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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-08

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Cyou need pay no more than rs cents
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/ hydroelectric power for operating mills,
| hardwood prices of the future will, it is
| expected, show material recessions.
THE,FULL SCOPE
Military preparedness at al! times, in
creased per-acre yield of food crops and
cotton through a dependable nitrogen
GUS fertilizer supply; vast stimulus to
development of the raw material re-
sources of the south; tremendous saving
in fuel and labor, and rapid growth in
the United States of electro-chemicaI
and Observation-Disclosures industries
these are some Of the military and eco
nomic benefits that must flow from
these nitrate plants, from this power de-
velopment and from this navigation inn
provement on the Tennessee river at
Muscle Shoals.
As result of these developments tho
Tennessee valley and the south are on
the eve of the greatest industrial era i'll
their history But, since everyone in
the United States is deeply interested in
the vital issue of successful military Of
Tense and defense, and, since the cost OF
living is one of the greatest problems
confronting the greater portion of the
civilized world today, it is quite clear
that the contributions these develop
ments make toward the solution of these
pressing problems are of as much interest
and Importance to the people Of the
whole United States as to those of tho
south, and are OF equal interest and inn
portance to the people OF that portion
of the world allied with the United
States in the present war for democ-
racy and civilization and dependent In
large measure upon the United States
for munitions, for clothing and for food.
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our rear the CRIME and the SCOT and came
| out into the park overlapping the stream
which is to furnish the energy to make
the commercial wheels go round and at
the same time be a constant source of
pleasure to those fortunate to have their
homes hid in the beautiful virgin for
ests set apart for the home lovers AL
ready many have found picturesque sites
and built lovely residences, evidencing
the fact that the Sheffieldians are not
lacking In artistic appreciation or the
knack of utilizing natures lavish gifts.
Then we made our way through the
residence section out on to road which
winded its way through a beautiful
stretch of country to the nitrate plant
No. /. 1t was here we got real genuine
surprise Frank Nelson summed 1t up
by saying: Its the greatest piece of con-
struction work / have ever seem The
story of it is told more in detail else
where. but l can't help mentioning the
courtesy of Mr.. Young. the resident man.
ager. who took such pains to show the
party over the vast works. He said to
me as the boys band finished playing:
ut was such treat for the men to
hear such fine and patriotic music"
Now. all eyes We're turned toward
beautiful Florence set on hill across
the river. Winding our wy in and out
among the traffic we reached the long
bridge and hurrying across got the smell
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in America. But it is only in its in
fancy. 1t has the coking coal, the
limestone, the iron ores and all the
ether essentials in the way of raw
materials. However, 1t has but few
electric furnaces those modern giants
OF efficiency which easily overcome
Ltsh PHOSPHORUS or high sulphur con-
tent because cheap electric energy with
which to operate them is lacking. The
developments now under way will
Supply this energy and the prediction
Ia confidently made that the Birming-
ham district will become, by virtue of
this new source of power. the greatest
iron and steel producing district in
the United States.
The textile industry in the south has
seen its greatest development in the
two Carolinas, not because they can
secure either cotton or labor more
cheaply than other southern states but
because water power has been avail
able therein on a very large scale
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Ten
nessee have had to rely largely upon
expensive steam power and this handi-
cap has been SO great that they have
made comparatively small progress.
These states can be provided, in large
measure, with cheap hydroelectric
power from Muscle Shoals which is
now lacking and when this is obtain
able they viii be at as great advantage
over the Carolinas as they are now
It disadvantage
consuming more of it's cotton than all
other grand divisions of the United
states combined and 1t is not illogf-
s&l to assume that the south. with
mis- new impetus. will even more rap
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others have been eXiled to such favor
able locations as the Shawinigan Falls
on st. Mary's river in the province OF
Quebec. With the advent of the Muscle
Shoals power, it is confidently expect
ed that our country will be able to sup
ply to its own industries those favor
able commercial conditions for opera
ton which are now available only out
side of our borders
Located in the protected inland Sec
ton, favored in climate, and possessing
the advantage of an abundance Of
negro labor, the Muscle Shoals section
of the SOUTH with the development of
electric power. will offer advantages to
the manufacturer unsurpassed in our
country.
So it is seen that the basis of pros
perity. which in many other sections
is of only a temporary nature in the
Muscle Shoals section is founded upon
commercial conditions and, located in
the heart of the Muscle Shoals section,
on the south side of the river thanked
or either side by the great govern
ment plants is Sheffield, the city Of
cheap power.
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or windswept waters in our nostrils as
we Toasted our eyes on the islands be-
low or rested them with the far view
OF the river which stretched before us
IKE an inland sea with banks studded by
trees just beginning to shake their green
leaves merrily in the face of spring.
