The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
For Good of
 the Community

"A DMALL UOy H1OulSIlS lllo hHoC $ N den fever grows restless because the beans which he planted day before yesterday have not appeared above ground today
 Another boy, who has goine into the chicken business and set his first hen, re- gards as years the three weeks that must elapse before the chicks break the shell and come forth
 Boys should not be chided for their inn patience It is not crime; it is virtue if well-directed. The impatience issued from the building, the creative spirit in the breast of every we'll organized male. He wants things to move. He wishes to ride abreast of wave that is carrying him somewhere.
 But these fundamental things must take place. Nature must have the winter rest for the spring season of floWerlng, { the summer of ripening and the autumn of harvest The ship must be hewn from the timbers of the forest and fabricated in the plate mills before it is an assembled product and ready for it's mission. If the wood is sound and the steel is strong and properly welded the ship will do it's work with all the more efficacy for the time and carefulness of preparation.
 It is mighty good to read the reports of the state banking department Itis to the effect that during the year ending September 3Oth, last, there had not been a single bank failure Think what that means. It means that every nickel of money deposited in the state banks by the people of Alabama had been as safe and sound as though hidden in the recesses of the rock of Gibraltar. It means that the bankers of Alabama are men of honor and integrity; that they are not specula- tors, but that the money entrusted tothem is cared for with jealous eye.
 The further meaning of it is this: The money in the banks is there for the mission which it is to perform in the next progress sive stride of the state. It is not yet in service because men have not fully re- covered from read djustment dumps" but it is there and in hand when the season for it's use arrives Its next use will be of greater service than it's past use, because what men have gone through in the read justment process has taught them wise ways of avoiding some of the mistakes which they made when anyone could do business in any old way.
 Not only did no banks fail, but none of them went out of business. The only change was when a half dozen state banks decided to exchange a state for a national charter. Fifteen new ones en- tered the field, most of the new ones springing up in the new centers of busi- ness created by the prosperity that pre- vailed for several years in agricultural sections These new ones mean that there is more money. in Alabama, that the money is distributed well over the entire state and that the financial map of Ala bama has become symmetrical from cor ner to corner
 There are 254 state banks with 20 branches total of 274 banks and trust companies under supervision of the state banking department That out of this number there has not been a failure and none has gone out of business attests the soundness of conditions in Alabama and the integrity of the men conducting the banking affairs of the state.
 This is seed in the ground sprouting and preparing to burst forth blossom and bring forth fruit When industry has fully recovered it's courage and agrcu ture shall have put it's face we'll to the front again. the
 money in these welconducted banks is there to serve them in their renewed efforts in their own behalf and that of their cities, counties and the state.