The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04


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 In these unsettled times hardly { day passes that the invention of new death-dealing device is not heralded 1T the newspapers. Hundreds, and ever thousands, of inventors have schemes ir their fertile brains for putting the Kaiser hors de combat in the twink ling of an eye, but sad to relate, most of the inventions are worthless. How ever, we should not discount the nota- ble advances made in the art of mak- ing war which are now being applied with all their destructive powers along the battle fronts.
 In the matter of explosives, those we already have seem to do their work as we'll as could be expected. In fact, it is not so much a problem to get substances that will explode and play havoc with every living and in animate thing in a wide radius, but to control such agencies and to apply them so their destructiveness will be of military value.
 Regardless of how many inventors rise up with the claim that they have made important discoveries, the world will continue to wait for that man, or who can hit upon practi- cal method for putting the U-boats out of business. That is the task be- fore American scientists and the soon- CT they perform it, the better our chances will be to banish once and for all the specter of Prussian militarism, Mineral Values
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 A LABAMA has long been known 1A as mineral state. Its geo. logical survey attracted the attention of capital before the Civil war, and early in the seventies, when Birming- ham was "being discovered" prophets recognized the great potentialities of this district.
 The vast development that has talk en place here within the past 20 years caused the business world to marvel. Had the United States Steel not been halted in it's scheme of expansion by the political probe" undertaken by Congress shortly after the financial panic of 1907 the millions expended in this district for new construction would probably have been doubled.
 As it was, the Steel corporation did l wonderful work. It made of the district new proposi- jon. Old plants were made over again. Everything was enlarged and 
 But as great as the expansion was | few years ago, it would have been much greater had the dissolution suit les CT been instituted. The Steel cor is not trust, according to he general understanding of the erm. The Trenton court so decided, md if the supreme court affirms that decision there will be no dissolution f the corporation. But no matter what may be the conclusion of the uit the Tennessee company's prop 1 ,rties will be pushed forward and will ,e developed along strictly up-to- late lines.
 When the corporation entered the district the men in :harge of development and operations aw great things in the future Inside If three years the rehabilitation If old plants made the Tennessee ook like an entirely new proposition. Then came the wire mill which was 50 modern as to be known as the last l word" in wire mill construction. A 1 few years later many improvements wereAnade, and today notwithstanding the check on progress owing to the suit, substantial improvements have been carried out by the corporation hereabouts. The time of waiting and holding back has passed, no mat ter what the outcome of the suit may be. It is believed that the corpora tion will soon turn loose millions of dollars here for expansion.
 Besides the Steel corporation many other interests are preparing for large developments. Undeveloped coal and