The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-15
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Alabama's Small Taxes.-Aecording to gov
erment reports the people of Alabama pay
less taxes per capita than any state In the
union, yet we complain about high taxes
Oneonta Southern Democrat.
Only Awaiting Development When the
resources Of the Sylacauga district are made
known to capitalists who are willing to in
vest In the development Of our natural wealth,
Sylacauga will be the center of one of the
biggest mining and industrial centers Of the
South. --Sylacauga Advance.
Another Big Benefit-Another great adj
vantage of diversification on the farm Ii that
in giving the farmer such variety Of food
products for his own table, it very materially
reduces the cost of living. There are mighty
few things that a farmer can buy cheaper
than he can raise.-Ozark Southern Star.
REQUIRES High Intelligence Farming at its
best is an occupation requiring the greatest
Of skill and intelligence of the highest order,
and he who classes it as 1ow-down knows not
whereof he speaks. The farmer is the salt of
the earth; hasten the day when he may come
into his own-Calhoun County Argus.
Those Inaccurate Repprts-n a corp of
$4,000 crop reporters cannot furnish correct
information to the 1900 salary-drawers in
Washington to enable the latter to tabulafe
and publish cotton crop estimate nearer
than a million bales, or double that number.
to the crop gathered it is time to employ
new force, or cut out the reporting ana esti's
mating.-Opelika News.
Guiding Youths Footsteps.-This Is very
much of careless age. Many people VINO are
all right at heart and who have the very best
of intentions will let their children do pretty
much az they please and go where and when
they rlease, simply because at would cal fof
the alb. ming of some pet personal pleas
IRE ia look after them. This is one of the
things that is causing the home circle -
it's Influence. There is no home circle in
many homes Those who should comprise the
circle are elsewhere. Perhaps, after all, the
chief thing needed is to re-establish the home
az the family sanctuary; to make the home
circle the gathering place in the evening for
all the family, and to make the home sur
roundings so pleasant and so attractive that
young people will not care to wander.-An-
niston Star. Il
Definition OF Republican, Republican,,
under the Iowa committees definition, is one
who gives endorsement to the policies that
have guided the party's activities during the
time it has been in power. This means an
endorsement of the policy of caring for prl
yate interests at the expense Of the public
treasury, the transfer Of oil reserves to Sim
clair and Doheny at profit to Fall and his
crowd, the maintenance of robber tariff rates
on the commodities needed by the American
people, the speculations in the veterans bu
reau which deprived those who served the
nation in her hour of adversely of the com.
forts and necessaries of life, the manipula.
tions ,of Daugherty and his followers which
permitted the illegal transfer from warehouses
of LIQUOR valued at millions of dollars and
which enriched Daugherty's right-hand man,
Jesse Smith and CASTOR, B. Means-Mont-
gomery Journal.