The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-10
Enthusiasm Marks Big
 Auburn Alumni Rally
Housing Addresses Made by Speakers in Campaign to Raise $1,0OO,OOO for Alabama Polytechnic In- stitute-Presdent Dowell, Chairman De-
 Bardeleben and Others Heard at
 Largely Attended Meeting

That the Auburn alumni of Bir- mingham and Jefferson county are determined to pay the debt they owe their alma mater and their state for the training they received at Auburn by making q success of the campaign to raise si000.000 was the spirit voiced at the Auburn mass meeting at The l1tI1man hotel last night.
 The occasion which was attended bN several hHndred alumni was made notable hy the attendance of the famous Auburn band and the talks by Charles F. peBardelebcn, general chairman of the campaign; w. Car son Adams, chairman for Birming- ham and pr. Spright Dowell. presi- dent of the institution.
 When Dr. Dowel told of the con ditiens existing at the institution, the spirit of sacrifice which had in spired the faculty of the school for many years and of the needs of Au- burn so that the school might prop erly serve the hundreds and even thousands of ambitious young boys and girls being turned out each year by the high schools. he aroused the alumni to q keen sense of personal responsibility of their duty to their alma mater and to their state.
 Many Speakers Heard
 Other spea kers were John Davis, county chairman; cliff PadeH, J. II. Watson, Thomas W. Bragg, William Lacey. pr w. eE Hnds. col. R. A. Mitchell and others.
 Chairman peBardeleben. told of the support which the campaign was re- eefving throughout the state and made an earnest plea for every Au- burn man to do his part and not wait for those of greater financial means to put the campaign over lie e&- plained the plan, to have every alumnus of Che institution, whether he attended one week or four years, to assume quota of S250 for which he was individually responsible.
 Carson Adams, city chairman, made an able presentation of the conditions at Auburn as revealed to him and 30 other business men on a recent visit and analyzcd the educational Situa- ton in Alabama which made it duty for every man to aid in the cam paig=n. Mr. Adams pledged his best eflorts to make the campaign sue cess in Birmingham and told of the me hods of organization by which he hupea ta raise the quota assigned
 
 Birmingham
 Dr. Doseli Ar0uses Alumni
 The alumni were aroused to high pitch of enthusiasm by the address cf Dr. Sprieht Dowell, who was high lv praised for his devotion and his ability hy Chairman DeBardeleben Tn introducing him. Dr. Dowell declar- ed that regardless of the outcome of the movement te raise the Sl000.Q0o, the campaign had already justified itself over and over bS the fact that il had brought home to the people ot Alabama and to the alumni of Au- iairn the. debt they owe to the ln- stitution the real service il had rem dered and the possibilities for future service which could only be reallzea if rroper equipment were given.
 Al an example of the manner In which members of the faculty had been everMorl5ed and had sacrificed in the past. Dr Dowell eited the case of Prof E. H. Grenshaw. who now lay critically i'll in hospital in Mont eomery and whose chances of recov- cry were none too great pr. Thach he stated. was another who had over taxed his trength in working for Au- burn and had paid the penalty with his life Other instances of devotion to Auburn were cited. Dr. Dowell declared that this campaign would never end untl Auburn had received