The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-16
Alabama Press
State Editors Discuss Proposal to
 Move Auburn

Gadsden Times-News: !Alaba- mians do not want the A. and M. college moved from Auburn, and the Montgomery movement will fail because the motive is d selfish one. And again. the college would lose S60, 900 yearly it receives from the federal government.
 Opelika News: If it is so essen- tial to the success of the A. P. I. that 1t be moved to Montgomery. we cannot understand just why the alumni of the university are not calling mass meeting to demand the transferring of that institution to the capital city. If little is good certainly more is better. Why ask for only half loaf when ask ing costs so little?
 Dothan Eagle: Nothing may come of this discussion started about moving Auburn college to Montgom- cry, but the college is getting a good deal of free advertising. Much can be said for and against the move, but it would appear that the Montgomery rooters have slightly the best of the argument, although Opelika and Lee county, and the town of Auburn, must be heard from.
 Greenville. Advocate: Auburn. trensplanted to more fertile soil, would double in size in few years, while the halls that echoed to the voices of the old Auburn students would know. another contingent of Alabama boys and girls who would be as loyal to the same old college under another name. Every boy and girl who goes to college profits | the state just that much more and the eventual result of the moving of the'old college would be to "make two blades of grass grow where one grew before"
 Montgomery Times: If we un- derstand the situation, the univer- sity is in fine shape, most of the buildings are comparatively new and the others in good repair and
 ready for long service, while at
 Auburn what buildings they have are antiquated and out of re- pair and the dormitory just destroy ed has to be rebuilt; and then tha soil at Auburn Is not fit for d0mon- stration work desired. Montgomery asks for the whole loaf as to Au- burn.
 | Greensboro Watchman: Mont gomery is making a strenuous ef- fort to have the proper authorities move the Alabama Polytechnic insti- ute from Auburn to some ulace near Montgomery, and the city makes most attractive bid for the school. If the polytechnic is to be moved, the present is the time, be- fore the proposed building program Is beeoun. We feel a deep sympathy for the town t'.. Auburn, for Greens boro has gone through the Ire movaP'' process in other. days and lost out after a hard, fight. The city folks generally get what they go out after. They have the 'pull"
 and the money.
 Andalusia Star: Perhaps there
 is nothing that will tend more to provoke strife than the proposal for any reason to remove seat of ] learning. that is college or uni
 versity, from the place where it was first established and where for many decades it has been considered a fixture. Many people who love Au-
 burn may for one reason and an-
 other heartily acquiesce in ths pro- posal to remove the school to Mont
 gomery. But there will be many
 more loyal and true devotees of the
 old Auburn with her present setting. with her history, her struggle and
 even her isolation, if you please,
 who will leave no stone unturred 10
 thwart any purpose or plan tu dis
 mantle the present Auburn and
 build newer and even Q greater
 institution near the borders of oxe k Il