The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-15

HaElnS those daysI
 Ehe Ku KIux Klan 4 Fas organized to
 keep them in check.
 From 1885 to ss:s5s:' sz1 the 'earpethaekers, and seal fWass had charge of the gosernment fnd n1isrule was the order ef the day. heas was sout-caoseds I happen to klssw q little about the conditions in {he r0s. Tit will hs admitted that people. HtnFtfng bach at zero and making the hrugress that the southern people have Hzade since the Civil war, with the kzmdiRaps above mentioned, must be 4 thztelligent and have natural adyan- lzgess net possessed by. other sections, kr they. would not have progressed as fur people have since the Civil war. It should not be forgotten that it { frok some 25 CT 90 years to get a kaarhalf and after that the progress ! fax slow because of the meagre if Eaneia1 resources ' But within the last 15 years the putin has become comparatively iri- d KeHendeHt financially, and from now m Tt wflN move forward much faster ham 1t has in the past I dare say ! Dat our progress within the next ten Iears VIII be greater than it has been During the last 50 years. You won't { bow the, south in 25 years.
 Why is it the people in the cold AaRth and west prefer to live there, Epeciaily in the big cities, where they S Hye more people than anything else nd where people are the cheapest < s1ng on earth, when we have a eoun- fE rixht at their doors with the best lmate in the world, and plenty of N bonn is beyond me. < The day iz eeminx. however, when De tdf4 win turn indeed, it has al eHdE arrived. People are moving to Fia section every day.v
 Ihat,s vigorous, stirring statement, t Rot7 It bat typifiesF the new arlt ruling throughout the south.
 Sinee my recent tour of inyesti9aZ an through the south, have been aeRegaiy supplied with inspiring facts d flguFeS about many cities and sec 9mS which \ was unable to visit. 4 nth | gathered. the data, I did not a1fze the importance, for. example, of
 attanoega and Nashville.
 Thrse times within the last two anths I have attended the best plays
 New York in company with visitors en the south On each oeeasiDn, these sit0Es were greeted by' q number of 4 iEln1s from their home sections l
 1 an expeRienee like that tfis week. < MasHzEap&F scored Boston a mo- paly ef culture. But I have been imz ezaad hT the culture of the south.
 sautkefn eifys Atianta, ia fhe only a in sAmekieR that transports the snle Manhattan Opera company, with
 It's parapkeTnalia, to it's midst for q entire week. And now Chattanooga daang samething similar. 1t opened a
 a1.dolIar soldiers and sailors
 mariaE auditorium in February by gzRing the Chicago Civic Opera nany for three performances. The endanee aprFoaehed 15,0O0. A guar faa of 1000 was sought $14S. .O00
 z promptly raised.
 IndustrialIy, Chattanooga is going lead The S0meFville Iron Works re- REfF daubled their capacity :; the Dixie ianing mills are building large mills tieh will have 10000 spindiex;; the andard- Gsonaa- teker eanapany re-
 tlN faerease,E their. eapaei lx and now vp m flExastIhaEf of SS6S000E00O;; and @ Signal Mountain Portland Cement slup&ny with an investment ef s, ,000,- sQ are now in operation with an out!
 f of 2400 barrels n day. HThh Signal Mountain hotel is arrang1
 fer additions to the hotel, the 4 Bitten hotel is putting on one hundred kerM rooms, and there are prospects
 oGher additions and up-to-date hotels Fng erected in the city.
 The Tennessee Electric Power com nF has just eompleted an eight-story
 iEiim%, while the Provident Life and .ei3ent Insurance eompany is finish History office bailding.
 A city planner has been engaged and
 n lave the cordial support of the
 fzens in beautifying and otherwise
 praEing the city.
 It will probably astonish you b know slf Chattanooga leads the whole south zd in some cases the whole country in e following lfness
 *Wdqfen manufacturing hosiery pRO- etiaR, meReerizings blow production,
 wnz1 machinery, oil well Ma Rhinery,
 range works, shovel manufacturing,
 sam0hile wreeking cars, undertaking
 adzS cedar chests, paper making. zaHt medicines, refrigerators, gas
 En4r, electrical insulafer machinery
 Eers pipe, portable asphalt paving &m1S, eantraefors -hoists and logging
 ehfnefy, porcelain enameled steel,
 nereial malleable castings, snlphate
 aIaminums boilers, etc, etc.
 SazkNilIe, tsOs has much to claim at asDa