The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-06
For of the
 Community

 to make 1t bigger
 There is no other way of arriving at the achievement other than the long, and laborious, the mind-racking and the heart-breaking of those who vision great things but cannot bring them about
 Time was when this country feared big organizations Mere bigness was sugges- tive of absorption.of the little. It bore the aspect of a cruel car of juggernaut, under which helpless folk must either throw themselves or be drawn in to be suffocat- ed and ground to pulp.
 It was not at first sensed that the big cannot get along without the little. If every man and woman in the United States tomorrow boycotted the Standard Oil and declined to use it's products, the Standard Oil would be in very uncomfort- able circumstances. If every man in the country refused to accept the wages hand ed out by the Standard Oil, its operation would cease.
 But if the people boycotted the oil con- cern and men declined to work for it, there would soon be no oil and every household would suffer The pay roll would stop and there would be hunger in the land.
 In big country where big things come to the fore big organizations are neces- sary for their proper handling. Alabama had the same potential water power on the Coosa fifty years ago as it has now. It remained for the Alabama Power Com pany with the millions and the brains and vision backing it to harness this power.
 Alabama had the same raw material in her hills generations ago as now. Sturdy pioneers did their best to bring them into service, but it was an uphill struggle with many disasters and many strong hearts broken down by defeat and bankruptcy until really strong concerns took hold
 When the United States Steel Corpora tion took charge of the Tennessee com pany the latter was not highly respected in Wall street. The Alabama iron and steel industry was still in formative and struggling process. It is now an achieve ment with fixed and certain future The steel corporation was big enough to do the job.
 Eight years ago we were very suspi- cious of the Alabama Power Today we realize that 1t has been benefaction to the state. It has even benefited coal be- cause it has enabled the more economic operation of coal mines by use of hydro electricity. If this concern had been a cormorant seeking whom it might devour. steel and cement plants cotton mills and foundries would not have been so quick to ask it's service.
 The Alabama Power announces the building of another dam on the Coosa. It is to be larger than that at Lock 12. It will remove that much more of the Coosa rapids. Eventually the improvements made by this company on that streamwill open it for navigation from Rome to the gulf, a distance of more than 800 miles. No little aggregation of men and capital could have brought this about.
 The biggest thing in the universe is the sun, which sheds light over all and is the life of everything We are much safer with one great central source of light and heat uniform in it's action than we would be did we depend on many smaller suns irregular in their orbit and not uniform ia their heating and lighting capacity
 Men no longer live in caves and fight over carcasses. Life is made up of great co-ordinations of natural resources and