The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
HIHZ ALABAMA

| To Get Rid of Politics.-Let's get down ts
 business, making for an energetic ana pro- Igressive administration--at least until the day comes when we can have the Business Man. ager plan and remove the affairs of the city
 as far from politics as is racticabe.-Hunts-
 vile Times.
 Punishment and Crime.-When the death
 penalty is enforced for murder in Alabama perhaps the papers will not carry the news
 of so many killings. If we are to continue
 to have them the law should have its just
 share.-DeKalb County Herald.
 | Kidding Streams of Fish.-Dynamiters and | seiners and others who used unlawful msas-
 ures, have almost completely rid our noun
 tain stream of fish. It will soon be the same
 way with all kinds of game birds and animals
 unless there is an immediate change-Gads- den Times.
 Killings Caused By Liquor.-You will find that practically every killing that has oc- cured in Jackson county can be traced to liquor. Just study and see if this is not true? Why will not people rise up and put it down? Assist the officers and it will be done-Scotts- boro Progressive Age.
 Plea For More Boosters.-We hear a great many more people knocking Russellville than we do boosting it right here in our own com munity. Possibly you never thought of it, but get the idea out of your bones that this is the worst place in the whole universe, and start a little boosting and pulling together campaign. If nothing else it would make your associations with the real boosters more pleasant.-Franklin Banner-Times.
 Time To Attack Pest.-The time to attack an evil like the sweet potato weevil IS when sc ,hot hnr hnnr, done by the government and state agricul- tural experts, with the result that threat to an important Alabama crop which might easily and quickly have become serious menace has been checked before its damage has spread over the state.-Anniston Star.
 Ali, of Third Party Promoters.-Man- lifesty the Third party promoters count on building up on the ruins of Republican in- surgency The personnel of the coming con- yention at Chicago will indicate the measure of hope it's leaders might expect to entertain. Our concern is that the Democratic leaders may have deliverance from being mixed up with it-Selma Times-Journal.
 One of the PrOofs.-One of the chief argu- ments against the abandonment of the sys- tenn, which is condemned by all persons who believe convicts are something more than states chattel, has been that convlcts must be employed in gainful operations, that they should not be made a burden on the tax payers. The operation of Kilby prison is proof that the lease system can be abandoned without the imposition of financial burden on any tax-payers-Montgomery Journal.
 Going After the Hazers.-By cooperation between the student organizations and the faculties, such as exists at the University ot Mississippi and the University of Alabama, hazing has been reduced to a minimum. Such episodes as occurred at Oxford, and occur from time to time at other colleges and uni versailles, are becoming rarer than they were formerly, because of the sentiment aroused against hazing. If the ten students promptly dismissed at Oxford have learned their lesson they will make better students somewhere else and better citizens when they finish grow ing up.-Mobile Register.
 Endorses Mobiles Schools-The editor of The Progress recently visited the country schools of Mobile county and he must admit he endorses the school system there. Instead of taking the city of Mobile as unit the entire county is unit or one district. Under that system it is just Jas much a duty of Mobile to see that the rural sections have good schools as it is to see that Mobile has good schools. In that way the city of Mobile has seen to it that the rural sections of Mobile county have good school buildings and equip ment. The people down there look at con ditions broadly and realize that towns and cities in an agricultural section prosper just as the farms around them are prosperous Prattville Progress.
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