The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
For Good of
 the Community
Birmingham Needs No Imported Ginger-The Birmingham Spirit" Is In EUidence When
 There is CalI--Experience ProUes 1t

| ZA A re ''get together" Time to quit talking about the importation of the Atlanta spirit" or the spirit of any other town Full time to cease the negative and go ahead on the iffirma- \ tive, the conscious confident of people real izng themselves.
 Let's go back while What did Birming- ham do in the first Liberty bond sale. They asked for S3,O00,00O and Birmingham sub. scrbed S6,50O,000. In the second they asked for S4,500,0OO and Birmingham gave S8,25O,- 1000. The third call was for $5,O00OOO Bir- mingham gave $7,871 ,000.
 l Red Cross asked for 5000 members Bir- imingham gave 42,68O The Red Cross asked for S150,000 and Birmingham gave S204,O00. Then it was asked for $150, 1000 and gave $465,- met with S26, 118 and the second call for S75,- 900 brought S98,207.
 This caused the publication of a little folder bearing the slogan ''The Birmingham Spirit. " Birmingham is so busy doing the real things and placing the basic and fundamental that it has little time in which to stop and brag, hence every once in while there is a recurrence of the plea of "get together"
 But Birmingham is together. Whenever call for the real article is made Birmingham is there. The state fair is about to make it's an nual bow. Birmingham has staged that event for the people of Alabama for years Out of that has come more of the new-found interest in dairying and fat cattle than tonnes of preach ing.
 They are to put on the semi-centennial They asked for $30,000. That amount has been com ing in as boy slides down greased pole. It has arrived day by day in wads of S1, ,OOO. Bir- mingham does big things in big way.
 The Birmingham Traffic Bureau knows so much about freight rates and is so efficient in it's merchant service that it has members in Mississippi, Louisiana and other states joining Tn order to reap the benefits.
 While some fellow running one-man office and moving from apartment to apartment as he traverses the universe locates in some neigh boring city and joins the hue and cry of those who keep up the noise because they need it, great interests like the Atlas Portland Cement, the Lehigh Cement and the Concrete Steel come to Birmingham
 1 While a button maker turning out dozen or so buttons per diem entrusts his fortunes to other cities, the Steel Corporation came to Bir- mingham, built mills that cater to the worlds trade and employed 50,0O0 men. If dividends on earnings get out of the city in large part, none of the millions paid out to this army of workers does.
 Birmingham makes 80 per cent of the pav- ing brick used in the south and is the leading southern maker of face brick sewer pipe, hol- low tile and other city products. It leads in production of cement. It is the largest manu- facturer of cast iron pipe.
 Birminghams three leading independent steel fabricators enlarged their plants during the period of depression and come to the turn with added facilities for turning out the fin ished steel product.
 Birminghams milling industry is a big one and her wholesale and jobbing houses ask no odds of any in stocks carried and ability to serve Our freight rates have been so realigned | Nl>x l. ~1-s