The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-21
For Good of the
 Community
Birmingham Interested In the Small Courtesies to the Visitor That Ha s Built Up the Golden
 West and Deuising Me thods of Application

COMMUNITYS best investment Is courtesy In the end
 will bring than tons of statistics It is the charm of life has made the Pacific blossom like It has caused tens of thousands of persons to be- come bewtched with the golden and make mouths water to go there and for ones self.
 When visitor drops off Los Angeles courtesy stands his elbow He is taken about and shown things He is not asked whether he has money and seeking location The fact that he is visitor sufficient He may not invest penny beyond his upkeep while in Los Angeles but these wise folk know that if they make his stay enjoyable one he will standing advertisement talking it's praises The New Orleans shop keepers were wont to add agniappe the purchases made by customers. The gift value but showed the appreciation of the merchant The made the visitor feel at home in the French market quarter and brought dollars there that would otherwise not have come.
 The Wholesale Merchants and Manufacturers associa tion of the Chamber Commerce several months n- augura refund of railroad fare to visiting merchants atlonng them Here again the value of the cour tesy great but it denotes the attitude of the Birmng merchant the out-oftown merchant and brings the two that much closer together.
 The various dinner clubs will entertain at luncheon the deegations that this and next month with the college football eevens. Each club will take delegation Scholarly gentlemen will be made to feel at home in the souths big industrial city and they will with impression that making money is not the sole thought and aspiration of the people of Birmingham
 Many visitors spend weary days and Sundays in the hotels knowing what to do with themselves pend the idle time their hands would cost little to main tar automobile and drver at leading hotel and have hlm take these visitors Birmingham and show them the city from esthetc well industrial stand point.
 Birmingham does the big thing we'll always. In 1894 it the entertainment of the Confederate Veterans The organization then in the heyday and many tens thousands of the veterans called to their fathers were alive Big and small Birmingham then of 1894 long spoken of the best the history of them al
 We had auditorium big enough for the veterans in 1894 but built Winnie Davis wgwam served after wards meeting place big occasions William Jennings spoke there when he his zenith and Sam Jones held thousands spebound there.
 Birmingham will handle the sem-centennial crowds well and they going enjoy moment of their stay Br mngha falters in undertakings winces be- undertaking looms up big and formidable The will add the districts reputation doing big things.
 But the everyday courtesy that counts It the tion oe the small courtesy in plabe tender and without appearance of effort that wins the visitor When in the country invites take luck with him. the guest feels home than if his host had made elaborate preparations for a formal event.
 Glory of the old south it's courtesy and is heir loom that south should fail to treasure. It would pay Birmingham systematically into the daily esy business Have the courtesy machinery oiled that the visitor feels free accept and enjoy There is lots of fooc for thought there
 Yours for upbuding,