The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-27
For Good of
 the Community
Spirit of Semi Centenn iaI Is Augmented By Good News of Progre ss Made Daily In Re-
 turn to Normal Blu siness Conditions

f ! CPIRIT of the semi-centennial comes with O the event. The nearer it's approach the more Birmingham and Alabama rise out of the depressing effects of deflation and ascend the upgrade. Not all is coming at once. Better so. It was a case of sobering up that was best taken in leisurely manner.
 But it is foolish not to see the sun rising in the east denial of the night. Each pinkish ray preceding the full dawn is hope for the day, ahead and affirmation of the complete light just behind the hills.
 The American Car and Foundry plant at Memphis is to open it's car shops September after having been closed year. We will feel that because repair of 500 cars of the Illinois Central is one of the orders causing resumption.
 The shops of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis at Nashville have resumed after be- ing down five months and 500 men are back at work Another indication of the newer life of the railroads and special proof of the better business which the south's trunk lines will do.
 Georgia shipped 9,944 cars of peaches this year compared with 5,663 last year. The big gest business yet done in that side effort of farm life, bringing more than $7, ,0O0, 900 to the shippers. It shows that freight rates cannot snuff out a people who have the goods that folks want.
 What Georgia has done with peaches Ala bama has done with sweet potatoes carried over in the curing houses, with early fruits and Vegetables with watermelons later on and with butterfat all the time. This steady inflow of cash has infused new courage into the farmer and made a new man Of him. Il Atlanta proudly informs the world that in the first seven months of the year she built TAI homes compared with 552 during the preceding year. Birmingham replies with $50 homes in the first seven months of this year compared with 475 in 1920. Birmingham glories in southern city ys record but she glories also in her better one.
 This record in the city proper In one di- vision in western suburban residence section 200 homes have been built in a year, ten are go- ing up in that place now and only half dozen home building lots remain unsold.
 In another outlying community there is $500, 900 of home construction going on at this time. All along the highways leading in and out the city homes are rising as in night. That is convincing proof not only of thrifty people who saved over money from the easy money days, but also of apeople who are of permanent citizenship material
 N In three weeks time 1000 tons of Birming- ham iron pipe have gone out of port of Mobile fol the Pacific coast. This industry is the souths largest melter of pig iron. Its increas- ing activity is hamburger of greater furnace pro- duction.
 Lower rates have been granted on velvet beans to mills and on mixed feed from mills to consumers in the state. That means a substan- tial lift to one of the farms big products The lower rates on iron ore and limestone to fur naces extend aid in that direction. | So much has the bunker coal business at Pen sacola and New Orleans increased that large Alabama operator catering especially to that business has been running on full time at col lieries for three weeks.
 Placing the markers along the Bankhead