The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
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 Not ssOverlooEing the Main Point.--It is very nice to have the insurance people m compliment our water pressure and fire de pertinent, but what Tafiadega wants is that promised insurance eduction.-Talladegs Home. E - r4 .
 A Reason for Incorporation.-with prob ably two hundred boys and girls on the out side of the present corporate limits facing inadequate school facilities, unless they pay some $40 annually for sincidentals is having Ia lot to do with them wanting their territory brought in town, and we don't blame them.-- Huntsville Times. .
 Willing to Wait for VictOry.-AImost five months more to wait 6efore action can be had on the Ford Muscle Shoals offer, but when you stop to think about 1t, this is a comparatively short period of time in contrast to the millions of years back of us. And so shall we wait, confident of a glorious vic tory.-Huntsyille Times.
 Need for Prompt Florence looks more like growing city now than it has for the past two years and we want to make it look more so. This is the last summer that we have for doing things leisurely. Next year we will be forced to step out or see the other communities pass us. So let us be doing now. Florence News Fl sf }f.
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 How to Lessen CriRm,e.-we can lessen the crime in our midst by giving our attention to the youths. They need. a real mans guiding hand and helpful example of a. true mans life in forming their character. Troy can be made better. Whetherlit will be depends upon us-its mem Shall we turn our backs and ignore existing conditions or shall we accept the challenge and lend ourselves to the task? Troy Messenger. 20 s-ss
 Value of Camp McCleIIan.-T are sev- eral thousand young Then of the South at Camp Mcclellan right now who are getting the benefit of training, they could not receive in any other way. They will return to their homes after the six weeks period stronger, healthier, happier and better fitted for work in school or at some vocation than they ever have been. The experience at Mcclellan win be looked upon by them in after life as one of thesmost delightful experiences of their lives, and probably as the most beneficial.-- Anniston Star. i5, ,t4 .-s5,i ~,,-- Joke on Old Man Jones.-The writer re- members good many years ago of a boy on farm in Dallas county telling his mother that .bne of his neighb6rs played good joke on ''Old Man Jones'" the ginner. He said the neighbor had gone to the gin and while "Old Man Jones" had his back turned the neigh bor slipped off and left his cottonseed at the gin. That wouldn't be considered much of a "joke" today, would it2 The cotton seed pro- duced in the South this year will probably sell for right around .$250, 900 00O.-Livings- ton Our Southern Home. s A Practical Ideas--Here also Muscle Shoals, under Ford's<control, might figure inq the production of planes as well as ni- trates and fertilizers. With airplanes in un- limited number immediately available and munitions of such power and in such quan- tity that no other nations or combination of nations could approach its potential power, Mir. Fords idea of making this country in- yincible and therefore safe from attack, would be practical one. He gives out the gugges- tion that the force which may be needed to end great wars could De supplied through the development of Muscle Shoals, and if anyone has better plan than his for developing the project, he says it should be adopted.-Annis- ton Star.
 New Hotel at FIOrence.-There is no ques. tion that modern hotel here at this time will prove paying institution and that those financially interested will have sound se- curity for their investment. Money could not be placed in a safer place than in a modern well-managed hoStelry in Florence And the building of a observation-disclosures hotel here will undoubtedly give considerable additional value to every piece of property in the city. The hotel movement is a safe and sane proposition and the whole force of the ambition to build a city here should be put behind it-and put behind it without unnecessary delay.-Florence News.