The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-15
FOrGOOd of the
 Community

\ toIilms and the. baffling gYratons of foreign exchange?
 ''Oh, yes" as they say when they open the courts in the mornings. Especially 'yes'' in these diggings.
 To begin with, we took glance at our own population and housing. growth of the past year and this data came to the fore:
 Electric meters in use in Greater Bi1- mingham October 1, 26,020, an increase over the same day last year of 2,529. Y Gas meters in use in Greater Birming- i ham October l, 17,340, an increase over 1 the same day last year of 1,241. E Passengers hauled on the street cars lduring the first nine months of this year VAC, 1865, OPS, an increase of 3, ,240, ,389 over the same period in 1919.
 y To show that we are not resting in a civic way, but forging ahead, the Cham Der Of Commerce has just put in opera tion these two new energies:
 l. The Manufacturers and Jobbers' association, which will attract out-of- town merchants to trade here by rebate of transportation expenses and the like.
 2. Organization of the Junior Cham Der of Commerce composed of young men between 21 and 31 years of age. $ Giving the young blood of the community a chance to serve; affording willing buoyancy an opportunity to do the alert things that age might not think about, and, 1t 1t did think about would not have the verve and the spontaneity for ac- complishment.
 Our grand old Warrior is always with us Tn some new phase of attainment along the path of,ultimate achievement. These are among the weeks items of interest bearing in that direction:
 Gen. w. D. Conner chief of inland waterways, wired Murray Brown, chair man of the state harbor board, that the Secretary of War has approved the plans for the S4OO,000 coal terminal at Mobile.
 Bids received for the coal bins to be built at Cordova on the upper, Warrior and forwarded to the War Department for awarding of.the contract.
 City of Birmingham, first of the War rlor self-propellers, on her way from New ~AAS~iAo Oil flACl IuSC up-IIVoT Cr1D, Drlng- Ing merchandise to Tuscaloosa, Cordova and. Port of Birmingham at 20 per cent under the rail rates. An emphasis of the new freight rate independence which the Wa1rlor,s equipment has brought about.
 New Orleans tried to wrest some of the bio nine movement from Birmingham to the Pacific coast rom Mobile, but the railroads have notified the Birmingham interests entering protest that the special commodity rate of $312 to Mobile shall stand. We shall continue to save that S1 .25 per con to Mobile and ship by our own port
 The Alabama Power company, evidencino it's purpose to get to the building of the new Coosa river lock as soon as possible, appeared before the state utilities commission to secure it's ap proval of plans Before we we'll realize it. that S1O,OOOOO0 investment will be we'll on the way to providing Alabama industry with 12O O0O more of hydroelectric horsepower
 The Lehigh Portland Cement company engi- neers have about completed their work on the $25O,OOO factory site, at Talrant City and it is announced that construction of the 1000. .OOO- barrel plant will be under way probably before January l.
 The United States Cast Iron Pipe company largest in the world, recognizing the importance of it's southern operations with the four factories nf rt,,rrhc A (l-