The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-13
BIRMINGHAM REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS
WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF LOSS
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and diversified industries will spring up on
every hand
A city of a million people!
This is not an idle boast It is almost nee
essary that Birmingham in 40 years pos
sess a million people. For in addition to
the development of the properties under the
earth, Birmingham is preparing to receive
the benefit from hanessing the giant and
bounding streams of the state.
There are more latent hydro electric
horsepower in Alabama than in any other
state In the Tennessee river is the greatest
undeveloped water power wholly in the
United States. All this power will be har-
messed Birmingham will reap the benefit
For not only will its people be possessed of
all that harnessed power can produce at a
very cheap figure, but about the giant city
a thousand other cities will spring.
There is the greatest blessing. No city
attains really wonderful development,
development in accord with its possibilities,
until about it are countless little cities
"feeders." In these little cities will be
mills of all varieties and people happy III
prosperity people actually doing their
share, though through indirection, in sup
porting, nay, making, Birmingham The
rivers will be hamessed, everyone of them,
the Tennessee, the Coosa, the Warrior, the
Alabama, the Chattahoochee, the Tombig-
bee
And there is Mobile bay Birmingham s
outlet to the sea, through which and the
Panama canal this city and this district
will deliver its products to the nations of
the world cheaper and quicker, possibly
than any other section will be able to do
The future of Birmingham is assured.
There is no imagination so sweeping that it
can grasp the future and paint it. I'm
dreamed circumstances may check or post
pone, but not circumscribe the great devel-
opment of which the section is capable. For
the fact remains
Birmingham cannot fail even if it would.
And in the future, none of the men who
live today in strength of body, vigor of
mind and courage Of heart, should be among
the poor in goods. 1t is criminal longer to
postpone the grasping of opportunity, or
the Birmingham opportunity is not depen-
dent on vast capital The investment of
savings will turn the trick Every man has
the chance.
time that you erect that barricade against
the gaunt wolf of poverty for the protection
of Mrs. Jones and Baby Jones. Poverty is
criminal and cannot exist with courage and
intelligence.
We have seen the Birmingham of yes
terday. We know how men, by investing
paltry sums two scores of years ago. have
become the men and the fathers of men of
real wealth in Birmingham today. We be
lieve firmly that Birmingham today will be
another and greater and more wonderful
Birmingham tomorrow. We know that our
natural resources are inexhaustible. We
know that our population is growing in
leaps and bounds. We know that we are
harnessing our rivers our Incompatible
rivers, at this very moment. We know of
our outlet to the sea and the incalculabe
benefits to accrue from the opening up of
that great ditch, so pregnant with glorious
opportunity, the Panama canal.
We know that Birmingham cannot fail
And yet we hesitate The man on a salary
hesitates. He does not doubt the future. He
is lacking in that courage, that nerve
energy which is quintessential in the strug-
gle for success. He cannot forego the pleas
ure of the moment, the frivolity which leads
to crime-for poverty is criminal, criminal
scourge which is not only unnecessary, but
which is invariably obviated by the man
who is honest with himself.
The Birmingham of today, not the Bir-