The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-09
For the Good of
 the Community
GREAT old world.

4 GREAT old world.
 "A One never knows what the neigh Dor around the hill is going to do until it is being done.
 They say Britain is "nice little, tight little island" with keen eye for her own welfare Some have criticised Britain for taking care of Britain and Britons in that snug way of hers. In their hearts they admire the British bulldog, because it has the bulldog grip.
 Now comes Canada with a unique proposition to care for Canadian iron in- terests A news item from Toronto to the Iron Age, says:
 Canadian ore producers are pre-
 pairing their request for bounty of
 75 cents per ton on iron ore mined
 and worked into finished product in Canada during the next fifteen
 years. Details are to be worked out
 before the next meetings of the
 Federal Parliament and the provin-
 cial legislatures.
 It has been suggested that 50 cents
 a ton be secured from the Dominion
 government and the additional 25
 cents from the provincial legisla-
 lures.
 There being no mention of objection to the bounty, it is presumably scheduled fer favorable action.
 At first blush the United States is not interested in what Canada does, but let's see if there is not a connection. In 1918 Canada produced 200, 900 tons of ore, but imported from the United States 2,000,- 900 tons. There seems to be the connec- tion. The argument which the Canadian ore producers present is this:
 Tt is felt by the Ontario Mining Asso- citation that the payment of a bounty on iron ore produced in Canada would go long way toward remedying tke condi- tion that enables over 90 per cent of the ore treated in Canada to be imported. No country has been great producer of iron without having first secured government assistance"
 Canada leased lot of woodland to American makers of print paper, then turned around and forbade them to ship that wood into the United States until it had gone through some manufactured form in Canada Canada was caring for her own paper mills.
 Canada has not. been raising any hue and cry about her immigrants, because Canada at no time has allowed indis- criminate immigration. She has paid bounties for those she wishes, but shut the doors to those whom she does not wish. These things go to show that every country has it's own way of caring for it. self. The country that does not care for itself loses at every point of negligence.
 Say bounty to an American and he takes duck fit Say it to an Englishman and he welcomes it if it appears good for England.
 The Michigan and Minnesota ore pro- ducers who ship the 2,000,000 tons of ore annually into Canada bid fair to have that business cut in two by a Canadian bounty
 All this is neither here nor there except as indicating how the rest of the world is wide-awake to it's interests. Canadians don't hesitate to- talk bounty on iron ore because they have not had it heretofore Itlooks good to them; they are going to it.
 Our Alabama waterways have mean dered peacefully down their beds for gen. erations with little thought of their possi- bilities. Now, that these possibilities stand forth in big type, we should go to waterways and think waterways just as