The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-04-16
For Good of
the Community

w Some of us have not forgotten
Now, lay me down to Sleep When
the Angelus rings in the wheat fields Of
France the peasant automatically bows
his head and repeats, '"The Angel of the
Lord appeared unto Mary"
In the affairs of daily life there are in
each community certain things that
should be so engraven on the minds of a
people as to become their second nature
In Birmingham the smoke issuing out of
the stacks of the old rolling mill was once
one of these potent suggestions.
Today it is ships and waterways. Biz
mingham has achieved the vindication of
her raw material proximity and her abil
ity to convert them into the finished pro-
ducts needed by the world. In the slow
ing down process of the past few months
we have learned with more conviction
than ever our dependence on the water
ways and foreign trade.
Ships The vehicle of world domino
tion 1t was ships that carried Caesar to
Gaul and to Britain Ships that enabled
the conquest of Carthage and made Rome
mistress Of the Mediterranean. Ships
that brought Judea under the Roman
yoke. Ships that carried Paul to Rome
and bore the Christian message over the
known world.
Ships that brought Columbus and
Raleigh to America. Ships that landed
the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the Eng
fish of noble blood and indomitable spirit
at Jamestown, the Huguenots whose
descendants outfought the British in the
Carolinas at Charleston, the robust men
of middle-class under Oglethorpe who
made Georgia an empire state at Savan-
nah, and the courteous and patriotic
French at New Orleans and Mobile.
A grand fleet Of twenty-three steel
ocean freighters Of 10000 tons capacity
each is at the service Of Alabama for
carrying it's iron, steel and farm products
affair." They belong to the Isthmian Steam
ship association This is an auxiliary of
the Steel Corporation.
Alabamians should know these ships,
because fourteen of them shall have been
built in Alabama of Birmingham steel.
The fourteen Alabama-built ships (nine
in commission are:
Admission City, Atlanta City, Bessemer
City, Birmingham City; Chattanooga
City, Chickasaw City, Ensley City, Fair
field City, Knoxville City, Memphis City,
Mobile City, Montgomery City and Tus-
caloosa City
Every school boy in Tlabama should
know which of these ships have been
launched and which are yet to come from
the ways.
The ships built and to be built at the
Federal Shipbuilding yards (another
Steel Corporation auxiliary are the Steel
Age, Steel Engineer, Steel Exporter,
Steel Inventor, Steel Seafarer, Steel Ran
ger, Steel Trader, Steel Voyager, Steel
Worker, Steel Maker, Steel Mariner,
Steel Pathfinder and Steel Pioneer. All
Of these are in. service with the nine ships
Of the ChickasaW type except the last two.
Ships in the fleet acquired by the Steel
Corporation are the Bantu, San Fran
cisco, Charlton Hail. Craster Hall, Croft
ton Hall and Howick Hall.
Primarily these ships stand for the
movement Of American steel products to
faraway peoples and most Of them have
already put in at Mobile or issued thence
on maiden trips. On their return home
they carry products from other people
coming to this country to pay for what
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