The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-11
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 convention :............ 100. 50
 s2149.s3 DISBURSEMENTS
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 Postage and stationery ..... 3s.75 Conventions ................ 5OO.0O
 .-s s s1.521.4s
 Balance in bank December 31.
 1910 ................... 62s.44 s2.14993 The auditors report is as follows T have examiner reports. receipt books, cash books. distributing ledger cancelled vouchers and bank books of the secretary of the Chamber of Com merce for the year beginning January 1. 1910, and ending December 31. 1910 and find entries properly made and vouchers properly drawn and the bal ances correct.
 tsigned) ALVIN M. DOUGLAS. "Anditor." February g. 1911.
 Home Trade Committee
 To Mir A. H. Ford President Chamber of Commerce, Birmingham. Ala. The cooperation which should exist be- tween civic organizations has been well | eXemplified in the working of this com | nittee. Last year Home Trade" com | mittee from the Business Mems league, consisting of A. W. B. Johnson, Her man Sa(1s, Louis Pizitz. and F. P. Chaf- | fee. secretary, ex-officio member, and ! | Home Trade" committee from the Cham Der of Commerce, consisting of Robert | w. Ewing, k. Wilkinson. Walter c. Phil | lips and J. B. Babb, secretary, ex-officioi | member was appointed by you to repre-
 sent this organization, with the recom- mendation that these two committees CO., | operate in their work. This has been
 done with pleasant and gratifying results, which will be here briefly recapitulated. Record of Accomplishments | 1. The selection of the slogan, Trade l in Birmingham" came as an. inspiration. | This slogan is at once a cordial invita- l tion to the outsider to do his trading in | Birmingham. and Is a request or com mand, If you please and constant re- | hinder to the loyal ssBirminghamte to | keep his money here with the merchants and manufacturers of the Birmingham 1 district whenever possible.
 | This slogan is splendidly evidenced | and conveyed to the public by the large
 and beautiful electric sign Trade in Bir- mingham," erected and maintained by the l Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company on the top of the Chamber of | Commerce building.
 | ,. The Trade in Birmingham" cam | pa:gn has been further promoted by a number of tho manufacturers of the Bir- mingham district having labels put on
 their product reading, Made in Birming- | ham" Birmingham Is now manufactur- I ing wide diversity of small articles of | daily use in the household and office and | this labelling so as to show that these are Birmingham product should of itself | increase their sale.
 l 4 1a ,;y,r !, d1 splendidly and widely advertised during | the recent successful Birmingham census jubilee by the furnishing by this commit | tee of number of large painted cloth | signs which were eagerly taken and used 1 by the merchants In their decorations. | '. All of the newspapers of Birmingham and not a few in the surrounding towns
 have been specially enthusiastic in talk | ing hold of the Trade In Birmingham" | idea. The Ledger early in the campaign issued a specal Trade in Birmingham" edition, and has supported the idea edi- ltorially the News isued a special Trade | in Birmingham and also Made in l Birmingham edition, and has boosted the | Idea editorially, and also ran for several | months on it's front page valuable space | each day devoted to interviews with prom trent Birmingham people splendidly set ting forth arguments for trading in Bir- | mingham; The Age-Herald has boosted the idea editorially over the signature of Ned Brace and has recently taken up , what bids fair to be a very effective cam pagn for the Trade in Birmingham idea from the standpoint of the women of | Greater Birmingham, through Dolly Dalrymple's department. A splendid ar l ticle in that writer's own inimitable style, | heinz the first of series, appeared in
 this mornings Age-Herald. | This committee does not claim the cred | k for all of these accomplishments. The press and the people have merely seized upon an idea which was presented at the psychological moment, and are making | most of it.
 There is no doubt but what this Trade | in Birmingham" campaign has already | established many new enterprises here which would not have been established so soon or so easily had 1t not been for | he increase of this favorable sentim mt. For instance, 1t is now possible to keep | here in Birmingham our money for life. l fire, casualty and liability insurance; for
 blank books loose leaf goods and highest | grade printing, engraving, embossing and l lithographing; for practically all neces- | sary building materials, including brick. | cast iron and wrought iron and steel | forms, bars. nuts, bolts, etc, up to steel l rails and steel for structural building;
 housewives can procure the finest cof- fees, baking powder, meal, extracts, l bread, cakes, cracKeTS, CdnQleSs .etC., iflduc right here in Birmingham.
 Merchants Affected
 There Is little doubt but that this cam l paign has been responsible for a large share of the increased buginess of the merchants this winter. and it is fair to assume that the merchants of this city l will take advantage of this sentiment, now thoroughly aroused, and render their stock so complete and their service 50 | good that there will never be any occa- | sion for a Birminghamite to go away | from Birmingham to trade, and there will | be every reason for the residents of the | surrounding towns and counties to come l to Birmingham to trade.
 Recommendation for the Future
 This committee feels that in laying down l this work there are certain recommends tons which might be made as to what yet remains to be accomplished by some 1 future committee or committees, for the l furtherance of this Idea.
 |. A wider campaign of advertising should be undertaken by the manufact-
 urers of the Birmingham district whp l manufacture articles which can and should be sold and used In the homes and business offices of our territory. II would seem that people are not so much | opposed to buying Birmingham article as they are ignorant of the fact that there is, in the particular thing they have need for, Birmingham article to buy. Our manufacturers have been little back ward in this matter of advertising and they should not only advertise more in
 the newspapers. but they should advertise | -f E.vx xleexr Avx v,rfxz tad