The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-26
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IQPlGIoNs or QTEiER EpIToEs
A Place Of Entertainment psniten-
tiary has become place Of, entertainment
for criminals while they are getting pafdons
-Dothan Eagle.
Age-Herald's List 10 Growing The Age.
Herald varied the rule Sunday, and not only
had something about Talladega, but also had
a lot Of fine pictures Of various things in
| the county. No wonder its list Is growing in
| Talladega county.-Talladega Daily Home.
|
j Nashville Real Friend -Nashville boost
ers are welcome to the TWINK Cities. Nash,
| vile has been a real friend, in time of
need, to the Tennessee Valley during the
/ fight for development Of the Tennessee river
and the valley is very grateful Albany
Decatur Daily.
Should Stay in Butler County.--It may
be good thing for man to leave the coun-
| ty Of Butler under some conditions, but nm
less these conditions are exceedingly alluring
he should think long and well before he leaves
| the best county in the world to seek his for
tunes somewhere else.-Greenville Advocate.
| A Happy Day for Youngsters.-All of our
exchanges are full of schools and commence
ments and the full season is not yet on. It
is happy day for the youngsters who have
| wound up another year of their young lives,
when many of them are to move up to higher
classes, or to 60 off to different schools It
has been a great year for education, and all
must rejoice that the roads have been made
| 30 much easier for education 1careers.-Taiia-
| dega Daily Home.
| Bonus Questions Not All SettIod-The
! soldiers bonus bill passed both houses Of
congress over the veto of President Coolidge
and this bill now becomes automatically the
law of the land. The bonus measure, while
not satisfactory to the ex-service men who
wanted the bonus, will be a substantial help
| to them. Yet the question Of compensation
| is one that win not down and the next ad-
ministration viii have to consider many
phases Of the bonus question which as yet
have only been postponed, not settled.-An-
| dalusia Star.
AndaIusias Graduates.--Andalusia has
thirty-six graduates this year from her high
school. These young men and young women
are to be congratulated. They have proven
themselves equal to the task in an impor-
tant endeavor. They held ON while many,
very many who started with them toward
| the goal which they are to reach next week,
| fell out along the way. It is an event in the
life of any boy or girl to complete high
school. It is tragedy when any boy or girl
quits school before completing the course,
because when they do 80 they go into life
very seriously ndicapped.-Andalusia Star.
The Value Of COttonseed.-Ab0ut the year
| 1855 there was enacted a law in the state
| of Mississippi making it an offense punish
able by a fine Of 800 to throw cottonseed
in any running stream in that state. Cot
| tonseed wasn't considered of much value in
those days. The cottonseed produced in all
the Southern states this year win probably
sell for right around $250,O00OO0. Quite
difference between this year and the year
| 1855. This tremendous increase In the rev.
enue to the Southern farmer is the result Of
the discovery of the food value of cottonseed
products.-Livingston Southern Home.
Should Be Handled CarefuIIy.-E Every once
| in while we read in the papers stories Of
paroled criminals who violate the confidence
reposed in them by committing fresh acts Of
criminality. The entire parole system af-
fords ground for calling in question its eff
cacy when those who have benefited by it
are caught again violating the law. Its vir-
tue is also seriously challenged whenever
habitual violators Of the law, or those who
are convicted for repeated offenses are given
their freedom by parole. Whenever a pa
| rolled man commits a crime that arouses
public resentment there is always disp0-
| sition to decry the whole scheme. of paroling
| prisoners as an abuse Of justice and a direct
incentive to lawlessness. The parole system
should be handled with scrupulous care
Selma Times7Journal. f
Financing Our WOman's COlIege.-Co
parsons are odious in most cases and exeep-
| tionally so in this case, for Alabama is far
behind other states in the appropriation she
makes for the education Of her young women.
| It is necessary for many of the girls Of Ala
bama to secure their higher training outside
| the state for no other reason than that Rde-
quate provision for them is not made here.
Under the circumstances there is nothing for
citizens of Alabama to do other than to lend
every possible support to the campaign that
| this important institution may meet as nearly.
| as possible the demands upon its facilities.
| The fact that such drive can be success
fully conducted should be evidence enough
to convince those in charge of the states
affairs that the people desire this institu-
ton properly financed. Or Is It the officials
Of the state Of Alabama do not care?-Gads-
den Times-News. (
! Good Highways Cost MOney.-States can.
/ not build good highways without spending
large sums of money upon them. Nothing
is gained by doing the work piecemeal, for it
states bodybuilding program is to be
| worth WnDcg luubt DC AaEBO SAOu8n- W
! cover a state, and to do this requires much
money. The fact, however, that every dol
lar spent intelligently in road work pays a
handsome dividend to the state and the peo-
pie Of the state, justifies the spending Of
money in other ways. Florida has discov-
cred the same thing, for Florida's good roads
are attracting many thousands of tourists
to that state and are doing as much as Flor
n ida's climate to make the LAND Of Flowers"
rich and widely known. Alabama's $685.
i 100000 road bond issue has started this
state on a highway construction campaign
which should result in Alabama having many
miles Of splendid roads. As the roads are
built and used the people viii be SO i'm
pressed with the value of them that they
will insist upon carrying the program for
ward, despite the cost and the necessity for
bond issues to provide the funds.-Anniston
Star.