The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
For Good of
 the Community
"We Haue Turned the Corner Is the Domi-
 nating Sentiment Among Business Men - Who Note Improued Conditions

| VhU NVtS AHaPIUVSu NUHuutUNO TT is encouraging to hear men talk less about "camouflage" and "bolshevists" and more about turning the corner" The former two were the outflow of pessimistic view of condi- tlons and their use meant depression, suspicion. lack of faith in men and the mission of the created world.
 l In every line of business they say the "corner has been turned" After long months of lean and sparse production they qualify their op- timism by declaring that there Twill be no boom mind you. It is coming all right, but gradually"
 Men are not pigs. They will riot now and then, forgetting themselves on the wine of a sudden and unbalanced prosperity, but the eternal decency of the human essence calls them quickly from any form of moral and phy- sical extravaganza and back to the normal, the healthy and the safe.
 Out of their wants men sensed the spirit of cooperation as in their state of isolated sav- agery they dimly grasped the benefit of state of society. Back wonder the shippers of Bir- mingham realized the necessity of common agency for removing the freight rate discrimi- nations existing against Birmingham. The Traffic Bureau was the answer. During the long dull months merchants had time to think of basic conditions. So the whole |salers and manufacturers organized them selves in branch of the Chamber of Con- merce. The effect has been wholesome They have gone out for trade in mass formation and trade has come.
 h. ~11o oE on their transportation to Birmingham when trading here have been greater in the past week than in any preceding two months. The merchants organized when they had the time to give to organization. Now that they are be- coming buster the fruits will be garnered.
 The merchants of Tuscaloosa have realized the wisdom of the action of the Birmingham shippers and they have organized the mer- chants division of their Chamber of Commerce Thus good example in the chief city of the state travels afield and encourages others.
 The Birmingham building and loan associa- tions have done more to found homes in Bir- mingham than any other agency. They were forced this spring to increase capital in order to accommodate the demand. Their good work became known in Montgomery. Business men from that city came here, made intimate study of the operation of the local concerns and have organized one in the capital city on the model of ours.
 These are the things that will serve people who have turned the corner" and are facing the up instead of the down-grade. Such as these are the foundations which men are too busy to lay when they are overbusy producing and in the mad chase of the easily made dollar. These lapses in the maximum speed of business are not all bad.
 But none with grain of courage doubts the turning of the corner" One of our large stove works is on a five-day turn steadily after desul- tory operations of months Several large steel mills, which operated intermittently, now run continuously week after week.
 The Chamber of Commerce is receiving more inquiries about Birmingham goods than in months. Building materials were seldom more active; some factories in the west have