The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02
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Farmers Hard at Work.-Farmers are at work with a will, though the unfayorable weather conditions have made it difficult to get any sort of stand of cotton in this sec tion of the state.-Tallapoosa News.
 Mississippfs Uninstructed DeIegation.-- Mississippi will send an uninstructed delega- tion to the national Democratic convention. An uninstructed group of delegates, like an unattached maiden in the matrimonial pre- serve, awakens- more zest and curiosity and enthusiasm than one that is encountered and labeled with special ownership Times-Journal.
 The Mobile Rum Trial.-This stink that has come out of the Mobile investigation of prohibition violations has been attracting good deal of attention, but like many other investigations, much has been left out that the public does not know about. The govern ment agents in working up the testimony evidently took means to secure evidence that might be uncommon.--Dothan Eagle.
 Good Roads Add to Farm Values.-Every effort made to build better roads in the state should have the hearty cooperation of all the people. Nothing adds more to the value of farm lands or brings people closer together than the building of good roads. They are most valuable asset to any coun- ty or state. and the more of them we have, the more valuable is the property along the highways.-Huntsville Star.
 "Big Fish" Caught in Mobile Trial.-The Mobile rum conspiracy case resulted in eleven convictions, out of the seventy-one originally indicted. The rest of the defendants were either acquitted or the cases dismissed against them. And of the eleven convictions some real big fish were caught in the net. All the others were turned loose, though | some of them were not highly complimented in the judges summing up of the case.--De- mopolis Times | Henry Ford Can Do 1t-H Germany, with her inferior advantages, can make nitrates | at cost way below the Chilean salts, why should there be any doubt as to the ability of Henry Ford to make them equally as | cheap or cheaper? If we are to accept the | experience of the past as our guide for the l future-the only way that progress is ever made-then we cannot ignore such plain | facts and accept the fanciful statements of opponents of the Ford offer to the effect that the thing can't be done This testimony has but one purpose-to break the morale of the farmer in his support for the Ford offer by creating a doubt in his mind as to the feasibility of what MT. Ford proposes to do.-MHscle Shoals Sunday News. Justification of the Register-The verdict | is Justification of the consistent demand of The Mobile Register that the situation be cleaned up. Although there was at first ] much local sentiment in reproof of The Reg ister's position that violations were going on under cover of official protection, later events caused public opinion to swing over l to the support of the newspapers opinion. The developments since that time have made | it unmistakable that violations had thrived in Mobile, even if it were not possible to fix the guilt. Now that in some cases, >the guilt has been established by formal jury verdict, the status of law and order is far stronger than it was.-Troy Messenger
 Florence Welcomes Normal Students.--- Florence is welcoming this week the return of many former students of the Normal ESchool, who will join in the celebration of the semi-centennial of that great and useful
 institution. Except those who graduated during the last few years, the returning alumni will find vastly different city here and a greater institution than during the days of their student life. Both the city and | the school have been making great strides in progress during the past few years, though the school has been hampered greatly in meeting the increased demands upon it by the inability to secure funds from the state to meet the constantly growing attendance. -Florence Timea