The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-14

Stan0lng at the TOp.-Regardless of what toiks tel you, Chambers county stands around tne top educationally in the whole statc of Alabamas--Lafayette Sun.
 Roads Improve With Che Years.--It will soon be an easier and quicker trip to 70 iron, Prattville to Birmingham by automobile on paved highway than it was to go to Mont gomery twenty years ago in buggy through the sand and mud.--Prattville Progress.
 F1orence's Projected HOtel-The announce ment that the New Jefferson is to be three stories and sixty room instead of two stories and forty rooms, as originally contemplated, is good news for everybody, More hotel room is what we need and any expansion is vel come = Florence News.
 What Good Roads Would Mean.-Good roads through Alabama would mean a lot in the matter of tourists travel alone. Last winter 100000 people toured Florida. Only two per cent. of them went through Ala bama. Good roads will give us a liberal share of this tourist travel Andalusia Star. Willing to Be of Service.-The Leader, in advocating those things which it believes to | be for higher morals and better Christian 1 living does not entertain much hope of chang | ing the course of any mature person already "set in his ways" But if we can be of any service in lifting the ideals and purposes of the young to higher plane we shall be truly grateful. Parents are urged to advise their children to read this paper, including the edi- torial page.-Roanoke Leader.
 Andalusia's Excellent PIan.--The Anda. lusia plan of going ahead and building it's own :, cotton mills is a most excellent plan, and where towns can do this, they are fortunate but if it is not possible for town to build its own mill, the next best thing is to go after some Northern plant that is seeking a location. The trend of the textile industry is from the New England states to the South, and it is a movement that will make the South the center of the cotton manufacturing industay. The public-spirited work of such men as those in Andalusia who are building Cotton mills in their home towns adds to the greatness of the industrial South, for 1t shows the faith of the people sof the South in the future of the South-Anniston Star. A Free for AH.-The time for selecting q successor to Bill Brandon as governor is still two years off, but the woods are full of can didates Lieutenant Governor Charles Nc. Dowell would like to be promoted. Attorney General Harwell G. Davis does not deny that he would like to be governor. Colonel Bibb Graves virtually entered the 1926 race when
 
 ago. Archie Carmichael is being groomed for the place. It is said that Senator Teasley may get in the race again. He made the rare in 1918 when Kilby was elected. It is said there will be a candidate from Birmingham, but the name has not yet been made public. If any Alabsma voter cannot find some one in this list to vote for, he is at liberty to get in the race himsef.-Oneonta Southern Dem ocrat.
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 Walker County's Centennial-Plans are being formulated for a centennial celebration in Jasper in October or November marking the one hundredth anniversary of Walker county as a legislative county unit of the state of Alabama. Walker county is the scene of several outstanding events in theehis- tory of Alabama. These should be recorded and preserved. There are many things con HeeFning the early history of Walker that ought to be brought to9Ight and preserved, and centennial celebration would do more to create an interest in the history of the county than anything else. In the event that the creation of our county should be com memorated, the celebration should take the form of historic pageants and parades. Churches and schools throughout the county are expected to take part in the exercises.---y Jasper Mountain Eagle.