The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-12
For Good of
 the Community

Ing to Birmingham and Alabama through the building and launching of ocean freighters at Mobile is the oppor- tunity afforded young men of the state to take an instructive trip around the globe.
 Many Mobile boys and some Birming- ham young men are doing this. Young fel- lows, whose fathers are among the most successful men in their communities, have signed up for the voyage of the success sive creations of the Chickasaw company.
 When the Fairfield City, latest produc- tion of the Ckickasaw yards, left Mobile yesterday young Robert Bowron went as fireman and Carl Johnson as junior en- gineer. Howard Barr, son of the general manager of the Chickasaw company, signed up as ordinary seaman. The son of Capt. Joseph Norvelle, president of the Mobile Pilots association, went as mem Der of the crew.
 These boys will come back with some idea of the magnitude of the globe. They will have glimpsed the close relations ex- isting between the. nations. After they have consigned the 5000 tons of Birm- ingham steel rails made for the almond eyed Chinese, they will take on cargoes of Chinese goods for other peoples.
 IllCy VIII SO CIlC kCuCZ CdIldl and they will pass up the Red Sea by Cairo and the Holy Land and they will learn where little Hedjaz is and marvel that Senator Reed had such extraordinary fear of that small kingdom. They will touch at Ceylon and deliver and receive cargo. They will visit Sumatra and may strike anchor at Borneo.
 They will return by Spain, Portugal, Italy and France. They will scan the Rocks of Gibraltar and they will come across the ocean to New York with ship laden with all sorts of stores from other peoples coming to us in exchange for the goods which we sell to them.
 In some of the ports at which they stop they will probably encounter sister Chick asaW ships, or they may pass them on the broad waters of the ocean, sea and gulf, exchange salutes in the name of their be- loved state and feel touch of pride at personal participation in Alabamas far away business.
 When they are back home they will have had mental and moral expansion. They will have realized that the world does not begin at the Tennessee river and end at Mobile, but that Alabama is only a portion of the globe, whereon reside not independent but interdependent peoples enWrapped in common destiny. .ss These young fellows will make better captains of industry for having had their vision Widened. They will know more about conducting the business of Alabama because they will have clearer view of that on which it depends They will have a broader sympathy for seeing that all men the world over are trying fairly hard to make the best of the conditions under which they live.
 The bigger the brain and the bigger the heart of business man the filter for busi- ness. The minor chords enter into com merce and finance quite as much as into the so-called finer things of life There is nothing finer than business done in broad and generous way The most suc- cessful of business enterprises rest on that base. No skinflint ever founded an enter. prise that lasted.
 With some of our boys at the mines, some at the blast furnaces and some at the steel mills and shipbuilding plants at home and some on the ships carrying our products to the nations, Alabama is rear ing citizenship that will not be obliged to call on outside brains and experience