The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-15
GENERAL MEETING. .OF MANUFACTURERS.
 HERE OCTOBER 5TH.
Politics, Section and State Discounted, Men Who Make Things Will Discuss Con-
 ditions That Interest All

With the view of bringing the manufacturing interests of the coun- try together on a common platform of progress and business develop ment, John E. Edgerton of Nashville Tenn, recently elected president of the National Association of Manu- lecturers, will give luncheon in the Tutwiler hotel here, October 5, com plimentary to the manufacturers of Alabama.
 This announcement is made by D. M. Edwards, editor of American In- dustries, who was in Birmingham yesterday with authority to make this announcement. "Mr. Edgerton is a southern man and southern man ufacturer," said MT. Edwards. Being such he senses the wisdom of bring ing the manufacturers of the south in touch with those of the north for their common interests. To this end he is going to give a series of luncheons in leading southern cities such as Birmingham. Others vii! be held in Georgia, Louisiana and other states.
 NOn-Sectional
 The meetings are to be nonsec- tional nonpolitical and nonpartisan. 1t will be for the purpose of having the manufacturers of the rich and growing Birmingham district sit about a round table and set forth their common problems, the solution of which calls for the united effort of the manufacturers throughout the of m " or association affiliations"
 Following have been requested to arrange the programme:
 R. s. Munger, president of ~Conti- mental Gin company; H. Sanhorn Smith, Gulf States Steel company; Ju- Illus Goslin, Joubert and Goslin Ma chinery company; w. D. Tynes, liar die-Tynes Machinery company; G. B. Mccormack, Pratt Consolidated Coal company; J. w. Mcqueen, Sloss- -Shef- field Steel and Iron company; and Frank H. Crockard, Woodward Iron company.
 Alabama's Progress
 Speaking further of the Birming- ham luncheon MT. Edwards said:
 The Alabama and other southern districts have grown so tremend- ously since the beginning of the war that the south is now taking a first place among the industrial centers of the country, and it is the belief of MT. Edgerton and other manufactur- CTS, that the influence of the south should be exerted in common with that of the other great industrial sections.
 Alabama is not only producing and selling ore, coal and coke and pig iron, the bases of American manufac- turing success, but is producing the . raw material from her own ground, manufacturing it into finished pro- ducts on her own ground, such as rails, shapes, plates, pipe, wire, nails and a hundred other things, and is successfully competing with other parts of the world in the mark eting of these products.
 Birming ham as, Port Moreover, Birmingham is fast be- coming a. post of the south, through the marvellous and efficient develop mentt tof the Warrior river project. She is not only producing the raw ma terials and manufacturing them. but is exporting them in ships that she Is building in her own territory and she in turn is importing other raw materials in the very bottoms which she is constructing. In other words, this new industrial center, in it's comparatively small territory, is car rying on production, manufacture export and import a complete cycle of indigenous industry
 National manufacturers believe that Birmingham's present and future are now completely bound up with the present and future of the other large industrial centers of the United States, and it is for the purpose of getting the direct. first-hand infor- nation on all related projects, that MT, Edgerton seeks to meet the states manufacturers at the forth coming luncheon.