The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-20
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 People Make Their Condition .-Getting down to bed rock we've all got to admit this is the best place on earth in which toshve and do business. The people make this happy condition and each and all of them invite the outside world to come in and enjoy it with them.-Huntsyille Times.
 AndaIusia News Store Buildings. are not enough of store buildings in Anda- lusia. There have been a number of pros pective business men in the city this year with a view to locating here, but they had to go elsewhere because they could not find suitable building. If you want to help your town and if you have some surplus money, invest it in a good business block. The re- turns will be in every way satisfactory.- Andalusia Star.
 Need For Hotel Demonstrated.-There are seven hundred teachers from Birmingham coming to visit the Shoals the last of the month-coming on Pullman train because there is no hotel room in the district to take care of them. And yet there are folks here who think we are excited about wanting real hotel that can meet the demand for ac- commodations. Perhaps these same boys win also say these teachers are coming only one time and that we can't prepare for that sort of things. Some lack of vision.--Florence News.
 Prison Farms As Object Lessons.--A; bale to the acre is easily possible on fair land under correct methods of cultivation. Ala bama has better than fair land at the states farms near Wetumpka and Speigner. The state pays for expert farming there and pro- yides every necessity for the best farming. AL er- fsxII half bale to the acre. This is far above the average, taking the state over, but why can ndt-the state farms do much better2 Those farms should be made object lessons for our farmers, and they can be.-Qpelika News.
 Road Proves Good Investment-The Horse block Mountain road is richly paying back all that has been spent on it by the Chamber of Commerce and the Anniston merchants gen. erally. The money spent on it is' the best investment Anniston trade interests could make. Other roads in the county would pay as well if put in good shape and kept so. What Anniston needs to develop its country trade is more roads and much better roads than we now have. This is the chief busi- ness need of this city and Anniston will not get the out-of-town trade it should until every road leading to this city is made good road and is kept so.-Anniston Star.
 Upkeep Comes High-The highway from GuIfpert to Memphis is said to be nearing completion. It is to be hard-surfaced through out it's entire length. If adequate main tenance is provided, it should prove boon to travellers. But that is the trouble with hard surfaced roads. They not only cost heavily to build, but require constant expenditures, usually in large amounts for conditioning. The cost of building is equalled, by the main- tenance cost in few years. If the expendi- ture for maintaining hard-surfaced roads is as great as the need, this type of highway costs in decade as much as a paved highway, which requires very little expenditure for up- keep:-Mobile News-Item.
 Dr. Welsh Returns.-Dr. W. S. Welsh, state health officer, returned tlSe latter part of last week to Montgomery after visit to Washington, and made the announcement that he had secured through the assistance of Senator Underwood, the inclusion of 'an ap- propriation of $15,000 in the budget for anti-f- malarial work at Muscle Shoals. Dr. Welsh also reported that he had recured the re-as- signment of Dr. w. K. Sharp as his assist ant in directing the health work in the north- ern part of the state. Both of the ai- nouncements are very gratifying to the peO- pie of this section. The formation of the lake above Wilson Dam will be likely to ere ate propogating places for malaria-spreading mosquitoes and vigorous work will be re- quired to combat them. In the retaining of Dr. Sharp on his work here both the depart ment and the district are most fortunate With his ability and enthusiasm and ex- ceptional personality, he has been able to ac- complish fine results.-Florence Times.
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