The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
For of the
 Community
THERE is nothing much the matter
 N with Americans anywhere.

HERE IS nothing much the matter N with Americans anywhere.
 Those that whimper do so because they get the same species of consolation out of it that spoiled child does
 But if the spoiled child is allowed to keep on whimpering it will be further spoiled and wind up an unmitigated nuisance.
 Mighty good anti-whimper stuff is this extract from a letter written to the gov ernor of the Atlanta federal reserve bank by H. L. McElderry, president of the Talladega National bank:
 When lad of IT, through an accident the
 writer came near bleeding to death and his
 father, man of 87 years, was trying to stop
 the flow of blood
 l knew my father would give his life / thousand times over for the child of his old
 age, and yet because was whimpering, he
 raised up from trying to stop the flow of
 blood and said, ''Darn it. be man." That is
 my emphatic advice to southern men today.
 We are richer by far than ever before we
 know better how to handle financial and bus
 mess matters than ever before and our fu-
 ture success is assured. A little temporary
 set back should be taken with head up and
 face to the enemy.
 We are richer than we have ever been; richer in town and richer out on the farm We have been in clover longer than we ever were, and we have eaten several fills of it. The matter with the whimper- CT is indigestion from overfeeding. He is making wry face over the dose that has kept him from blowing up. He needs someone to stand before him and shout, Darn 1t, be man"
 We are all in the same boat. The same Hull hovers over all enterprise The ships are in the harbor to have the bar nacles of super-prosperity scraped away before they set sail again on the sea of commerce. They are taut and strong, but they need rest some paint, some Overhaullng, time to grease the cables and refine the boilers. Had they not put into port they would have worn them selves out.
 The fretful man is not going to hasten the recoupment. He is punishing himself alone. The big brainy ones will seize the opportunity for a little accounting, for stock taking, for measuring the course of the next voyage
 There is lots on the farms besides cot ton, Diversification has not been preached in vain. Not all the farmers are running to the banks. There are bodies Of them that arenOt nearly so interested Tn the rate of interest as the city man.
 Notice how mild-tempered we seem to have been getting to be since events have forced us to realize that we are all under going the same pruning. That is what has effected the cure. Johnny just can't stand for Jakes having the best of it. When each sees that each is being touched with the same end of the heated poker the hurt is not great
 In Birmingham the leading interest which did not follow the lead to max imum prices for it's mill productions, is majestically moving on in it's accustomed pace of production. It is operating the same number of blast furnaces, the same number of steel mills, mining as much coal and making as much coke as ever.
 It is building ships for us at Mobile and furnishing these ships with cargoes of Birmingham steel for the four quarters of the globe. It is employing tens of thousands of men at good wages and continuing it's plant expansion without interruption.
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