Show ROOSEVELT PLAN FULFILL DREAM OF by JAMES A STREET ot of eloit i Roose Roosevel volts ts plans tor for industrialize Industrial iza tion buthe of the tennessee oe valley valloy would i change the river ot of romance into tho the ruhr of america and fulfill a hope voiced first by president jaine m monroe ilo ho recommended to con contreas greas in 1824 that the muscle shoals area of the Tennes tennessee sou be surveyed the first examination was ordered in 1927 and engineers still study the old river and dream of making its I 1 tremendous power it a servant to mankind smoke efrom from a thousand mills has haa written a nar new alphabet in the sky over the valley but the tennessee la Is the river of romance to the middle south where it has been a powerful factor in the political li economic and social development of an empire tho the stream to la formed near knoxville by rivers that tumble from th the tennessee and carolina moun bains it la Is a land of oc minerals and PrIm primeval oval fo forests rosto mills of oc till all kinds dot banks river and Us ite trib ut starles iea arles east tennessee politically republican economic ally a manufacturing area and so 0 o dally a section wholly different from the deep south inspires songs the tennessee flows swiftly southwest and hurries toward chat tano oga down the Ill la Is baggies Mag gies mill where alovon a lover wrote when you and I 1 were young maggie to P a miller ml llera daughter the river eases into moccasin Moccas tn bond bendat ailt chattanooga slips past gaunt g aunt lookout mountain the south orn ern sentinel of the valley broadens and starts its ita plunge for muscle shoals it misses georgia by a scratch ond and hoaps away 0 o the south Alaba alabama mw bound the mountains fall behind its as the tennessee tennesse o glides glided through the rolling hills to Gunters guntersville ville ala where it does doeg a crazy right face and starts the alow tortuous tortu oua drive north back to tennessee it creeps past albany and decatur flattens and swirls through the shoals there the river bed falls away suddenly and the drop la is muscle shoals into land of cotton i the tennessee separates tei alor floronce florence from sheffield and tuscon bia then sweeps around one huge bend bids Alabama goodbye band and rambles mackto back to tennessee it reenters this the mississippi line the mei political social aldeco and eco komlo order has changed completely since the stream left the east its ita now ilithe ani the land of cotton mules rand mad and all weather democrats it flown due ah and near Shi shiloe lob where civil war graves tell a story of an era when tho the tennessee waa an instrument ment of conflict it severs tennessee completely jand and glides into abo ohio at ky i the tennessee flows more mor eithan than miles it waters wheat and tobacco near mear its source cotton at its mouth it run Brom the quartz country to the gumba land from the apple lapple cider belt to the mint julep section frem the hot cakes and knisple syrup ayi up Aing dora to this the hot blA culta and molasses empire mountaineers catch its ita uv rea clice negroes catbe catfish at its mouth the mississippi 40 I 1 the boss down south but the ift truly the river of romance |