A long uphill climb and we found our
selves on the main thoroughfare and
before US the mansion of Gov O'NeaL
recalling the best traditions of the grand
old ante-bellum homes which made the
south 30 famous for it's good taste in
architecture Stopping at the Jefferson.
we were served an appetizing lunch and
greatly enjoyed an Illuminating talk from
MIR. Worthington after having put in a
strenuous morning We were glad to
rest for awhile, but soon were called
out to take ZIP our journeying.
TRIP TO COUNTRY
Now came a 10-mile automobile drive
through road which was lined with fer
tile fields and shaded with beautiful
trees. The forests were white with dog
wood. The trip would have been heav-
emily If it had not been for the dust, but
in spite of the great value of the dirt.
it fell in clouds on US until at last
shut my eyes to the pictures of lowell
ness all around me, and drove into the
government reserve looking like / had
put my head in a flour barrel.
Standing before us was the toy engine
and rails, and miniature cars. Piling in
we were soon riding along the canal on
a high ridge. There was water to the
right of us and water to the left of us,
but little over a@year ago when 1 made
the trip with Secretaries Baker. Lane
and Houston, there was water beneath
us, for sometimes we rode a mile with
out seeing the track. Then came a great
disappointment. The boat which was to
have carried us back to Florence was
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' hindered from arriving in time, and we
lad to find our way back in our autos.
but fortunately | left in the first car
and had glorious ride
Back to- supper at Sheffield and then
to the Elks' hall, where we were ten
dered reception. it was here that the
boys band made their greatest hit. for
they gave the Fiorentines and their
guests some choice renditions from the
operas which called for encore after en-
core, which subsidized only out of pitv
for the little fellows, who showed that
while willing they were really tired, and
they had right to be after all they
had done through the day.
Then Arthur Crowder shared the honor
OF presiding with Chairman Simpson.
The speaking was opened by Capt
Frank s. White, who made short, but
telling patriotic address. Then Cyrus
Ashcfaft made a wonderfully informing
talk on the Tennessee river. He was
followed by Ex-Governor Emmett O'Neal,
who in his home town was at his best
and stirred his hearers to round after
round of applause as he visioned the flu
ture of the development of Muscle Shoals.
John Sibley then made a practical talk
on road building, and the value of high
ways. Being present, was one of tho
speakers.
Then back to Sheffield on private cars,
where we boarded our special for home
Was the trip worth while? Just ask any,
one who made it. What did it accom-
plish? First. it brought $50 Birmingham
men into closer fellowship. Second, it
was the opening move to bring the Ten
nessee valley into closer touch with the
Magic City, for movement was inau-
gurated to try and get direct train
service to the Tri-Cities and to build a
highway that will link them together for
all time.
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Chemical Pofentialities
OF the Great South
ny FRANK WILLIS BARNETT

IL was something over a quarter of a
century ago that it first dawned on me
that chemistry had allied itself with
business and that in the future civil
4 lied man was going to use it in ways
and on scale hitherto undreamed of
which would outdistance all the dreams
Of the magicians of the old days.
| MY hrst awakening was in a summer
put in at Zurich, Switzerland. where
J went with my younger brother and q
| friend to get in touch with the Uni
versity Of Zurich. which in those days
was the Mecca for the women of Eu-
rope VINO were eager for university
education. One of the greatest chemi-
cal laboratories in the world had just
oeen completed. I had friend whose
ratner was great manufacturer of
cloth and he had come over to study
the making of dyes. 1t was German
institution.
Now. after three years of war this
country, shut out with trade with Ger
many, has learned the need of the dye
industry together with many other
Things in which chemistry must be used
70 help win the war. Chemistry is no
longer Tor a few select professors but
II is one of the great allies in COM
merce. and America is awaking to the
ract that she has been foolish to send
80 much money abroad for extracts that
she could just as easily make at home
II seems strange that the Dement'S
OF chemistry are coming to us out OF
the birth throes of battle in which net
merely brute strength is pitched
against Drawn. but mind is to over
come matter, and the great secrets of
nature are to be discovered and nut
into the service OF mankind.
The one thing which obsessed me ali
the time was in the Tennessee valley
was that at last Uncle Sam was show
Ing US the way to come into our own
by making chemistry the handmaiien
of the south who was to bless II bv
the outpouring Of her rich gifts.
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acter of the ores. due to their high con-
tent of PHOSPHORUS and sulphur which
could not be removed in the blast fur
mace. The development of the electric
furnace, however, has demonstrated that
the highest grades of steel, superior even
to the expensive crucible steel, can be
produced from ores which themselves are
high in PHOSPHORUS and sulphur, by the
employment of the electric furnace as a
means of defining the open hearth prod
uct, and the highest authorities state that
the general use of the electric furnace for
this purpose is dependent chiefly upon
the cost of electric power.
