The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-05
What fhe State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing
The Thinnn suppreeaea,

The man who gets mad at what newspaper says about him should res turn thanks three times q day for what the paper knew about him and sup pressed.
 4 Big Change oeritainIy. Tal1adega Reporter
 4 change of ss psr cent oo Sf ed.a the mission is surely very large; and yet the correct books are cheap invest. nents for both parents and pupils.
 A BeautIfuI Custom. r Gadsden Timss-News. +
 The people of Alab ana City are taIr- ing this day of. July srds to beauttfy sSr s6 s .Ss grsns Tt E ana aa asaa1.s Suo o those buried in the cemetery to meet ana clean off the graves and plant trees and flowers.
 Returned Sanity.
 Walker County News.
 The reelection of Governor Patter- son of Tennessee to second guoerna- torial term over the g girtsa sx.Sstaatos .set ,Ss people of these Southern States are re- suniing an attitude of sane and sound reasoning, and that reforms" are be- blunders. Tn other words that eonsery. atism is resuming sway end normal democratic conditions are much desir- ed. The fight was contest ooIWeen custorned second term succession in of. flee and Statewide prohibition cou~ pied with personal ambition. Fatters son the former and Carmack the lat. ter. We congratulate the people or Tennessee.
 A Good Man Gone.
 SessesF Tn tSs deMth MGreFS of " C. pinwiaais sdi- tor of The Baldwin Times. the press of the State has lost q man who was ever active for its uplifting and the State. a man who stood at all times with progress as watchword.
 Mir. Dinwiddie was an active member of the Alabama Press Association, and as such was always on the side oS right. while forward was nis syerlast. the North. he was absolutely free from prejudices which ofttimes makes the Northerner inclined to be unpopular S"s the spirit of his adopted state. absorb ed it's ideals and with characteristtc broad views soon became thoroughly identified with the South and Alabama in particular. It is the men of this type that always find a welcome in the South and we cannot have too many of them take up their abode with us. The Workman extends its heart tives of the distinguished newspaper man. Their loss was the loss of the State.
 The sehooI Book Question. Sheffield Standard.
 The School Book Commission, at it's recent session in Montgomery, adopt ed q new set Of text books Tor tns gomery Advertiser estimates that the change of books will cost the parents of the school children at least $500, 900.
 So far as can be learned. there has hAan m nnuanlafnt against fhA hAAlra now in use, and the laying of this un- necessary burden upon the people is an outrage. It will fall heaviest upon cities, whsre thousands of heads of families have been out of work for six months or more. Here in Ehefleld, for example, 90 per cent. of our mechan- and summer, many 1nding 1t difficult to provide the common necessities for their families These people haven't the money to buy books. consequently their children must be kept out of school.
 The Text Book Commission is a part of tha Conner administration. It's ac- ton Is in line with the prevailing pol- Icy of reckless disregard of the peoples interests. Had this thing occurred un- der Republican auspices. many persons would have at once jumped at the con- iobbery in the affair; but we would not dare to entertain such a presump- tion in this instance.
 However, we do not hesitate to say that there Is altogether too much pol I tiles in the public schools of Alabama. Some plan should be devised whereby the school system could be divorced from politics. The Standard believes | that this could be accomplished by placing at the head Of our educational | system some one Of the many big 1 brained women of Alabama. With a | competent woman in the ofaee of State Superintendent. there would be no more | political wire-pulling, and the school system of the State would be conduct ! ed along practical, common-sense lines. The Standard nominates Miss Julia Tutwiler of Livingston for the otlce