The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-11
ALABAMA PRESS

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great hold upon the people
Dothan Eagle: Keep your head cool is
an old one, but keeping your feet warm
these days probably means more to you.
Pine Belt News This section of Ala
bama was never in a more prosperous
condition. In fact, South Alabama is COM
ing to the front in galop.
Mobile Herald: The catalogued villainy
of the Standard Oil company, as presented
by the interstate commerce commission,
is worth dramatizing for the 1O-2O-So melo-
drama circuit.
Clio Free Press: A Birmingham broker
shipped five carloads of eggs to New
York last week. The Alabama hen is
hard to beat. She can be relied on under
all conditions.
Tri-County Weekly: We pres llne the
next thing to pass the Alabama legisla-
ture will be to prevent editors froin taxi
ing country wood OF country produce on
subscriptions.
Eufaula Times: Stuyvesant Fish says
that dear money is the forerunner of ma
tional depression. Don't know about the
national end of It, but 1t makes for per-
sonal depression all right.
Taladega Reporter: The government
was a long time getting on to the lot
terry people; but 1t seems to have bagged
them at last. 1t should have asked some
of the "boys about town" years ago.
Coosa River News: At Shawnee, Okla,
a commercial traveller threw a tough
steak on the floor of a restaurant and
was fined $3.50 in police court, The steak
must have badly damaged the building.
Florence Times: Among the railroad
bills in the legislature is one to present
appeals to the United States courts. What
the present administration intends to do
In the matter of regulation" is a plenty.
Montgomery Advertiser: A contempor-
airy thinks 1t is fortunate for the country
that the population is increasing faster
than the railroads can thin it out Yes
but some of them are doing their best
to keep the record down.
Clio Free Press: Quite a little bit of
friendly sarcasm and humor has been
provoked by the passage of the anti-pass
bill. No one cares particularly Scr the
pass, but 1t is the principle of the thing
to which the newspaper men object
Clayton Record: If there is state in
the union needing more new railroads
than Alabama, which one is it? But she
is not likely to get another until the pres
ent skinning process is discarded or rather
abandoned, and a reasonable return on
capital invested possible and probable.
Camp Hill Times South Carolina
contemporary has discovered that the leg
islature of that state contains very few
married men. The Columbia State looked
the legislature over and announced that
it didn't blame the girls. That's what we
call the limit of meanness.
Greensboro Waterman: The Legislature
has passed the bill reducing the passen-
ger fare on the railroads in Alabama to
2la cents per mile instead Of cents as
heretofore. This seems a small matter,
but just in trip to and from Birmlng
ham a saving of 81 is made
Marion County News: The news from
the different counties of the state as to
the payment OF poll taxes is to the effect
that there is a falling Off in payment
and that thousands of men are disfran-
chising themselves. This should not be,
and the legislature should remedy the
matter at the earliest possible moment.
Walker County News; When the legisla-
ture adjourns the readers of country
newspapers will possibly have more cause
than any other class to rejoice as a great
portion Of reading matter for several
weeks starts off with, "A bill. to be en-
titled, an act" etc. This is one neceses-
sary evil that most newspaper people.
too will be glad TO have suppressed.
Tuscumbia Dispatch: A legislature pass
ing an anti-pass bill and then accepting
an invitation to ride free to Mobile to at
tend Mardi Gras, with free hotel bills,
and other free things that need not ne
mentioned, and refusing at the same time
to allow themselves to be locked for the
time lost, and all this done at the same
session. is a spectacle to make Il horse
laugh.