The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-01
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Points Out Importance of Work of New Board of Economy and
 Control

w D. Nesbitt has under consideration the acceptance of the chairmanship of Alabama's newly created board of econ omy and control which was recently rendered him by Governor Kilby.
 Mir Nesbitt made formal statement on the subject yesterday in which he pointed out that he appreciated the op- portunity for service to the state which the new board offered and that he was trying to arrange his personal business affairs so that he could accept. He also called attention to the importance of the Warrior river work in which he has been so actively interested. and said that he was eager to continue these efforts to see the great project fully accomplished. His statement reads;
 Governor Kilby sometime since asked me to accept the chairmanship of the newly created board of economy and control.
 Since that time I have discussed with him very fully his purpose in recom- mending the creation of this body and the co-ordnations and savings 1t was ex- pected to accomplish in handling the funds appropriated by the state for the maintenance of it's various departments and institutions.
 The objects are indentical with those of large corporations. who through the purchasing and financial departm relieve the heads of operating depart ments of the work required for the study of prices, bargaining with sellers and fixing discounts and payments, and leave free the full time of these heads for the accomplishment of the greatest output of their particular divisions.
 The board is created in this par ticularly and in other ways incidentally, to assist the management of our different state institutions so that their full time and talents may be applied to the de veopment of the particular work for which each is maintained, and to the end that the dollars which each has al loted for it's upkeep may bring to it the greatest possible return.
 This work is most interesting. and on that account and because I should like to have a part in what we all believe is to be a most constructive administration of the states affairs, I should like to be connected with it.
 My many-year business associate in warehousing, terminal and transporta- ton enterprises. both at Birmingham and Mobile. is MT. 1T. K. Miner. and we are endeavoring to so arrange our mutual and individual affairs that he may tenn porarily. as secretary and treasurer of our concerns, take care of the details of my desk, and allow me for a period to give my time to the organization of this important and helpful state department.
 ''The work of coordination and articu- aton of state effort is but one of the many important things to be undertaken and accomplished
 within the next two years, if Alabama Is to come out of the war period and into the conditions of peace where she can secure for her citizens the business opportunities to which her geographical position and natural resources entities them, she must solve other problems. Possibly the most important of these s the development to a full operating con dition of our inland waterways through our port of Mobile. All thinking business men recognize that the war has funda mentally changed conditions under which American business must be done and know that if our industries are to run at full time we must have a very much larger foreign and export trade than we have enjoyed in the past.
 Tn this new work through by contact and acquaintance with our business peo- pie, I hope to give aid in the solution of this vital question.
 With the Warrior river opened and served by government barges, Birming- ham and all points between this head of navigation and Mobile, become prac- t!cally seaports, and Selma and Mont gomery on the Alabama also have their opportunity.
 Birmingham will have her place on the bank of the Warrior, and with this accomplished she has her outlook upon the same waters that first or last serve world seaports with the most economical means of exchanging tonnage.
 "Only superficial knowledge of the present situation can say that this state ment Is dream.
 ''The facts are there
 How soon and to how great an extent the individual citizens of Alabama will benefit by them depends only upon our own determination and energy.
 "It is a great mistake to look upon the Warrior development as something that only interests those shipping coal. We will see within the next IS months cotton assembled at Birmingham, go down the Warrior river and loaded into vessels at Mobile, and Birmingham will be, only in a lesser degree, as Mobile. a point of assembly for this export tonnage and also thousands of tons of other products outgoing and incoming.
 My work and association for 20 years has made me realize the great things possible in Alabama with those improved transportation facilities and my paruc- ular ambition is to see their accomplish ment and to continue to have a hand ir their development.
 While improving the work and ef- iciency of our state institutions, we must harness the energies of our business in- dustries for the accomplishment of fun damental business requirements and un- der progressive. but conservative gov ernment give our producers in farm and factory and our distributors in bank and business the best opportunities to reach world markets
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