The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-04
For Good of the
 Community

year and the remarkable strides that the district has made along every avenue of progress The cOrnucopia is OVerflOWlng. The veriest ingrate would be ashamed not to raise his voice in the choral paean that we shall indulge in.
 But the future? What of that? Does 1t loom large or little? Have we stopped or do we still press onward? A few of the items on the map of 1921 realization are these:
 Early in the spring the pressed steel car works of the Chickasaw Shipbuilding and Car Company at Fairfield, turning out 15 to 25 pressed steel freight cars complete, will be in operation. It will employ many skilled mechanics, add to Birmingham's population, swell the weekly payroll and 1 considerably increase the cars available for handling the tonnage of the district. H The new unit at lock 12 on the Coosa will be completed and we will probably hear of contract being let for another big power dam by the Alabama Power Com pany.
 The Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals will take on completed form, adding 300,000 of hydroelectric power to Alabama's quota of electric energy.
 The new postoffice, our beautiful S1,000,000 marble structure, will be in oc- cupancy early in the year. During it's building we have outgroWn it's capacity.
 The river terminals and coal bins at Cordova will be an early 1921 gift. That means great quantities of Alabama coal available for bunker, export and domes- tic purposes at the ports of Mobile and Pensacola
 Before 1921 is we'll under way the fed eral S4OO,O00 coal terminal at Mobile will be under construction. That will assure great outlet for Alabama coal.
 Uncle Sam will be in complete charge of the Port of Birmingham and our bull wark is making that the sign manual of our freight rate independence
 The turning out of 10, ,000-ton Alabama steel ships at the Chickasaw yards in Mo- bile will be a continuing process all dur ing 1921, there being eight more of these ships under contract to be built there. Each will carry Birmingham steel shapes and other Alabama products far afield.
 We are already enjoying cheaper gas since we have been using our own by-pro- duct output and within the year, having consumed the quantity leading to still lOWCI M ICC0, we Will IlctVC Lu0IIl. 1C next time we are offered an improvement on what we have, we will exercise sufficient confidence in one another not to delay taking it on.
 The year holds the promise of a large and strong financial institution in the Jefferson County Savings bank building recently purchased by eastern parties. It will bring eastern money and southern borrowers closer together to their mutual advantage. It will add to Birmingham's prestige as financial center
 Before 1921 arrives our subtreasurv will have been in permanent operation and it's benefits fully felt in the territory of the Birmingham branch of the federal reserve bank
 There is no question of further development by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company. because that is a nonstop process. Whether this takes the form of the direct line from ore mines on Red Mountain to the steel mills at Ensley and Fairfield, additional open hearth furnaces at Ems ley or what, we know that the expanding process of this industry is the continuing basis and that 1921 shall prove no exception.
 The three amendments appear to have passed. They alone constitute a tremendous step forward.
 A glorious year indeed Such minor things as