The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-31
For Good of
 the Community

 what Birmingham is in connection with the faraway business in steel products They are beginning to sense the bearings of the remark made by Judge Gary soon after acquisition of Alabama properties by the Steel Corporation.
 Judge Gary said something like this: Birmingham is the natural steel manu- featuring and distributing point for one- third of this country and for the export k trade"
 Rh Several years ago, during dull domes- tic market, the rail mill at Ensley kept go- ing. Birmingham folks were satisfied that the mill should run, but few of them knew it ran because the Tennessee com pany was executing a large rail order for a South American country.
 V Then when the blast furnaces of the merchant iron producers recently closed down and those of the Tennessee com pany continued to operate, they were complacently satisfied again that 1t should be so
 :" But the Tennessee company blast fur naces did incorporate as the others shut down, and seven of them are not going now compared with a total of three by all the other Alabama interests because this X country is taking it's output. The iron that is being made is going into steel shapes made by the company here and these steel shapes are going to faraway peoples out of Mobile
 For instance and to repeat, the 5000 tons of steel rails moving down the War rior are not for an American trunk line, but for one for the almond-eyed Chinese.
 The resumption at the plate and bloom ing mills in Fairfield last week was not incident to orders for American delivery The steel products being manufactured there now are for other faraway people and will move out of Mobile on ships.
 The large machine shops of Birming- ham are not operating on orders for do- mestic customers. Their output is for sugar houses in operation and being built in Cuba and all the West Indies
 The Continental Gin company does not make gins for America alone, but for every country in the world that grows cot ton. This gin is as well known in India and Egypt as at Loachapoka in Alabama.
 Under Youngstown, O., date The Age Herald carried an item yesterday to the effect that eastern steel interests expect
  announcement of establishment of a line of steamers to carry steel products to the Pacific coast via the canal. The Steel Cor poration is already carrying steel pro- ducts from Birmingham to the Pacific coast. That is the first stopping point on the way to the Orient.
 Every other of the 1O,O00-ton steel freighters built at Mobile out of Birming- ham steel makes it's maiden voyage to the Orient via the Pacific coast laden with Birmingham steel products And the Tennessee company has also sent plates, billets and pig iron to the Pacific coast in other ships.
 The same item is to the effect that movement of Mississippi river barge line from Ohio points to New Orleans with merchandise for transfer to vessel going to the Pacific coast is regarded with ex- treme interest Were Youngstown and it's steel interests a trifle closer to Birming- ham they would regard with greater in terest the movement of steel products from Ensley and Fairfield going down < the Warrior at 20 per cent freight reduc- tions and the coming up the river of man. \ opanoco Oro from Rrazi1 at C0 nar cpnt cav- <