The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-25
"Son1e Chairr71en''

for the third Liberty Loan and F. M. Jackson chairman for the zone The campaign was week old before I be- came connected with the publicity end. Harry Coffin had been spoken of as d typical corporation man, autocratic and hard as nails. l was surprised to lind him one of the most delightful per , sonalities with whom I had ever come in contact, generous in his apprecia- tion of the work of his subordinates and tireless in his devotion to the task in hand. He taught me to respect telegraph blank, for I saw him raise about half a million dollars with few pungent words on Western Union and Postal transmission stationery. The third loan was really the first of the "peoples" loans and new meth
 ods and appeals had to be used by both Mir Jackson and Mir. Coffin. How effectively this was done Jefferson county's record shows.
 By the way, if the campaign had continued a little longer, Harry Coffin would have established a first-class reputation as a speaker He develop ] ed wonderfully in that way. "I don't | like this talking, but there seems to be no escape from it." he would say, pologetically.
 | Murray Brown was chairman, as ev- l erybody knows, of the fourth Liberty
 Loan campaign, and the tremendous success he made of it is still fress in | the public mind As harmonizer and inspirer. Murray Brown has few equals Everybody connected with the campaign-and the organization was l the largest and most complex Of all | learned to love him.
 1 J. D. Moore was chairman for the
 zone in that drive He kept his stem | ographers busy on letters to his county i aI.o;r no members of their | organizations and he got wonderful re- suits As letter writer, MT. Moore | is in class A.
 l This article is stringing out, but 1t | could not be complete without refer | ence to two other chairmen-Morris
 Bush, who headed the Red Cross drive last spring, and W. c. Bonham, who
 was chairman of the united war relief
 campaign last fall. Morris Bush is the l "deceivingest" man I ever met. If one
 only sa whim at dinner or similar function, the impression would be that Mr. Bush was about as gay a butter fly as ever fluttered in human form But to see him at the desk is to get a new light on the man. There he IS all business and quick business
 1 What struck me most forcfbly in my observation of MT. Bonham was his capacity for work and the regu- larity with which he put the spirit level eon every transactlpn.
 By the way, Crawford Johnston and
 J. w Donnelly, as state director and vice state director of the 1918 War
 Savings campaign, made as well-bal-
 anced a team as one could find in ] search of several moons.
 | Now, like woman In her post script, I am coming to the meat of the matter. The fifth drive is practically
 at hand. R. A. ("Bob") Porter is the
 chairman for the zone and John l. Raul for the county. They should get and I believe they will get, the sup
 port from their committees and from the people which their predecessors received. True. the war is over, bat the obligations upon the patriot are as binding as ever. It is unthinkable
 that the exaltation which all Of us ex-
 perienced and manifested during the
 war was a delusion.
 No, It is the sacred fire, and 1t will flame again in the fifth campaign.