The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-20
Graphing Warships Stops Until Treaty Pron1u]gatel

upon this harsh proposal ut this
time. The point Is that lodging and
board for these 1.4tO students must
be provided If the colleges IS moved.
A 2,000-acre farm is not accessible
to the choice homes of Montgomery
and the choice homes of Montgomery
are not open to 400 college boys and
girls. The only houses that take
boarders In large numbers are board-
ing houses, and 1t would take years
to build up another college village
around a 2,000-acfe farm; nor has
any one yet proposed that it would
be safe or desirable to turn loose
1,400 young men and young women in
city the size of Montgomery, I'M
prepared for such an influx, without
any college restraint. 1t is obvious
that these 1,400 youths must be
housed and fed in dormitories. What
will these cost? The board of trus-
tees of Auburn have just received
bids for a dormitory to house and
feed 100 boys According to the low
est bid submitted ethe bid submit
ted by the Montgomery contractor
was many thousands more), such a
dormitory cannot be constructed Nand
equipped for less than $4,000. Thus
It Will cost over $1,540,000 to pro-
vide places for board and lodging for
the present STUDENT DOQy at
and then there would not be room
for single new student The college
would be just as congested as it is at
Auburn. In making its proposal
Montgomery must guarantee this
1,540,000.
Campaign Pledges
a. In the Greater Auburn cam
paign 100000 has already been sub
scribed under the able leadership of
Charles F. DeBardeleben of Birming
ham, president of Auburn alumni as
ISOLATION. The form of the pledge is
as follows:
In consideration OF the undertake
ing of the Alumni association of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute to
raise funds for the purpose of erect
ing buildings and providing equip
ment for use in its educational work
at Auburn, and in consideration of
the promises of others to contribute
to such fund, / hereby promise to
pay to the Alabama Polytechnic In7
stitute, or order, On the. day of
H., the sum of $....."
4These pledges have no reference
to a college at Montgomery. No one
signing such pledge is bound to pay
the same for buildings at Montgom-
cry. The removal Of the college in
validates every one of these pledges.
The people of Montgomery must Of
fer. to assume the loss the Greater
Auburn campaign, under the leader
ship of Lee county man, then pres
ident of the Auburn Alumni associa-
ton was instituted in Lee county,
and tc' be specific, in Opelika. ope-
lika made the first pledge. and Lee
county pledged 100000 to defray the
expenses of. this campaign.N In a
pamphlet issued during the early part
of the Greater Auburn campaign APP
pears the following:
90. How are the expenses of the
campaign being paid?"'
"a. BY the friends of Auburn re-
siding in Lee county.
1.-THE total subscribed by Lee coun-
ty to this Greater Auburn campaign
to date is not less than $50, 900. We
are surely justified in demanding
that Montgomery undertake to make
good the shrinlage in this fund due
to the removal of the college. Mont
gomery must underwrite this 500, 900
obligation.
when Montgomery has in legal
and binding manner assumed these
obligations amounting to $4,440,000,