The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-21

". Carson Adams has accepted the chairmanshp for the city Of Bir- ningham in the greater Auburn campaign. Announcement was made to this effect following a conference yesterday afternoon between Mir. Adams and Charles F. DeBardeieben, general chairman
 MT. Adams is the senior member of the firm of Adams, Rowe & Nor man, wholesale coal dealers, and Is one of the best known business men in Birmingham. He has taken an active part in all civic campaigns in recent years and has attained un- usual success in the campaigns which he has headed, both in Birmingham and in Alabama.
 Only recently Mir. Adams as. chair man of the Mercy Home campaign, succeeded in raising slightly more than the amount necessary in record time and as a team leader he has always been among the first to SNSAA NAAC oJiA- D0i AH6 the Wal MI Adams was chairman of two of the most successful of the war cam I,aigns. He headed the second Lib erty loan campaign in Birmingham when Birmingham attained high rank among all the cities of the country by getting 50 per cent more than her quota before the time limit ex- pired.
 Later during the war he was state chairman of the united war work campaign when Alabama was one of the first 12 states to get her quota and was one of the few which went far beyond her quota before the time was up. In recognition of this record one of the war work huts in France was named for Alabama, this being one of the few states thus honored- A key to the hut and a cer- tificate acknowledging this fact were sent to Mir. Adams and will be part of AlaDama's war record in the department of archives and history.
 Need Is Urgent
 'The question to be considered in this Auburn campaign is not whether the time is good one for a money raising campaign, but whether the cause is meritorious and the need is so urgent that it should not be de- layed," said Mir Adams. "All of us who are familiar with the work which Auburn has done and is now doing know that the cause is meri torious and the situation at Auburn now is such that help is essen tial without any delay If the institu- tion is not to suffer irreparable in jury.
 (lf oo,,r~a huSipase copditionS now are not what they were during the high tide of war prosperity and inn mediately after, but the people of Birmingham and Alabama are all ways ready to lend assistance If the cause is sufficiently urgent and meri- torious. In this campaign, we are making provision for those who are temporarily short of cash by allow ing them to pay their subscriptions in several annual or semi annual in- stallments and those who desire to give can avail themsel ysS of this opportunity"
 Final preparations were made yes terday for the trip to Auburn to at tend the semi-centennial celebration which will be held tomorrow. Gen. Robert l.. Bullard, Governor Kilby, ex-Governor Conner and Dr. W. H.
  the principal speakers. The party leaves in two special Pullman cars this afternoon at o'clock over the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and will be entertained by the Mont gomery Auburn alumni at dinner at the Exchange hotel tonight. About 50 Birmingham business and profess sional men will be joined at Mont gomery by an equal number of prominent men from south Ala bama.
 Wednesday will be spent at Au- burn and late in the afternoon the visitors will be taken to Tuskegee, where they will inspect the Tuske- gee institute. The return to Mont gomery will be made Wednesday night and the party will reach Bir- mingham early Thursday morning on the an-American trafn-