The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-21
For Good of
 the Community

within his right. He is moreover within the spirit of the social pledge. The pledge of society is not immolation, but partici- patton in burden and benefit, each alike.
 In the propaganda about Trade at Home" there has been wanting certain robustness of appeal. It has been urged with unction rather than with clarity. Its literature has contained an overplus of the suggestion of self-commendation
 An example to the point of the practi- cality of using at home what is produced at home is contained in this paragraph from the Wall Street Journal treating of the financial status of the SloSS-Sheffield company:
 Sloss-Sheffeld's ability to show
 fair operating profit under existing
 trade conditions is due to the fact
 that the company is gradually ship
 ping iron to customers on old con
 tracts.
 Further the company has a large
 contract for supplying coke oven gas
 to the city of Birmingham, which IS
 helping out considerably.
 To make this gas the Sloss-Sheffield company must mine coal. That means miners earning wages. It must operate the by-product plant. That means more men earning wages.
 The Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company retails this gas to the householders of Birmingham. That keeps one department of local utility in good form. And the people get a good gas, which is to be lower in price from time to time.
 Had we remained on the artificial gas base, we would have been paying much more for it than we do pay or will pay later on. So the city of Birmingham large iron making corporation and an i'm portant utility benefit by home use of a home product. @
 The car plant began operations with : orders for 900 cars. Where did the orders come from? Two-thirds from the Louis vile and Nashville and one-third from the Steel Corporation The railroad bene- fits by getting some of the haul of raw material and having freight cars turned out at a great freight-producing center and Birmingham workers get wages be- cause Birmingham railroad and Bir- mingham steel industry patronize a Blr- minghamf factory.
 The railroads have had agricultural agents in the field several years. The Louisville and Nashville and the Southern and other southern trunk lines now handle southern cattle, hogs, fruits and vege- tables northward in solid trains. Dairy products have commenced going forth in like quantity.
 A man should patronize home indus try because, in doing so, he is helping him. self Birmingham manufactures stoves ranges, grates, hollowware and is be- ginning the manufacture of hot air furnaces for residences. The merchant who handles these stoves, ranges and furnaces, is keeping the plants making them in operation, is. creating their pay rolls and these pay rolls come to him in the end for that which he had helped produce.
 It was astonishing to have the head of the Alabama Manufacturers association inform Birmingham business men that a factory investing $100,0O0 in 1920 and paying out S100,000 in wages, had booked only 75 of his products with any of Birmingham s numerous brokers while brokers in six neighboring states had pur- chased as many as 100 to 1, 1000 at time
 This is the sin of negligence, which is next door to crime itself The broker who failed to patronize this factory
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