The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-28
ADDRESS TO BOYS
yECRETARY DAVE MATTRESSES THE MINDS OF YOUNGER GENERATION.
Lecture On Alabama's Resources We'll Attended and Listened to by One
 Hundred and Fifty Pupils of Boys Schools.

One hundred and fifty of Montgom- ery's school boys quilted the audito- rum of the Commercial Club Tuesday afternoon, pregnant with the knowl- edge that Alabama is the greatest State of the Union in it's resources, and that it will be the greatest in every respect within few yaArs. by virtue of these resources. and their exploitation.
 For one hour Secretary c. c. Dave. of the club. addressed the boys, who had come from the higher grades of the public schools. With the collec- tion of minerals which had been on exhibition at the State Fair. Mfr. Dave orew concrete examples of Alabama's resources, how they exceeded those of other States in abundance, variety and amount. and. to all appearances. suc- ceeded fin converting the younger gen. eration, as he acknowledged he had failed with the older to the sense that veritable Fl Dorado awaited the Alabamians of the future.
 Beginning with the specimens of iron ore, and drawing pictures of Pitts burg's rise through the comparatively small supply. of the mineral in Penn sylvania, he compared Birmingham and other Alabama towns to the city of the Keystone State, promising that greater than Pittsburg will be these. in view of the enormous amount of coal in Alabama. comparatively little of which has been developed. Per haps he awed the school boys with his figures of coal supply of 150 years, as against the Pennsylvania fields which are exhausted after twen- ty years, and the Mesaba range, whose accumulation will barely stretch thirty years more.
 From the iron of the State, Mir. Dave proceeded with an explanation of Ala bama's coal supply, declaring that enough of the cornbustible awaited opening to furnish, besides fuel for the country, the means of working the furnaces that produce every article of the iron. That is. the coal will last. with proper care, one and one-half centuries. The lads were astounded, and whistled with amusement at the figures denoting coal supply: 10000, 900 tons, as Mir. Dave declared.
 A veritable wonderland for the High School boys proved MT. Dawe's exhibit tton of the side products of coal: tar, creosote. petroleum. kerosene, gas, and a good half score in alL
 Cement material. of which Alabama has an incalculable amount, valuable marble, chalk. bauxite, kaolin, lime stone and other minerals. all of which specimens were at hand, were ex- hibited the young men as Alabama products. products that can be turned to untold wealth, aB they were in- formed by the speaker.
 Alabama possesses everything" said Mir. Dave to the boys, "everything. Even the Here We Rest spirit, which, I am afraid, is the cause of the fail ure to exploit these incalculable re- sources long before this"
 It was pleasing and impressive to the school boys to hear from MT. Dave that to them. and to their brains, be- long the opportunities, and the respon- sibilitiy of bringing Alabama into its own. The address ended with an ear nest plea to train this potent mind. so that 1t will be able to cope with the advantages. which are furnished Ala bamians in a greater abundance than were ever doled out to living gem eration.
 Before dismissing his audience, Mr. Dave switched of to the waterways. or at least. led up to the question of transportation and power that is em- bodied in the 1900 miles of navigabIe streams in the State.
 "one million horse power, and the capacity to transport millions of tons Of the States products for distribution