The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-10
League of Women Voters and
 Manufacturers Have Lunch
 con and Discuss New Plans
BIGGER NEXT YEAR

Here are some of the things def-
 initeIy settled yesterday nt the
 League of Women vOters' luncheon in honor of local manufacturers:
 Next year there will be n bigger. more comprehensive and finer
 Housewives Exhibit than was held
 this year, In it local manufacture
 CTS will again exhibit BirminSham-
 made products.
 The league hopes to have this exposition in either the new audi tOrium or the market house as the first big event after completion of
 building.
 Manufacturers cannot complain in the future that the women are
 not "heIpinG out"
 The exhibit was totally and en-
 tireIy success from start to fin- ish.
 The whole Birmingham citizen ship now knows it should buy Bir-
 mingham- made products and some reasons why the interest of the city
 depends upon this.
 By MIGNON HALL
 The Birmingham family got to- gether yesterday. It looked in one another's faces. It shook hands all the way around. It sort of. for the first time, got acquainted with itself and found out how fine it is, anyway, and how much it can do if it sticks together and pulls hard for city up- building.
 Strangers would have loved to be there when these inspiring notes were sounded at the luncheon of the League of Women voters. which compliment ed 36 Birmingham manufacturers whose wares were placed on exhibit at the recent housewives' show.
 New Name
 "The perfect 36'', is the way Mrs. Solon Jacobs refers to them, and when her time for speech making arrived she sounded a brand new idea to Bir- minghammers when she declared:
 Men and women should get to- gether in large moves more than they do. The men have their so-caIled eating clubs. The women have their cultural, literarR and other organi- zations. What we need is a club com posed of men and women who are city builders and who can dream common sense, hard d-headed things for Bir- mingham, and put them over. If we do not haze such 8 club at least clubs of men and women could come to- Sether-and should do it-more fre- quently to thrash out big problems" She was widely applauded.
 Other Cannon
 Mrs. Jacobs speech came directly upon the heels of several inspiring talks made by Chapline Hodges, F. w. Blackford, Richard F. Johnston and Ben M. Jacobs, and served as a climax to pent up emotion.
 For there is no doubt that the meet ing contained everything in the way of rejoicing, deep satisfaction over Birmingham project successfully well done, down to compliments to individual workers.
 Helpful Time
 The luncheon was one of the most beautiful, and withal helpful. that has been held in Birmingham in a long time. Mrs. Richard F. Johnston. in her beautifully attractive way, presided. She is president of the league, and there was much laughter and applause as, being compelled to introduce her husband, who was one of the speakers, she related con fidentially:
 There are four members of my family.-but I will confide to you I'm introducing the very best part of my familytright nowi'
 If anyone doubts Richard John- stor's popularity, he should have been present at the luncheon. The ap- plause was prolonged as he arose so long that he was detained in open ing his address. Hes done great things for Birmingham" whispered several women, and since Mir. John ston is The -Herald's barometer on business conditions, large affairs of city wide interest, and forever is sounding the note of optimsm-the onward and upward spirit - the league knows that he has had a great finger in the pie of getting together He set forth
 Family Idea
 That community is best off which cares for itself as family. It will attract others to that place. A long time we talked of getting together, but the matter seemed difficult ot solution. The first outgrowth was the mems luncheon clubs. Then we had the wholesale manufacturers or ganization, and still other similar organizations were formed for CO., operation. But there was one ele- ment lacking-and we have found that in a compact organization of women--the League of Women Vot- CTS. As soon as the problem was mentioned to them, the battle was won. It was brought to neat and nifty conclusion in the Housewives exhibit"
 He mentioned as other big features the generosity of Ben NJ. Jacobs and company, "a local firm that went out of business for d whole week for community good" and the fact that tens of thousands of school children