With brown ore both to the north and
the south, and with an enormous guam
tity of hydro electric energy at her very
door, Sheffield, the city of cheap power,
has indeed promising future.
In addition to electric furnaces for steel
production and for the manufacture of
fertilizers. a great variety of other plants
dependent upon cheap electric mower for
their profitable operation will find a IA
vorable location at Muscle Shoals. Among
such plants may be named those produce
ing caustic soda, caustic potash and I've,
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gracious in his appropriate remarks, and
Dave Holt caused a ripple when he re-
ferred to Florence from which he
brought greetings as "the holy of holies''
Captain Frank, as usual, made strong
food preparedness talk, and I also
spoke.
After the supper was over more than
S225, in one dollar bills were laid on the
plates as a tip to the lovely matroE
Mattresses to use in their great hospital
work. Down into the streets to the
music of the Boys Industrial School
band, Birmingham marched from Albany
to Decatur, not knowing when they
crossed the dividing line, which was even
rnnoticed by the residents of the Twin
Cities, which some day will be only 4
memory. like the Mason and Dixon
one and boarded the sleepers
We landed in Sheffield early Thursday
morning to put in a sure enough day Of
pleasure and sightseeing. l hope that
1t can be said that I'VE came, we saw
we conquered" There could be no
doubt of our presence as we marched
gaily up the main street, on our way to
the Sheffield hotel, where breakfast was
served. keeping step to the music PLAYED
by our own boys band, which made
great impression on the populace, which
shouted Itself hoarse as the "tSar-Span-
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l felt that somehow the safety OF the
nation in the future may depend upon
the broad development Of the chemical
and metallurgicaI interests of the south.
This is why no one interested me in the
rise In the price of lots in the Tri-
Cities. The thing that was ever in NV
subconsiousness as walked their streets
was that atMuscleShoals. on the Tonnes
see river. there is available power great
er than thus far developed at Niagara
The thing which made me puff IN with
pride was the fact that the utilization Of
this, the greatest single power site in
the south for the establishment Of nitrate
plants, commensurate with the needs and
the situation. will guarantee the nation
IN time OF war an ample nitrate supply
Tor It's explosives and guarantee an
increasing supply of fertilizers at a les
sened cost to meet the demands for food
stuns' which treads hard upon the heels
of supply.
I have thought much about food pre-
paredness and food conservation. for II
nave had to make many speeches on
tnese topics since America took up the
gaontiet Which an insolent Kaiser threw
az the 1eet OF our patient President.
starred out with war gardens for chill
ureh' then Tor grown-ups. then for In Il
creased tillage They We're but steps or II
nANeshl1ts N the face of the tremend-
Gus cry Tor bread and meat in the face n
OF labor shortage
lhen / got my mind on chemistry. (
ana the more thought about it's wonder
tpi possibilities the more L came to be-
neve that our hope was in bringing the
tihaple lands into use without striving
70 bring in the waste areas and by fer
1'szin2 more freely. and more intensive
cultivation with less man power increase
the production And with this in view
went to the Tennessee valley. and be-
cause ! have seen what the government
IS doins and PROPOSES to do can go on
speaking and agitating for q return to
the farms for the day is not far distant
when the man ON the soil is going to be
able to work wonders. and while MAX
ing living for himself be in a position
% serve his. country as q food producer.
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| When the inner man was satisfied we
were taken in autos for ride over the
district. Our first stop was at Nitrate
| Plant No. !, where Captain Hemphill
| explained to us the meaning OF what
! Uncle Sam was doing. 1t was an eye
opener to many, for few had dreamed
that 1t was being built on such scale
of magnificence. The two chimneys
lifting their heads high toward the
heaven were twin sentinels on guard from
out of which soon will be flowing clouds
of smoke to put the Kaiser on notice
that American ingenuity is going to
oyermatch his boasted efficiency
We then headed across q rolling coun-
try toward Tuscumbia, leaving to our
right the large acreage which has been
acquired by the government, as many
think, for the purpose of being later
utilized to produce vast quantities of
powder. We rushed through the streets
of the city, which boasts fits over 109
years old and pioneered in railroads and
gave to the world Helen Keller, the
miracle worker, ana out past the glorious
spring, which is at last going to be put
in the service of the country.
On our way back ON rise which gave
us the best view to be had of Industrial
Sheffield we got sky line darkened by
the smoke belching from the stacks OF
mary factories and saw the busy switch
engines crawling over the various tracks
like giant caterpillars. drawing carloads
of COAL iron ore, and lime rock, the
three basic things upon which for many
years the city had made it's living.
