The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-29

l AOuI1S udu, II yOu Cdu LII scramble eggs and boil coffee enlist today. You will have e1 the honor of serving your coun eral Wood refers to, the National i Guard is giving splendid account. of itself, and within a few weeks ade- quate equipment in every branch of the service will be provided.
 Let General Wood withhold future criticism until a more propitious sea- son.
 INOMMISSIONER HORN AID Y V says Birmingham ranks second among the cities of the United States with high typhoid fever rate. The municipal authorities have done their
 utmost to en- Give Your Aid in force the sanitary Typhoid Fight regulations, but
 their facilities are limited. With a handful of inspectors to coved fifty square miles of terri tory, it is not surprising that people who are careless and indifferent have endangered their own health, as we'll as that of the community, by gross disregard of the sanitary laws.
 With the help of ten men loaned from the police department for emer- gency work, conditions will shortly be remedied, but only the cooperation of citizens can obviate all danger of typhoid fever epidemics. Filthy habits encourage disease and people who are guilty of such practices cannot be too severely condemned.
 Naturally Birmingham is one of the healthiest cities in the United States. Elevation above the sea level, pure air and good water make 1t an ideal place of residence. Mr. Hornady has issued a timely warning. He should receive the support in his cleanup" campaign of every public-spirited cit- izen of Birmingham.
 THE distraction caused by the ! Mexican situation should not prevent a large and representative attendance of citizens of Alabama and Tennessee at the meeting in Nashville
 July IA, called for Get Together the purpose of or on Muscle Shoals ganizing move
 ment to secure, if possible, the governments $20,000,- 900 nitrate plant for Muscle Shoals.
 Other sections of the country offer large water power reserves as induce ments for the United States to locate their projected industry on this or that river; but at Muscle Shoals is presented an ideal site for this vast undertaking, and if Tennessee, Ala bama and other southern states get together and their best men make proper efforts, Muscle Shoals will be selected.
 Among states working in conjunc- tion to secure the nitrate plant are Iowa and Missouri. What they claim is a great site is found at Keokuk. But persons who are more or less familiar with various places men, tioned make it clear that the best of all is Muscle Shoals. Moreover, as the government will produce nitrate not only to be used in the manufacture of explosives in war time, but for com mercial fertilizer, which is consumed chiefly in the south, the plant should be situated in the'south, other things being equal.
 As w. P. G. Harding pointed out in his University Alumni association ad- dress, the Muscle Shoals development by the government would be the greatest thing that could be done for the south at the present time.
 Birmingham will send strong dele gation to the Nashville meeting and it is hoped the other cities of the state will be we'll represented. Concerted ef- fort is needed to get the plant for the Tennessee river, but with such effort it is reasonable to suppose that the