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'11*118 Commerce St. PHONE 2617 Montgomery, Ala.
; DISTRIBUTORS OF
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JEMISON & 00.
BIRMINOHAM, ALABAMA
"JEMISON F.'.RM LOAN SERVICE”
As exclusive financial correspond
ents In Alabama for the largest in
surance company- In the world, we
are prepared to make loans on Im
proved Alabama farms from 11,000
to (100.000; Interest rates from 6
per cent up; terms, five, seven, and
ten years. Prompt Inspections; No
Inspection Fee. We have three ex
perienced men doing exclusive farm
land Inspecting. Write or phone.
Particulars on request.
JEMISON * CO.. lae.
» N. 31st St„ Birmingham, Ala.
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’ LIVE STOCK COMMISSION MERCHANTS
, PROMPT AMD RELIABLE SERVICE
i Established la J“T7
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* x Salesmen for the Southeast.
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' UNION STOCK YARDS
Office Phone 1089, Montgomery Night Phone 675-J
WATKINS-CARRITHERS CO., (Inc.)
Live Stock Commission Merchants
UNION STOCK YARDS, MONTGOMERY, ALA.
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_ Satisfactory Service is Our Motto
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direct Liner service from mobile, pensacoi.a and gulf
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cota May 14th. Balling from Mobile
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BRADFUTE COUNSELS SANE, CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING
Sound Advice by National President of Farm Bureau in Election Year
BY JOHN C. O’CONNELL.
I O. E. Bradfute, president of the
I American Farm Bureau Federation,
I has been appointed to represent the
United States at the seventh biennial
session of the International Institute
of Agriculture, which opened in Home,
on Friday. Before sailing for Italy,
Mr. Bradfute wrote the following gen
eral message to the members of Farm
Bureau throughout the United States
showing his staunch support of real
Americanism and his belief in the fuh
mers’ fixed antagonism to unhealthy
experiments In government such as
have recently been proposed. The
message is timely in an election year
fraught with great consequences for
the whole American people and Is of
interest to the thousands of Farm Bu
reau members within tin, territory of
The Advertiser. It Is. in part, as fol
lows:
"The charge that the American far
mer is imbued with a spirit of radical
ism is without basis pf truth," said
Mr. Bradfute.
“The American farmer has suffered
economically the last hree years,
greater thun any other class of Ameri
can citizenry. The farmer Is still at
an economic disadvantage. There Is a
realization that better business meth
ods will right the sltuaton, but in tak
ing over | sound business practices,
there is no indication.
“American agriculture, because It
has bmeen in an unorganized state, has
not ben In position until now to place
itself on an equal footing with other
classes of industry. It Is now, and Is
demanding wit hthe lfull strength of
the organized vote that the farmer
have exactly an equal chance ' with
the business man.
"There Is no radicalism in It. There
can be no radicalism among farmers.
The Constitution of the United States
was written by farmers. Even be
fore this, the thing that made possible
the writing of that Constitution was
started by farmers In that famous shot
fired at Concord.
.. "Farm men and women have been
linked. with history of the United
Statea from that eventful moment and
In that last great struggle, the great
world war, American agriculture re
sponded with unequaled, unselfish no
bility. Farm boys served side by
side With city boys In our armies,
while the farm soil was robbed With
no thought but to give America that
increased production of agricultural
products so necessary. There was no
war profiteering on the farm.
"This Is a campaign year. There
are charges of political corruption.
There are glib tongue orators promis
ing the farmer the earth. To all this
I urge farm bureau members every
where to hold steadfast to those fun
damental principles which have made,
America great.
“As president of your own organl
j nation, I know that I but voice the
I sentiment of each member In saying
that the American farmer Is unaltera*
bly opposed to strange, untried gov
ernmental doctrines brought from for
eign countries to America. American
agriculture has played too great a part
in bulldihg up and has too firm a faith
In our present system,
"Equally opposed is the American
farmer to the ‘boring from within’ to
those who would destroy the funda
mentals of our constitution by elimi
nating the power of the Supreme
Court and changing our entire admin
istrative plan.
