The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-28
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Ventures An 0nininn-The Birmingham Age-Hefald sinaugurated dumpling making contest We venture the opinion, that the winner of the prize for the best dumplings will not wear bobbed hair.-Opelika News.
 Likeness And Crime e!-Decreased idleness in a city means decreased crime. It is an old and true, If trite saying, that "the devil finds work for idle hands to do.' It is better for 7 idie hands to be put to work by other agencies than the devil. Crime is at a minimum in Anniston.-Anniston Star.
 < Back Home Everything.-Back the home man, the home industry, the home everything and 1t will be no trouble to attract the out slider who will come here to help improve peace, happiness and prosperity.-Huntsville Times.
 Obstacle To Negro's Return.-There is one obstacle to the negros return to the South, and that is the fact that the white man is learning to do without him. The black man has found that there are more ways than one. of "skinning a cat' and that the white man knows nearly all of them.-Gadsden Times.
 Benefits Of The Commerce Body.-A cham Der of commerce in any city or town is . declaration of community cooperation that sells at par. You can talk about co-opera- tion, but unless you are ready to organize and show the world that you are ready to CO., operate, your words count for little to the discriminating home-seeker.. Andausia can- not afford to pass up the opportunity for live chamber of commerce.-Andalusia Star.
 SOuth's Interest In Government.-Th h Southern organizations for bringing out the vote in the South will have to increase their activity, beginning early and keeping at it; and bringing to the attention of the eligibles the duty resting upon them of voting in the elections. This is the program for the next four years; and it should be followed with sincerity and vigor, to the end that the South may yet prove that it's interest in the good government of the country is equal to that exhibited by any of the other grand divisions of the republic.-Mobile Register. s'-
 Washingt0n's Disfranchisement. - Thou sands of persons are residents of Washing ton throughout the years., Thousands have. their money invested in property in Washing ton. Thousands have their businesses in Washington. Yet they cannot vote. There is no reason why those who live in Washing ton should not vote in Washington. The peo- pie of the United States should see that this i, disfranchisement is removed. We do not disfranchise the people of any other section. Why should we disfranchise those who re side in the capital of the nation ?-Montgom- cry Journal.
 Progress Of The Negro.-The steady climb of the negro in the South as a home-owning and land-owning citizen coupled with his marked decrease in illiteracy constitute an impressive proof that the negro race is on the ascending scale of racial improvement and progress. Right-thinking white people everywhere are pleased and not displeased by this excellent record of achievement which the negro in the face of unpyopitious conditions has been able to make, for it is an exiomatic truth that the negro as a self-supporting unit in the economic organization is a far more desirable factor than the negro is a depend ent, shift charge on the community where he
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