The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-19
Dr. Denny Eloquent in Telling Visitors About Spirit of Birmingham and Alabama
VISITORS DECLARE CONVENTION HERE
 IS GREAT SUCCESS
Executive Meeting, Joint Session and Social Diver sions Are Scheduled for TOday's Programme

\ 'The town is yours, the county is yours, the state is yours declared the speakers at the annual meeting of the Southern Hardware Jobbers' association and the American Hardware Manufactur CTS association, which met here yester- day morning at 10 o'clock.
 we are doing big things here in Bir- mingham and we are going to do bigger things and we are glad you people have an opportunity of viewing our assets, said James Weatherly city commissioner.
 Morris Bush, president of the Cham Der of Commerce, welcomed the visitors to the city and the fullness thereof-but for the prohibition laws.
 President Bush told the hardware men that the instdustries of the district were directly related to the great plants which they conducted throughout here,' said President Bush, "but eventu- ally we want to be making everything from steel pen points to Yale locks. : said MT. Bush.
 DENNY IS ELOQUENT
 Dr. George H. Denny, president of the OulNtISlty OI fAldpo WdS SiNSii eh ovation when he spoke. He said in part:
 q venture the prophecy that you will not regret your decision to come to Bir- mingham. This trip will doubtless re- veal to many of you for the first time something of the rebuilding of a sec tion of our common country which gem eration ago was red with the stripes of war If there is in this company of men a faint-hearted soul that needs a ba .n of optimism in our American life, I com mend to him the spirit that has within a. quarter of century shown itself in the rapid transformation of this commu- nity from land of depression to a land of achievement. I would not have you imagine however, that Birmingham em- Traces the entire commonwealth of Ala barla.
 THE BIRMINGHAM SPIRIT
 "Sometme ago a Birmingham boy, no V midshipman at Annapolis, explained to me the somewhat crude notion of local geography that his own enthusiasm had engendered among his classmates who were constantly asking him in what sec- ton of Birmingham Alabama is located That is the real Birmingham spirit. You will recall that former President Taft, after weeks travel through Texas, was making an address of farewell in which he expressed the appreciation of the great reception which had been accord ed him. An enthusiastic Texan on the outskirts of the crowd shouted to him, MT. President. I hope you are at asst convinced that Texas is a part of the union To which President Taft quickl,- replied, T do not know whether to pu. it that way or to say that the union is a part of Texas
 Great as Birmingham is rapidly be. coming, I may be permitted to ~~- that this city constitutes only part of Ala bama and merely reflects the optimism. the energy, the self-reliance and the growth of the commonwealth as a whole.
 q would have you learn at first hand something of the real south particularly of this immediate section, which is so peculiarly adapted to the kind of in- dustries in which you are interested. Go west young man. That was the motto
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