The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
P[A|SANCE CHOSEN ID HEAD TRAVELLERS AT FINAL SESSION Convention Came to Close With Splendid Banquet
 Last Night
PLEDGE LOYALTY TO
 PRESIDENT IN CRISIS
Telegram Sent to Wilson Signed by President Adler-$25 Appropriated for Anti-Tuberculosis WOrk-TO
 Meet Next in Montgomery

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 Meet Next in Montgomery
 George NJ Plaisance of Birmingham heads the Alabama Travellers for the en- suing year. being elected at the final session yesterday afternoon. Associated with MT Plaisance are Louis Benish ol Selma, first vice president; E. P. Kirk patrick, Birmingham, second vice presl dent; M P Teller, Mobile, third vice president; c. M. Noble, Jr., Anniston fourth vice president; R. B. Chapman Andalusia, fifth vice president; A C Smith. Montgomery, secretary and treas urer The next meeting place is Mont gomery.
 One of the actions of the association al its final session was the adoption of resolution appropriating S25 to be donated to the work against tuberculosis in the state, and the adoption of resolutions strongly urging that the fight against i.literacy in the state be kept up.
 The secretary was instructed to send a telegram to President Wilson, assuring him of the loyalty of the A. T. A., which is as follows:
 .'To Hon. Woodrow Wilson, Washington D. C.:
 Tn this hour of national crisis, the Alabama Travellers, in convention as- senbled, representing 1000 commercial salesmen of our state, assure you oi our devotion and loyalty to the interest of our common country
 The messag ge was signed by Louis J Adler, president.
 CLOSES WITH BANQUET
 The convention of the A. T. A. closed with a banquet last night at the Hillman presided over by President George M Plaisance. The first speaker of the evening was Morris w. Bush, president or the Chamber of Commerce, who re- ferred to the worth of the travelling man to any community and invited them tc come to Birmingham often and stay as long as possible each time
 Commissioner John R. Hornady was the next speaker, and he had been assigned "The Travelling Man as Booster" for his subject. He asked the privilege of changing this, however, in the absence ot Superintendent of Education William F. Feagin, who had been scheduled to speak. MT. Hornady talked about the coming election of the proposed amend ment to the constitution of the state anent the illiteracy question, and strongly urged it's passage by the people, request ing the travellers to boost for it at all times.
 The next event on the programme was a song from w. c. Chambers, travelling man, and he was followed by Dr. George Eaves who spoke on the importance of the work of eliminating the great white plague from Alabama. You can't save the soul if you are going to neglect the physical side of life.' he said
 Louis J. Adler, retiring president, was called upon, and merely thanked the travellers for the honors they had heaped upon him and commended to them their choice for the man to be his successor George M. Plaisance.
 Emmet A. Jones, chief of the bureau of markets and immigration of the depart ment of agriculture at Montgomery, was the next speaker and he told the travel CTS something of the history of the pure food law, citing instances to o&show why dairy products did not come under the ban of this bill.
 Butter and cheese are especially ex- empt from the provisions of the pure food law said MT. Jones. Alabama milk products come under the state pure food law, but can we compete with the flood of interstate butter pouring in upon us free from all inspection? This is the question that is up to our federal Con gress, agitated first by the department of agriculture of Alabama. The oily tongue of the dairy union lobbyist is purring in the ear of the representatives; will you stand idly by and raise nc voice? If the people all knew that but ter was exempt from inspection under the pure food law they would rise up and demand that Congress recall that license to commit wholesale murder that they previously granted the great dairy in- l tf,,J cto Zoe
 TALK BY KENNEDY
 C. A. Morales was next on the pro- gramme for a song, and Bruce Kennedy, secretary of the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce, closed the evening with a thrilling talk.
 My fellow citizens, our country is at war" declared MT. Kennedy solemnly land at war with a foe that it is hard to measure. Our state is short two regi- ments. It is up to you travelling men to recruit the state's troops to war strength by advocating enlistment a s you go from own to town in your work, for within two weeks our really great President will call for from 100000 to So0'Ooo volunteers and we must be ready
 President Plaisance arose ana called upon w. c. Chambers to lead in singing ..God Be With Us Till We Meet Again to close the evening, when he was inter- rupted by Louis J. Adler, who proposed a silent toast to President Wilson, to the militia boys of Alabama and to the stars and stripes. As the last word left hi. mouth the travellers and their ladies leaped to the floor as one, each with 2 glass of pure water in his hand, whicf he held a'oft. At the signal the toas was drunk-in silence. And. as tho glasses descended to the tables, the frs strains of that old song God Be WILT Us Till We Meet Again, arose an' grew in volume until the entire body wal singing in unison. The sound died away on the last note and the travellers turned from the banquet hal, The convention was ended.