The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-02

Importance of Maintenance.---It does ol good to watch the repair gang at work the Bee Line Highway, Maintenance prob bly, is the most important feature of road sy terns. Too rarely do we realize it.--Alban Decature Daily.
 Need for More Cows.--With four or fis cows farmers are supplying the family wit milk and butter, and selling cream to the e tent of S20 to $50 month. There is rooi for lots more sdairying of this kind in th sylacauga district.--Sylacauga Advance.
 No Place for KnOckers.-This good con munity is growing so fast that prosperity kept at high tide because the calamity how CTS are never given an opportunity to get a serious knock. The town building booster' and workers are on the job to win. Hunts vile Times.
 Want Records Kept Straight.-The Pres does not believe in political undertaking, buH we like to sec the records kept straight whei the peoples money is involved. That is tn only reason this paper has given publicity | a good many things in state finances Whei the voters and the taxpayers believe theiN money goes to the proper source, they arr satisfied, but otherwise they are not.--CenterN vile Press.
 Crops Showing Up WelI.-Crops are tn most promising we have had in several years Corn is looking like plenty of bread for mex year. Peanuts look good and we see lot Q them. Although, the excess moisture durinst the past month may have hurt cotton slightiyl and made it. little favorable for boil weeviis cotton still looks pretty good. Cotton is twc, hundred per cent better than 1t was at this5 time last year.-Florala News.
 Criminals and Insanity.-Under present. practices defendants do not often go to in-' sane hospitals after acquittal on pleas of in sanity. If acquitted they are turned into the| world again. If insane they become menaces| to free men. If not. they have escaped pun- isliment for their crimes. Whether the law be so changed as to require verdicts on pieas| of insanity by experts, there ehould be as- surahce that whenever a person obtains ac-| ouittal by a plea of insanity he be sent toI an insane hospital for treatment-Mont-l gomery Journal.
 Beautifying Ones City.-Making City Beautiful requires the enthusiastic work of alI the people at city beautifying. Each resi- dent should be eager to have his or her home attractive and there should be lively rivalry in every neighborhood to see who can have the pretties. flowers, the best-kept lawns or the neatest-looking hedges. This is the kind of cooperation the mayor wishes, co-opera- tion that will cause each individual to assume his share of the responsibility and do his or her level best to help make the city as pretty as it should be.--Anniston Star.
 Too Many Loop. .H0less-In America, tt is said, there exists more ioopholes TOT tne person guilty of capital crimes, than there does for the minor and more general offenaes. Tn practically every community of any size the people can point to cases in which, ac- cording to general opinion, justice failed or miscarried because of the technicalities oS the law. Were the efforts of the courts directed more particularly toward the punishment Of crime. instead of following technical, pToce- dure correctly there would exist more definite certainty of punishment, and the result would be notable in the effect in decreasing crime. Florence Times.
 Fryers and Priees.--Frying chickens are still worth thirtyifive and forty cents pound on the loca! market with the supply short os the demand And this is June when the price ot flyers is about as low as 1t usually gets during the season. Whether the short age in this delicacy is due to an increased demand or lowered production of an adverse season we can not say, but at this price there ought to be enough of the product to gatisfy svervbodv. Thirty.five cents a pound for late fryers leaves margin of profit for the grow CT that ought to encourage production. It isn't an easy way to riches at all but chickens at double the price of pork are always con sidered a profitable crop.-Elorence Daily