The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-14

| CidtlOn IS located, m tune lO dSSuiue HIS duties on January 1.
 MT sevier has had long experience in the railroad service. having been con nected with the Alabama Great Southern. the Southern and the Seaboard Air Line for a great many years. During his railroad service he represented the Ala bama Great Southern and the Southern in an executive capacity in Alabama. with headquarters in Birmingham.
 RESIGNED FROM SEABOARD
 In 1907 he was elected vice president of the Seaboard, but resigned in 1909 and came back to Birmingham and to his old position with the Southern and the Alabama Great Southern, resigning the latter to go with the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company about the first of the year, 1918.
 Speaking of the objects of the Alabama Manufacturers association, MT. Sevier said
 The Alabama Manufacturers associa- tion was organized and will be main tained to promote the interest of it's members as well as to aid in the de- velopment of the states resources along agricultural, manufacturing and indust- rial lines, and to assist in finding mar kets for the products of its members. whether in this country or abroad.
 ITO defend and protect the business interests of Ns members.
 | .To diffuse accurate and reliable fn- I formation regarding the advantages Of the state as a commercial location.
 "To assist by arbitration or otherwise in settling differences that may arise.
 "To procure uniformity of opinion and action among the members.
 l ''To cooperate with other like organ 1 izations for common veal.
 And to do such other things relative to the matters aforesaid as may be i found desirable, convenient or necessary. 1 so far as same may be permitted by law "In carrying out the policies of the as- sociation as above outlined, it will be my purpose to devote my entire time to the Manufacturers association's inter ests, recognizing as he does that have broad field to cover, but much can be accomplished by proper cooperation from all manufacturing interests of the state, both large and small and it Is possible to create home market for many of the states products, which are now being supplied from other states.
 USE OF WARRIOR RIVER 'In the development of the states re- sources I feel there are many benefits to be derived, especially in the Birmingha q district, by the use of the Warrior river. especially on that traffic which may not be tributary to the river, and it will be my purpose to the fullest extent to recog- nize where the facilities are available preferentially the Mobile port, and feel that as much interest should be taken in the Port of Mobile by the people inland of the state as is taken by the people residing in Mobile; appreciating conS1- tion now existing, and to some extent influenced by the war, that Mobile offers which should bring to Mobile preference of such traffic.
 q feel that by close cooperation, regular line of ships to certain countries may be induced to make Mobile, in tAe same way that 1t is now given to south Atlantic ports and other ports in tne south. The possibilities today for export coal should be taken advantage of through the Port of Mobile, with the CO., operation of the railroads in furnishing the coal handling facilities at Mobile they have been furnishing at eastern ports, from coal fields of other states, competitive with the coal fields of Ala bama."
 He also stated that shortly after Jan uary he hoped to cover the state gen. orally, meeting all manufacturing inter ests, feeling that under the Alabama Man ufacrurers' association it is nothing mort than business organization, which in reality is a method so framed as to pro- vide an orderly way of directing the busi- ness energies of it's memb bers, and the as- sociation recognizes as it's function that it is to be 'tcf the world and not merely
 in it."
 The headquarters of the Alabama Man ufacturers association. on account of it's accessibility to all parts of the state, will be in Birmingham.