The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-13
EXCHANGE CLUB WILL CELEBRATE
 18TH BIRTHDAY
Special Meeting To Be Held At Tutwiler Hotel
 Monday Noon

founding of the National Exchange club of America will be celebrated by the Birmingham Exchange club at the weekly meeting in the ballroom of the Tutwiler hotel on Monday, at 12:15 clock.
 Organized in Detroit, Mich, in. April of 1911, the Exchange club has grown until now there are practically 400 clubs scattered throughout almost every state in the union.
 It was in 1920 that the local club was formed, which marked the first ef fort of the Exchange clubs to extend into the south. Now there are Ex- change clubs in practically all the southern states and there are approxi- mately 20 Exchange clubs in Alabama. Among the charter members who are active in the work of the organization here now are:
 Ray l.. Lange, James A. Simpson, Ebert s. Jemison, w. $. Edwards, Jr., Edmund c. Armes, Charles H. Brown, William T. Warren, T. J. Crittendon, Oscar Randolph. Maclin F. Smith, R. A. Smallwood, s. H. Frazer, w. w. Wood, Judge Hugh A. Locke, Hugh Conner, Lee Allen Brooks, E. D. Me- Kinney, J. Frank Watson and others. Bruch H. Craig of Selma is president of the affiliated Exchange clubs of Ala bama.
 Is Oldest Club
 It was just 13 years ago that Charles A. Berley of Detroit, and a group of associates organized the first unit of the National Exchange clubs, which was formed from another organization known as the Boosters club" The Boosters club" existed in Detroit as far back at 1896, making the source of the Exchange club probably date back further than any other national civic organization now in existence, The thought of extending the idea to other communities did not exist at first, but during the course of the next few years three other Exchange clubs were form ed in nearby cities.
 One of the fundamental prin- ciples of the Exchange club ia that the organization shall not be used for profit. The National Exchange club was not incorporated until 1917. A nationwide organization with clubs in every state of the union, each club op- erating under the motto Unity for Service" has grown from the nucleus which originally started from the Boosters club" of Detroit
 President Calvin Coolidge is an ac- tive member of the Exchange club of Rutland. Vt. He says of Ex- change:
 Organizations of this kind have, un- doubtedly, been doing a useful service, but none along more patriotic lines than the Exchange club. As a mem her of the organization and somewhat familiar with the excellent work it is doing, I feel that you have an Op- portunity for great usefulness"
 Harding Was Member
 Tho late President Warren G. Hard ing was an active member of the Ex- change clubs of Mansfield, Ohio, and always took a keen interest in the work of the organization
 Guy k. JeffreS of Indianapolis, prominent in national railroad circles, is president of the National Exchange club. Herold M Harter of Toledo, who has been secretary of the Exchange clubs since the organization became na- tional in character says:
 Exchange clubs now wield a potent influence in the United States because they have been built on the rock of unselfish service. When a man be- comes member of the Exchange club he must realize that he is expected to unselfiShly serve not alone his fellow members, but the community in which the club functions, the state and the nation.
 "Iu olI nntor,,risoe ;,, Yn,k;,h tba oO,,, munity welfare is concerned the Ex- change club will be found actively en- gagged. perhaps not always as club, but each man doing his duty as loyal citizen The carrying out of these worthy principles cannot help but re- suit in lifting the ideals and standards of business to a higher plane and in furthering all civic movements looking to the betterment of humanity.
 Unity For Service"
 Our motto of the Exchange clubs Unity for Service is nothing in the world but an expression of the greatest of all things which makes for success in home life. church life, community life. and business life. It is co-opera- tion'
 The National Exchange club takes particular interest in the following sub ject2 Too much law making; the can cer problem; the care of the indigent mother; the teaching of Americanism the back to school movement the de- velopment of community center move mentS; juvenile court work; child nutrition.
 By throwing the bright light of pub, lcity on the vice of excessive needless legislation, the Exchange clubs have