The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
Shall Birmingham HaUe
 Great Peace Exposition?
Author of Proposal Throws Light on Some Details of His Plan, Pointing Out Advantages Some Predic- tions on Benefits From Holding SuchNa Show
 in This City About the Year 1924
Bv JAMES ARTHUR MacKNIGHT

The name of the city of Rhodes would long since have perished but for the fact that great Colossus was built there in anclent times whose fame has preserved the name of both the city and itself, though the Colos- sus has entirely passed away, and the city. after 20 centuries. is little more than a memory.
 This is an object lesson which it is well to ponder A city to be known and to have ght in the world must do and b esomething notable. It is fact today that all the world is looking to America for eXmaple and inspiration; and it is equally true that Birmingham has the opportunity 10 achieve a thing SO remarkable as to arrest the attention of the entire world
 In "The American City" maga- zine published in New York City, this verse from this writer's pen ap- peared some years ago;
 '-The city must live by the life of
 it's sons,
 As rivers are only the water that
 runs;
 When only the rocks and the gorges The rivers as dead as the sands of
 the plain.
 If men are not there with their vigor
 and might,
 Then the city is dead and forlorn
 is its plight
 So, the city must live by the life
 of it's sons
 As rivers are only the water that
 runs"
 When this was written I had been visiting some of the dead cities of Africa, Spain. Sicily and Italy and this sentiment was a reflection of my experiences
 And now we come to Birmingham which only needs waking up to be- come one of the livest and most progressive cities on the map. So bring out the rams horn and blow it loud and long. to rouse the sleep CTS from their lethargyl
 I make the hold and broad as- sertion that this city's vast natural resources devolve upon her an inn measurable responsibility. What she has already done in the brief span of her existence is proof positive that she already possesses men and women who are capable of practically any achievement that is worthy of their effort; and l venture the further statement with all modesty, that the enterprise so beautifully outlined by Miss Mignon Hall in The Age Herald of Monday. February 27, is not only one entirely worthy of the highest endeavor of this remarkable people, but that 1t wilL when realized. bring them such rewards and honor as could scarcely be estimated at this time
 AtIanta's Exposition
 Let the reader concentrate his mind for few minutes on the follow ing fact. Some 30 odd years ago Atlanta held a cotton states expo sition, the first undertaking of the kind ever consummated in the south. At that time Atlanta was scarcely one-half the size of the present Bir- minghanl. and 1t was with consider able difficulty that the capital of s2n0.000 was raised to carry forward it's ambitious venture.
 Will any well informed person uuestion the almost inconceivable benefits that came to the Georgia city through her Cotton States Ex position? It may be asserted without fear of contradiction that the solid foundations of Atlanta's development and expansion were then laid, and that there was nothing within the reach of her people which could have done for her what that exposition did. It made the city known where it had never been heard of before. It is true that the show itself was com paratively primitive and trivial at- fair: but regardless of any of these circumstances it brought to the city a thousand advantages and better rents which its promoters could not hay eforseen, and wrote Atlanta big in the public eye of the entire country.
 The building which housed the Cotton States exposition were flimsy wooden structures, possessing few architectural attractions, and when the season of the fair was over were necessarily consigned to the scrap