The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-13

| grasping my hand said. "I1owdy,
 stranger; we are glad to see you" | think he was sincere, because 1 was l "hroke? from having so many extra expenses to care for, and he actually | cashed a check for me solely on my | face. Now, when banks get to doing that I judge they are really glad to see you. l struck out across country ana
 got into Roanoke at 6:10 D. m, having made over 50 miles in six hours by truck, and that. too, over some roads that revenue officer could not travel All along the line I found the people
 glad to get The Age Herald and The
 News, so that they might know what
 was going on. When Rick Woodward
 reaches Wadley l incline to the opinion.
 that the good people are going to cele-
 brate with dinner on the grounds,
 and sing "All Hail."
 1 have voted my last dollar for good
 roads. They build roads and never have any for upkeep. In Talladega county they have a stretch of road that 1 would match against the world fog lmpassability, but l will say for lts probate judge that when 1t was point. ed out to him that we could not pass unless improvements were made that he got busy and fixed us un. Tn clay county an airplane would have dift.- culty in flying even over some of the roads, but here also 1 met with a prompt response from the county com. missioners and they fixed us up so the trucks could get over. In Ran dolph county, near Louina, they have d short stretch of road near the old Heflin home that is a disgrace to any county that poses , as Tn any degree
 progressive. Here, too, I had good luck, and when Senator Mccain, who shot rabbits with the judge when they
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 the job, and here is what puzzles me, why does an emergency make it neces- sary to get good roads?
 l know now why Dr. Heflin does So much charity practice and why Tom
 Heflin is the idol of the farmers They were brought up amid a people in whose veins the milk of human kind ness runs in greater volume than else I where in the state They know what toll it takes to make a crop on the rock soil of Randolph and Clay, they know how the natives are rooted to the soil ttoday l met a man 62 years old who has lived in only two houses,. They know that in each country church, with which the country abounds, that the seeds of true Ameri-a canism can be planted and flower lnto full fruition. Then, too, the Hefnns have the memory of practice done py the old Dr." who rode with his saddle. bags over the countryside from l,ine- Vile to l-aGrange, Ask any fellow you | meet in this country if he knows Sen ator Heflin and they will tell you.
 Yes, and remind you that he is no, as great man as the old doctor
 TRIBULATIONS OF FARMERS
 As l passed along these rocky farms l today and saw how hard it was for the farmers to make buckle and tongue meet: as l saw little children knocking down cotton stalks after school was out; as l saw the simple homes in which these. l Gods people, live. it was borne in on me that they cannot stand any more in- creases in freight rates. A few years | ago ship side delivery could be made | of cotton for half what it takes now fertilizer could be shipped for much less. and everything that the farmers must have or ship now takes a heavy toll from a people that should not be taxed so heavily.
 This question of rates is live one; the recent rates have so tended to localize traffic that 1 do not see any way out. For instance, the people here are ar- ranging to put in a potato dry kiln and try to raise at least 20,000 bushels of po- Latoes. The rate to the great consuming centers is so high that the product must be marketed in nearby cities That soon produces a glut. and whereas with the