The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-24
SPEAKERS INDORSE
 T. P A. CAMPAIGN TO
 ADVERTISE STATE AT GREAT MEETING
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western farmers invited to come and cul- tivate them.
 2 Mir. Rapport stated that this was being done in Pickens county and that new people were already coming into the county as a result of the movement.
 MT. Bowman explained that when the committee first took up this work I they had in mind advertising Ala bama in a small way at the Portland J convention, that after they got into ! the subject they enlarged it to in- clude supplemental publicity in the f way of newspaper and magazine ad- vertising in all parts of the country and then extended it to embrace the whole world.
 A gazette will be printed for dis ] trbution. It will contain brief his I tory of the state and an itemized list i of all the natural sesources, minerals, products of the soil and the forest; rail and waterways. Statistical data i about crops, population, manufacture { and everything that prospective set 1 tier or investor may be interested in. These will be distributed at Portland sent to civic bodies in all cities, li- 1 brabies newspapers and to the Ameri- can consuls in foreign lands. More J than 10000 of these will be printed l RESOLUTIONS 1 The following resolution, read and 1 introduced by Mir. Black, secretary of ! the Montgomery Chamber of Com- merce. was adopted by unanimous vote:
 Whereas: The resources and riches of the state of Alabama have been in- adequately represented,
 And whereas, in our opinion the plans proposed by the Travellers Pro- tective Association of Alabama will if carried to a conclusion, aid 8 great | aIxrip 1afa and will be of great advantage to the citizens and the state of Alabama.
 '.Therefore, be it resolved, That the plans as outlined be. and are hereby. approved by this representative meet ing of citizens of the state of Ala bama.
 Be it further resolved. That the chairman of this meeting be author- ized to appoint two representative eiti- zens from each of the congressional districts of the state of Alabama, and also chairman. and that the chair man and the representatives so named be and constitute an executive com mittee
 Be it further resolved. That saie executive committee be and the same is given full and plenary power:
 '1. To arrainge for the subscrip- tion to and collection of the neces- sary funds to carry out these plans.
 ''2. To supervise the distribution of these funds and to make any con tracts and arrangements necessary for their distribution.
 3- To arrange for a central board or federation of the chambers of commerce in different sections of the state to function together in order to insure the permanency of these plans or to establish such other plans as the executive committee in it's dis cretion deems best to secure such per manency.
 4. Io present to the legislature and the officials of the state the question ol securing state aid for the purpose of making permanent this project ana of increasing its scope.
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE In accordance with the resolution. the .oas.master announced the following as | the executive committee:
 Chairman. R. A. Brown. president of | ne Birmingham Chamber of Commerce. 1 Wee chairman. pr. R. H. Mccaslin,