The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-29
Italian Army Leads in Se- curing Pledges and Reports
 S2OO,0OO in Sales
CORP. HOMER WHITED
 GIVEN OVATION AT
 LUNCH YESTERDAY
Judge John H. Miller Makes Patriotic Address and Urges the Purchase of
 Stamps and Bonds

4Ndtlolldi w dI odNlHSS Le%S NaliAS etiNA found Birmingham well up among the cities that stand back of the President and our boys lover there.' Her allied | armies and her citizens generally re- sponded nobly to the call of their coun- try and while the quota fixed for her was not reached, she will yet attain it long before the year ends.
 Reports read at the luncheon at the Tutwiler hotel at 1 o'clock were of the most flattering kind. Each of the allied armies turned in good account of the days work and from the outlying dis tricts word came that they would not be found in the laggard column when the final report is made.
 The campaign will be continued next week, with attachments of the allied armies canvassing districts not touched during the present week. During the three days of the intensive drive it has been impossible to get in touch with ev- l cry individual and to go into every sec 1 ton, but notwithstanding the brief time the results show that splendid work was done. Firm after firm and family after | family put themselves in the 100 per cent class and the 5000 class contains 1 the names of several hundred men and women and firms.
 1 The Italian army led in the work of selling bonds, reporting pledges aggre- gating almost $200,0OO while the Rainbow division, numbering among it's officers l and privates some of Birminghams most prominent women, turned in pledges in l @f m n tba one of it's officers, they had to work
 where the men had already got the cream
 No figures from the towns and districts 1 in Jefferson county outside of Brming- l ham had been received at headquarters up to 1 o'clock, but reports coming Tn during the day invariably indicated that l the quotas would be exceeded; in fact,
 two of the mining towns later reported | that they were over.
 l From the state the most encouraging
 reports were received Several of the
 county cnairmen wired during the day for more pledge cards, stating that their supplies had been exhausted. with the
 campaign not nearly completed
 Speaking of the closing day of the
 drive, State Director Crawford Johnson last night seid We have recelved a few reports from over the state and they
 
 counties going over the top enthusiasm l everywhere I feel very much encour- aged oyer the situation and confidently | believe that when the final returns are in Alabama will be among the leaders in War Savings as she has been II everythig else in the way of war work rhe luncheon yesterday was the lasl vntil next Friday when the allled
 armies will meet to make thelr ma 1 reports Corporal Homer Whited ol Ressemer who has recently returned from France wearing a war medal as
 evidence of his heroic conduct oVel
 there was guest at the luncheon
 When he was introduced by Field Mar shal l. Frank Rushton, the men ano
 women rose to their feet and gave him
 an ovation. He made short talk
 State Director Crawford Johnson, ex-
 bibiting a $50 gold coin dated 1891
 and molded in octagon shape, saylng
 "John NJ. Bradley came to me with tals
 coin and said he had bought $lee
 worth of stamps and wanted to ous
 more. but he had no money except tnls
 coin. I asked how much It was wor'n i He said about s100. I gave him Slot
 for it and he bought stamps. l wani to say that whenever Mir. Bradley brings me $100, whether it be in ! week or 0 years, he can nave the coli
 back It is very valuable"
 The University quartet, on the Dill
 at the Lyric theatre this week, sans several selections to the delight or th'
 audience who wanted more, put oe cause of limited time they were no
 nermitted to respond to the encores.
 Mrs. Jones. reporting on the actlvi ties of the women, submitted state
 ment showing pledges secured by th'
 volunteer relief section amounting tc $93,S40, large pledges s7522, and th' , Rainbow division $55,67S, which, WILT the $31 900 sold at the Bijou on the oc' casion of Miss Jolivets appearance : there. made a total of s131,S32.
 Auditor o. D. Wilson reportet
 pledges amounting to s17o,745, distrib
 uted as follows: Belgian army, $4l,Sia
 British army, s29,S1o; Italian army
 $61,655; French army, $36,93o. Tcta pledges secured during the weei r amounted to $463.350. exclusive of tt' Rainbow and other women's divisions
 Boyles reported 5000 and Elyton s5l47
 Edgewood s1290.
 Judge John H. Miller, introduced b. } Field Marshal Rushton. made a pa l triotic talk. saying among other thing that we are beginning to realize tha we are living under war conditions.
 "No nation ever rose to the dignit of a great nation that had not expert l enced war There is not a nation en 1, igaged in this conflict thot does no T know what war is. We did not occup 1.-the northern part of this continen
 without a contest. What do we want t see come out of this conflict? Thi
 struggle is the only one that has eve Involved the whole world. Just on
 principle differentiates the nations a
 war. It is the principle of governmen as an agency of the people and tn
 people as an agency of the government The allies stand for the first. the Ger mans for the second.
 P I've want no peace until the sol diers of Italy, France, England an
 America, arm in arm, march throug the gates of Berlin and place tn Kaiser where he will do no more harr during the present generation But 7 bigger thing than that. Our flag where if never was before. It is O foreign soil, and I want to see it com back unstained, unsettled, not only as
 symbol, but as standard recognize by the world as standard for some (Continued on Page Nine)