The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-22
SEES WONDERFUL THINGS IN STORE FOR BIRMINGHAM
 IN NEAR FUTURE c. F. Avery. Says Greatest Dreams of Its Prophets
 Are About to Be
 Realized GET ON WARRIOR" IS IMPERATIVE NEED Team Work in Birmingham Will Put City in Position to Realize on De-
 velopments
GET ON WARRIOR"
 IS IMPERATIVE NEED

That all the dreams of it's pioneers
 all the predictions of its prophets. are ! about to be realized ny Hirmingham
 is the opinion of c. F. Avery, promi- nent broker, with offices in the Wood ward building.
 | MT. Avery points out some of Bir-
 minghams past and preses1 faults and handicaps and chides the city on its | lack of team work He believes that so many different associations and in terests working on various matters do not tend to efficiency and liSsipate energy. He thinks all associations and all individuals should pull together
 Tor one thing at a time and that main
 thing at the present is Birmingham
 on the Warrior"
 MUST REBUILD NATIONS
 MT. Avery visualizas the wonderful
 progress and prosperity of the district
 m the near future. when America will
 De called upon to rebuild the wasted
 and destroyed portions of France and
 Belgium
 John W, Gates" said MT. Avery, when ne acquired the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad company predicted Biirming- nam would be second Pittsburg. All or the big men in industrial activities have had vision, imagination and persnec- tive. They risked their money on the firm belief that what they had dreamed would come true in the future.
 All men with imagination have been In advance of their day; this was true of Gates. Insofar as the Birmingham district is concerned what he saw in the distance in 1905, bids fair to be realized in the near future.
 When 1 first came to this district the thing which first struck me was the Ia ok of small manufacturing establishments. This seemed to be the logical place for small industry to flourish, and I could not understand why such industries as de- pended upon iron, steel and coal for their existence did not naturally seek place where such raw material was cheapest It took sometime and thought before I dis covered the answer. It came to me one day while I was studying the map, and it was population. Drawing a circle em- bracing 300 miles with Birmingham as the center, I could readily see what the reason was. A secondary reason was the lack of competitive freight rates to make this distributing center.
 GETTING ON THE WARRIOR
 This district can be stimulated for the future in the way of attracting the small manufacturer here by the hinp Of oil ;a this town on the Warrior river. second, by burying all petty jealouses and blck- arings and everybody pull together for The first is contingent upon the second. Aesops fable of the bundle of stocks should be read again by those. who try to use our public associations for their private and selfish ends We Commerce. and a Civic association, all for the same ends
 This is inefficiency and dissipating en- srgy, whereas one association with defi- nite purpose in view, with a concentrated lull and the will to do, can accomplish it undertakes. Furthermore one hing should be undertaken at time. l Make Birmingham on the Warrior the slogan and never let up until this one hing is accomplished, then tackle the next job. This one thing done by the efforts of all will make all the others ga sier. First, it will demonstrate how easy it is to accomplish things when ev- ,rybody pulls together; second, it will that everything that is for he public good is for the good of the l individual, and looked at from a purely | selfish point of view it will show con 'entrated effort to be good investment |
 A LOS ANGELES EXAMPLE
 "One individual in Los Angeles, Frank | Niggns, with the community back of | jim to a man performed miracles. He put | n inland town on the Pacific ocean and | 'uilt viaduct across the desert costing | millions, an almost superhuman rasK, m | rder' to bring ordinary drinking water i o his town.
 We do not have to perform any | miracles, and the question of getting on | he Warrior Is a simple one if we will | ust go at it.
 This war we have entered upon, is | war of iron and steel, and it makes | title difference if 1t ends tom orrow, he policies we are committed to will continue far into the future Our whole business fabric is in the process | if being revolutionized. From being l essentially insular we are about to ake and play our part in the worlds l rena of commerce and politics. We will come into the arena with cleaner lands. cleaner motives and higher | deals than any other nation therein. President Wilson has struck the key ote of our entry and he hitched our hariot to a star
 "A war of iron and steel--1et us ee what that means for the future of | he United States and for our own istrict. in particular.
 First of all as regards our country t large, never again will we be un- repared for the defense of this coun- ry either upon land or sea. This leans we are committed to a policy f maintaining an army and navy | with our size and the art we are destined to- play in the E olicies of the world. This means an unprecedented expansion in those | mes of commercial activity in which, I .on steel. coal. lumber and transpor- ation form the basis. These are the asic industries. the big wheels which urn the little ones.
 WHAT HAPPENED TO DETROIT
 "The whole south. and this district I particular will receive an impetus mich will advance its material pros- erity 10 years in one I lived in De- | roit for years and saw it's popula on remain stationary around 380,00o ll ear after year, until the advent of the when suddenly in . few
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