The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-01

Uy Oue SHlp ndHuilIiS cOHCcEu, die headed to that port to carry from it 25,000 tons of Birmingham steel around the globe. Among them will be Birmingham's namesake, which has already made a successful circumnav- igation of the earth carrying Birming- ham goods and advertising Birning- ham to more than a score of nations. Four of these ships are to go to the far east and one to Europe. The $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 of steel prod ucts which they will take away from America, will be gone for good and will never return for competition with other American products. The money derived from their sale will be new money and the bulk of it will go into wages of Birmingham workers and finds its way eventually into the stores, the banks, the insurance of fices, the building and loan associa- tiCns, the Christmas savings clubs and homes and pretty things for the wives and daughters of the district.
 That is what ships mean to Bir- mingham and to Alabama. That is what the export trade stands for in the destiny of the district, of the south. It is the export trade in Bir- mingham steel products that has kept going many blast furnaces and the finishing mills supplied by them that otherwise would have been idle. Alabamians should awaken to the importance of the outer world; to their absolute dependence on trade with other nations. This relation is fully as patent in the destiny of the farm CT as that of the steel and iron man. ufacturer. Every ship that carries steel also carries cotton, lumber and resin.
 Eighty thousand dollars is the an who is not widely known. It is cruel to print paragraph like this when it may De read by college professor with 10 degrees and ss.0o0 income.
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 A Kentucky mountaineer took his children out of school because the teacher spelled "tater' with a D." A teacher with no more learning than that would put an 70" in front of "possum."
 A man with $20,00o worth of liquor in his cellar claims he has a permit to distribute it for medicinal purposes. If they thought it worth while, many of his neighbors would go into quick decline.
 The Black and Tals may have quick tempers, but it should be remembered that the kind of work they are doing is not conducive to benevolence.
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 When you come to think about it, it is remarkable how cheerfully our multimillionaires are bearing up dur ing the readjustment period.
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 If the bolsheviks think America will sell her soul for Russian trade that is just another illustration of the way bolsheviks think.
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 Since President Wilson has refused $150,00o for one article, the next offer may be in the neighborhood of $500, 900.
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 Birmingham's new traffic laws re- quire a pedestrian to think twice be- fore stepping in front of an automobile.
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 Dominicans may find it hard to walk the straight and narrow path without the assistance of United States marines.
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 DAnnunzio may have hit upon an airplane for his exit from Plume as a poor substitute for chariot of fire. Whatever may be the Jap equivalent for 'benevolen- assimilation" the Chinese don't believe in it.
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 New York is making desperate eff fort to keep up it's night life in defi- ance of the prohibition fathers
 The colored brethren who are airing their grievances in Washington depend entirely too much on hearsay. * # * Present plans call for presidential inauguration that will surpass three ring circus.
 # As # If Mrs Harding breaks with the ''bit: ter-enders," there will be loud chorus of T told you sor
 # x x Some of the experts say the crime wave is over. It was a tidal wave while