The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-09
With Enthusiastic Banquet Give Chamber Prepares
 to Begin Campaign Today
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 paign will really start tomorrow. We want to have Chamber of Commerce for the whole city, one that will take into it representatives of every avocation business and profession. We wish the
 cooperation of all the people, of all our citizens; of all the business interests; of our city and county officials; of our churches, and our preachers, and of all the men and women of this city, but,
 above all, my friends, we wish unity. 'T know of no better thought that I can give to you tonight than that we should be united. Let us all go forth
 to the charge, our shoulder to the wheel
 and put this thing through, and then
 let us work as unit of action, unit of
 thought, and of all those things which make for better homes, better business
 better Birmingham
 | Rabbi Morris Newfield followed MT.
 Johnson, and his address was, perhaps the most stirring of the evening. His words carried conviction to his hearers
 as he indorsed MT. Johnsons views as to the value of unity, and added other thoughts of worth.
 Rabbi Newfield Speaks
 l "Even as we feel that this city is not for class, but for the whole people; that it is not merely for itself alone, but for the betterment of Alabama and
 humanity, so should we work for its
 advancement, he declared.
 First of all, we. must be a unit if we 1 expect to have Birmingham not merely
 a big city, but great city; if we want this city to become an ideal place in
 which to live, we must put into our busi-
 ness, into our life, that which all ascribe to religion--moral tone. I like that ex-
 pression. It is well applied not merely 1 in matters of religion, but in business because you men have found out that business can be conducted only on the | high plane of having moral tone. l We are ready on the morrow to go out and carry that moral tone into every nook and corner of our great community. | It appeals to all of us, this business. The ] same concern which appeals to the mer- chant must appeal also to the lawyer l and the clergyman The Chamber of 1 Commerce must not merely be traders organization, but community organiza-
 tion. It belongs to the community, and 1 am indeed glad that you permit me, as l representative or the TenSlOuS llle OI | the city, to take part in this meeting. q believe that city can grow only | so high as are the individual ideals of l it's citizenrY. for while we are build- l ing on a material basis, we are aspir- | ing to something better and no com munity can be great and good unless | it be able to enlist the spiritual forces
 in it's behalf. Without them, there can be no material prosperity.
 My Birmingham shall be Birming- ham for all of it's citizens, irrespective of class, profession or faith"
 l.. c. Irvine of Mobile, member of the Jackson Highway commission, was the next speaker, and he delivered a mes- sage from Mobile in which he said that the entire people of the Gulf City l wished for Birmingham everything l we'll; that the fate of Mobile was in- dubitably interwined with that of Bir- mingham and Birminghams advance
 ment meant the advancement of Mobile.
 Message From Mobile
 Birmingham is youth, Birmingham
 is alive to the vision of great city,
 because before this city we have here today could come to pass some man had to dream it; and men believed him
 and as a result the city stands today
 the marvel of our common country l said MT. Irvine.
 | I I believe in the future great develop l ment of my state and my own city. | I believe as firmly as I stand before you tonight that Mobiles fate Is as
 much intertwined in your fate as yours ] is in your steel industry believe that we can no more live asunder than a man of Birmingham could live apart from his fellow man, following his own selfish inclinations.
 T believe that of all the cities in the land. no two are more entitled to compliment each other than Birming- l ham and Mobile. One has that which the other lacks. Birmingham may be
 as big as Pittsburg and Philadelphia combined. Could Mobile envy her? ] Why, every citizen of Mobile should 1 get down on his marrowbones and pray that Birmingham will be larger than l Pittsburg and Philadelphia combined We are one and must work in unity We have been pledged to each other in
 wedlock from your birth, and we are as necessary to you as you are to us. 1 You men of Birmingham should make yourselves absolute masters of l the water transportation afforded you 1 by the Warrior to- Mobile and to tho
 seas of the world. There Is no other industrial city in the world that Is l within short days ride by rail of l tropical coast. Mobile is your natural playground and 1t has been pronounced
 by men of every profession from every
 part of the world to be without an l equal
 l Now, link Mobile with Birmingham, 1 and the waters of the seas of the world with the wonderful resources in this little Ionea' valley. where reposes enough steel to build a world.
 {, You have pessimists in Birmingham
 but you should disregard them and l take advantage of water transporta- ton. You can construct route t0