The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-24
SPEAKERS |NDORSE
 T.P.A. CAMPA|G ID
 ADVERTISE STATE AT GREAT MEETING
Representative Gathering of Business Men Give Hearty Approval of Campaign to
 Give Alabama Her
 'Place in the Sun"


 "place in the sun" is assured as the direct result of the great gathering of business and trav- cling men at the Tutwiler Ho- tel last night.
 Coming here from all parts of the state with the single purpose of planning and pre- pairing for the unique adver- Using campaign launched by the Alabama division of the Travellers Protective Associa-
 tion the preliminaries were quickly arranged following a number of interesting and elo- quent talks on the state and | her resources and opportuni- ties.
 ] Dinner was served in the ballroom at 6:30 o'clock, with over 200 men present Borden Burr, acting as toastmaster. kept things moving at a lively pace and by | 10 clock, when the meeting came to an end, the story of Alabama had been par tially told, the origin and plans for the ladvertising campaign outlined, resolutions indorsing the plan and pledging the sup port and cooperation of all those pres ent and the organizations they repre- sented adopted, and an executive com mittee composed of chairman, vice chairman, a secretary and twenty mem | bers appointed to take charge of the work
 1 Practically every county in the state was represented by the 100 or more visl- tors present and the great project un- dertaken by the Alabama travelling mefi received the hearty indorsement of every- one.
 | All eight candidates for the United States Senate had been invited to be present, but on account of previous en- I agreements, made prior to receipt Of the Invitations only two of them were able to be present. These two, former Gov Emmett O'Neal and Judge Samuel D' IWeakleN, made very strong presentations of Alabama s resources and possibilities flor industrial and agricultural develop Iment J. Thomas Heflin sent letter oi regret.
 The first thing on the programme fol flowing dinner was the personal introduc- ton of the local and visiting men pres lent, each person arising and stating hi; name, occupation and address.
 | PLANS AND PURPOSES
 The purpose of the meeting, Samue Bowman, of the Travellers Protective AS sociation explained, was to bring 10 gether a number of representative citi' zens of the various counties in order tha' they might be acquainted with the plans land purposes of that organization in put
 ting on the advertising campaign.
 Alabama first in the roll call of states
 he said, is seldom mentioned in the news lpapers, magazines and other periodicals lexcept in way that does not reflect very
 much credit on the state. This cam paign was conceived and is being car ried out with the view to getting the right kind of publicity
 | The committee which has had the mat ter in charge up to the present time ha' arranged for the expenditure of some thing like $50,0o0 in newspaper, magazin' and periodical advertisna, slides an' moving pictures. floats and lectures . l Portland. Ofe., uuIlllS lhC SchNSiiNiSih the Travellers Protective Association, allt books and other literature to be distrib iuted at Portland and all over the Unltes : States and the British Empire
 ALAEAMA'S RESOURCES
 The train on which the Alabama dele I gation and visitors to the Portland con 1 vention travel will be decorated wsti | flags. pennants streamers and banner h. +1.o nf abama'S vast StQft Iof natural wealth-farm, mine and fac , ltorv products, her agriculture and i've : stock her climate, water courses the Ter ltilitv of her soil, her schools and church | es her cities, and in fact everything tha is attractive and desirable as hom
 and place to work and produce Ii This is the first project Of the Kin' l ever undertaken by body or comihercia 1 travellers. and is being prepared on / more elaborate scale and in more ei } fective way than any previous effort D. iany organization.
 Starting with the idea of arranging ' flew floats for the Portland parade, w. II 2 ,Mabrv. secretary of the Birmingham post 3 land Samuel Bowman. his co-worker ' : lthe cause and their advisers and helper
 lin Bjrmingham and from other parts
 lthe state. the scheme grew from day '
 lday until it embraced everything ai' Ievery activity in the state. < '. Tn few remarks preliminary to m
 Producing the speakers, Toastmaster Bor
 den Rurr stated that the first and th
 Hast advertisement that Alabama ever ha ? luntil the World War was when an Ais S lbama Sequoia Indian migrated and foun
 Ia new abode among the big trees l a lcalifornia which were named for him. 2 Tn the World War the Fourth Ala i lbama regiment made the name Of m . state famous and wherever in france LII : itravefer goes he hears about the pos s from Alabam'.
 fl The speakers were limited to five mn
 Iutes end among them were former to. z Emmett O'Neal Dr. N. A. Barrett, pres t ldent of the Birmingham city commis a sion, who welcomed the visitors to IT 2 city: Judge Samuel D. Weakley pr !
 III. McCassln. pastor of the First Pres : lbyterian Church, of Montgomery: Juds 1lW w. Brandon, of Tuscaloosa; frank Derby, of Sumter county; Ben l. hal port, the Pickens county editor; Maj l Murphy and John Sparrow. the latter es plaining the cost and methods of advei Using.
 III Slides and moving pictures showing n natural resources and the rail and rive | Transportation system. the factories, mil land shops of the state were shown, MI IIBowman explaining them as they ar Ipeared on the screen
 PUBLICITY BUREAU. In his speech Judge Brandon said ther should be established on Capitol Hill l IIMontgomery a state publicity bureau, permanent institution, which would kee Alabama before the eyes of the woric