The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-04
The alabama Press
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Madison County up In Arms. when we
say Madison county is up in arms against
the state highway commission at the treat.
ment accorded her by that body, we are ex.
pressing it mildly. Madison countians are
going to lose no ground in seeing to it that
they ultimately get justice.-Huntsvills
Times.
Can't We Have Good ROads?-When the
people of Alabama voted twenty-five millions
Of dollars In road bonds they were promised
a system of highways from county seat to
county seat all over the state. But how long
will it be at the present rate before we
shall have them? Good roads at dear price
are worth while, but when people pay for
good roads and don't get them, they lose
courage and are ready to give up. If the
highway commission cannot build roads more
quickly and more Of them than they are do.
ing, then such flattering promises should not
have been made.-Tuscaloosa News.
Florence Welcomes Normal Studehts-Ths
annual tide of students at the state normal
is now in and the city is full of these youth
full apostles Of Spencer. Their spirit and
enthusiasm overflows and Is good for the
town. We are glad to see the old students
mot IN years but in residence here-back
again and take especial pleasure In welcoming
the new. We hope you may all find people
and things here you will care to remember
aside from the associates and associations
connected with your work. Florence is
proud of the normal school and its manage
ment and glad to have each and every one
of you with us.-Florence News.
Opportunity In The SOuth.-In reality, the
South should appeal to the New Yorker as a
place of residence and q field for investment
and endeavor. The average New Yorker does
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greater opportunities for business than does
New York, and life in the South is far more
delightful than it could possibly be in the
Northern cities. The time will come when
the people of congested New York will turn
to the South and West for relief and will be
glad to escape from the turmoil, the crowdng
and the discomforts of a large city to seek
life where there is room for all, and plenty
of sunshine, pure air and abundant opportu,
nities.-Anniston Star,
Docks Boards Appraisal,-In preparing it's
appraisal the docks board added forty per
cent to the assessed valuation Of the land
As land is assessed at sixty per cent. of its
cash value, and as it is not known that own
ers in the locality under consideration have
ever protested that the assessed valuation 10
less than sixty per cent, of the cash value
the docks board appears to have pursued
logical method Of reaching a fair purchase
price. A burdensome sacrifice does not ap.
pear to be involved in the transaction pro.
posed by the docks board. On the contrary,
there is considerable advantage to the owners,
for, as General Sibert points out, the land in
question is practically worthless now, and
viii remain worthless until large amounts oE
money are eyIended on it.-Mobjle News
Item.
Big Opportunity For Farmers.-Now that
spring is upon us, every grower should be
casting about for the most efficient methods
and tools for launching a crop of all kinds
of feedstuff and a big yield per acre of cot
ton. Marion county has wonderful oppor-
tunity agriculturally. We profit, or should,
by what we know. We know farmers in this
county who began on poor, unimproved land
few years ago. They have had plenty to
eat and wear all the time; have raised large
families; and today have good bank accounts
plenty of everything around them, and their
lands three times as fertile as when they
began. Intelligent sticking-to-it will turn the
trick. We are intensely interested in our
farmers. We believe they have a good op.
portuuty.-Marion County News