The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30

other services the association will be enabled to render its members, MT. Earle pointed out.
 "We will have an office staff that knows its business" he added, "and the officers, directors and members will exercise a 100 per cent energy in all matters affecting car owners. The motor vehicle is as essential to the man. ufacturer and the merchant as the freight and express were twenty years ago. In order for motorists to reap the proper benefits, organization is neces- sary. The Alabama Motorists associa- tion believes it can be. of real service to the motorists of Alabama"
 All white persons who own cars are eligible for membership, provided they are more than twenty-one years of age and of good moral character. Group memberships, as well as individual dual membership dues are $1O year. Handsome emblems are issued all mem- bers for use on their cars.
 The association has voted to steer clear of all commercial schemes, the following paragraph in the bylaws be- ing highly significant:
 "The association shall not promote. recommend, advertise, approve or lend it's influence for any article of com merce as against similar article of commerce in competition. It shall not engage in the selling of any article for profit, or otherwise throw the organi- ZGtion into process of cOmmerclallza- tion against its membership"
 The executive committee meets once week, and meetings of the directors and the membership are held at the call of the president.
 President Busy Man.
 This is one organization where the president is not the paper head of the body, nor a figurehead to do nothing but preside. President Earle is not only the president, but is the active head of the association. He gives much of his time to the work, and is continual ly working out plans for the associa- tion's further development. Motorists who drop in the headquarters are quickly convinced that the organization is functioning at full speed, with every officer and employe and member on his toes.
 Five standing committees of the as- sociation have been organized as fol- lows:
 Membership: F. M. King, general chairman; J. Chap Hodges, Ted Brownell, J. Arthur Smith, Jesse F. Yeates, Alex C.. Montgomery, Ed $. Moore, J. E. Keith, A. Clinton Decker, A. R. Pryor and Paul H. Earle.
 Good Roads: Ted Brownell, chair man; Basil A. Wood, Jesse F. Stanfiel, Charles R. Hilty and S. Stuart Riddle.
 Legislative: Frank F. Spain, chair man; Ed S. Moore, J. E. Keith, A. k. Pryor and Charles A. Fell.
 Traffic Regulation: Andrew J. Ar rant, chairman; Alex S. McElroy, Pres ton Y. Whitman, John E. Proper and Quint F. Witte.
 Publicity: Thad Holt, chairman; $. Stuart Riddle, Charles A. Fell, Hubert Baughn, secretary.
 The directors are A. Clinton Decker, Andrew J. Arrant, Paul H. Earle, Charles R. Hilty, Ed S. Hoore, John D.. Proper, Thad Holt, Vert T. Kissell, w. Leslie Welton, Robert E. Cotton, r. Y. Whitman, Carlton P. Smith, Basil A. Wood, Ed Henley, $. Stuart Riddle, IL. NJ. Johnson, Frank F. Spain, Jesse Stanfiel, Alex McElroy and Quint r. Witte.
 Associate directors of the association are James Arthur Smith, Edgar P. Al len, Jesse F. Yeates, J. Ed Keith, o. l.. Bum, Frank M. King, J. Chap Hodges, Ted Brownell, Alex c. Mont gomery and W. S. Moughon, Jr.
 The Alabama Motorists association has been welcomed into the life ot Birmingham by city and county off cials, civic organizations and the public generally. Without preliminaries, 1t plunged into the carrying out of n def mite program, and officials already pre- dict with confidence that its first year of activity will place it in the front rank of all automobile organizations of | the country,