The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-23
Barbecue at Bayview, Visit to Plants and Trip Over
 Highlands Main
 Events ALL SING PRAISES OF ENTERTAINMENT BY LOCAL ROTARIANS
Number of Novel Stunts" at Barbecue Seemed to Make Great Impress
 sion on the Visitors
By JEFF BAILEY


 Adoo. the finance committee of the
 United States Steel corporation,
 the Italian mission and the Red
 Cross campaign, have all been
 agencies through which Birming-
 ham has had an opportunity to se-
 cure tremendous amount of pub-
 licity recently.
 But yesterday Birmingham Ro-
 iarians came home from Atlanta
 with the bacon, introducing Bir-
 mingham to the direct method of
 publicity which will undoubtedly
 have its cumulative effect from
 Maine to California and from tl.e
 great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
 Birmingham Rotarians have rising vote of thanks coming to their member ship. In the history of that far-famed business league of efficiency. Friday, June 22, will go down as 100 per cent day, for over 909 Rotarians from all over the United States partook of the hos pitality of Birmingham Rotarians and it was one of the most delightful menus of fun, feed and friendship ever served on one bill in these parts
 PLEASED VISITORS IMMENSELY
 The entertainment pleased the visitors immensely and made the Birmingham Rotary club happy because they had treated well the stranger within their gates. And the strangers said so them selves, time and again during the day.
 Dr. Henry M. Edmonds, Rotarian su- perb, made one of the most delightful talks to the visitors assembled at Bay view ever heard on an occasion of such nature. Dr. Edmonds said in part:
 MT Rushton has just told you that it has always been said that in Birmng- ham we make iron and steel for liv- ing, but he did not tell you the most inn portant part of the joke-in Atlanta they do not make any iron.
 T hope We shall never be cured of in viting the stranger in and giving him all we have Our hearts are alike. We have learned better here in the south than to cling to that old theoroy that we were the only people who had hearts, iOl we lllid tlldl yOu ptOple or the north, east and west have hearts Just like we have, and we are glad to take you to ourselves and welcome you You who voted for that fellow Hughes-I believe that was his name-are now standing by Woodrow Wilson just like we are for you recognize him as the President of the United States in this crisis, IS your President, just as we did William Me Kinley in that struggle of 1S9S when he was President.
 ROTARIAN CRAWFORD'S WORKs
 T think it perfectly proper that I should say something of Rotarian Craw- ford, president of this great corpora tion which has made this day possible for you, as his corporation is an 100 per cent organization.
 You have noted how he has adopted the principles of Rotary, taking care of the waste in the many by-product plants that you have seen, making into millions of wealth that which formerly went to waste. His corporation cosntructs labor, as you have seen at Edgewater and Bayview where the wonderful welfare work that has been done for the miners and their families the houses, the com forts and the schools and conveniences shows how it has recognized it's labor. As Rotarians we believe that that com pany or corporation that does not recog nize that its labor bleeds when cut. suf- fers when hurt, is souless. This cor poration does recognize these things, and it is patriotic company, too, as shown by the fact that Rotarian Crawford is today engaged in the campaign to raise $15O000 for the Red Cross war fund, act ing as the chairman of the executive committee
 President Val Nesbitt of the local Ro- tarians introduced Donald M. Carter Of Chicago, who made very happy response to Dr. Edmonds' talk, jocularly stating that they had received the warmest re- ception in Birmingham that they received anywhere.
 DONALD CARTER SPEAKS
 This is great age for friendship" said MT Carter. and the world is hun gering for friendship, and I find that the Rotary clubs are the greatest train .r%A L ,,t