The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
ALABAMA IS WELL REPRESENTED IN L|BERTYLOAN WORK Fourteen Members of the General Committee Are
 From This State WELLBORN IS HEAD OF CAMPAIGN HERE Some of the Most Prominent Men in the South Are to Aid in
 Making the Loan a
 Success
By HERvEY ". LAIRD

By HERyEY w LAIRD
 A'idnta, september 2.-(Special. )--Ala-
 oarna will have no cause to fee, neg
 ieoeeo Tn the organization for placing
 me second liberty loan, as a look over
 me ist or men set to service in the At
 .anta federal reserve district w,,, show
 Fourteen members of the genera, corn
 rMttee, inciuding it's head, are Alaham-
 'ans' not 10 mention the fact that the
 state also has the honor of the head of
 the entire federal reserve system.
 TO begin with, there Is MT. M B. Wall
 porn or Anniston, chairman of tho federal
 reserve board, as chairman of the gen.
 erai liberty loan committee for the sirtb
 olstrct Then comes w. C. Adams W.
 II. hettig and J. Kirk Jackson of R;r-
 ininsham MT. Kettig being also a mem
 ger or the Sixth district board, of which
 MT Wellborn Is chairman. Anniston has
 also w. H. Weatherly, who makes a good
 team mate for his neighbor and fellow
 townsman.
 from Albany there Is Thomas A. 0o"ies; Dothan. K. L. Forester; Flor
 ence' R. l.. Jones; Gadsden. T. S. Kyle. Huntsville, Robert Murphree: Selma E
 .. Melvin; Tuscaloosa, Frank NJ Moody. Demopolis J. D. Norwood; opelika N.
 r. Renfro. Any man at all posted on Aiaoama will know at glance that in
 tieAing the list of his helpers in the new oriVe Chairman Wellborn has fortified himselr so far as his home state goes. LEADERS OF THE CAMPAIGN It is worth while to have "close up. or some of the men who are to set the pace In the campaign from October 1 to november l, to sell the second Iihertv loan instailment., Head of it, as already noted, is M. B. Wellborn, chairman of me board of directors of the Sixth fed erai reserve district. He has held this | position since the organization of the sys-
 tenn and was in charge in placing the l last loan. He is an Anniston banker and has been quite prominent in Alaba ma ] business life for many years
 Another active man in the bond placing
 campaign, however, is w. C. Wardlaw. q bond expert of.Atlanta, chairman of the executive committee. Without nav or | compensation of any kind he Is giving his whole time to the campaign, as he did in placing the first loan. He has shown his
 genius as an organizer by the success of
 the first loan and is proving 1t by his 1 enective preparation for the second Dis
 trict, zone, county, city, community-aII | iall into line for Wardlaw. He has them
 placed with the best men for the work, and ready to answer Tets go," when the ! flag falls for the opening the race on Oc- tober 1. Wardlaw and success have come l to mean the same thing to Chairman l Wellborn.
 | Not less important to the movement, or
 less effective in past services thereto, is
 the again chairman of the committee on publicity, St. Elmo Messengale As an advertising leader in the south for many years, member of the advisory board Of the national advertising advisory
 board and head of the Southern Adver- Using Agents association, he Is we'll known in all sections. He headed the publicity organization for the Sixth. dis i trict for the last loan, and how we'll it was done is attested by special express sion of thanks from Secretary of the Treasury himself.
 CITIZENS COMMITTEE In his executive committee Chairman Wardlaw has set of wheel horses.
 Fred J. Paxon has long been active in
 Atlanta business movements. He Is a former president and a director of the Chamber of Commerce. St. Elmo Mes- sengale has been noted. Nell R. Wilkin-
 son was twice president of the Atlanta
 Chamber of Commerce, and Ivan E. AL
 len is now its president J. Epps Brown is first vice president of the Southern Bell Telephone company. Joseph A. Me- Cord Is governor of the federai reserve
 bank; w. H. Toole Is secretary and M. w. Bell cashier. Robert F. Maddox is the new first vice president of the American Bankers association and Henry W. Davis first vice president of the Lowry Ma tional bank. one of the oldest in the south.
 Tn their business relations these men touch and influence every line of activity. and they can bring to the movement an efficiency of effort that can hardly be es- timated in the extent of it's usefulness. Joe NJ. Slattery deputy secretary of the Atlanta federal reserve bank, is also from Anniston. and Is taking much Of the detail load from the shoulders of Mr. Wellborn.
 Except as mentioned. the business lines of th9 men named above are. ali in At
 lantaS MT. Paxon, Davison- -Paron- Stokes company, dry goods; MT. Wilkin- son, Ashcroft Wilkinson. fertilizers, also vice president the Southern States Life Insurance company MT Allen, Fielder & Allen. office fixtures, etc.; MT. Maddox president the Atlanta National bank It is of interest to recall that MT. Stokes of the above named dry goods firm Is from Anniston, and that MT. Ash craft. partner of Mr. Wilkinson is from Florence.