The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-26
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Let Her Have Ik"--The papers continue to publish the cry, .Attalla Wants Depot" For goodness sake, let hef have 1t; for what she says will be endorsed cheerfully by every. one that has gone through on either road for the past ten years. And some just have to !- Talladega Daily Home.
 Government Sets Example.-How can one expect the younger generation to know the value of money when the powers that be, the federal government, the state government, and all smaller governing bodies, are spend ing by the millions year by year. and making arrangements to spend more millions as the wheels of progress hum.-Dothan Eagle.
 
 One Way to Do It.--Down in Florida if they find q person who retards the pro4ress of the community through holding land and refusing to cooperate in municipal improve! ments they fix his taxes at . point where moving is the only salvation. An application here wouldn't hurt.-Tuscumbia Alabamian. Dispatch.
 Typhoid Has Decreased. .-The dairymen of Jefferson county are going to launch fight against pr. Bowling, county 2health officer We don't know anything about the ccntro- yersy, but statistics show that typhoid fever has decreased under his supervision of milk supply in that county, If it has, there must be something to his methods, and life 6 worth considerable moFe than the support of impure milk dispensers, -Geptrevilie Press
 Tue States Good Gredlf.--The splendid pre- miurA, brought by the first instaliment of Ala bama seaport bonds clearly establishes the exceptional quality of the states credit and, rorneves the last yestige of doubt that might have prevailed regarding the confidence of the financial interests in the states securities, million dollars worth of these bonds sold at par and premium of S2Ss500. In view of the fact that these bonds earn only AZ per cent interest and that they are redeemable in in-. stallments beginning ten years hence, the price is considered q generous one and must have been highly gratifying to those who rep. resented the state in ths transaction. Tho securities of the eastern states and cities do not command greater favor in the financial centers than those of Alabama. .-selma Times Journal.
 Has Faith in the PoFt-The first issue of $i.000000 of state bonds for the construc- ton of state-owned port facilities at Mobile was bought by syndicata headed by Mo bile bank. The premium! paid was 2S500, and the bonds brought premium of t.4 bet. ter than the last issue of S7,000,000 worth of Ftate highway bonds! Mobile thus gives evidence to the state of Alabama, and to the public everywhere, that 1t has faith in the port. This is an example of civic enterprise that is highly creditable to the financial ins stitution concerned, and is certain to have favorable effect on the people of Alabama, The action shows Mobile, fnanciers are pre- pared to cooperate with the state government and will do what is expected of them in sup- port of the states program for building docks at Mobile. The port bonds were sold under brisk competition, and advantageousiy to the state. The financing of the port development work begins auspieiously.- Register.