The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-11
For Good of
 the Community
Nation Thrilled and Heartened By Cheering Messages Sent Out of Birmingham---The
 World Is Alabama s Trade Neighbor

World Is Alabama's Trade Neighbor TWICE in the recent past statement of con- Il ditions issuing out of Birmingham have put new life into industry the country over. One related to steel the other to cotton Reverber- ation was the same in each case.
 On August The Age-Herald stated on au- thority that the finishing mills of the Tennessee company were on 50 per cent production base The item travelled the rounds and drift ed into the industrial press Thence it came to the attention of iron and steel producers in the east.
 By the time it returned to Birmingham with the assertion that this item had stimulated in- dustrial circles as nothing had in months, the same company was on a still larger production base with two-thirds of it's ingot-producing capacity going and was making 50 per cent more rails at Ensley.
 On September 3 The Age-Herald published short interview with Donald Conner, vice president of the Avondale mills, in which he pithily portrayed the added value of S500,- OOO, ,OO0 that had come to the carry-over and in- coming cotton by reason of the rise in prices.
 This also has gone about the east and aroused business from it's lethargy. It has be- come the slogan of a nation in weeks time In response corn, wheat and oats advanced, and securities, which had wited, showed signs of recovery.
 Mr. Comers summary of what the rise in cot ton prices meant has been repeated hundreds of thousands of times since he made it and each repetition has been an inspiration to rise out of the sackcloth and ashes and go ahead once more.
 Big as the nation is, rapid-fire communica- tion has made it neighborhood affair. The added value of cotton and the 50 per cent operation of Birmingham mills electrified busi- ness America
 Thus the south has been first to hope and first to show to others that there was hope. Big Bir- mingham, growing so fast that 1t fails to realize just how big it is getting the while, has sounded the trumpet that has not made Jericho's walls f fall, but has put heart into the greatest nation on earth.
 The Greeks and Romans credited their gods with moods. Jupiter angry threw thunderbolts that destroyed. Jupiter in love came in the form of a swan or shower of gold If Ala bamians had Greek divinities, they would in this happy day of bright vistas declare that the gods were in gracious mood when they made this state and placed Jones valley in its throb- ping heart
 w. D. Nesbitt, just back from Houston, wis ions ocean-going barges loading at Port of Br- mingham with wire mill products bound for the great southwestern agricultural empire in the interior behind Houston and returning with raw materials and Texas cotton for the mills of Alabama Georgia, Tennessee and Missis- sippi in the freight rate zone of the Warrior.
 Just back from Los Angeles he sees the forg- ing of the new bond between Birmingham and the Pacific coast by way of the Warrior, port of Mobile and the Panama canal Our iron and steel products going westward and California sending on her products in return.