commits sion to the effect that it was pledged to no special plan for the auditorium oAio Hdd iCdSllGu IlO utClSlOIl reg dTQluS the site or any other detail in connec- tion with the proposed auditorium. At the suggestion of Paschal c. Shook MT. Milner will get the various conner cial organizations in the suburbs to hold meetings in favor of the bond issue for the auditorium. Maj. Carl Seals an nounced that the members of the various National Guard organizations of the city were heartily in favor of the auditorium bond issue, and that he would get them | to adopt resolutions in favor of. the proj- ect.
 CALLS FOR ACTIVE WORK FRS President Bush called on all those pres- ent to work actively in favor of the auditorium bonds from now until the elec- ton. He reported that the newspapers had agreed to use much space in further ing the auditorium issue, and he said they had been most liberal in their atti- tude on the question up to the present i time.
 Eugene Brown urged that strong em- phasis be placed on the fact that the city commission was not pledged to any par ticular plan, and he announced that the commissioners had already expressed themselves as being opposed to any leas- ing of a site.
 Frank P. Glass stated that it had come to him that the only organized effort against the bonds for the auditorium came from the Municipal Ownership league. He said the league believed the Chamber of Commerce was fighting the light bond issue and that the members of the league were trying Ito get even" by fighting the auditorium bond issue. It was reiterated at the meeting that the Chamber of Commerce was not fighting the light bond issue. Others who spoke briefly favoring the auditorium bond is- sue were R. A. Porter, Solon Jacobs and J. D. Moore.
 Among those present at the meeting were: M. w. Bush, R. A. Brown, R. A. Porter F. G. Shook Carl Seals, Solon Jacobs, Fred B. Shireman, w. O. Cox, F. P. Glass, H. M. Beck, G. G. Crawford, Eugene Brown, Dr. J. H. Finder, c. E. Rice, J. D. Moore, H. K. Milner, J. w. Adams, George McCleary, J. H. F. Nose. ley. s. P. Fowlkes and w. c. Radcliffe.
 COMMISSION RESOLUTION The resolutions adopted by the city com mission, to which several of the speakers referred yesterday, were as follows: Be it resolved, by the city com mission of the city of Birmingham, l that the sole purpose of the city commission in submitting an audto- | rum bond issue to the voters in the 1 election of June 5, 1916. is to obtain l an authoritative expression from the l qualified voters on the question of whether or not they want public