The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-08
TRADE AT HOME
 ISREFRA|N OF BIC
 BUSINESS LEADERS
Head of Districts Chief h. dustry Pledges Purchase of Birmingham and Ala
 bama Products

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 'We have tried to do our part in the patronage of home industry" said George Gordon Crawford, presi- dent of the Tennessee company, land pledge you, gentlemen, in the name of our purchasing department, that we shall make effort at strict CT observance of that rule than ever" "
 This was the substance of the part ing words of Mir. Crawford as host of Birmingham manufacturers at the Monday luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce, of which Mir. Crawford Is director. It was his turn as host and there was an overflow attendance. extra seats being provided for the unusually large attendance. Patronage of home industry was the leading thought expressed in the round table discussion. The princi- pal talk was made by L. Sevier, pres ident of the Alabama Manufacturers association, who declared that the capitalization of the purchasing pow CT of the Birmingham district and of Alabama was the one best thing that could be done for the district and the state.
 The state buys from Birmingham: it were unfair for Birmingham to buy outside the state when as good can be gotten in the state" said Mir. Sevier. The speaker read excerpts bearing on this subject from recent letter to the members of the Alabama Manufacturers association, as fol- lows;
 "An Investment fin Alabama-
 "Patronizing home industry Is in- spend for an Alabama product diverts back IF to business in this Gtate. You can trace 1t clearly as trail left by comet. To be specific, 1t is split in three or four ways, between the workmen. the employer. the jobber and the retailer.
 Each Individual measures up to the part of the stockholder in thls corporation called Alabama and by patronizing home industry you help pay dividend to yourself as you arc putting your money to work develop- ing Alabama. You invest In the in- dustries, you help develop them, you benefit and profit from their expan- sion and you assist In achieving pros- perity for yourself and your friends
 We do not want you to be under misapprehension and a mistaken theory that home industry boosters expect you to go 1t blind for home industry. They don't. They say to buy Alabama made article providing that it measures up to the outside one in price and quality. As a matter of fact you ought to be willing to pay slight bonus for the Alabama article, for it is made under the same high standard of living conditions which you enjoy and enforce
 Home industry is not a shallow idle phrase. It Is policy of sanity in the spending of your money-a policy of helping our great state by the purchasing of her products. To practice home industry Is to bring blessings in showers down upon a
 
 Alabama Is made up of Alabama manufacturers. Alabama retailers. and Alabama purchasers. Our whole community is honeycombed by inter- locking benefits md the local in- crease of employment for our men and women is in exact proportion to the increased demands for Alabama products. Help stimulate business and produce what Alabama needs-a bigger pay roll. Start today Keep it upi"
 Rounds of applause greeted MT. se- viers slogan, "Patronizing Home In- dustry Is Investing in Alabama" E B. H. Hartsfield of the Birmingham Stove and Range company had good word to say for Birmingham mer- chants He declared they patronized home industry when it delivered the goods. He had no complaint to reg ister.
 Home Industry Schedule
 Erskine Ramsey laid down this schedule of action in the patronage of home industries. First buy goods made in Birmingham second. buy goods handled in Birmingham Ny firms maintaining warehouses here; third. buy goods sold by firms having representatives and offices here; fourth. as an injunction to the Cham Der of Commerce. for future action, a systematic campaign to find out what Birmingham buys on the outside that could be made here and then try to have that article made in Birmins- ham.
 Clifford B. Beasley of the Southern Sewer Pipe company. paid a tribute to tie Chamber of Commerce as an industrial aid agency and pointed out how 1t had assisted that concern in @ matter in which its good offices were sought
 bers were. ready to work for the chamber and the community, and he believed they would work If given something concrete to do.
 Organize Purchasing Power
 Charles A. Moffett, president of the Gulf States Steel corporation. de- clared articles were made in yBir- mingham that were not sold in Ar- mingham in the quantities that they should be, making special mention of stoves. He believed in the organiza- tion of the purchasing power of the community and thought all buyers should be taken Into that organiza- tion so as to make 1t community-w wide in its scope of action.
 Short talks were made by R. A.. Porter. president of the chamber: Manager O. L. Bunn, Col. T. O.. Smith. vice president of the Birmingham Trust and Savings company: Fred M. Jackson and others.
 It was the largest attendance yet marking the chamber luncheons and brought out in bold relief these two sentiments:
 First. that trading at home was a good investment and, secondly. the need of alignment with one central organization on the part of all other