The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL IS POPULAR MOvEv j, 5
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Attorney General Garber lied Upon to Settle Dispute en
 Two School Boards al
 Huntsville.
BY HERVEY w. LAIRD.

pr HEhNGr w. LAlhO.
 Montgomery, September S.-(Special) Ut may be said that the prohibition wave is sweeping southward as the "bug" has been found in very many of the counties besides Jefferson, where the most active fight is made, or least the fight that $ creating most attention. It is expected to strike ere the winter is over in Mont gomery. J. Lee Holloway, member of the City Council. who has been trying for high license, said yesterday that the feeling for elimination of the traffic from Montgomery Is spreading, resulting from the refusal of the council to make laws to control the "dives" that abound in and about the Capital City.
 One of the subjects of conversation dur ing the week along this line is a card In a local paper in which preacher, long foe of whisky. undertook to poke fun at Henry R. Gray, lieutenant governor and candidate for governor next time, because that gentleman came out for prohibition. He seemed to think that no man who had not been against 1t all the time should get in line now. It is noted by the friends of the movement that MT Gray is popular man in the state popular enough ot beat two well known citizens for the office ha hNdsi thet he is maf- ing hard fight for prohibition to the highest seat in the gift of the state, and 1t may be, they say, that he will be of more help to the elimination Of whisky in the end than 1t could be to him.
 Churches Interested.
 A number of the smaller counties are calling elections, and will vote on ;he question before the winter holidays Everywhere the sentiment against 1t is being centralized so that 1t looks like safe guess that most of the state will have a try-out county at time before long. Among the forces that are busy against the sale of liquors is the Baptist church, which Is conducting a systematic campaign and has been for some tiine against the business The various churches in the state are taking 1t up ana building sentiment that will be assembled at such times as the elections are called.
 It is not thought that the county or Mobile will cut it out, as the license tax there for the sale of 1t is given to the schools of the city and county, so mat the county has one of the pest eouca- tional systems in the south. In othei counties where there are dlspensaries' It Is thought that there will be no change for some time at least. But the question 's
  Iio,or men do not obey the laws on the hooks and to go better than they nave as A rule. in the past they are Just little short of trouble even now.
 County High Schools.
 rbece has never been any more popu- ,ar ,,,ovement in the state than the hlgh school proposition made poss1ple oy the 1ost session of the legislature and for which 5000 to each county have been ap- nropriated There Is hardly towh III tle state of any size that Is not seeking Tor s.'o of tho locations The innovation Is reoarded as an important move In the stote as if completes the articulation be- tween the common schools and the col leees A thing that has been much neeo- ed for many years. ,,. Ali,
 Among the men who have credlt TOT t'ns movement is Colonel Charles Battery tne nye,, known Union army veteran, who ,orrosan+ed Cherokee county. He had h,gb echoo1s on the brain from the be- ninniny and helped to work through the house the bill that grew iargeiy out ot tis brain Colonel Battery comnlahdeu Il regiment of union soldiers during the war of secession and has been south eihce the surrender. making the interests ol tbe neonle here his, so long that no one ever remembers that he cam from me north He introduced resolution Tn the last house commenting President hoose- welt for discharging the negro troops at Brownsville, Tex. ,,,.o.
 Governor Conner who says he can never turn down anything that helps educatlot' nut the bill into effect at once, thousl he had A right to hold it up until he was satisfied the strong box of the state had enough money to justify the expenditure abou $95 00o.
 Some Town Controversies.
 Attorney General A. M. Garber has not oai,, bis own troubles but those of many others to take care of. Among the latest of the difficulties is that or HuntsVliie wbere two school boards claim the rlsht to administer the affairs of the schools One of these Is creature Of local act and the other the provision or the new nunicipal code. Neither wants the other to have his way, so the lawyer TOT the state will have to tell which IS rlght, ord thereby make the other get out
 Nr Garber after a short vacation and
 Iisit to his old home scenes, is back at his desk, the busiest man one can ma tn a day or two. The new laws are com inc to him like water down gully Tor irternretatlon and he is as full of ques- tions as a young boy just going to school. Tn adition he is forced to keep up with the railroad litigation and with 1t all he needs a corps of assistants. However. he is taking it cheerfully. always finding time to have a chat with friends who come from all parts of the state