The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29

High Time for Repair WOFfs.1-If the Lee
highway from Florence to Killen Is not to
be rebuilt this season, it is sure high time
that some repair work was being done. TO
leave this road through the summer in its
present condition would be disgrace to the
community.-Florence Daily News.
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Not Defending Bootleggers.- Mobile has
thousands of high-class citizens who do not
endorse the acts of the 'liquor ring" but
such citizens, while regretting the 0nfavor-
able publicity which has come to the port
as q result Of the rum trials" are not heard
defending the liquor law violators. Gadsden
journal.
Hartselle on the Moye.-HartseIie GER
family hasn't lost step with progress. After
finishing up the Bee Line improvements. the
city plans construction of one or more paved
streets, installation of waterworks and other.
civic Improvements. Hartselle deserves the.
Congratulations of the remainder of Morgan
county-Albany-Decatu Daily. ~
The Laws and Justice.-Day after day
"a perusal of the newspapers will show re-
ports of incidents in cities all over the coufi-
try that clearly demonstrate the fact that
many of our laws do not serve the purpose
for which laws were intended and do on the
other hand serve to work hardship. and mis-
carriage of justice.-Gadsden Times-News.
Inducements for Industries Perhaps Syl-
acauga offers the best inducement for small
industries Of any town in Alabama. Syla-
-caugas railroad facilities certainly cannot
be surpassed; electric power can be secured
here for propelling machinery as cheap as
any place in Alabama, and the territory
that surrounds Sylacauga are great consum-
,ers Of almost every manufactured article
Sylacauga Advance.
Going After the Mosquito. of
other communities has shown that high pur-
poses, lofty sentiments, and even generous
appropriations have not suffieed in the past,
to wipe out these sworn enemies of the hui
man species. But hope springs eternal I'M.
the human breast and the mosquito will he
given run, not for his money, but with
ours. We hope that the drive that is now
being so auspiciously inaugurated to clay him
low" will not be sham battle.-Selma
Times-Journal. rf
Early Work on Cotton MilI.-Seyenteen
thousand dollars additional stock was sold
last week for the new cotton mill in Anda-,
lusia. This shows that the business men
and women of this section are wanting to-
get in on the ground floor in this new enter
prise. The work on the new mill is planned
to begin about July 1, as by that time the
crops will be laid by and labor can be Sc
cured without injuring the farmers of the
county. And those who are interested in pro-
noting the interests of the farmers who are
trying this year to produce bumper cotton
crop.-Andalusia Star.
Will Be Heard Afar-Senator Pat Harri-
son of Mississippi, one of the really big men.
of the Democratic party, has been selected
by the national Democratic committee to be
temporary presiding officer of the national
Democratic convention. He will make the
keynote speech of the campaign, and what
he says will be heard around the world. He
viii tell things that are going to cause peo-
pie to "sit ppg and take notice. The story
he will place before the people Of this nation
will be ''an eye-opener' and no discount
Alabama Courier. ~ -
To Give First-Hand Impressions.-It 10
gratifying to the people Of the Tri-C Cities 70
learn that the Southern Railway is planning
to run several excursions to the Muscle
Shoals district during the coming summer
months. Not only will itebe a coed business
venture for the Southern, and viii afford a
large number of people an opportunity they
might not otherwise have Of seeing the great
projects here, but it win at the same time
acquaint them with the three fine cities that
constitute its community. Florence, Shelf
field and Tuscumbia are all ahead Of most
of the Southern cities of their size in paved
streets, fine business and residential Sec
lions, educational facilities and in many
other ways, and it will be greatly to their
advantage to have the hundreds of people
who will be brought here on these excursions
learn of these things in their own experience.
There is also the advantage of lesser impor-
lance in the money that will be spent by the