The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-28
For Good of
 the Community


 lot of Goldsboro, N C., farmers the other other day that the freight rate of SIP a ton on northern hay coming into their town was as good tariff as they could wish.
 These farmers told him that they could raise all the hay their stock needed at cost of not over $6 ton, yet were paying S30 ton for northern hay shipped to Goldsboro at freight rate twice what it would have cost them to raise the hay let alone the other SIS.
 These farmers said they would raise their own hay hereafter. It was the same as saying that instead of standing around and watching for someone else to come along and help they had decided to help themselves. This is the lesson learned by the slump in prices.
 Farmers of the south are helping them selves this year as never before. Helping ones self with what one has to command at him own elbow is the foundation of all effort that counts. That is economy at the bedrock, because nothing is so read fly available at as low cost as what man himself contributes to his own well being.
 More gratifying that the the total of more than S14,OOO,O00 invested in new and going corporate enterprise in the dis trict in the past fiscal year is the fact that the major portion of this went into suc- cessful concerns that were already in operation.
 The total invested in new corporate enterprises during the year was $3,378, 900. The total invested in increase of capital stock of going and successful con- cerns was S11,556,OO0.
 A new enterprise is more or less uncer- tain. It marks beginning, an effort, the casting of bread on the waters of hope.
 An enterprise that has stood the test of time and so developed that it calls for ex- pansion and more money with which to conduct it's career of expansion is hope realized; it is victory that has set itself on the banner of the enterprise
 No greater thing happened this year than when the Alabama Home Building and Loan association increased it's capital stock from SC, 6,OO0,O 900 to S9, ,OOO,O 900, be- cause the S3, 100000 increase was proof of the remarkable success that the prior S6,000,000 had attained in the building of homes in this community.
 Just as big an event was that of the JefferSOn County Building and Loan aSSO- citation increasing it's capital from S2,000,- 900 to S3,000,000. This was another proof of Birmingham enterprise and another demand on a useful community asset to add to it's facilities for serving the community.
 When the Steel Cities Chemical in- creased it's capital stock that was evidence that one of the basic industries of the dis trict had made good here and had an en- larged field of opportunity.
 These increases of capital stock came to men who had worked hard to accom- plish things of their own initiative, effort and funds. All began in small way. All had grown large on the personal attention of the men behind them and giving their time and thought and work to that to which they had hitched their car
 The truckers will have a real city mar ket because they have rented the ground, will provide for it's upkeep with their own rentals and have undertaken the task of making this market pleasing to the house wives of Birmingham. They will succeed IL