"The American farmer holds true to
his belief in Individual ownership sot
land and the rewards'of Individual ef
fort Agriculture will ever oppose en
croachments on individualistic effort.
Organized agriculture knows well that
as the population Increases that there
must he a more delicate adjustment
between various factors that make up
our social life. It supports the gov
ernment In its regulatory practices,
but organized agriculture consistently
reaffirms Its belief In Individual initia
tive and group effort as opposed to a
governmental paternalistic regime.
“I think It well that in view of the
excitement of the presidential cam
paign year and all of the force or pro
paganda that la being brought to beat
to support this ‘Ism’ and that 'ism,'
that the membership In the farm bu
reau hold Itself steadfastly in hand,
keeping In mind those fundamental
principles upon which will be built a
happy, prosperous agriculture, which
will mean in turn a happy, prosperous
America.
"Broadly speaking, I think I can In
terpret the five essential steps as fol
lows:
"1. Careful selection of seed and
sires.,
"2. Soli building coupled with
proper safeguards against destructive
agents.
"3. Lowering in cost of production
through the application of modern
practices ahd appliances.
"4. The construction of a selling
organization which will place the far
mer's product graded, standardized
and guaranteed on the market in an
orderly manner.
“5. A constant education of the in
dustry through various Institutions,
such as Departments of Agriculture,
Colleges of Agriculture, Vocational
Agricultural Training Boys’ and Girls’
Club Work, Farm Bureaus, and others.
"These are. I think, all the five es
lential steps. To attain these step*
the Farm Bureau is organized and Is
functioning. We seek to give each
individual farmer an equal opportunity
to build upon his farm ahappy home.
Through organization we are seeking
the establishment or co-operative
marketing machinery. That simply
means the application of sound mer
chandise principles to agriculture.
''Through organization the farmer
seeks that adjustment of taxation
which will make a fair distribution of
the tax burden. Through organiza
tion the farmer Is also demanding an
economic, governmental administra
tion.” .
RENEWED DEMAND EXPECTED IN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT OF STATE
Production of Coal, Coke, Pig Iron, Steel, Lumber, Cement, Etc., Up-State Will be Speeded Up
BY LEON W. FRIEDMAN
Coal production will before Ions be
showing an Increase. There Is a fair
ly good demand for coke with urgent
requests ,to deliver steadily. The
surplus stock of pig iron on blast fur
nace yards of Alabama are dwindling
slowly l-ut surely and the make Is not
being hampered, Increased It might be
stated. With but little exception,
there is no curtailment in the melting
of pig Iron up-stkte. the steel works
are looking closely at production and
those Industries which are using steel
in their daily operation report a num
ber of Jobs on hand.
Renewed demand for the various
products of the Industrial district of
Alabama is expected, already prepara
tions are well in hand looking to a
’need for greater output in various di
rections. The Sloss-Sheffield Steel &
Iron company will blow In another
blast furnace during the week,
bringing the number up to five out of
| eight. This company has been cut
ting Into its surplus stock of iron for
! the past several months and has not so
! much on hand and at the same time
has been shipping its product of the
[ four furnaces right along. In fact,
i many consumers have been asking
that deliveries be hurried, that is old
contracts delivered on ahead of time
stipulated when the orders were
placed. The furnace ready for the
torch is at Sheffield on the Tennessee
river In the northwestern part of the
state.
The cement interests are looking for
additional business and what little ce
ment Is In warehouses will come In
handily now. The Lehigh Portland
Cement company, at its Tarrant fcity
.plant. Just a short distance noin Bir
mingham, will be ready with Its new
kiln In addition to Its big plant, a
fourt hklln, within a few weeks. ,
The Steel rail mill of the Tennessee
Coal, Iron & Railroad company at
JEnsley Is working to capacity with
orders in hand and more in sight which
will ttuaui u -- -
turned out for several months and
most likely through the balance of the
year and Into next year. In fact, one
order for something like 63,000 tons of
rail lapses over into 1925 In Its com
plete delivery. But few of the rail
roads have mapped out their next
year’s probable needs. No apprehen
sion is felt in that direction. The
car works of the Tennessee company
at Fairfield. Just off from Ensloy, has
not yet gotten started good on the big
orders placed by the Louisville &
Nashville railroad, Southern Railway
and other railroads and a considerable
amount of steel will be required, for
the cars which are to be produced.
