The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-26
The ALABAMA.
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Demands For A Rest-AThe Age-Herald sug
gests a give-us-a-rest week. Yes, the generous
public demands 1t, and will not get 1t. I'M
til its demands are good and Observation-Disclosures
Daily Mail.
Is Making Business Men.-Co-operative mar
keting organizations are rapidly making good
business men out of thousands of farmers who
formerly believed that there were no profits
to be made farming.-Fayette Banner.
The Profits In Poultry.-walker county is
spending thousands Of dollars monthly for
shipped eggs that could be supplied by home
poultrymen. The only practical way of keep
ing this money at home and securing better
quality of eggs for local tables is for the
farmers and poultry raisers of this section
generally to purchase pure bred stock and
provide flocks of early Matched and well de-
veloped pullets that will come into laying in
the winteH-Jasper Mountain Eagle.
Too Many Two-Sided Democrats.-The
Democratic party has too many voters voting
the ticket and at the same time contributing
the talking for the party They want to stay
in Democratic harness, but are contributing
their money and using other influence secret
ly for the opposition. We have never been
able to see where such voters help the party.
They are sopping with one and giving the
other kiss Our state and county commit
tees need men trained in party loyalty and
enthusiastically Press.
OF Doubtful Misunderstanding that re-
sourceful statesmen may succeed In meeting
the conditions upon which Governor Bran
dom intimates his unwi1lingness to consider
favorably the calling of a special session OF the
legislature to deal with an expanded educa-
tional and road building program, it is
matter of doubtful wisdom to press the sub
ject of additional taxation too far. Already
the people are FESTIVE under existing tax bur-
dens, and there is danger of exceeding the
limit of passive endurance. Motorists might
strand for some additional gas tax with rea-
sonable prospect of better roads over which to
travel but coupled with income tax, severance
tax, cat and dog tax, and what not the en-
tire scheme is likely to fall through.-Monroe
journal.
Complaints Of PiecemeaI Methods.-There
has been much complaint of the method
adopted by congress in providing the money
for public improvements, particularly for the
improvements recommended by the engineers
for waterways and harbors. The method IS
called piecemeal. The appropriations are
measured first by the report telling how much
money can be expended within certain time,
and then remeasured by the capacity and
willingness of congress to vote the money.
The result is that appropriations often run
short and the work has to stop until the
appropriation becomes available. Meanwhile,
the currents are at work. and much of the
work is done in rendered futile; and has to
be done over again. Indisputsly, the waste
of good money is great.-Mobile Register.
Discovering New RESPONSIBILITY years
ago, Alabama's rich farming lands and its
valuable forests were considered the only
natural resources this state possessed. Peo e.
pie then knew that this was a wonderful state
for farming and that the great pine forests
were of value to woodworking industries, but
it was not believed that any considerable de-
posts of minerals were to be found. Now
Alabamians realize that probably the half has
not been told of this states natural wealth.
We have found and are developing the iron
mines, the coal mines and the, quarries of
stone for which the state Is famous. Mica r.
known to exist in LARGE Quantities and it is
probable that phosphate beds like those of
central Tennessee are 9here and are only
awaiting discovery. Thee discovery of great
deposit of arsenic is bu8another step in Ala
bama's Development AHniston Star.