The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-17
ALABAMA PRESS

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| Guntersville Democrat: We are nerv-
ously waiting to see what legislator will
introduce a bill to regulate lawyers fees,
Mobile Herald Nlnteen hundred and
seven has already made q sinister record
in the way of casualties and accidents by
flood and fire.
| Ashvllle Southern Aegis: The newspa-
pers would confer a great favor upon the
public if they would quit writing up the
pass business.
Gadsden Journal: Birmingham Is now
enjoying the turmoil of municipal cam
paign and that excellent city is'notTdoins
things by halves.
Eufaula Times: The county schools
need more of the surplus in raising good
and useful citizens than the state does
in raising salaries.
Huntsville Democrat: 1t is queer how
the majority of public officials forgot
that they are servants and not sover-
elgns of the people
Pell City Farmers Union and Guide:
Governor Conner and his henchmen have
started the drift The people will be apt
to make the landing.
Selma Times: Wonder If the Maryland
farmer, aged Sc, who took his fourth wife
the other day, ever heard of Dr. Osler
and his chloroform bottle?
! New Decatur Advertiser: If Governor
Conner goes to Mardi Gras- and back on
a free pass, as he did, why this thousand
of-brick descent upon the poor editor?
Taladega Mountain Home: The child
labor bill and the bill for the relief OF
the old soldiers should not be allowed to
remain on the calendar without action.
Montgomery Advertiser 1t will be well
for some of the other senators If the
Indian senator from Kansas doesn't carry
his tomahawk and scalp knife with him.
Alfalfa Mirror: 1t is said that four
million American women are earning
their own living, A good many OF that
number are also earning husbands liY-
ing.
| CoIinsville Courier: We often wonder
why idle people don't bother each other.
But they don't. They aren't happy unless
they bother somebody who wants to be
busy.
! Oneonta Southern Democrat: Four mil
| lion people are said to be starving IN
| China. They need the Alabama legisla-
| ture over there to enact a law against
famine
Troy Messenger: Ensley. Opelila, Mont
gomery and birmingham are on the eve
of hot municipal campaigns. Troy hasn't
| had one in so long we've forgotten how
it feels,
! Andalusia News "rhey tell me you
were formerly in politics" said a friend
mo, sir, that is a mistake l simply ran
! for governor of Alabama on the repub-
( lican ticket"
Montgomery Journal: The present legs-
lature will make haste slowly. The mem
| bers have very feeling recollection oil
the fate of so many bills passed by the
| last legislature
| Livingston Southern Home: The worst
| that has been said of Mayor Schmitz of
San Francisco is bad enough, but at least
he handled the earthquake situation bel
ter than Swettenham.
Mobile Register: The jamestown expo
sition will side step the Midway Plais-
| ance and the Pike. and will call 1t the
War Path; but, however it be called, 1t
will be the same old thing.
Monroe Journal: The abolition of the
system of iiu-jitsu at the naval academy
will probably be taken by interested
powers as another evidence of the exis-
tence of strained relations between the
United States and Japan.
Marion Standard: Only two whisky men
in Selma supported Dr. Cunningham and
these two are now making a good living
by being regularly employed by some
fifty other whisky dealers of that city
to kick them every afternoon at $50
o'clock.
Centrevllle Press: A great many of the
newspapers of the state have passed on
the anti-pass law and have decided that
it is unconstitutional. There is no use
in carrying the question to the courts,
the newspapers say it is unconsttu-
| tional.
Jasper Mountain Eagle: President
Roosevelt Is the greatest advice giVer
that ever occupied the exalted position
| he holds lie is ready at any and all
times to hand out advice ON any and
every subject that may be presented. His
advice may not always be good and no
one is obliged 10 take IT, but his inten-
| lions are evidently all right