The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-29
The AIdbGnld Press
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Injury Of Premature Rushess-I is the -prernature rush that hurts, not only those in the rush who are not equipped financially to wait for work to open up, but the towns to which they rush. It places hardship upon the people of a town to have several hundred people come in without money expecting i'm mediate work and easy money, when there is no immediate work and money is no more easy than in other places. The people who come with such great expectations and find disappointment are very likely to become pub lie charges. and even if they do not actually suffer, they experience difficulties they would not have met had they remained at the tasks they. left in; their homes counties --A Annistor Star. q*e.;. Ts8 & ~
 Dangers Of Realty Speculation. There is too much of the available territory in the district getting into the hands of the specula. tors This is not a good thing for the future of the Tri-C Cities. The abnormal profits that will be demanded are certain to hinder progress Unreasonable real estate pricing will be a burden that will be hard to carry. It will encourage the building up of independ- ent suburban communities and make orderly in public utilities next to impos- eible. The more compact that the district is built the more economically can we provide all the modern comforts of living Streets, lighting telephones, water, sewerage, policing and every kind of municipal expenditure will be unnecessarily 'loaded" if the population is widely scattered. And it certainly will be scattered blythe prices that speculators are going to ask for home locationss-Muscle Shoals Sunday News. .pSs
 . "A Pertinent Question: The Republican party came out of the 1920 campaign in debt the round sum of $1,600, 900. What they spent to defeat the Democratic ticket will never be known Chairman Hays admits having gotten $76,000 from Teapot Dome Sin clair We are supposed to have law re etricting campaign expenses. Where is it2-- Selma TimessJournal.
 A Fine Shopping Center.--If you have any doubt about the fact that Andalusia is fine shopping center, just get out any day and count the automobiles parked on the square and on the principal streets People are com ing to Andalusia in greaksE numbers to dc their shopping. And wASE is more, a great many people who do not own their &utomo- piles do their shepping fp AndaiusiA Anda- lusia Star.
 Value 0f ChEId HeaIth.-,It ia hoped. that the ideal Of the Amefiean Child HAaIth Asso- citation, which has iannched the May Day for child health movement, will be realised If on May Day all maEherS and fathers will con. slider the importance Of the health of their children, from this time on, there will bo thousands more children in the United States regularly eating more wholesome food, play ing happily every day out of doors sleeping longer hours; in airy rooms, brushing their teeth regularly. getting | bath frequently and having at least one thorough medical health examination year. These helps to q healthy life every child has k right to demand, but unfortunately cannot obtain ded.-Mobile Register. NN M Se
 L.- running for governor of Texas on the plat form that for every law the legislature asks. him to sign he will ask that body to repeal two, going upon the theNry that the state has too many laws Alreeag, and a too little enforcement of them. Tat is pretty good platform, almost as good as those used in Alabama gubernatorial campaigns for a doz- en years--"Lower a3eS-fetrenchments-- business administratio but when the can didate finally made the landing, he would find that his ideas as fes how to obtain these things didn't always coincide with the lesis- lature.-Dothan Eagle. a
 Significance Of RefSreDSaun. -The refsren- dun in Montgomery and fhe Montgomery ter ritory does no more than lend support to the referendum in Mobile and Nashville, which showed that the pubiie had not deserted Mfr. Ford, The three should be looked upon as a fair expression of public opinion in the South. Mobile is in Alabama, but not in the territory covered by the operations of one of the prin- cipals in the bid of the power companies. Montgomery is in Alabama and in the terri. tory of the Alabama Power Company. Nash vile is in another state, in territory covered by another of the principals in the bid of the powers Accompanies and in the Muscle Shoals territory. Montgomery Journal
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 The Seat Of Brains.-The brains of earth worms are said to be h,the abdomen We knew ,this was the case in some men, but didn't know anyone had wasted time in look Daily Home.