The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-19
For Good of
 the Community

 \ marized some of the encouraging features of the weeks developments III the Birmingham district and in Alabama, but one sitting could not cover the entire septagOn.
 During the week the University of Ala bama announced an extension course; bringing correspondence school to the young men and women of Alabama There is a deal of potentiality in that, be- cause such school conducted in our own state and our own home atmosphere will furnish it's clientele with what they want for forging ahead in Alabama.
 Boyles and Tarrant City began nego- tiations with the Birmingham water works for an extension of the water mains to those bustling manufacturing suburbs They have grown to that stature where they must have water in quantities as others have
 Boyes and Tarrant City already have large flow of by-product gas for the operation of plants and they are cluster ing around there in numbers. A new in- dustrial Birmingham has been wrought out there.
 Something new on the Warrior every week Not only were the Cordova coal bins completed, but the third self-propel Ter, the Mobile, had her trial trip at St. Louis and will soon be on the Warrior, en- abling scheduled weekly package freight service between Birmingham and New Orleans in both directions
 And last week the self-propellers Tus- caloosa and Birmingham came up the river simultaneously, each with a record cargo of miscellaneous freight for five states at a saving of 20 per cent of the rail rate, a total of l, ,500 tons.
 Alabama began work last week on the home for the feeble-minded at Tusca loosa A long deferred duty to these wards of the state and to all of us is being met The feeble-minded will have an asylum and the race protected against perpetuation of feeble mentality.
 We should not forget the crop forecast that pointed out greater yields of corn and hay, sweet and Irish potatoes, oats and the two syrup products. There fol- lowed immediately the blessed rains which have more than justified the fore cast.
 The greatest sweet potato crop on record, 22,000,000 bushels comes to a season prepared for it's handling by more than double the curing capacity of last year We shall lose precious few of the tubers this year.
 The enterprising farmers of Piney Woods pooled their efforts and chose five of their best to go to Auburn and attend the farmers summer school July 25-3O. These five will drink from the fount of learning there and, returning, they will share the benefit of what they learn with their fellows. That is business; it is progress.
 In Alliance Hueytown, Piney Woods and other communities they have ar ranged cooperative purchase of fruit trees and will plant them and cultivate them scientifically according to the in- struction recently given by Auburn ex- perts. They will spray regularly in the spring. Soon we will have abundant fruit sound and unblemished on our local market
 Our steel works at Fairfield and Ensley answer the 20 per cent of operations at other steel centers by continuing this week on 40 per cent base with rail and plate mill, car works and rivet bolt and nut works in operation making stuff for the faraway peoples whose money, in re- turn, shall go into our pay rolls and into the coffers of our wholesalers and re-