The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-03-19

lily that has less advantages but, never
theIess, handles them vigorously
prove to you what IZmean. let me
dr.. your attention town
Brownsville, Pa Brownsville, Pa, a
hundred years ago was greater than
Plttsburg. Will you believe it? 1t was
a crossing point and highway for going
to the West, and tens OF thousands of
human beings went across the river
TO the Golden West at this point, and
Brownsville is still Brownsville.
little town, and 1t Is going to die still
more than II has already died, because
1t and Connellsville and the towns
that are in the grip Of the Connellsyllle
industry are all going to die unless
they take counsel to themselves. What
is COnnellsville? Everybody says
Coke. What is coke? Coal that is
burned through certain process to
drive out certain elements, which are
used for smelling iron. In driving out
OF the Connellsville district these "bee
hives" are on every hand and the air
Is vttiated In every direction with gas,
smoke and chemicals that como out
OF them. Not a shred OF anything
growing green near these "bee hives.
This wastefulness OF one of Gods
greatest resources must stop, and 1t
is going 10 stop, because the bi-prOd-
uct coke oven is coming to take It's
place. and unless the men of Connells-
VILE district get together. fifteen years
from now, thirty years from now. their
children are going to perish. unless we
make sure that these natural resources
do not leave the region. Applied To
Clarksburg; l am not going into any
local trouble, but this Is the heart OF
one tremendous. God-given resource.
and you have got to take common
counsel together TO see II by any
means you can make SO great mar
ket here for that resource that 1t can
not be pIped away and lost TO the dis
trlct forever. Now you see that in talk
ing to you as am instead Of dealing
with little matters. such rs are you
going to join the board OF trade. am
shifting at the very life OF Clurks-
burg. have nothing TO do with your
local trouble, but | do say that re-
source found here had better be used
here To its full value rather than have
1t go away and never get 1t back. The
same thing holds In relation to you
that holds in relation to the COnnells-
vile district. You have got to take n
broad minded view OF the entire sit
uation. You have got to make hay
while the sun shines. You have got
to plan all sorts OF things in order that
n native resource may do its utter
most for you. 1t Ia the same argument
that l have used in the southern
states, the same argument that one
could use down there, up 10 few
years ago, in relation TO cotton. 1t
is the same argument in relation to
Birmingham, Ala. where coal and pig
iron is exported from Birmingham.
millions OF tons Of pig iron in the
crude state. and at Chattanooga, Tenn,
they will take the pig iron. rework 1t
into bath tubs and sell 1t back to
Birmingham.
And West Virginia. blessed as it Is
with wonderful resources.-the Coz
state believe II is called-is blessed
with wonderful resources. The busl-
/ ness OF LulS UuhEu VI lEhue unu COIH-
mercial body is not merely to boost.
Nay, don't boost. The business of
you men is to stop and think where
does our business come from? What
ia tho foundation under 1t? Is that
foundation sound and Ia 1t going TO
endure? Is there any way whereby
we can make that foundation stronger
and more enduring? What Is the
strategy we must work out to hold
our own in competition with other
towns of the same resources and adj
vantages? That is the business OF you
men. and 1t Is a pockctboot argument.
In Glen Elk the wholesalers don't ex-
pect miracles. but IL they know that
down there in such and such county
Is such and such a population that
ran come right in here comfortably:
that that population is good for so
much output and no more. II they stop
and say. How can we increase our
output" then they have to say there is
only one way. Make West Virginia
more populous: make West Virginia
better developed, interest ourselves in