The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-22
Oversubscription of 75 Per Cent of Quota Gives State Sixth Place Among
 States of Nation
WORKERS OVERCOME
 OF FLOODS DEADLY EPIDEMIC
Opposition to Men of Seven War Camp Agencies Disappears-Jew-
 ish Contributors Vote
 Straight Ticket" to a Man

per cent above this states quota Tor
 the united war work campaign ap-
 pears all the more remarkable since
 the final figures came in from the
 wealthy and populous east and opu-
 lent.-west. 4--s=-
 Alabama originally was asked for
 $767,250. Later, when it became evil
 dent that s17o,5oo,ooO would not pc
 sufficient for the needs of the seven
 war camp agencies united for this
 campaign, 50 per cent oversubscrip-
 tion was asked To this appeal Ala
 bama responded with s1,S47.SS0.
 "The campaign in Alabama is still
 more remarkable when we realize the
 chain of circumstances with which our
 workers had to contend" said Carson
 Adams, chairman of the state execu-
 tive committee, in reviewing the drive
 Thursday morning.
 "One of our handicaps was the re-
 cent floods in the river valley sections
 of the state where there was great loss of property, principally crops, which
 necessarily decreased the amount of
 the contributions to be expected of
 those that suffered
 WORKERS STRICKEN
 'Influenza has been a serious ob-
 stacla Many of our workers, inciue-
 ing a number of the county chairmen,
 were stricken with the illness during the campaign. The epidemic seriously
 interfered x with the inspirational
 meetings that had been planned and is still so severe in some parts Of the state that we have never yet been able to hold single meeting at
 number of important centers.
 rhn,, aoy I hrCt nh hCto If the thought that there would be 10 further need for work of this kind. It
 was natural for this thought to come to the people with the signing of the
 armistice and that it should spread rapidly In the cities where larSe part of the population is accustomed to reading the daily newspapers and tc changing its point of view on more complete information, it was soon real ized that this thought was erronous and that the cessation of hostilities would greatly increase, instead of diminish, the needs of our soldiers and sailors if they are to be held to high tardards of morality to which they have been brought through these seven agencies. This was not true ta so great an extent in the rural sec tions where information travels more slowly. the result being that the peo- pie fRf our cities, such as Mobilc, Birmingham, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa, Selma, Albany and Decatur oversub scribed their quotas while some of the rural counties fell short.
 "The oyersubScription in the cities, however, offset the deficits in the rural counties to such an extent that Alabama as whole Is on record with subscrib- tion of 75 per cent in excess of her quota and ranks sixth among the states of the nation in percentage of oversub- scription; being far in the lead in this l respect over any other of the states in the southeastern military department. "Alabamians can justifiably point with pride to the F0eord their people have 1 made in this war abroad, on the high seas and here at home. They have shown their appreciation of the worth of the 167th infantry and it's history making | heroism with the Rainbow division in France and of her naval heroes, who, like Ingram of Pratt City, added lustre to the records of American seamanship." OPPOSITION TO MERGER Opposition to the merger of the seven war camp agencies, Y. M. c. A., Y. w. c. A., K. of C., Jewish Welfare Boa\, War Camp Community service, AmerIA can Library association and the Salva- tion Army, disappeared in Alabama as the campaign progressed and very few ! persons designated their gifts for the exclusive use of any one of these or 1 ganizations. There is no record at state headquarters showing that any Jewish contributor, for instance, stipulated that l his or her contribution should be de- voted to the uses of the Jewish Welfare | board
 l Chairman Adams and State Campaign | Director w. S. Stallings, expressed pride | for Alabama in the manner with which 1 the people of this state met the supreme test of genuine Americanism and they a tca a qch1GVH6 ; to the workers in the various district and county organizations. The allied armies of Birmingham and Jefferson county did the usual and expected thing. The county's quota was s169,565 and it's | subscription was $435,000.
 Dr. W. B. Holmes, who returned from 1 France for the drive, has written for his passports and will go hack to the 1 boys. Dr. J. c. Broomfield, who greatly 1 assisted in the campaign, has returned | to West Virginia. Major Nusbaum and
 Private Mason have returned to their 1 Red Cross work Their labors in the campaign were immensely valuable. | Borden Burr, after his return from l tour of a service with the Y. M. c. A. | in France, gave almost his entire time to the campaign and made more than
 45 speeches in different parts of the state with telling effect.
 ] Dr. Holmes, though stricken with the
 Spanish influenza, in the midst of the
 campaign, insisted upon leaving the hos
 rital against the advice of his physi- elan and resumng the work for the I cause as soon as he was physically able l to do so. Dr. Holmes received teie- gram Thursday saying that his son, Hen l ry Grady Holmes, who was severely i wounded while serving as member of
 the 1S7th infantry. has been returned to 1 this country and is now in military
 hospital on Ellis Island