Other business is in sight for the
very large Industries up-stale. Cast
iron pipe-makers, those producing wa
ter and gas pipe, have nsw orders ev
ery day to report, the spring business
Is up to expectations, there will have
Jo be a large amount of pipe manufac
tured and shipped. The southwest,
west and northwest, not to overlook
the middle west, are looking to the
Alabama cast iron manufacturers fotj
MONTGOMERY
BROOM WORKS
JAM Brand Brooms
and Mops.
Water Street
Telephone 1462
Montgomery, Ala.
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I
Panics and Prosperity
Neither Affect Utility Earnings Appreciably
In the “panic” of 1920, when hundreds of industries were closed down entirely, and the
operations of many curtailed, Alabama Power Company operated 95 per cent of normal.
This is the best possible evidence that investors in our
Cumulative Preferred Stock
will receive 7.14 per cent on their investment regularly, every three months, and free of all
taxes too.
.Alabama Power Company
Investment Department 906 Brown-Marx Building
!
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a big supply during the summer and
many orders must bo started on at
once to reach consumers In plenty of
time to nleet the development wjilch is
being put on as the weather is at that
state where outside labor is comforta
ble. Soil pipe makers and radiator
works see many orders in sight. Build
ing operations show not the slightest
hold up in this territory and this de
velopment means there will be a big
demand for soil pipe and fittings. An
niston, Oadsden, Birmingham and Bes
semer have established a reputation
throughout the country for Its soil
pipe and fittings production. One
plant has announced curtailment of
production and, four .others have an
nounced that efforts for greater pro
duction will be sought. One com
pany announces warehouse well stock
ed and three others say that their
surplus stock Is not sufficient to meet
a very big Impetus. Some of the soil
pipe and fitting manufacturers are
the ones who have been buying pig
iron in very small lota, from one to
three car loads at a time, the 'idea be
ing to buy to meet necessities for John
In hand or on which bids must be sub
mitted. 5 ' ■ * ' ,
The Birmingham district cement Is
being used more and more in the state
highway construction. The Portland
cement manufacturers feel confident
that the demands of the state will be
steadily Improving until, like that
with the furnace Interests) the home
consumption will be an Item in the
general business. The state highway
commission will specify much cement
before the general program has been
completed. Other projects in the state
arc requiring now much cement' and
new construction plans must also make
estimates on, the product. It is as
serted that the state's production of
cement will meet any and all demands
originating In the state.
Clay products are being manufac
tured in.the Industrial regions of Ala
bama in greater quantity; now than
ever before. The brick manufacture
is on a large scale and the product In
htis line is finding a large outlet. Oth
er products of clay, sewer pipe, septic,
tanks, tiling, roofing, etc., are in
strong demand and some of these
works are going to capacity.
The pig Iron market Is attracting
much attention throughout the coun
try. the conditions in Alabama, com
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And Bottling Plant*-—
CRYSTAL BRAND
, CARBONIC GAS
I’ure, sweet and odorless—In
the Bed Drum with the
Black Band
Crystal Carbonic
Laboratory
Atlanta Memphis
Birmingham Charlotte
| Bowdon’s White.Lime
A choice
Shelby County
product that
ha* stood the
most exacting
tests. Ask the
architect and
builder— they
know.
