The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-12
ALABAMA PRESS

Alabama Reporter: Don't be too hard
 on Colonel We'll Others made the same
 mistake
 Gadsden Times-News; It will take more
 than Lloyd-G Georges persuasive pow
 CTS" to win the war, but they may help. Anniston Star: Perhaps the Chicago
 man who has saved up 72,oOOOOO eggs is planning to treat his friends to eggnog
 on Christmas.
 l Taladega Home: The price of sausage
 meat still remains up, which incidentally
 Is proof positive that the horse has not
 been supplanted by the automobile. l Livingston Southern Home: New York must have risen about three feet higher
 out of the Atlantic in the last few weeks | California on the Pacific side. Guntersville Democrat: Auto parties
 from the frozen north continue to pass l this way to the sunny clirue of Florida.
 The tourists appear to prefer this route
 regardless of the official finding of the commission.
 Lineville Headlight: In mineral and
 mining developments Clay county prom I ises to take rank with imperial Jefferson. Clay county now leads the world in the graphite industry and the industry is vet ! in it's infancy.
 l Mobile Register: The Gadsden Times | News makes the astonishing discovery
 that Etowah county farmers are supply ] ing the Gadsden housewives with cold
 storage eggs. We'll, for guile, that beats 1 most everything
 Colbert County Reporter: If the New York grocer who says that because of the high prices of foodstuffs he is ashamed to look his customers in the face will wait until the bill is overdue three
 months his customers will no doubt re- ciprocate.
 Shelby County Sun: Old Shelby, if all signs don't fail, will roll up the largest yield of wheat and oats next year that
  There seems to be very little land that has not already been planted in some kind of grain
 Selma Times: George w. Perkins has been put at the head of a commission to investigate the high cost of living. Brother Perkins is not Investigating the subject because he is being pinched by the market basket. He no doubt just wants something to do.
 Centreville Press: It is reported that
 an effort is going to be made by Captain
 Hobson and the Anti-Saloon league to defeat Senator Underwood at the next election It is a free fight and entries are open to all corners. But we will be badly fooled if the people turn down Mr. Underwood, who has been the ablest man in Congress-
 Carbon Hill Journal: The fellow who stops his paper because he becomes of tended at some item that does not suit his fancy, always imagines he is getting even with the publisher, but he is never missed. This only happens occasionally, for there are only a few people in any community who imagine a paper should contain nothing but what they approve of Florence Times: A vail comes from Huntsville about the high price of coal, and a movement is on foot there to "be free from the slavery to the coal mines," as a. correspondent puts it. And the way they are working is to get the government to establish the nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, so that electricity may be substi- | tuted for coal. And there are other cities
 making the same outcry. | Huntsville Mercury: The new state bank of Huntsville which has been dis ! cussed for the past 12 months has at last taken definite shape and a permanent organization effected with the election of officers and directors. This is another un- failing sign of the financial growth and progress of this community which now l supports two national and six state banks, | four of which are located in our prosper ous county towns.