The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-02
SPEAK WEDNESDAY \ FOR LIBERTY BONDS Moving Picture Theatres All 1 Agree to Plan FIRMS SUBS RIB B Employers All Over City Are Help ing Their Employees to Buy N Bonds on the Install
 ment Plan

\ Prominent Birmingham speakers I who will compose a flying squadron | te promote the immediate sale of lib- ] city loan bonds, will address gath I eiings in all theatres and moving pie { ture shows next Wednesday night at 1 S!30f and 9:30 o'clock, according to l information at the office of the local | liherty loan committee yesterday even 1ng. Managers of all the theatres and l picture houses have agreed to stop the shows twice during the night in l o1der that the speakers may take the I stage and explain all features of the liberty loan.
 I. is also planned to have the speak ers meet at all other public gatherings 1 on Wednesday night, the liberty loan committee believing this to be one of the most effective methods of dispos- | ing of the bonds.
 Efforts are being made to get speakers for the theatres at Bessemer and Ensley. the managers having agreed to stop their shows also |f " usual activity around the central headquarters marked yesterdays safe iof the bon1s in Birmingham. Good reports were received from all busi- hess houses and scores called to get all possible information.
 Thornton Estes If the Estes lum- Per company, yesterday informed the committee that he had purchased bonds outright and wo{'d sell them to employees at the rate of s5 per month for the $50 bond and s1o per month for the s100 bonds. He is urging his men to purchase the bonds.
 After all field agents had been or- dered to the home office to att,nd an
 Important conference" the Tyler Grocery company had H. NJ Sterae, as- sistant secretary of the committed, on hand at the store to explain to em- |, bonds. Every emp1oye attended the J meeting and much enthusiasm was shown when MT. Sterne announced the purpose of the meeting. Negroes, as we'll as whites, attended the meeting. and the result was the company agreed to sell the bonds for s1 per week for the $50 bond.
 Thirty-one out of 33 employees of tHe engineering department of the Alabama Power company have sub scribed for the bonds as a result of the activity of O. T. Thurlow and J. A. Girnit, members of that depart ment Of the company The two men l promised to cooperate until all mem Rers agreed to take a bond and the fesult was all but two asked for them. Thfs was announced by Arthur We'll kborn.
 With view of giving the widest publicity the committee requests that everyone having float in the Regis tration Day parade advertise the lib- erty bonds sale in conspicuous man. ner on each float
 Henry F. Beaumont, on recommenda tion of the Birmingham Ad club. has been named secretary of the publicity committee and his duty will be to see to 1t that the liberty loan bonds are given the proper publicity, every phase being explained to prospective buyers.
 One hundred rubber stamps, which are to be used by the business houses on envelopes mailed over the country are being sent out from the head quarters Your Patriotic Duty-Buy a Liberty Loan Bond" will appear on all letters going out of business. houses hereafter, or as soon as the stamps have been distributed.
 The committee has announced that speeches will be made at the follow ing theatres next Wednesday night:
 Lyric, Bijou, Alcazar, Vaudette, Tri- anon, Strand, Colonial, Odeon Two Rialto, Princess, Odeon One, Majestic. Best and two negro theatres, Savoy and Utopia