The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-27
CAMPAIGN ON ID 1000 PAYING MEMBERS ID SING S5 Annually Asked of 1000 Citizens to Keep the Sing
 Programme Going MRS. ADAMS MAKES
 APPEAL TO CITIZENS Campaign Started Yesterday and President of Community Sing
 Committee Calls on the Pub
 lie for Aid

In order that the community sing may be placed on a permanent basis during the indoor season, active campaign was started yesterday to obtain 1000 mem bers of the Community Sing association, who will contribute 5 annually.
 Mrs. w. J. Adams, who has been tire- less in her efforts to keep the Sunday programmes alive, has sent out the fol- lowing appeal:
 "The President says: The man who dis parages music as a luxury and non essential is doing the nation an injury. Music, now more than ever. is na- tion's need. There is no better way to express patriotism than through music.
 Our government has recognized the value Of music and has requested that through the council of defense commun- ity sings be organized throughout the country.
 Birmingham anticipated the wish of the government more than a year ago, and has carried on the most successful community sing in the south.
 These sings have been a great fac tor in promoting patriotic feeling in our city. The committee in charge asks your cooperation in carrying out the request of the government in continuing these patriotic meetings.
 'Will you become a yearly member of the Community Sing association by sending in your check for $5, thereby helping the committee in a work that has proven a patriotic inspiration to our people? Will you help us carry on?'
 MRS. W. J. ADAMS, President Community Sing Committee,
 1928 Twelfth Street, South, Birmingham.
 Ala"
 Among the members of the association are John H. Frye, J. l.. kaul, Mrs. w. c. Vail, R. D. Burnett, G. B. McCor- mack, w F. Aldrich, T. $. Pound, Henry Dozier, c. NJ. Blanchard, e. L.andgrebe, J. R. Adams, Erskine Ramsay, E. M. Tutwiler, P B. Bowers, W. B. Leedy, Herman Beck, J. Mercer Barnett, M. P. Worthington. Morris Bush, J. Frank Rushton, J. w. Donnelly, Mrs. Leo K. Steiner, Dr. J. D. s. Davis Col. T. O. Smith, Arthur Smith, Fred Moore, B. B. Burton, Mrs. R. F. Johnston, the Rev. James E. Coyle, G. w Bans, w. D. Nesbitt, I. c. Beatty, Donald Conner, Mrs. w. J. Adams, Mrs. Robert Lawrence, Sol Caheen, Mrs. w. M. Cosby. J. T. Dos ter. Louis Pizitz and Sig Bauer.
 The following letter from Robert Law renee, founder and first director of the Birmingham community sing" was read to the audience at the Jefferson last Sun day and stirred it to 8 high pitch of en- thusiasm:
 My Birmingham Friends: It is with much pleasure that I learn of the re- newed efforts being made by you to es- tablish the indoor sings.
 Since coming to New York and get ting more and more deeply acquainted with the great forces that are now at work to elevate and bless mankind, com munity singing has taken on new and holier meaning to me.
 Were I at liberty to give public ut- terance to some of the nationwide plans that are even now being perfected to establish community singing throughout the length and breadth of our land. am sure you would let nothing stand in ths way of making the greatest community singing center in the country living example of what can be done for peo- pie by getting together. by music and by brotherly love.
 Birmingham little knows what a great part she has played in the establishment of community singing, and, l might add, little realizes what great benent IL has been to her in spiritual way.
 When the plans are made public that are now being put into operation for
 
 assisting in the work of reconstruction by mass singing on the greatest scale ever known, let Birmingham be proud of the fact that she was pioneer in the movement and can boast of the larg- est and best community sing equipment in America and be able to point with pride to her continued meetings
 Stay with it, dear friends, and carry or the splendid work you set yourselves to do year and a half ago, and you may be sure the time is not far distant when you will thank God it Is in your midst.
 If my duties here will permit, l hope to have the pleasure of greeting you some Sunday before very long, when I shall take a few days vacation, and shall then tell you some of the inter- esting things that are now being pro- noted here for the days and years to come"