The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-30
For Good of
 the Community

1V1 things that pass as the other. Fact is, it is better to see the good things, be- cause they make us feel better. It IS also better to see the good things, because they make us do better
 It is better to observe the good things, because they widen the vision. Hold small dark object immediately in front of the eye and the vision will not extend be- yond it's boundary. Remove it a few inches, feet or yards away, and 1t is but ]. speck on the landscape, while all the beau N ties are revealed in their. fullness and symmetry of correlation.
 i Early this year man was bemoaning the state of his business It was rainy day and few were in his shop or any other; shop. A friend overheard him wailing That friend wagered him that, if he com pared that week business with the busi- ness of the same week the preceding year, { he would discover one as good as the other. The man did so The cold figures showed him that he was doing better this year.
 N Woodward Iron company resumed at its largest iron maker Monday It seems only yesterday that the entire plant closed down The closing down and resumption came like cloud that precipitates an April shower with bright sun preceding and showing it aside. The company had worked off it's surplus iron and had an ac- emulation of orders drifting in from time to time.
 A new industry, marking a new use of a Birmingham product, has come to the fore. They are manufacturing a beauti- full and most durable face and interior finish brick of blast furnace slag out at Ensley. The same plant is turning out a tile that takes every iridescent hue.
 Birmingham slag, former waste pro- duct, is entering into construction pur- poses throughout the land and not pound of it is hereafter to be lost Some goes into the manufacture of fertilizers.
 A factory for the manufacture of poul- try feed has been placed in operation. The mixture has been tested and proven. There is an enormous demand for such products. Birmingham's exceptional dis tributing facilities will do the rest.
 Let's not forget the remarkable in crease in home building. The record is 54 permits in January, no in February and more than 150in March. The pace is thrice that.of the average monthly record of 1919 and 1920.
 tis demonstrated that they are not go- ing to shove Muscle Shoals off the map. Secretary Weeks has his own ideas about who shall complete the work there, but that it shall be completed is also his con- viction. Alabama is going to have that power harnessed and in use for the bene- fit of the people of this state. { The lumber trades papers agree that volume of sales is increasing and that building boom is indicated This means active sanitary pipe shops. Active pipe shops means more furnaces going.
 The government is advertising for bids for steel derrick at Demopolis on the lower Warrior. The Warrior river is to have a fourth port. Demopolis is to take a her place with Cordova, Tuscaloosa and Port of Birmingham. The Warrior is rapidly developing into common carrier of real magnitude.
 N Montgomery is to vote on a $500,000 public school bond issue. The county of De Kalb has again voted the three-mill tax.
 The Tennessee company continues to