The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-25
For Good of
 the Community

A blew out it's active iron maker at Gadsden. Only one merchant furnace is now making pig iron in Alabama, stack of the Woodward Iron company. That is bad. Did we look no further it would be very bad.
 But during the same week and effec- tive this week, the new car plant at Fair field put on more men and speeded up. This latest of Birmingham steel indus tries is getting it's stride and expanding it's operations as the machinery and the men in charge become the better acquainted.
 Railroad men from the south and the southwest came here during the week to see this maker of standard steel freight cars and they saw the finished product completed, numbered and accepted by the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
 The motive power heads of the south ern and southwestern railroads now know for themselves where the most mod ern steel car is produced which is the same as saying that they will have many cars of their own made at Fairfield.
 The rail mill of the Tennessee com pany goes merrily on making rails for the trunk lines There is delightful contin- uity about that. They make rails at Ems ley whenever they are making them any where, and sometimes they make them at Ensley when there is precious little doing hat line elsewhere.
 Ensley rails are going simultaneously to build the railroads of China and Alas ka. Rails for faraway peoples are made in the Ensley mills of the Steel corpora ton, because rails made there get to far away peoples at least cost of transporta- tion.
 Then came the news from Gadsden that the Dwight cotton mills are going on full turn of 10 hours day for the first time in many months.
 |, Anniston answered by putting the Emory pipe shop on full turn.
 Woodlawn heard about it and an- nounced that the steel hoop mill at that place was going to resume this morning.
 The National Pipe companys Tamant City plant took on another lot of 1000 tons of pipe last week and reports some thing like capacity operations
 Mobile has notified us that the Knox vile City, thirteenth of the ships to be built at the Chickasaw yards in that place, is to be launched on August 6. Another 1O,O0O-ton ocean freighter to carry Bir- mingham steel products to the four cor ners of the earth
 The state mine inspector made his re- port and surprised us by showing 1920 production of 1T, 1891 ,000 tons, an in crease of 1, ,463,00 tons over the preced- ing year, ar,~where, owing to an obstinate mine strike, we had expected smaller production.
 We began this week we'll by sending 50 of our record boys and girls from the county agricultural clubs to the summer school at Auburn, where they will learn lots more about calves, pigs, corn, can ming fruits and vegetables and domestic economy They will be the more valu- able citizens of Jefferson county in their adult state for this trip!
 The Chamber of Commerce made good investment when it sent these boys and girls to Auburn, and it did another good thing when it's directors decided to hold weekly luncheons, each of them, in turn, having 50 members of the chamber to dine with him. No better way of evolving citizenship knowing and work ing together than by eating together
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