The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-30
For Good of
the Community
Birmingham Does Not Know That 1t Is City
of Diversified Interests Because 1t Has Not
Been Shown-How This May Be Done

ME visitor to Chattanooga can not escape discovering
what is made in Chattanooga The reason is plain On
main street there permanent exhibit of factory and
mill products.
This exhibit is in building owned by the Chattanooga
Chamber of Commerce. It did the members penny
They paid for and became its practically without
effort The charges for exhibit retired the bonds
floated to finance the DEAL
the job his manager the Chat
tanooga chamber o. L. Bunn of the Bir
mngham chamber Now Mr.. Bum asks the Birmingham
chamber, much larger body representing much larger
city, to do what done in Chattanooga. Why not?
Chattanooga has the reputation possessing lot of diver
sfied industries and entitled that reputation Bmng
hams citizens go about bewaing that Birmingham is
not city of diversified industries If the Chamber of Com
merce had permanent exhibit of Birmingham made
Ducts there would discovery greater dversfcaton
here than in Chattanooga.
How is Birmingham convince the outer world what
she not first convince herself? But how
Birmingham to know what Birmingham produces unless
there profert The Birmingham factories scat
tered over of more than fifty miles, The mill
ceners far apart There hives of industry which
Birmingham citizens have never laid eyes
Bring industries to the people of Birmingham by as
sembage of their products and they will learn about
them week than told tones circulars and
tens of thousands of talks at dinner club uncheons Know
ing themselves they inform the outsider They will not
sit by in silence in Pullman while Atlantians Chat
tanoogans talk about diversified industries
series uncheons rendered members of the chamber
has served to emphasize the desire these 1890
to make the chamber the focus of civic effort
trail exchange of community activity They wish be
the source of inspiration for community effort.
The chamber is well organized and operated sound
business basis Several associated departments doing
really splendid work The junior chamber these
farfmed for its aerness and ability achieve results
wholesale merchants and manufacturers department
served to align than hundred of the leading manu-
facturers and wholesalers teamwork counting for them
and for Birmingham.
The agricultural department of the chamber has given an
excellent account of itself organized the truckers of the
county, has inspired youths of the county appreciation of
purebred stock has helped the daymen in their effort to
raise the milk of Birmingham Grade-A has provided
farmers with ditching and terracing machines
The Traffic Bureau speaks itself Shipper members of
that body know what it has DONE In item it's work
has saved it's members 100000 in four years.
What does the Chamber of Commerce lack? A home of
its own elbow ROOM place where its members may gather
in force look into anothers eyes the
inspiration place where they would like drop in and
loaf and play chess and checkers The chamber must
this before it can as it should s
The exhibit would pay for the home for the
dining and offices and assemblage quarters Bir
mingham needs it and ought to have it now.
Yours for upbuilding,
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