THROUGH BEAUTIFUL PARK
Rapidly spinning along, We soon left to
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COL Worthingon's Talk
At. the Florence Lunch
ny FRANK WILLIS BARNETT

] was struck IL the talk of Colonel
iWorthington at the \och at Florence
He showed unmistakaG>> that he has
Igrasped the full significance of the
| Muscle Shoals project. He does not hope
to bottle it up for Sheffield. to corner
it for Florence, to corral it for Tus-
cumbia or cinch it for the Tri-Cities,
llocalize it for the Tennessee valley,
copyright it for Alabama, seize it for
| the south, but with loyalty maintains
1 that in this hour no one has right
Ito consider any economic question from
the standpoint of sectionalism. and
that Muscle Shoals belongs to Amer
lea.
He wants 1t developed because it is
of supreme Importance to the nation.
The European war has intensified this
as nothing else could have done, and so
he works to create new industries in
the Tennessee valley basin area on
the broad ground that "the develop
ment of the south means the enrich
ment of the nation" He is not selfishly
thinking of my town." my section"
nor my state" but my country"
II was marvellous story Of heart
breaking discouragements to find the
money to keep the whole Muscle Shoals
scheme from being shelved in spite of
the possibilities which lay in it's de-
velopment. He was apreciative of the
men, the towns and the cities. and the
men who had given aid--but 1t seems
at one time he had gotten to his rows
end and must quit for lack of money
to carry on the propaganda.
And then he gave a dramtic account
of an interview that he had with Mil
ton f. Smith, who wondered why he
should ask help from him to create
coal upon which the Louisville am
Nashville depended so largely for ton
mage. He was sent to- Vice President
Maypther with the hope that II he
could get his consent that he would
consider it further.
His interview with Mr.. Maypther was
graphically told. 1t was the case OF a
to cool, level headed man dealing .
with practicalities and make him see I
that by sacrificing present business
there was chance for increased haul I
age in the future. The enthusiasm of |
the man with the vision at last beat |
down the objections of the man who
had to provide present revenue. He i
became interested and back he sent
the colonel to see the great developer i
who had opened up so much Of the
wealth of the south by nosing with his i
road into out of the way places where
coal. iron, limestone and other min H
erals were hid. but which offered pay
ing freight.
1t was tense moment when he made
The master builder see that cheap pow
Or did not mean less coal consump tion
out more, that cheap fertilizer called 4
'or greater crops, and greater produce
ion meant higher class tariffs. ana
,opulous counties, growing towns and
thriving cities. and double tracks ana /
increased terminals. and more indua-
ries along the line. He showed him i
he Promised Land, and knowing the |
olonefs descriptive powers when he
'ets on fire with a big idea l am NOS |
urprised that he Won the silent man
rho sits there at his plain desk in
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SheffeLd's Greatest Asset
Pern1anence of Great Plant

! the raw materials which go into the
manufacture OF electro-chemical and
acknowledged products.
Aside from the production of limestone.
the principal quarries of which are at
the foot of Lake Ontario, some $50 miles
east of Niagara Falls. the principal pro-
ducing districts are the salt district OF
central New York, ranking second in
production in the United States lin 1910,
and the pyrite district of St. Lawrence
county, ranking third and the local pro-
duetion OF coke at Buffalo, ranking
twelfth in quantity of output
Muscle Shoals, on the other hand. is
surrounded by some of the largest pro-
ducing districts in the country in great
variety of materials. In fact If a circle
of 800 miles radius be drawn with Mus
Gle Shoals as center, it will include
greater variety of commercial production
of raw material than is to be found
within a similar area anywhere in the
United States. Within this area are to
be found the largest producing districts
il the United States OF bauxite and
fluorspar, the second largest in phosphate
rock, coke. bauxite and barytes, the
third largest in iron and barytes, the
fourth largest in bauxite. the sixth
largest in pyrite, the seventh in zinc. and
the eleventh In copper. while limestone
and cotton. two important essentials, are
produced in great quantity.
To attempt to point out in detail the
many industries using large amounts of
electric power for which this site will be
IDEAL would exceed the limits of this ar
ticle. One example will illustrate the
possibilities.
IN STEEL MANUFACTURE
1t is we'll known that the development
Of the iron and steel industry of the
south has been greatly retarded in the
past because of the non Bessemer char !
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Louisville as he holds in his strong
hands the fate OF cities and directs the
policies of states.
These two had worked together many
times before in developing the natural
resources of the sections traversed
along the thousands of miles of track
which linked the west and the south
and the gulf. i is no easy thing to
convince President Smith when his
mind Is set, but it's tradition among
those who for years have worked I'M
der him that when the "old man." as
he is lovingly called by his employees.
makes up his mind to get in behind a
man or proposition that he goes the
limit and will stand by both for all
that in him is.