The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-01
ALABAEIA PRESS

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 New Decatur Advertiser: When ex- Senator Burton says the President rail roaded him to the penitentiary,' he does not say whether or not he used his sen atorial free pass.
 Marion County News: Over in Georgia the government is disseminating rural routes because the people do not appre- ciate the service sufficient to keep their | roads in repair and put up boxes. We l hope that such reasons will not be the cause of the discontinuance of a single route in Alabama.
 Wilco.. Banner: State Commissioner John Wallace has given notice that he and his subordinates will not pluck the plum age from the headgear of lovely women. He says that law has been misunderstood. That no doubt the ladies of the Conner household, as well as the rest of woman kind, wear birds and feathers on their hats, and for that reason the governor would never have affixed his signature to the act as construed by some of our state papers.
 
 Brewton standard Did you ever notice that tobacco is always clean? If man drops a piece of meat, no matter how clean the floor may be, he will either give it a kick or pick it up and lay it to one side. He will never eat it. But let him drop his plug of tobacco on the ground, and no difference how dirty the spot where it fell, he will pick it up and give 1t careless swipe on his coat sleeve or on the bosom of his pants and then take a chew with greater relish than ever.
 Limestone Democrat: If the Alabama Press association is founded on nothing more than a railroad pass, 1t ought to die and all the discussion in the state press relative to the damage done the as- sociaton by the passage of the anti-pass law Is not calculated to bring the body into anything more than amusing con tempt It is safe to say that those edi- tors who have been going to the associa- tion's annual meetings for the real good they obtain from minglins with fellow editors will be present at the meeting in
 
 ridden it as a convenient pack horse will quite likely remain at home as 1t is hardly possible that they care to pay railroad fare to and from the state cap | ital.
 Wilcox Progressive Era: If a law should be enacted as recommended by the postal commission, the death knell of many a country weekly will have been sounded The report Is bunch of ab surdities and impresses one as if 1t might have been prepared by a lot of school boys. If the postal department wishes to equalize matters. why do they not do away with the franking privileges or give proper credit for handling franked mail? Let them pay the railroads for | transporting the mails the same rates as | the railroads charge for hauling express matter
 l Gadsden Evening Journal: Every immi- grant brought into the state now, while we are sure of our right under the law, may prove the means of bringing a hun. dred later. One well satisfied foreigner Is sure to be followed by others, and these in turn by their friends until the value of g few good families at this time can hardly be estimated. We should there fore move promptly and secure a fair rep | resentation of immigrants from some de- slrable portion of Europe before any change is made in our rights to act in the matter by virtue of the new law which goes into effect in July. We may never have the same opportunity again. | Sheffield Reaper The growing senti- ment throughout the entire country for 1 the improvement of the waterways is bound to be of great benefit to this inn mediate section. The Tennessee river, at a comparatively small outlay, can be made a great medium of cheap transpor- tation, and the time is not far distant when this will be done. With cheap power developed at Muscle Shoals, and a great river navigable twelve months in the year at our door, and In the heart of the raw material supply, the Tri-Cities are certain to blossom as the rose" Better get in the band wagon. We're go- ] ing to start soon.
 Andaluci3 News. Tnere IS a good deal of talk about the threatened timber fam inc in this country. That the timber sup ply Is getting scarcer Is true. But here
 is where the old saying that necessity is the mother of invention comes In. When the timber supply becomes so short as to pinch the people. the ingenious American spirit will discover other things that can largely take the place of timber. It has not been long since cement, sandstone and other materials now being largely used | in building were not dreamed of in that capacity. When timber gives out there will be other materials forthcoming that will make good substitutes.
 | Washington County News: The editors of Alabama are already beginning to look | forward and prepare for the meeting of the State Press association at Montgom- cry in July. It is reported on reliable au- thority that several editors have already commenced practice by taking ten-mile walks before breakfast every morning. and unless they break training before the 1 event comes off they will be among the first at the finish. So, brethern of the press. let not the example of our fell lows be lost upon us, hut take heed and 1 prepare for that which IS 10 come. Let 1t not be said that patry thing like a pass kept the editors of Alabama away !