The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-11
For Good of
 the Community
UDUT you can't remove old Red
 D mountain"


 Neither can they remove the geograph- ical situation of Birmingham with refer ence to other southern states.
 Nor can they remove the Warrior river emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
 They cannot move Alabama's tract able black labor from a habitat whose soil and climate suit him.
 They cannot separate Birmingham from it's climatic position in the foothills of the last spurs of the Appalachian range through whose gaps come the cool ing breezes of the gulf throughout the summer season.
 They cannot take away from Alabama her all-year pasturages enabling the pro- duction of beef cattle at lower cost than in the corn belt, in the east, in the north.
 They cannot root out the seasons which allow the raising of several crops from the same acres each year.
 These are just a few of the funda- mentals Success is built on the basic. Where that exists it is only question of time.
 As the country develops it is becoming more and more matter of zones. The federal reserve system is it's recognition. It is acknowledgment of the equality in importance of the different sections of the country, their equality in enterprise and their equality in necessities.
 Some zones are more stable than others The zone of which Birmingham is the natural center, Is the most stable, because more of the basic is here. It is the basic which brought the Steel Cor poration. It is the basic in the proximity of raw materials that prevailed over the doubting Thomases when Roosevelt con- sented to the taking over of the Tennes- see company.
 Last year the Atlas Portland Cement company absorbed the cement plant of the Standard company at Leeds 1t did this because the Leeds plant, being strategically situated to serve remuner- ative field, had been such a success that it ha dto enlarge six and seven times in a brief career.
 The Standard had field which the Atlas could not wrest from it. So the At las did the best thing under the circum- stances It possessed itself of the Standard.
 The largest individual maker of sewer pipe in the United States with plants in many states saw that Birmingham was supreme in large trade territory safe from the encroachments of the various factories. So Col Dickey, of Kansas came here, took over Birmingham plant and the Southern Sewer Pipe works has just completed the largest walled build ing in the southern states. He bought the Birmingham plant to get into the territory served by Birmingham.
 The Republic Iron and Steel company reached down into Alabama and pur- chased the Thomas furnaces in the west ern part of the city so as to have a hand in the iron game built on the natural ad- vantages of this district
 The Hercules Powder company could do nothing in Georgia, the Carolinas, Mis- sissippi, Alabama, Louisiana and the--e- about because the Aetna Explosive com pany's Birmingham mills had that terri tory prompted. It behooved the Her cules company to come to Birmingham. It has done so by absorbing the Aetna.
 Chief operations of the Continental Gin company with plants in four states is here and head offices here because this is the natural center of its business operations.