The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-17

man, of the Berman Cooperage company.
 and I spend time in both places. Bir-
 mfngham is easily the best town in the
 south but nature took care of that be-
 fore our time. As long as coal and iron
 and steel are essentials of industry, it
 must be a great city.
 But I don't think the community is taking advantage of all it's possibilities Other places, knowing they are not so fa- vored by nature and that they must create their prosperity by stimulated progress, are already advanced on ambitious build ing programmes. Birmingham is growing so fast it can hardly keep up with itself and 1t must build-build-build Any man who is true friend of Birmingham and who can do so, should build now for prices are not coming down and there
 are thousands of persons anxious to come
 to Birmingham and occupy the new dwell 1 ings and show the prosperity that is here.
 l People don't like unpleasant truths but | the fact is that in our consciousness of wonderful strength we have been little | inclined to take it easy.
 If we had the building programme ar ranged and the building organization on ! foot that is already occurring in a lneighboring city Birmingham in ten years would have 500000 inhabitants. We can't help but outstrip any other city in the South. Nature and modern economic conditions have attended to that job but how we would grow if the building of dwellings and apartments would open up
 and keep pace with the demand
 "I hope this will make some realty owner mad enough to hop in and make the money that's awaiting them when they begin construction
 One thing that impresses the passer- | by in Birmingham" remarked Capt. Dud- | ley Williamson, lis the almost nvariable courtesy of the place. While it is bust ling and hustling and full of business, | it is never too busy for an if you please and T thank you.' There seems to be
 such a fine natural spirit of considera- | tion for the other fellow her-and that's | the true spirit of courtesy-and I can tell you it falls mighty gratefully upon the stranger within the gate''
 | Captain Williamson is connected with
 the income tax bureau of the United States internal revenue service and his duties carry him throughout Tennessee | and Alabama.
 l In the Spanish-American war, he was | first lieutenant of the Montgomery Grays. when Herb May was captain, and became captain on Mays promotion. "The time has come for public opinion to make itself felt, and our representa- lives at Washington to get busy" said the purchasing agent of a big Birming- ha mconcern yesterday and see that the meat held by the government is made really available for the use of the Amer can public. The dollars of our people bought it, in the first instance, and now that it is not to go overseas, it should go into the stomachs of our people. know there has been order issued that it shall be sold for general use in this country, but anyone that tries to buy it will find that it is tied up in such a maze of red tape that it is practically impos- sible to procure it. Public opinion caused the avowed per
 mission to sell this meat, and it should
 now make itself felt in the tens of thou
 sands of motor trucks and touring cars
 that the government owns and cannot
 Use. They standing idle in the camps
 and quartermaster depots, wearing out
 with disuse, while American industry is
 crying for them.
 "Th ground at Camp Jesup, Ga, is
 blocked with them, lying idle. They are
 just that much capital and raw material
 taken out of the workings of the body
 polite, and the government should let private owners buy them. It will be a
 good thing for the treasury and a good thing for the purchaser, and I don't be- lieve it will upset the automobile indus try a bit. They have been bought and
 paid for-they contain numberless tons ot raw material that is needed-they should be allowed to do their party in the enor- nous work of construction and develop l ment setting in all over America
 II love Birmingham" said Charles
 Lansdell, the scale man, yesterday T
 ough to-t's been the best friend 1 ever
 had. But I love it well that I don't i
 want see it 99 ALDO per cent ok .; I |
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 So here goes my philippie, as seen through | a spy glass.
 "Our traffic officers are all right, but l we haven't got enough of them. I saw l a jitney, with one passenger, stop and |
 discharge it's load in the middle of one |
 of the busiest streets in the city Monday |
 morning. There was delay about change, |
 and it held up crowded street car, inn
 mediately behind, for two or three min-
 utes.