The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14

recent very successful Birmingham cen
 sus jubilee by the use of large Trade in
 Birmingham" signs, which placarded all of the principal business houses of the | city and set the people talking.
 The newspapers of Birmingham and of | the entire district and not few of them throughout the state have helped us in a | splendid manner The Age-Herald has | given articles In its editorial pages and over the signature of Med Brace" and the Birmingham News and the Birming- | ham Ledger have gotten out special Trade in Birmingham" editions, and have supported the idea editorialy, and the Birmingham News has been for some time running regularly on It's front page valuable space each day devoted to in-
 tervews with prominent Birmingham peo-
 pie setting forth arguments and the ne- cessity for trading in Birmingham This campaign has been responsible, beyond a doubt, for large portion of the increased trade which the Birmingham merchants have enjoyed during the past month The good women in the homes have be- come enthusiastic over the idea. and are asking for and using In their homes cakes, candies, baking powder, extracts, coffee, meal, etc., made in Birmingham. The bankers and merchants are buying more or their blank books. 1ithographing, | engraving, clothing, etc, in Birmin gham, of Birmingham factories and stores, and our contractors and builders are buying more of their machinery, hardware, fit tings, brick. and building materials, etc., from Birmingham manufacturers than ever before, and all are now able to get their insurance written by Birmingham companies. The county and the city have both officially adopted the idea of trading in Birmingham and they now let no con tract for anything to be bought or made away from Birmingham which can be bought or made here in the city.
 Undoubtedly multiplicity of small in dustries either in the city or close to the city, having regular cash pay rolls, is the one thing this city needs above all others, and there is no doubt but that this Trade In Birmingham" campaign is doing more than any other one thing to stimulate those industries already here, and to en- courage the location of new industries in our midst.
 The time is coming soon, if in fact it is not already here, when to trade In Br- mingham and buy Birmingham made product will not only be recognized as a civic duty, but will also be regarded as a matter of pride and privilege, and to send an order away from the city for an article which can be satisfactorily bought from a. Birmingham merchant, or for a product which can be satisfactorily made by local industry, will be matter of discredit and criticism for the individual or the corporation or firm guilty of such practice.
 Let every man present here this even- ing practice and preach the Trade in Birmingham" idea, act upon 1t himself, talk 1t in his home, and the result will be the rapid increase and greater prosperity of those industries now located in Bir- mingham, and the city will enjoy as a re- suit prosperity and growth which will cause our population to double by 1920.
 R. w. EWING, Chairman.
 The following new members were elect ed E. H. Theis, 1924 First avenue; R. A Ridley, 1909 Empire building; William A. Munger, 3415 Highland avenue; John B. Weakley, Empire building; Ed s. Moore, Marx building; Maurice Willows, 20241a Third avenue.