The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
For Good of the
 Community
TMPATIENCE has nothing to do wit A achievement

are finite They cannot build mountains in day
 Those who saw the vision of state aid for the port of Mobile should see 1t still. It is as inevitable as the rising and setting of the sun. Men are slow to learn but the human mind refuses to be flint and the heart to be obdurate.
 The raisin growers of California were fourteen years in their effort to organize before they succeeded. It was worth the effort. They are among the most pros porous people in the country Raisin lands sell for S1, 200 an acre.
 H The Warrior river is there and the port of Mobile is there. They are each in posi- tion to serve pending the time when ade- < Quate performance will be allowed by [ people more awake to their interests than they now are.
 i Patience suggests that the result of the election on the amendments be regarded not as an expression of disapproval of the amendments and their purposes, but the outcome of bilious mental condition on the part of rural folk
 IWenty-cent cotton did it. A wounded adder, If he cannot strike the hand that has wounded him, bites himself His rage IS blind. The cotton producer, brooding over the low price of the fruit of his toll, was not prepared to regard with reason any suggestion anywhere that some money should be spent for any cause.
 Even the Tennessee valley, which is Watered by the Tennessee and should have led the hosts that voted state aid, gave tremendous majorities against the amendments. Southern Alabama coun- ties contiguous to the port said it should not be aided with their little tax money. lthas been pitiful, but, knowing the cause, we know we can yet achieve
 The farmers were not in a reasoning mood; not in one enabling them to see straight and to vote with intelligence. Had they really thought what they were doing, they would at least have allowed Jefferson county the privilege of doing for itself what 1t wished to do with it's own re- sources, The man who is mad sees red only. A better state of mind and the amendments would have carried. They would have carried last February when the road bonds were voted.
 But the government has charge of the Port of Birmingham and the port at Cor dova. Our especially equipped fleets are on the river. The duty that faces Ala AAA POOAC1OII CO OO SO IS CO DdCrOnlZ0 what we have so that, seeing what we do with that the people will be willing the next time to vote state aid for the bigger scheme.
 The special duty of the people of Mo- bile and of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa is to see that the vessels now plying the Warrior get freight upstream and down stream. In that way they can demon strate to the rest of Alabama that inland waterways mean freight rate independ- ence
 There is always a lot that people can do for themselves. Until they have ex- hausted their own resources, they have no right to blame others for not having done for them. The Warrior, as it is is tre- mendous potentiality. What it wants now IS business That should be forthcoming.
 Alabama farmers will not always be in the state of mind that they have been this fall. In time they will recall the splendid results of tlleir labors that came to them during period of years and they will realize that, everything considered Provi- dence has been kind to them. Bins are filled with corn, the smokehouse is we'll hung with sides of bacon and juicy hams.