The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-08
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 For the Public Protection. The county commissioners 2. are reported to be planning to fiz the speed limit on county roads in school areas at fifteen milesEper houf. In doing this tne commissioners will be taking highly iaudable step and will have the approval of all intelligent and considerate citizens The fools. who race along the country roads at break-neck speed with no thought of others and apparent disregard of consequences win not approve the step and will not obey the law unless steps are taken to make every News. rr&
 BCys' Work Big Asset.--Boys' work may not pay dividends in direct dollars and cents and yet 1t is the best investment in the. world The leading of boy or 6 group of !. boys along paths which end in good citizen ship and useful living is worthwhile work : and a task which challenges the best in any ! man. The mere giving of money doesn't full fill the need. Too many men shirk their duty. to their sons by the gold route. They forget that real service consists in personal contact with the boys. Money is necessary, of course. : but money alone does mot suffice.--Gad Journal. 2f .&.its !. Fine Paving ProgfesG-work of, our new paving and sewers is moving now, and the , next three months will see considerable change in the general appearance of the city. With the Improvements in the school faciii-; ties assured by the court decision on the tax. we can consider that our progress has not halted. even though we are not accomplishing everything anticipated. What we need now is to pull and push for that new hotel that is the eityAs great need. The lack of it next :. year is going to be fatal handicap no mat ter what is done with the Shoals proposal .-- Florence Daily News,
 Z Feeling Quito Confident. Seems quite. a while to have to wait for December 3 to roll around So positive, however, are the friends, of the Ford Muscle Shoals offer that thez Detroit manufacturer will get that property they feel somewhat like the groom just few days before he leads the dear things to 2 the altar. Seems like he just can't wait and the time, oh. it is so long. But December B will come around in due time-just as it has Z always done; and then it will be up to the rest of us to see to it that the enemy does not cheat us out of our reward.-Huntsville Times.
 Value of Fish Culture.-An acre of land s will produce more fish than any other kind of meat, 1t is stated. More pounds of meat can be produced per year in a pond than NAA Oc PrOuuCCu~Dy tScuInk CatClc or nOSS z from the products of the same acreage. The government puts out these figures, and Com missioner Quinn is anxious to see a fish pond < on every farm. If the editor of this paper. were a farmer and had stream running through his place, there's no doubt but that { he would be fish farmer, as nothing is more pleasant than catching and eating fish, and the government says Hheres nothing more profitable.-Gr -Greenvilles Advocate.
 
 One More Step in Progress.-The manage. ]. , ment of The. Birmingham Age-Herald routes yesterday marked just one more of the steps in the remarkable progress that the world has :. been making during the lifetime of the pres ent-day citizen. Conditions today contrast sharply with those of score of years ago, and it is exceedingly probable that the next two decades will see even greater deyelop- 'mentss, People llong ago stopped considering things improbable of occurring after seeing 30 many "impossibilities" come to pass. The world is making greater. progress at the pres- 5 cut time than at any period in it's history Florence Times. eistf .sy7.