The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
League Is Ready For Baby
 Show
Conducted by the Jefferson County
 League of Women Voters

t League of Women Voters
 Not since the days of Pied Piper of Hamelin" when the children of all the land heard the sweet tunes from the pipe of that romantic musical and followed him away, has there been any concourse of babies, which will in any way con- pare with the great baby jubilee that is now being arranged by the Leogue of Women Voters and the Business and Professional Women's clubs of Birming- ham, to be presented under their aus pices at East Lake park on June F, 13 and IA.
 A thousand dollars, all for the babies of Birmingham. It vii be given them in 100 of the most useful and beautiful prizes. One hundred babies must win one of these prizes each and. perhaps some will win two or even three. It's all according to the number of children entered by family and the number of contests they take part in.
 There will be fifteen classes to the great baby and children jubilee. In the baby classes for instance, there will be 30 prizes there are six classes to this division and five prizes in each class. The principal prize, to be won by the little tot judged to be the most beauti- ful, will be Singer sewing machine. and from this down the prizes will grade according to the Nin from first . to fifth in each class. The other prizes are wonderful, consisting of siverware sets in beautiful chests from 26 pieces down and there is wonderful jewery also for the little girls who display the most beautiful dolls in the competition. The baby show is the first of the festi- val and will take place at o'clock on Thursday. Should it be stormy on that day the contest will be postponed until the day following,
 On Friday at the same time of day will be presented the big decora ted baby coach parade. Nothing like it has even been seen in this city. Hundreds of beautifully decorated baby vehicles will be in the procession. There are four divisions to the parade of baby vehicles, The big baby carriage. the regular baby go-cart, the little girls with their doll carts and this is the most beautiful section of the parade and the vehicles. like boys carts. bicycles and other kid die wagons which will be all fixed up to represent different things and express some comedy characters The last is known as the novelty division. There will be 20 prizes in the baby vehicle parade division.
 Then the little girls will have a place in line all dressed in white from head to foot. There are five divisions for the little girls; the age denoting the class and will run from three to eight years of age. There will be five prizes in each class. The five little misses ad- judged to be the most dainty in each class will win a beautiful prize. The first prizes in these classes are beautiful imported pearl sets in plush display boxes. The other premium will con- sist of gold neckchains and pendants and gold bracelets.
 The last division in the big jubilee kiddie ramble will be the costume and character division. In this division there will also be five classes, as follows {: the most beautiful costume, the best character costume, historic costume, the most original costume and the comedy makeup and costumes. These will be all walking characters and the cutups will have full sway. to make all the fun they like. There will also be five prizes in each of the kiddie karnival divisions, making one hundred prizes in all.
 An information bureau is now open at East Lake park and at Caheen' s store, where full. particulars will be given to all who will wish to make ar engagements to enter their babies or lit tie girls or boys. This bureau at Ca heen's is in charge of Miss Mollie Dowd, who will give out the blanks and give instructions concerning everything connected with the big show
 Every detail connected with the running off of the events of the baby jubilee will be taken care of. There will be special baby carriages, cars and special transportation for all Birming- ham if they want to see the big kiddie time and of course all Birmingham will want to see it.
 Prof. l.. NJ. Rich. the man who has handled half million baby champions, will be on hand to take charge of the jubilee. Mir. Rich has distributed hun dreds of thousands of dollars to proud and happy mothers throughout the whole United States just because these mothers had kept their babies well. That IS the last word in baby upkeep. Will Birmingham's babies come llp to standard? Don't fail to be one of the visitors at East Lake park on June. 12. 13 and II and decide for yourself.
 TEAMS COMPETING FOR PRIZES
 There is keen rivalry between the Business and Professional women and She league as to who will win the S25 prize offered by R. H. Mcintosh of East Lake park to the organization sell Ing the most tickets to the show. He is also offering $15 to the team making the best showing and $10 to the individ- uaI who does the most work
 Teams of ten each have been organ lzed among the membership of the league and are now hard at work. Captains who reported for duty last Tuesday morning are Mesdames. E. J. Burns, ]. (. Arnold. Leila Brocato, Josie H.. Brooks, Rufus Duvall, Bert Ingram. R. A. Jones, x. Fellheimer. l.. Allbrit- ion, k. Wegelin, Joe Steed, A. L. Fort. James B. Kirkpatrick, Gladys S. Strock, Alice D. Mayo, Joe Smolian, F: M. Thompson, o. A. Wood, Charles Harris, NJ. F.. Coss, John Ham, c. P. .beddow, J. NJ. Hankins. Captains who reported later and will serve are Mes danes Mary J. Cain, J. H. Gallagher. v. C. Hildebrandt. &. V. Shelburnes. Eura l., Cruse, F. E. Brunette. Guy Amos, F. C. Phillips. k. B. Darby, ]. .. Dardis, Dora C. Fell and J. H. Ham.
 Ten thousand tickets have been do- mated by Hafter's Shop and divided among the teams. Davis Printing com pany IS giving three thousand more. An eiiort will be made to give everyone in Birmingham an opportunity to buy tickets and attend the most wonderful baby show on record.
 The captains will report at a meeting next Tuesday at 10 80 at headoua rters