The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
For Good of
 the Community

A IL prices are not right; never will be. He gets nowhere who fails to sense that If everything were made easy, there would be precious little development. In the tropics where nature is prodigal effort is least and advancement ditto Man achieves by climbing, working, going ahead.
 Mankind has accepted the tradition of Lots wife as biblical presentation of an underlying law of life. He who looks back turns into the immobile on the banks of dead waters He is warning post to those who, weary of the forward path feel like going up and stopping.
 short news item from Tuscumbia reads well. It says:
 In a practically unanimous vote -
 the people of Colbert county today
 voted favorably upon the bond issue
 of $350,000 for good roads. In
 Sheffield the vote was 415 for to 8
 against it. in Tuscumbia 412 for and
 10 against
 Rank and file of Alabamians are going ahead in all the ways that they can. Con- structlon and reconstruction are the order of the day. They are confident of the future. They are not changing into pillars of salt on the banks of lakes of inaction and despondency
 It is notable that the mills of Brming- ham that have to do with the structural are the busiest. The Tennessee company is making rails for railroad roadbeds freight cars to move traffic, shapes for ships to carry our stuff over the world, bolts, rivets and nuts for steel construc- tion.
 The new railroad tie plant of the Ten neSsee company IS one of it's busiest. Its structural mill operated last week and is operating this week. Men are building in the interim of commerce. Nowhere is construction more general than in Ala bama
 The most active item in the orders re- ceived by the wire mills is nails. They head the list of each days new business. They are wanted because tens of thou sands of modest homes are rising in the land
 One of the busiest plants in the city is a structural steel works where they are building bridges for the southern states and for export; where they are making the beams and girders for office and in- dustrial buildings in Dixieland.
 Hollow-tile is going from Birmingham works in large quantities. Sewer pipe works have been operating at normal dur ing the height of the dull season. Of course, there is idleness, a lot of it, but the factories that produce for building are not idle by jugful and they keep the dis trict's craft headed the right way.
 Colbert is the sixth county to vote road bonds this spring. From Mobile to the northern end of the state, wherever road building election has been held, the cleo tlOn has been one way.
 The average Alabamian is fulIof con- fidence. The plain folk are as sturdy as their pioneers. A Doubling Thomas should be ashamed of himself.
 Jasper is rising from ashes in a finer and better form than ever There and in Tuscaloosa Birmingham contractors and architects are -bdsy building banks, store houses, churches state institutions. schools and bridges
 Southeastern Alabama has ust spanned the Pea river with handsome bridge and enabled the use of the Bee Line highway through Birmingham and Montgomery to Florida. We are going to have real Florida motor travel this way this fall and winter
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