The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
MUSIC AND ORATORY AMONG FEATURES OF LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE Plan of Action Agreed Upon at Conference of Leaders Held Yesterday LIBERTY CHORUS TO
 PUBLIC SINGING Union to Donate Services
 During Campaign-Downtown
 Speaking Arranged For

It will be tuneful campaign.
 The fourth Liberty Loan campaign in Jefferson county will sing itself. as well as talk itself, into the hearts of the people.
 Speakers and singers will go together in the city and in the county.
 Plans for this unity of action by the orators and the Liberty chorus of the Music Study club, and for their transpor tation from point to point were agreed upon yesterday morning at a conference at Liberty Loan headquarters in the lief. ferson County Bank building, at which were present: County Chairman Murray Brown of the fourth Liberty Loan com mittee; Mrs. H. H. Shell. county chair man of the womans Liberty Loan com mittee; Mesdames Houston Davis, V. Il. Hanson and John Turner of the Music Study club; Mrs. Will E. Brooks, lieu tenant of the Red Cross motor corps; T. J. Crittenden, chairman of the four minute speakers of Alabama; H. D. Gull len, secretary of the four-minute mems organization; Judge Hugh Locke, chair man of the speakers committee of the fourth Liberty Loan committee; and Hu- bert A. Drennen, chairman of the auto mobile committee.
 JOIN IN SINGING
 The plan is to have the people at all gatherings join in the singing with the Liberty chorus leading To Mrs. John Turner was assigned the duty of selecting popular. easy-to-sing patriotic songs and have them printed in leaflet form for dis tribution among the audiences The au- tomobile committee and the motor corps will supply the cars and the drivers CTS and the chorus.
 Headquarters for this three-fold organi- zation will be established on the Civic association floor of the Jefferson County Bank building, in charge of Mrs. Thorn as Brown, telephone number Main 7l09 All requests for speakers and singers should be addressed to this source, and it is urged that these requests be made at least 24 hours in advance of the oc- better whenever practicable.
 Here's another combination of muslca! and oratorcal power: A motor truck, commanded by Col A. NJ. Waples, and carrying a bugler and drummer, and quartet of four-minute speakers two men and two women, will move through the streets of the city, drawing crowds and stopping at prominent corners to allow the speakers to shoot their quick fire verbal shells into the receptive ears of the multitude.
 Music again: Gen. J. D. Rosenberger of the quartermasters corps of the allied armies has appointed Victor Wahn of the Musicians union as colonel on his staff. The members of the Musicians union have donated their services to the cam paign, and 1t is the duty of Colonel Wahn to attend to the distribution of this welcome talent.
 DAVIDSON LEADER
 He has named Prof. Frank A. David son as conductor of orchestra music and Harry Turner as bandmaster. This as- sures music for the luncheons of the allied armies and for the open-air oc- casions of the campaign.
 It is curious to note how strong the song thought is in the minds of the people, as the great campaign ap- breaches. and how the ancient lines of conservatism are breaking up. Earl Lay, field representative of the Fourth Lib erty Loan committee of the Sixth fed eral reserve district, says the people of Morgan county will have an all-day singing with basket dinner, and pa triotic speeches on Sunday September 29, and this is probably just one of number of Sunday meetings of similar character in the counties composing the four zones in his Jurisdiction This would seem to indicate that the people of rural Alabama now regard war work as a sacred thing, to be done on the day which they have been taught for un broken generations, to hallow.
 Chairman Murray Brown yesterday an nounced the appointment of J. E. Half ner of Bessemer as member or the executive committee of the organization
 PATRIOTIC SPIRIT
 MT Haffner has been prominent and active in war work, and the appointment is regarded as a recognition of his abil- ity and of the patriotic spirit of the peo- pie of Bessemer.
 Private John Scott the Canadian sol dier and orator, and Field Representa- five Earl Iay left Monday for pre- campaign speaking tour in Lamar, Fay atte Winston and Walker counties which will conclude Thursday night at Jasper. MT Lay will return to head ouarters afer that date. but Private Scott will remain in Walker county for a few days longer, working with the four-minute men.
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