The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-16
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"That Reminds Us."-An oil operator
named Chew was convicted. at Texarkana.
That reminds us: AN oil4operator named
Fall has not been tried.--Montgomery Journal
"No Matter What Rappens."-Th fact re-
mains that we have Muscle Shoals and the
Wilson Dam will have been completed in
less than a year hence. This possession is:
here and is ours no matter what happens.
There's no way to head the local progress =
then, SO let's be up and doing in behalf of
greater Huntsville-Huntsvile Times.
Not Much Decollette Needed.-Mr. Davis
is going to take off his coat, vest and tie for
All Smith He will keep on his shirt, al
though he processes willingness to take it
off. We do not believe that much decolleta
win be needed to put Smith through against
young Roosevelt in New York-Mobile Regis
ter.
Occasion For Crowing.-It is truly good
news given out lately-that the famous
sRooster- Booster" bridge over the Tombig-
bee near Demopolis is actually under construc-
tion. Those Rooster Bridge Boosters" made
a lot of fuss several years ago and If they
are really going to bridge the river we con-
graduate them on setting good example as
to the profit in poultry.-Opelika News.
The Cotton Outlook.-Covington county,
has ginned about sixty per cent Of her cotton
to date. Andalusia has ginned something
near 1000 bales, while Opp has ginned
around 5000 or perhaps more. Other towns
in the county have reported heavy ginning
season and it looks like the 1924 crop will
come up to the twenty thousand bale mark
Andalusia Star.
Making Good Citizenship.-With boys,
trained in the clean living, self-reliant, fair
dealing spirit of service taught in Boy Scout
work, representing a large proportion of the
men Of tomorrow, there may be expected
type of citizenship whose business will be
conducted upon high plane, and whose eff
forts in community building and service to
their fellow man will set new mark.-Flor-
ence Times.
The Losing Point.-Baldwin county, the
largest county in the state in acres has only
10000 people; has six banks to supply them
with cash; has six creameries to buy the
milk produced; has five newspapers to keep
them informed. But Baldwin county has not
one canning plant to save all the surplus
fruit and vegetables produced in that won
derful county. The annual loss of fruit and
vegetables in Baldwin, would equal the ex-
pense Of the county.-Alabama Traveller.
OF His Own Chooslng.-A Calhoun county
man recently remarked that he did not want
his boys to be farmers because farming is
such a low-down occupation, and in fear
that his boys might make farming their life
work. he moved to town. 1t is not hard to
imagine the kind of farmer this man must
have been. If he considers farming q low
down occupation, it was such in his case be-
cause he chose to do that kind of farming.
Any line of endeavor will be high or low,
according to the dignity, or lack of it, with
which it is surrounded.-Calhoun County
Argus. f..t
Alabama's Archaic Constitution. - The
archaic, outworn nature of Alabama's state
constitution is again driven home by an4array
of eight proposals to amend 1T which viii be !,
voted on by the people in the NoSen1beF
ton. Most of these proposed notifications iEl
the organic law deal with matters that affect
solely certain counties and cities in the state
and with which only these subdivisions have
any concern whatever. Mdbile county wants.
to build a bridge, Walker county is asking
for the right to levy special road tax, while
Thorsby and Calera, Opp and Roanoke 1
and several other ambitious towns are inter-
ested in changing their local tax rate for pur-
poses of internal development. It is a reflec-
ton on the political common sense Of the
state that the rights" which these localities
are now seeking to have bestowed on them
were ever denied, and that it should now
become necessary for them to appeal to a
vast population who are wholly ignorant of
the problems presented and who have no pos
sible stake in the outcome, to determine the
issues.-Selma Times-Journal.