The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31
Victor Fl. Henson Goes
 To Birmingham NeUs
Becomes Vice President and General Manager of the Birmingham News Publishing Company.
 Acquiring 0ne-third of Capital Stock.

Victor H. Hanson for twelve years manager of the Advertising Depart ment of The Montgomery Advertiser. and one of the leading advertising men. not only of the South but of the whole country. has purehased a sub stantial interest in The Birmingham News. and he will. on February 18th, become Vice President and General Manager of The Bi bingham News Publishing Company.
 Mir. Hanson leaves The Advertiser with which he has been connected for the past twelve years with the good will and the best wishes of the man. agement. They hope that he win be as successful with The News as he has been with The Advertiser.
 Mr. Hanson began twelve years ago on The Advertiser with 8 salary of less than slo week.
 His promotion was rapid. and when he bought an interest in The News 1t Is said that he was one of the highest aalaried men in Montgomery and prob ably the highest salaried advertising man in the South. During the time that he has been with The Advertiser he has received fattering offers from Chicago and other newspapers of the North and East. The management of The Advertiser has realized the difi- culty of keeping In Montgomery on a salary one of the best men of the country. and so when MT. Hanson has purchased an Interest in The Birming-k ham News and becomes It's Vice-Presi- dent and General Manager, The Ad- vertiser management sees him leave with regret. but with the best wishes for his future success
 Mir. Hanson has been prominent in the business and commercial circles of Montgomery, and other interests be- sides those of The Advertiser will miss him when he moves to Birmingham.
 Mir. Hanson is identified with sew eraI of the business enterprises of MDntgomery. and he was loath to leave this city where so much of his inter est lay. His career in Montgomery has been an exemplificatio of the truth that a good advertising man is always a good business man, Tn Mont gomery he is President and half own or of the Bullock Shoe Company. which operates perhaps the largest retail shoe store in Alabama: he is . director and pne of the largest stockholders in the Fourth National Bank of Montgomery, one of the largest and strongest finan- cfal institutions In the State. He Is also secretary and treasurer Of the Eouthern Newspaper Publishers As- Bociation, the principal organization of the trade in the Southf also an active member of the Montgomery Commer- ciai Club. So great has been the sue. cess of Mir. Hanson with The Adver- User that he might have selected ai- most any field of newspaper advertise ing and named his salary.
 Mir. Hanson Is not a stranger in Bir- mingham. He has been a frequent vis- ftor to the city; he is personally known and friend to a great many of the leading business and professional men of Birmingham; and his knowledge of the Birmingham district and it's con- ditions is as thorough as any man can have who does not live there. He be- lieves that which has been done there in the past is only a promise of what can be accomplished in the future. His wish to share in the growth and pros perity of the district is one of the in- dncements, that moved him to 20 from Montgomery to Birmingham and leave so much behind. &
 HIS success on The Advertiser, which has attracted the attention of adver. Using men throughout the country, has. served to equip him for the discharge of the responsible duties which he is assume with The Birmingham News. His knowledge of advertising, his un- derstanding of Southern conditions, his resourcefulness and his energy have already won him wide reputation and these serve as the equipment which he carries to The Birmingham News.
 Ills success has been a rare com. bination of energy and ideas. This has been an idea of Mir. Hanson since he went to work as a boy in the news paper business. Ideas misdirected. might amount to nothing. Ideas by themselves would achieve nothing but in the opinion of Mir. Hanson a union with energy is irresistible.
 The Birmingham News. Saturday, contained the following editorial:
 ''Mr. V. H. HansOn's Aslvenf.D
 'The hopes of more than Ave years