The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-29


 have successfully fought the boil wsesil this year, and crop condlEiors took more fxorable thau in years, and with the good price that is sure to prevail this fall, things will be boom ing in Franklin County. Ban ner. fasea sstga H
 Value of COnsoIidation.--Take in Suburban Huntsville, or rather let Suburban Hunts vile embrace Huntsville proper, and you'll have a mighty fine town as whole. The two progressing separately. cannot hope to ac- complish the work Of the two eombined.-- Huntsville Times.
 Making Strides Under ,Agents The farm. era of fhe Tennessee Valley are making tts- mendous strides under the direction of the county agents, and with the cooperation of the extension department of Auburn, and those who are following the plans that are outlined are beginning to see economic free dom.-Elorence Times.
 Fish Ponds for Farmers--In county 50 abundantly supplied with springs and streams as is Clay 1t would be an easy matter for practically every farmer to own | private fish pond, from which his table could De supplied with that excellent article of food. Just little care and patience are all that is necessary. Why don't more of our. farmers provide this inexpensive item of good liv- ing for themselves and their familiee l--Ash- land Progress
 What Builds Cities. Picking up an. ax, change we read the following quotation: 'sWhAt was it that built DothanT And fol- lowing this question was the answer 'It was work that. built Dothan. ," And that is what is required to build any city. It is work, .in- 1s.. AZ aim, and that is to build city that gets the answer You can build Andalusia, to the pro- portions that you desire if the people all around the square will work constantly and co-operatiyely toward the building. AndA- lusia Star.
 Indications of Soundness.-The totai val nation of property oassessed for taxes ih Tus- caloosa county for the tax year ending Sep tember 30, 1923, was $2011s, ,6S9.00. For the tax year endinE September 30, 1924, the total value of property assessed in Tuscaloosa county, not including automobiles, was $26,- 7s7, ,349.O0. The total tax assessment for automobiles last year in Tuscaloosa county was $S05, ,682. It has been estimated that the, automobile assessments for fsfis year will amount to $1O00.000, or more! Even if the assessments on automobiles this year do not exceed those of last, there will be total increase of valuation in the county of oyer | half million dollars. No more certain index to the growth of "a community can be 6b- tained than for it to have yearly increase in tax assessments. Tuscaloosa News
 Benefits From Adult ScEOoIs.-Those who visited some of the adult schools this sum- mer were struck with the eagernesa shown by the aged pupils to learn what they never had opportunity to learn before, the first les- sons in education-how to write their names, how to add and subtract, how to read the printed word. These things some of the pnnils at the adult schools knew nothing about. Men and women far past middle age and others well advanced in, years of maturity have gone through life without the ability even to sign their names, and it is a tribute to them that most of them have reared families, made a living for all dependent upon them, and have laid by something besides without this first step in learning Being taken by them. How much better they Gould have progressed i,,. .a. material way, how much happier they could have been had they been able in their youth to learn the simple rudiments of an educati can only be onjectured.-Anniston Star.
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 More Money for Roads Needed. U -sS4brth Carolina has already authorized an appro- priation of $1O0,0O0,000 to be used in laying out and constructing roads and those who have watched the building as 1t has pro- gressed are convinced that the program sis originally vigualized will be far from com. piete when this large sum is exhausted. Or ainary gravel or hard-surface road construc- tion calls for something like $8,OO0 mile while concrete orfpaved road work reouiree approximately $3O,000 a mile This does moi include the preliminary expense inyoIyes in the surveys, the making of the maps or tbe bridges which in some sections constitute blr items in the expense budget It may from a1cS calculations be readily seen. that S25. .0Oo e)lG1 ynasa wln not glve Alabama an adequate system of qulrements and wishes of the peopIe.s A roths. bond sale of like dimensions viii be . 'a.a. s.el posaI that must be the subject of n po,,,,is. Jimes7Journal. -g.re Selilma