The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-24
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A Long Step Between.--Accordlng to the fifty road projects, the surveys of which have the approval of federal engineers, Opclika will be we'll served when all of them are completed as roads. However, that time is a long way in the future, as it is long step from approval to construction.-O -Opelika News.
 Mothers, Children, Poiitics-The interest ing possibility rises, that peculiar period of history is at hand in which children will have their political faith educated into them by their mothers just as fathers used to guide their sons At any rate, the average mother has lot of influence with the chil- dren.-Anniston Star.
 MontevaIlo Is Tempting Field.-Graduate of Alabama College at Montevallo make good wives, according to bulletin. Of the sew eral thousand only six widows are reported among the graduates of tha tschooi. Broad cast this information and the men will move towards Montevallo in armies.-Montgomery Journal.
 Value Of Diversified Industries.-Million of dollars are coming into Alabama for her manufactured cotton, steel and other products that are converted from the raw material into the manufactured product. It is always the manufactured product that brings the big price. and that is why as many industries should be encouraged to come into the state as possible.-Huntsvile Star.
 The Aid Of Mother Nature.-In making Florence fair we have an active, able ally in Mother Nature herself, who has not only done much in anticipation of our efforts, but who will continue Do function in supplement- ing all that we do. 1t isn't asked of us that we paint the lily white. but rather that we keep it's purity unsoiled.-Florence Daily News.
 Suggestion To Bottlers.-We would sug. gest to some bottlers of soft drinks that they quit selling their bottled goods to merchants who are running blind tiger in connection with their soft drink business. Our bottlers here in Andalusia have no trouble on this score, for they make every merchant who handles their goods responsible for the bot ties and these are always returned or paid fOr-Andalusia Star.
 Protection Against Forest Fires-C L. Ingram, farmer who lives on Route 2, One onta,. does not propose to have the timber on his farm destroyed by fire. He is offering a reeward of fifteen dollars for evidence to convict anyone guilty of firing the woods'' on his lands. He contends that it not only injures the young timber and tends to de- strOy the fertility of the soil, but it drives the birds away that would protect his crops from the ravages of the insects.-0neonta Southern Democrat.
 In House Of Her Fathers.--Not that the South expects one iota of favoritism from Oscar Underwood as president. Not that the South would have any favoritism or prefer ence. Not that this sturdy Democrat would countenance anything but a square deal for all sections, all classes, all the people. But that the South which has been made to feel in all the more than half century after the Civil War that she was a region apart and in the Union on tolerance, can now realize that she is in the house of her fathers.-- Brewton Standard
 The Cohen ppOintment.-Whateve the < influences that may or may not have been exerted in the senate, the Cohen appointment stands out 6 conspicuous example of that brand of politics which has for generations prevented the Republican party from making any considerable progress in the Solid South" This situation will continue as long as the Republican party continues to make appointments when the party is in control of the federal government, which are dis pleasing to everyone in the South but the negro pOliticians.-Mobile Register.
 The People Want Ford-In our opinion, no matter what these big trust friends and trust controlled newspapers do and say, the people are going to duplicate their house victory over in the senate, and the rest of the world will be begging and hurrying in their activities to get here to share a part of the glorious victory with us. The un- friendly newspapers are on losing trail and will go down into inevitable defeat along with the Alabama Power Company and their associates. The Ford sentiment represents the peoples sentiment Huntsville TimaA