The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-17
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 Baseball AdlscfiYes Needed. d.-wanted :, Someone to invent some new baseball .adjec-l lives. The old ones are about threadbare. In fact, many of them have whiskers on them 70 long that q shave would not help matters. I-Huntsville Star.
 Quits Tiresome--The most tiresome thing about the man who will not buy or build his own home is that he should expect some one | else to furnish him ten-room palace for SIP l a month, and keep up the taxes and insur- ance on it.--Talladega Daily Home. c
 
 Ideal TIme to Build Bridse.--Now is an ideal time to arouse interest in the building of the long desired wagon bridge over the Ten nessee river here There is plenty of labor available to build the bridge and there are just loads of money lying idle that could be used in such an enterprise. Albany Decatur Daily.
 A Menace 10 ths Country.--A real menace tc the country lies in the general apathy that l attends the average election. It is regrettable Ibut true that most qualified voters do not vote upon one pretext or another, or simply through neglect. Few are the instances 1 that cannot be attributed to indiffereuce.-- Gadsden Times News.
 Agreement on Road Route.--The nppar- ently impossible has happened. Montgomery and Prattville have agreed to permit tte Montgomery Birmingham new state-built road to run where the highway commission has decided it should run. Detouring sp- pearcd to be quite popular with some of the folks concerned even as it is approved by the Gainesville folks.-OpelikH News U l
 yalue of Training Camps-The develop ment of the youth in the truining camps of the past is sufficient assurance thnt boys will make no mistake by enrolling this year. It should not be necessary for one word to be said in support of the camps. Alabama's quota should be filled now. Another week should not pass without n demonstration of this states interest. Any boy between 17 and 24 who is physically fit is eligible for entrance. ce.-Montgomery Journal.
 Pullman Surcharge Hardship.-This sur. charge makes Pullman car service highly burdensome, and long suffering public ia deyoutly hopeful that the assessment may he restored to the old basis. The railroads are, of course. protecting vigorously against deny ing them the prerequisite they have been en- joying, but the reports show they are making q little money now and they should be will ing to relinquish some of their wartime favors -Selma Times-Journal.
 Preparing to Impress visitors.-The city is having visiting tourists every day. Autos bearing the tags of many different states are seen on the streets almost daily. That is good-especially so when we are showing some speed in city building. And as soon as we have the new bank building going up and few more inside structures. with the street paving in full swing we will be ready to impress these visitors with the fact. that Florence is going ahead.-Florence Daily News.
 Better Homes and Babies The home is the source of Americas national life and strength If homes are what they should be, and are surrounded by the right moral atmosphere they make for a better and a stronger country. There are many ways for making homes better and the people in them hAppierzF With better homes and betters heaithier babies, home life here will De about as near fdenl as one could wish, for we d. ready have many of the other things that make people happy and contented. Anniston Star. a
 Responsibility for Lawlessness. time to time we see discussions in the press, and we hear them from the platform, re- garding the seeming increase of @srespect for law. and the various causes thereof, Upon the members of the bar rests e large part of the responsibility for this condition. They have prominent place in making the laws and they interpret the laws. Therefore they can provide that less weight shall be given to technicalitiess or they can demand such standards of legal learning and of in tegrity in the bar thet fewer mistakes of technical nature win creep into the courts -Gadsden Journal,