The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-01
H5HZE ALABAMA 

Benefits Of Buying At Home.-Buy home this Christmas You will avoid the worry Of delay and the disappointmenf of not getting what you expected. It is not too early to make up your mind to do your Christmas shopping in Tuscaloosa this year. There is no better place to get exactly what you want.-L Tuscaloosa News.
 Menace To S0ciety.-Our chief reason for being against the bootleggers and gamblers of thls and all other communities is the fact that they are cursing menace to organized so- 'ciety. There is no room for them in this To- cality and the quicker they pass on will be too slow.-Huntsville Times
 C. 0. P. And Political Debts.-General Pershing is being urged for secretary of war as the successor of John w. Weeks. He would make an ideal secretary of war, but it is not probable that he will get the office. He is no politician. There are political debts that must be paid by the Republican party.-Montgom- cry Journal.
 Getting Rid Of vagrants-The proposed "Curfew Law" for vagrants in Anniston, un- der which idlers found on the streets after II o'clock at night would be arrested unless they
  doubtless have a good effect. It would put an end to night thefts, burglaries of homes and stores and prowling with criminal intent Anniston Star.
 Setting Fire To Schoolhouses.-It may be possible to imagine the feeling of one forced to live in a community that harbors those who are so low and vile as to set fire to a school house, but we doubt if any reasonably sane person desires to experience them. Yet there are communities in Alabama that have lost schools through incendiarism. In fact, fifty school houses and fifty churches in Alabama have been burned by incendiaries during the past year.-Gadsden Times.
 The Harm of Light Sentences.-The Alex ander City Outlook deyotes some editorial space to elaborating on the harm done by light sentences imposed upon law breakers, and the more harmful results of the abuse of the pa- role and pardon power. That is a subject which ought to receive more attention than it does receive. A reform, a change for the bet ter, will not come except through a distribu- tion of information, and public agitation Opelika News.
 Waterways And Hard Roads.-As the na- tlOn OeVelOpS ana the railrOaQS reacn the limit of their capacity, which some students of the transportation problem say has already oc- cured, the waterways and the hard-sHrfaced roads of the country will become more impor- tant to the nations welfare than they are to- day. Especially will this be true as the motor truck supplements the rail lines, more and more, in the distribution of freight, and as the waterways are better equipped to take over the freight the railroads are not logically entitled to and which they will no longer be- able to handle.-Mobile Register.
 Better Schools And Taxes.-Everybody is agreed that our schools must be kept abreast of their galloping needs, that good roads must be built and the public health safeguard ed, but when we are confronted with the con- crete proposition of vouchsafing .he where withal for supplying these. wholesome needs. there wells up a thunderous protest from those who must hand over the fruits of their sweat and toll. Nothing is more popular than tax production in the abstract and nothing is so unpopular in the cOncrete-which paradox after all, is only human nature. To know how to tax wisely and with moderation and to help rather than hurt the common veal has long been the despair of statesmen-Selma Times-Journal.