The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-15
For Good of
 the Community

It's acts, hopes, efforts and achievements, was brimful of what might be biblically termed "good tidings." It is often that way, because, even in our dullest times, the ship of progress blows on with even keel.
 There was the picture of the new Woodlawn High school, which is to be ready for this fall, accommodating the 1000 high school age children in the eastern section of the city. We do not begrudge them the S750,000 which are to make men and women of the future.
 We read brief account of the forma- tion of an extension course at the state university, which means that correspond ence courses in the arts and sciences are to be brought to citizens of Alabama from a source acquainted with the needs of our people.
 w. L. Mapother, president of the Louis vile and Nashville railroad, who was in the city for the day, told of the expendi- ture of $35,000,000 in betterments by that railway system in order to maintain it's ability to handle growing southern traffic.
 From Mobile we had the item that the steamship Charlton Hall was leaving that port with 5,400 tons of Birmingham steel nails and $40 tons of rails being made-~for the Alaskan railroad in the ] Ensley mill.
 Col. R. A. Mitchell, vice president of the Alabama Power company, just e. turned from the east, came with word of cheer from that section reporting that leading captains of commerce and indus tr.- see the light ahead His own com pany has let contracts for the first work on the S8,000,000 Mitchell dam and will accelerate it's progress as much as possi- ble so as to give as much employment as possible as soon as possible to the great est number of Alabama workers.
 Instead of Muscle Shoals going beg ging for some one to finish it's develop ment, The Age-Herald' correspondents wire of several strong private interests more than willing to take 1t over and do what the government does not wish to do.
 Those two bustling industrial suburbs Boyles and Tarrant City, intend to se- cure an ample water supply and are ar ranging with the Birmingham Water Works company for an extension of mains. Their remarkable growth, has rendered this step necessary as well as progressive.
 The freighters Tuscaloosa and Blr- mingham are moving simultaneously up the Warrior river with record miscel- laneous freight cargo from New Orleans and Mobile The goods are going to points in Georgia, Mississippi and Ten nessee as we'll as Alabama. The coal terminal at Cordova is completed and has proven satisfactory. It means moHe bunker and export coal for Alabama
 The Mobile, third of the large sel propellers intended for use on the WaE rior, is to have her trial trip July 15 ard at once enter the river trade. That VII enable regular weekly schedule pack- age freight sailings between Birmingham and New Orleans.
 Mobile renders report of the growing movement of Birmingham steel products out of that port for faraway places.
 The market established by the county truckers on Morris avenue and Twenty fourth street has made good and is on sound financial base.
 All these items out of one issue of The Age-Herald They show a people going ahead in what have been termed dull