The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11

Barnum- Called the Turn.-Some folks kick at being taxed to build good roads !; and yet there Is enough money wasted in the purchase of bogus oil stock and get-rich- : quick fakes to hard-surface every pigspatR in Alabama. Barnum called the turn.-5g : Abbeville Herald.
 They Can't Stay Away-Did you ever notice that when a fellow gets Ozark dirt grounded into his system, that it is a hard matter to get it out. They may move away, but there is a longing to get back home, and if the wanderer can raise. the price, he comes back.-Ozark Southern Star. Fl
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 Pulling for Schools -Scottsboro stands ready now to be d great school town. Ws have the guns for big game hunt, namely, good buildings; and if we fail to take ad- 5 vantage of this hardest part of the ground already gained, we will be the only ones to blame--Scottsboro Progressive Age.
 Can't Be Headed Off. .2.-The fact that work has started on another big cotton mill in our midst and the announcement that still an. ! other fine industry has been definitely se- 7 cured for Greater Huntsville, is both re- :. assuring and encouraging You can't head off community like this.-Huntsville Times. se f5
 Field for Poultry Indastry.-The wide spread interest being aroused in the produc+ ' tion of eggs and in profitab1y marketing them is an excellent augury for the devel- ;, opment of an industry that has splendid pos abilities in this section. Like all other crops, except cotton, for which this field is . :so admirably adapted, the poultry business has been operated on q ,haphazard, ten and { twenty cent basis, and; the real opportunities !, of the industry have never been put to the : test or understood,-Sel Times-Journai. .s
 Keeping Them Dark.-Republican are not anxious to let the people know what invest 2 ments they propose to make in this carn- paign. This was shown not many days ago 4 when there leaked out promise to one who :, had been urged to make a large contribu- tion to the campaign fund. The promise was that the contribution would be so. COW cred that there would be no indication of ; noncompliance with the laws limiting con. tributions to campaigns and the use of money g in political mpaigns.-Montgomery Jour- ! nal. .if 4-.f2i l Suggests Lost Opportunities we !. take a backward glance of the South during the past two or three-score of years and contemplate what could have been done by the farmers of this section and contrast it with what has actually been done we can not escape the conviction that many of the !: days that have passed were those of wasted opportunities. A bale to three acres is q 7 small crop compared with what it should be-. On some lands it is true that bale to three, acres is a fairly good crop-pursuing the old methods of farming. but while we were pursuing those old methods we were permit ting opportunities to go by that we would now gladly recall-Andalusia Star. d.. *' sH's. I
 Keeping Money at Home.-We know of several incidents where local business men have contracted for work by laboring men that they could have contracted for cheaper if they so desired. But the ordinary busi- ness man knows that by keeping his money at home he is setting an example and liy- ing up to the ideals he breaches. A portion : of every dollar spent, in your home. coin- : nlunity9 eventually findsfit way back to yosf. You may pay your cook five dollars she will go to the clothing store and pay five dollars for dress the merchant will spend five dollars for groceries, the grocerymap five. for coal, the coal man five for ice, the ice man five for lumber, the lumber dealer 4 five for carpenter, the carpenter five for 9 meat and the circle goes on and on forever. ? It may not be amiss for every one to con sider these things when they start spending 2 money they are fortunate to Obtain-Shef- field Standard. e7%.N ..-~e ,s;.,-