The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-20
For Good of
 the Community

kASAAAtO the Wilson dam that is being built.
 Why not? Other big men have been there since Secretary Weeks announced that he preferred turning over govern ment property to private parties.
 Suppose Niagara Falls stood today un- developed? Suppose the government had begun work there and baked? Sup pose Secretary Weeks was willing to al- low private interests to step in and take up where Uncle Sam had left off?
 Would Niagara Falls go begging? It would not Being close to millions they would bark for it like pack of wolf hounds on fresh trail
 But Muscle Shoals is as big as Niagara and it represents in the south what Mia gara does in the east. The south is wax ing rich and important. Alabama is the most progressive of southern states. MT. Ford is not alone in desiring Muscle Shoals
 Matters not so much to Alabama who operates the plants at Muscle Shoals and what is manufactured there. What Ala bama wants is the power of the river, for that will be for any kind of manufacture.
 Alabama's present supply of hydro electricity, covering a little over half the state, does not begin to supply the want. Regarding the future it is paltry.
 No great good work once well under way has been long stopped. No Ohio congressman is going to snuff out Muscle Shoals He may as well essay to stop the flow of the mighty waters of the Ten nesSee
 What Alabama has and does the world knows Development by the Ala bama Power company in this state has proven the value of it's harnessed water power. Big men everywhere know this. Muscle Shoals is going to be utilized by some big interest soon.
 Meanwhile we are not depending alto gether on Muscle Shoals. The Alabama Power company has completed it's trans mission line from EtoWah county into Georgia and joined forces with Georgia power. That, in turn, is attached to the power of Tennessee and the Carolinas.
 Now these five states are reaching out to Virginia and will effect connection with it's hydroelectricity Six southern states will then have their water power in friendly coalition with ability to trans init peak loads to any point in any of the states requiring it. Low water in one state will be served by high water in an- other.
 And the Alabama Power company is nearing the completion of the additional 10000 horsepower unit at Lock 12 on the Coosa This big work has progressed quietly, but with dispatch Alabama will soon have that additional flow of electric fluid.
 Waiting only on word from Washing ton is building of the Mitchell dam at Duncans s rifle on the Coosa That means work for Alabama men, 1,50O to 2,OOO of them, for IS months to two years, and the expenditure of S7, 7,000,0 900 to S8, OOO,- 900 in this state. It also means as much more hydroelectricity as we already have; twice the flow of regular and clean power for the comfort and welfare of Alabama
 There is no end to the uses of electric ity. The Alabama Power Co., is going to furnish Auburn college free electric fluid this fall and winter for demonstra- tion of it's economy and feasibility in the operation of sweet potato curing houses. If that proves what it is thought it will, it means a commercial sweet potato house wherever the lines of the Alabama Power company extend
 Of course Henry Ford came tO Ala