The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-10
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Thankfully Received Small blessings are thankfully received" is the silent thanks giving of those who purchase gasoline since 1t dropped to twenty-three cents gallon.-- Montgomery Journal.
 Appreciates Her LibrarysOns of this years crop of college graduates did not want to go back to his home town because 'there aren't any booksw Talladega can well afford to appreciate her public hbrary.-Talladega Daily Home.
 K What the People Make Them.-Our schools will be altogether what we make them If they are poor and inefficient, then the people are largely to blame. If they are good and move along in fine manner, then they deserve at least some of the credit, for out the backing of the people who are re- sponsible for them. They are largely what the people make them.-Dadeville Spot Cash. For More Apple Trees.--Apple trees have decreased in this country from 151 .322 s4fs in 1910, to 38,097, ,S11 in 1920. according to the census And yet Gan apple day win keep the doctor away" A fruit easily raised. delicious and healthful, and yet it decreased
 three-fourths in ten years. We stand in our own light. Every farm should put out few new fruit trees every year.-Marion County News.
 Crop Prospects Bright-It seems mors like some fair weather is before us now. And sunshine is badly needed for the good of cotton. A fine corn crop is assured. and
 little of the right kind of weather will give
 us fine cotton crop. The farmers tell us that boil weevils are not so numerous as they were a few weeks ago. Most farmers
 have fought them to a finish either by pois-
 oning or by hand picking.-Florala News. Population of Courtland. anybody ever ask you what is the population of Court land? What do you tell them? Five hundred,
 seven hundred or three hundred and sixty
 seven? The latter figures are those given in the census report and published to the world,
 You know and we know that there is q population of more than 1000 within a ra. dius of one-haf mile; but the world only
 knows of 367. Do you think the corporate limits should be extended? If CourtIand is ever to be more than mere crossroads, we
 know it.-Lawrence County Times. Another Delay as Res1It-well, the Hish- way Commission representative has again been to our fair city and as result we have
 another delay in the completion of under. pass. Thank the stars that everything in
 Alabama doesn't depend on that aggregation. 1 If it did we would never get out of the
 mud. We don't know beans about road
 building, but if our boy ever goes to college
 and becomes a road engineer and it takes I him seven months to build seven hundred
 feet of road we will be tempted to change
 his avocation promptly Sheffield Standard.
 Lateral Roads Needed.--The state has plans for a road across Tallapoosa county | but we can not expect help on our lateral
 roads. The bulk of the travel will pass over I the state road, but the lateral roads are the
 ones that serve the majority of our people kand they are the ones that we are vitally, I interested in. We are receiving regularly our share of gasoline tax money that is paid specifically for this purpose. Let's use this money in the best way possible, keeping in lmind that 'scraping road in the summer time doesn' keep it passable in the winter
 Alexander City Outlook.
 l Real Benefits 0btained.-The nationwide publicity that has been given Muscle Shoals has served to aid in removing the belief that
 prevails to such an extent throughout the North and West that the South is a poor | country, sparcely settled, with few resources, Land not an attractive place in which to, live. l This belief has been occasioned purely on account of the rankest Ignorance, and with the news spread abroad by reason of the 1 Ford offer for the Shoals that there exists
 here not only the greatest resources of any
 section of the country, but handsome, mod | kern and up-to-date cities, real benefits has
 been done for the whole South.-Florence
 Times.