The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-22
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They Were Out of Luck.--It must have been terrible thought on the old maids and old bachelors when they realized they had no representative in that school parade Friday Out of luck. that's all - Talladega Daily Home. 3
 Expecting Big Things. .--More and more people are turning toward Tuscaloosa, not because it is big city, but because they ex- pected big things of us. With our handsome churches and substantial schools and an ac- tive chamber of commerce, why shouldn't we do big things Tuscaloosa News.
 Should Garry It With 'Em.--"The 5-S0 Coffee Club has decided to go over to Ope- lika and put on a model luncheon, provided the proper brand of coffee can be found there"-4Troy Messenger. Come, and well come. But better bring it with you for Jack Moon is sheriff of this county and local pro ducers and distributors are quite shy.-Opes lika News.
 Promise of Big Cotton Yield.-The Gov ingtcn county 1924 crop gives great promise of big yield. With a normal yield the acreage planted this season should mean at least five million dollars in added values to the farmers of this county The cotton crop alone should be $2,00O.000. A new interest fin lie and new zeal for effort in every line of business will be created when the 1924 crop begins to move--Andaiusia Star.
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 Running True to Form.--It is not strange that the associated power companies of the Southeast should be so owilling for the govern- ment to retain operating control of the Shoals properties and give them an opportunity of making all the profit out of the enterprise without the responsibility of the millions in vested. An excellent arrangement--for the power companies. Muscle Shoals Sunday News.
 A Widow of NiiIIions.-It Is claimed of cotton that 1t is q king but cotton in reality is an old, old widow in whose family burial ground there are sleeping millions of former husbands, most of whom have died penniless and in despair. It is at this season of the year, when there is nothing to sell and when the banks are loaned out and the ner- chants are loaded up, that we begin to question the wisdom of a single crop in which dangers beyond enumerating iurk.-- Wiresrass Farmer
 Value Of Egg. Receiving Station.-It will be a mark of distinction and a source of pride for community to have local egg receiving agent or station. 1t must be res membered that eggs cannot be gathered pro ulScu0uGly. They must pc sdtneISu elIlCicuI- ly and orderly, which will require local receiving station. In some counties plan is under way to have egg collecting trucks which will serve for this purpose, but de- tails as to their operations must be ar- nged.--Alabama Farm Bureau News.
 All Right for the Other Fellow. One must not forget that the taxpayers are groanins under their present burdens, and they must be frightened The taxes should fall upon the shoulders of those whose howl and com pIaining cannot disturb the neighbors Get the money. but don't get it from us, on this side of the creek, but those fellows on the other side, in the hill sections. That's the kind of a governor we need: buginess eoyernos who can get the money needed with out leaving that bitter taste. -Dothan Eagle.
 Cattle Need Protection. "A Alabama could be mKde really great cattle-pToducing state. but it cannot be made so if the cattle are to De permitted to die at the rate of SO,O0O wear from neglect exposure and starvation. Alabama has the climate the range and water handy for the successful raising of many thousands of head of cattle, But if cattle raising in this state is to be made profit able. better care must be taken of the cattle in winter time A few years with such losses as that of last winter soon would elin- .,. Alnkavna aaaaf