The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-24
For the Good of
 the Community
uD TERMINATION, pers everance


 said a Kiwanian at luncheon while the international convention of that order was in sessionin Birmingham.
 And that seems to be an excellent recipe for success in the building of city and providing it with such things as make for the comfort, happiness and contentment of it's citizens.
 This recalls an incident that occurred last summer.
 Along about the middle of May, 1918, F. I. Derby, a cattle grower of Sumter county, come to Birmingham with the view to hold ing an auction sale of bulls for the benefit of the Red Cross. That was during the war when the Red Cross had need of all the money it could get hold of to use in re- lief work among the soldiers in France.
 Mr. Derbys proposition was that com mittee of Birmingham citizens guarantee the freight charges and feed bill of fifty shorthorn bulls which cattle men through out the country had agreed to donate for the sale, and to raise purse to boost the price of one bull to be known as the grand prize bull The freight and feed bill, MT. Derby said, would be $500, and the spe- cial "boost'' purse he suggested should be not less than S5000
 After a session lasting an hour or more the Birmingham committee, or collection of business-rne to whom the proposition had been made, turned it down.
 q can see nothin0 in it. A bull sale ir Birmingham would be a failure,' one q them said, and the others apparently held the same view.
 Gentlemen, am going to pull off the sale in Birmingham on the End of July" MT. Derby replied, with show of irrita tion T am native of Alabama. Bir- mingham is the biggest city in the state, and my home pride impels me to hold the sale here. If you don't want to help me all right and good, I'll go it alone. And you'll see the biggest bull sale ever held in America. This sale will be worth $50,000 to the Red Cross"
 This opened the eyes of the Birmingham men. "Just what do you want us to do?' asked one of them.
 Guarantee the freight and feed bill of the bulls-Sl500' replied Mr. Derby.
 This was done and the success of the Red Cross bull sale held at Capitol park on July ?, last year, was notable one, even greater than MT. Derby had predicted Sixty bulls were sold, all donated by cattle men, and the net proceeds from that sale all of which went to the Red Cross, amounted to approximately $80,000
 Determination, perseverance, and precipitation"
 Mir. Derby was plentifully endowed with the two first and he did not spare the last. He worked energetically, travelled over the country, talked Red Cross bull sale, got into the newspapers, advertised it. and thousands came here to see it. Rivalry between Red Cross chapters all over the state was intense and Mr. Derby was vim dicated and the Red Cross benefited
 Incidentally Birmingham received 2 great deal of free advertising. , So with city. Determination, perse- verance and precipitation on the part of it's cilizens will make of it a great community. A1l to these cooperation and there is no limit to the things they may accomplish.
 Blrming ham has among he" 23i ,O0G citf- zens men and women who measure up with the best in the country; men and women who can accomplish much iii the way of civic building if they will only combine their initiative, their energy and their en- thusiasm, and pull together for the good