The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-16
For Good of
 the Community

representing the pig interests or the country and keen observer of national and international situations, asks this question: How will the world get itself out of the most tremendous tangle in his tory?"
 It answers that question thus: By do- ing one thing at a time.
 Speaking of the manner in which each man should seek the way out of the gloom and the path forward, the Journal ex- presses this thought:
 We need some Kindly Light" to
 lead us. We have ever loved to
 choose our path, little conscious or
 grateful for the inner light vouch-
 safed. We are suffering severely
 from the swelled head and deflation
 is distasteful.
 But if we will try not to do every
 thing at once mapping out our ltlner-
 ary as we see the way before us, we
 shall soon be on firmer ground. The
 greatest statesman today knows only
 little more than the rest of us, and
 even that surplus knowledge is most
 ly the consciousness of how little he
 knows.
 Each man and each woman knows some one thing to be wisely done now. Each has within his and her power some distribution to make to the common good without harm to selfish interests. Last week steel mill resumed operations not because orders were pressing but that the force at the mill might be kept intact; that the employees of that mill might have something on which to live.
 Last year one industrial concern in this district spent $10 ,000 fencing in the yards of employees; that much for fencing alone. Where it's plants are idle the men have rents free and the idle mine mules are blowing their ground so that they may plant gardens. This company could do that much and is doing it.
 Several pipe shops at Gadsden have re- sumed operations and are at work few days week in order that the employees may live and the working force not drift away This works both ways, for the i'm mediate benefit of the men and the ulti- mate benefit of the pipe works Is it wrong because the benefit is mutual?
 Mills at Gadsden will probably work few days in some of the departments this week, for the same reason as the pipe shops. The warehouses of these mills are filled with product already manufactured and from which the company could well draw to fill the scattered orders that have been coming in for some time. It prefers giving it's men work and wages in so far as self-preservation will allow.
 This is doing one thing at time. It will serve to maintain the alignment of opera tions for the oncoming time when it will be really needed. There is not sane manu- facturer in the country who wishes em- ployes to go hungry and to come begging for employment at no matter what wages The man who talks that way from soap box is preaching the falsest of gospels Investigation will show that this kind of an apostle is not giving much of his own to anything.
 What can the average citizen do? He can at least make a survey of the prices of building material, labor costs and con- tractors estimate with a view to building home or storehouse. He can get be- hind the Own Your Own Home" exposi- tion week of the Chamber of Commerce, March 26 to April 2. He can quit talking about the Thigh cost of building and go to work to ascertain whether it is high or no.
 The average citizen can take counsel with himself to decide whether in lining l1n with the Own YOl1r Own HOmev