The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

everything as far as fB.F%FoRRES possible, using his banks money for the intelligent development of in aividuals, firms, companies and the city's and nations resources. TheFe' fore, he derives genuine satisfaction from his crowded days. ..f
 '.The railroads haven t. brought home to the people the pleasure and the ed ucational value of travelling through and across this country remarked MT Fleischhacker. Years ago a railway journey across the continent wasn't particularly desirable experience. But it is entirely different today. You now get excellent service on the trans continental trains. And it is wonder fully interesting to note how the coun try has been built up, to watch the cities and communities that have sBrung into existence; to note the diff ~ferent crops grown in different states fin fact, to study at first hand ones own country. During an ocean voy age you see nothing and learn nothing
 "The railroads ought to get busy, fol I know that if they go about the thing the right way they can bring about g lot more travel, not only for the benefit .,of themselves. but of the travellers and the country as a whole. = California is emerging successfully from the relapse brought about by the outbreak of the dreaded foot and mouth disease. Tourists this year promise tr outnumber those of any previous year
 "A breath of fresh air from the prairie, showing that not all IS dls' content" is how Eugene Meyer, Jr anrnnTlf10n describes a letter received from the Citizen's State Bank of Clearwater Nebraska. Here are two or three sen tences from the appreciative letter:
 q do not think you really under, stand the great service that you and vour corporation have given this state Many thought at first that 1t might DC imnossible for the average banker to cet any assistance. But after three yesrs of business with you we find fhat the only regulations you have I'm nosed have been those of good business methods. The fact is, I do not know xuhat the outcome would have been to +be farmers and ranchmen of Nebraska five had not had the finely-organlzed and thoroughly business organzatlon under your direction, the War Finance corporation. I wish to thank you sln, cerely on behalf of our borrowers ana for ourselves. ,..o,,-r
 ''Personally, I have never known any governmental organization Una! has functioned more ettectNely anu tIl with less annoying red tape than tne War Finance corporation, particularly since it addressed itself to the problem of helping out needy banks and DOT, Tosvers in sorely-tried agricultural states And taxpayers will be glad to knovv all this work has been done al . minimum of cost to the puonc as II has been handled in a business nAe way" :. ,,;n+.r,s ink 1uida1awake states and cities have dis Sa1erad this and are now investing fsree sums in national advertising ntber sections, notably, New Englana, Nave suffered through neglect In thls modern method of attracting pros perity. 1. c Wall sends this: p.4ou o1rh +he question was asked: Wnac tnIes men of national importance hao oont Florida the most good? A numoer Q, replies were given and the one Cna won the pr1Ze was AoDSO9'
 and Forbes. ..
 Lights hidden under bushels attract nothing, not even moths.
 .T have found that, of three hundret men who have done notable tnlngs 1T this country, there wasnt one @ Mn' ,was religion" Dr. Christian F: Hels ner the famous New York minister told me the other day.
 pr. Reisner, with splendid en +hnsiasnn. is launching an amoltlou yroiect to build a $4,400,000 Broadwa! tsmnle. twenty-four stories high, Tn up town New York, "as house or wor shin and to provide a great communlt! nIsnt for religious and social worK un Ser the general direction of the Method iSt Eniscopal church. The churcl onditorium and related quartefs Will o ,1art of A structure which will consls principally of income producing apart rnerts. dormitories, stores and otflces'
 Seattle has a wonderfully successtu institution of this kind and so nav Chicago and one or two other citles Many leading financial and bushes men are supporting the movement II New York They figure that tn metropolis needs not one but a nulnOe of such organizations.
 New York has 36 fewer Protestan churches than it had 25 years ago. N' new church of outstanding importanc has been built on Manhattan Island Il fifteen years, although during this sam neriod more than sixty-flrst cias theatres have been erected. More thai .baIf tbe churches in New York hav' an annual income of only $4,OOO O.
 Dr. Reisner declares that there arr SO0. GOO children in our public schools who never see a Bible or get relglou edncation and that 100000 youth arc growing up almost heather" H also says, "Judges declare Sunda, school attenders are never among tn vonth brought before them, althougl Sn ner cent of all criminals are unde the age of twenty-five"
 Ia if astonishing, therefore, that re enonsible men of affairs are supportln Dr. Reisner's badly needed enterprise
 The notato barrel is always bein sbaken. bringing the big potatoes t tbs ion Henry M. Robinson, who di such notable work in the drafting O +be Dawes plan, has just picked on ofs his executive big potatoes, Charie K. Stern, as president of the Pacific Southwest Trust and Savings Bank Los Angeles, MT. Robinson remainin as, chairman and directing head of tn First National Pacific Southwest bank ing group. More and more of our req financial and industrial leaders ar adopting this plan of becoming chair men and selecting a younger man a president. There are many advantage