Call Mala 7923
Calera Lime Works
Manufacturers Calera. Ala.
paratlveiy speaking, are better than
anywhere else. Tho quotations for
Iron are not strong. The orders
booked several 'months ago still call
for a large tonnage. The business of
today is In small lots but there are so
many orders that the aggregate makes
% good shewing. The various consu
mers are operating to capacity. Poli
tics at Washington is felt throughout
the entire country, despite the state
ment that politics will not disturb the
iron and steel trade. Alabama fur
nace Interests expect during this
month to book enough business to
carry them through June, when the
national conventions are field, and also
into the first of fall, to the time of the'
elections, and then there will he read
justments In evbry direction and Iron
and steel, cement, clay products and
what not will come back into an activ
ity that, will lapse over into nest
year. Some of the Industries up-state
In Alabama are already making plans
for next winter, estimating that there
will be a distribution of the business
to keep things moving durin gthat pe
riod of the year,.
IRISH TRAVEL OUTLOOK GOOD
President Of Tourist Organisation
Makes Report,
DUBLIN,—A Canavan, vice-president
of the Iish Tourist Association, who
has been in the United States organiz
ing means of Improving the comfort of1
travellers to and In Ireland, has cabled
that the travel prospects from America
to Ireland are this year good. He urges
hotels and others here to speed up the
issue of tariffs and particulars of ac
commodation. |
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SLOSS
SLAG
“FOR Ev^k* PURPOSE”
Carload Orders Given Prompt
Attention. Lowest Prices
Send Us Your Inquiries.
Sloss-Sheffield Steel
& Iron Co.
Birmingham, Ala.
PAGE & JONES
Steamship Agents
Mobile, Ala., U. S. A.
Bessemer Coal, Iron
and Land Co.
High Grade Steam Coal
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
STOCKHAM
Malleable
FITTINGS
Black or Galvanised
The name Stvckham on a
malleable fitting: carries the
same assurance of a quality
product as on screwed,
flange and drainage fit
tings.
SOLD BY JOBBERS
EVERYWHERE
Phoenix Portland
Cement Co.
S3
Afffrr% ai^
brilliant COAL CO.
mixers and shippers op STEAM and domestic coal
0 BRILLIANT Zt. BEST
(Trade Mark Re*. U. s. Pat. Otrice)
_ 1818 A"»*rlean Tra.t Bid*., Blrmlnghanl. Ala.
1." David* uu'. v\*P M*r‘, Henry Marlin, See. and Treoaarer
T * ««« i UB**1- Ad*m*' ltov,r * *»"»«»• Sales A*L
YOLANDE COAL & COKE COMPANY
TO?iSKT?HA,,E 72-HO i; R FOUNDRY COKE
SIZED BLACKSMITH COAL
Mines and o,,..., ?.OA*' -- COKING COAL
“ °'**** •» loUnde, Ala. Brann-Marz Balldla*
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
ROQUEMORE GRAVEL CO.
Montgomery, Alabama
Largest Producers of
Sand and Gravel in the South
1st National Bank Building Phone 1883
INGALLS FOR STEEL SERVICE
STRUCTURAL STEEL ORNAMENTAL IRON
COMPLETE WAREHOUSE SERVICE
THE INGALLS IRONWORKS CO
Phone Main 8530 Birmingham, Ala. Ave D and 7th St.
, WOODWARD IRON COMPANY
Woodward, Alabama
PIG IRON
Foundry Forge Basic
r. o. Bui B30 PHO.VU WOODLAWK 237
KLEYENSTEUBER-WHITE FDRY. 00., INC
-■ ManaUdurera Of _——
GOOD ROADS CAST IRON CULVERT PIPE
The Whit* Shaker Grata
Geaeral Gray Iroa and Municipal Caitliga
■ Plant* At — - ■
Irondale and Ensley, Ala. Birmingham, Ala.
NATIONAL FLOOR TILE CO.
MOBILE, ALA.
Manufacturers of Cement Floor Tile
“The Tile That Lasts a Century”
F. C. TURNER & CO.
ESTABLISHED IN 1871
MAMFACTI HEIIS OF
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS and MOULDING
All t'laases of High Grade Mill Work.
Beaver Board and Beat Wall For Walls and Cellimaa.
MOBILE, ALA.