The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05
UNIVERSITY SEES
 VICTORY AS TEAMS
 COLLECT $505,0OO
Birmingham Campaign to End This Week With Goal of $350,O00 in Sight
 of Workers

Ultimate victory for the University | of Alabama million dollar campaign
 was freely predicted when reports on work of the past week placed the total at s5s5,2S6 Saturday. optimis- tic of success, alumni of the univer- sity will assemble on the campus | next Friday for a celebration to be held in connection with the Alabama
 Louisiana State football game and
 including many other entertainment | features.
 | Before Friday the efforts of work
 CTS in all parts of the state will be centered upon raising the total to l not less than s750,000 A clean-up campaign to complete Birminghams s 1 quota of sS50000 Is to start. Mont ] gomery workers will work to obtain total of s50,o00 and activity in the l interest of the university in many other eenters has been arranged for 1 the remaining days before the meet
 ing Friday.
 Gratifying progress in the move- ment to Keep open the doors of the
 university" was made during the past
 week. Birmingham obtained new
 subscriptions of about $S0.000 and
 reached total of s235.000. Montgom- cry raised It's total to $43,9s4 with
 new subscriptions of s3.34S for the
 week. Gadsden reported additional
 subscriptions of s4.4o5. and Syla- cauga's total for the week was s2,18s. | Amounts reported in new subserlp- | tions by other cities as a result of tho 1 past weeks work were: Albany De-
 catur. st,320; Talladega. s730; Hunts l vile, $500; Anniston, S450; Dothan. | S400, and Eufaula, s250.
 Mobile Next Field
 Mobiles campaign for the univer-
 sity will not start untLk after the
 meeting at the university Friday. The
 campaign in that city was postponed on account of the port amendment campaign.
 Mobile alumni, under the leadership of Thomas M. Stevens attorney and
 city chairman for the university cam paign. are now preparing to raise
 their quota of $100,00o. Thia addition
 to the total raised In other parts of the state and additional amounts
 which are expected from other
 sources will carry the total above
 the million dollar mark.
 An interesting program has been arranged for Friday and hundreds of alumni-and friends of the university are expected to go to Tuscaloosa for the day. An assembly at the audi torium in Morgan hall at Il o'clock, luncheon to the visitors at 1 o'clock and the football game at o'clock are the principal events of the pro- gram. number of social events in which fraternities and other stu dent organizations will entertain the visitors have also been arranged.
 Many Honor Guests Guests of honor at the celebration will include men who have made large subscriptions to the university expansion fund and alumni who have | given unusual service in the cam l paign.
 Among those especially invited to | be guests of the university are Col. | l.. B. Musgrove of Jasper; Thomas | w. Martin, president of the Alabama | Power company; John II. kaul of Tuscaloosa; Benjamin Russell of Alexander City; c. B. Mccormack, Former Governor B. B. Conner. Jesse F. Stallings and Erskine Ramsay of Birmingham.
 Borden Burr, state chairman. will preside and President George II. Denny will introduce the guests of honor Recognition on behalf of the university for unusual services will be given to Jeiks Cabaniss, chairman of the Birmingham committee, and Hill Ferguson, vice chairman; R. E. Steiner, Jr,. Montgomery chairman; R. H. Halter of Boligee. and Dr. Joseph Leland and>R. P. McDavid. Jr.. who have made an extraordinary rapnrd a rantaira In inc Rir- mingham campaign.
 New Teams Monday Birmingham's campaign for the coming week will be directed upon completing the quota of s35o. .000 be- fore Friday and for this work sps- cial committee of 50 picked men has been organized Victor H. Hanson. publisher of the Birmingham News, VIII address the alumni at the lunch con Monday at the Tutwiler hotel, which will start the weeks work. At the Monday luncheon the pres ent teams will make their final re- ports and the new force of 50 men will be instructed in the details of campaign for the final days. The group selected to~raise the remainder of Birmingham's quota is composed of alumni who have worked at va rious times during the campaign so far, and have demonstrated not only their loyalty to the university but their ability to work efficiently in the final drive. These 50 men in groups of three each will work Tues day, Wednesday and Thursday. and large reports are expected from them.
 The total of $235,00 which has al- ready been subscribed in Birming- ham includes subscriptions of S108,- 023 by 352 alumni living in this city. This is considered remarkable rec ord, as tue average subscription by alumni is s306.88. Of the alumni subscribers, PIP have given s305, the alumni quota, or larger amounts.
 Others Assist
 Subscriptions by non-alumni to the support of the university, amount ing to $305 or more. which have been obtained since the last report, follow:
 Hrskine Ramsay s5,000, Mrs. F. W. Barrett $1000, Birmingham Slag com pany sf,000, Southern Laboratories Supply company S1,000, Henry Upson Sims $500, Crane & Co. $500. kilby Frog and Switch company $500, Dren- nen Company department stores $500. the Rushton corporation $500, w. w. ! Crawford, Sr. $500. Mir. and Mrs. Ira Watson $500, R. l. Ingalls $500. Bur- ger Dry Goods company $500. "A Friend" $500, James Bonnyman. s45o. Alabama Engraving company $400, II. K Milner $305, T. D. Cromer s305, ! J. M. Acton $305, c. w. Shackelford $so5, E. W. Tucker s3O5. M. J. Gerson y3o5, pr. w. E. Prescott $305, A. c. Jackson s305.
 Many Alumni Give
 Subscriptions by alumni of the uni l versity of ss05 or more since the last