The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
For Good of
 the Community
NTHEN industrial plants consul

raw material SpocuV ruSn snip ment of the tonnage purchased, ndicaz tlon is that they are out of the raw ma terial. It is also indicated that they have orders for the finished product for which they require the raw material
 Even though such orders come in small quantities from each consumer placing them, they show the trend. They point to resumption of industry If they are the small fish, so to speak, tits experience that the larger fish follow where the small ones lead, because, in the case of industry, the needs are mutual.
 For some time, while orders for pig iron have been in small lots, the shipping in- structions have been for immediate de- livery. This is almost invariabe Every other mail brings in new customers or those out of the market for some time Evi- dently they have new business and they have no pig iron.
 Latterly the makers of coke have ex- perienced the same demand for prompt shipment. An order for car lot some where in the southwest, for instance, is followed by personal appeal to some high official of the coke making company to have the coke moved at once. The re- quest for prompt delivery is so much the rule that when it is not made 1t stands as anotable exception.
 None is taking more coke or more pig iron than he seems to need right now. There are not going to be any yard stocks on consumers yards to work off when the turn comes. When the big buying does start, it is going to find clear field for operations It will call for a prompt blowing in of idle furnace capacity that will require strenuous exertion to meet the demand.
 The soil pipe shops are not individually large consumers of pig iron, but twenty of them are, and these twenty are melting iron in response to the demand of their product in the building of homes and storehouses
 The large water and gas pipe concerns stand on the tip-toe of big business Large lettings are being offered There have been some rejections of bids, but new dickering has ensued with each rejection In short while readjustments of the diff ferences separating the makers and the buyers will have been effected and there will be some large transactions.
 The Western Lumberman is authority for the statement that "The building of uOIIlGS IS ulCIcdSulS dllu Cllc lIIpOI CCIlC ldC- tor in the lumber trade is that this increase is evident in almost every section of the country The construction of simple homes, suitable for people of small means leads in volume.
 The Lumberman declares that the building of homes is as national in scope as the housing shortage"
 Whenever one cog in the base of the community fabric moves the entire mass revolves It comes slowly at first but it is of a general nature and all the attached belts begin to chase around the pulleys The structural movement is being felt first in one place and then in another; each element in the business world feels the throb.
 These rush orders for pig iron and coke are of the hand to mouth order, but so has trade in every other line been. The entire country has played the safe and sane game. None has taken on greater load than he can bear. The shoulders of all are fit for the incoming burden of the i'm pending revival.
 When it is over and the district looks about itself and sees the tens of millions of Jo11ovc, +h o+ boxyo rroy,o Yv,4o i,,I,1ctrio1