The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-03
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 Florence Going Ahead L-New paving is changing the looks of the city in many quar- ters. Old residents get the new streets and lose themselves. Florence is spreading out and the end of the season finds her dis tinctly advanced over year ago.-Florence News
 Has Many Live Boostcrs-A visitor to Sheffield the other day said that this city had more real, honest-to-goodness boosters than any other town she had visited for many moons. That is the idea our people should make every one carry away with them. A town with a reputation for boosters will never fear community failure.-Shiffield Standard.
 E Do Your Own Thinhing.-Th nights are getting longer. Get up some good books along scientific and philosophical topics and see what the great men who wrote them think. Then you think and see if they were right; and if not, why not? Then get some mora books, and thus spend a few hours each week in doing your own thinking.-Talladega Daily Home. fs
 Feeling of Good Tlmes.-There is a justi- fled feeling of good and prosperous times throughout the fall and winter months. Every thing seems to justify such conditions and there is every reason to believe that 1t will be equally as good if not better than the pictures of the most enthusiastic optimists.--, Huntsville Times.
 The Mans Word Must Be Taken.--One of the state newspapers mentions a photograph of fish and its captor as the "best evidence" of the fisherman's luck. The only evidence the photograph provides, however, is that the fish and the man were in the same place at the same time The mans word has to be taken as to who caught the fish.-Mobile Register.
 Farmers Entitled to Returns.-The farmer should be able to count upon as good re. turn on his money as the merchant. Few merchants would be content with 31 per cent. earning of his business. The manufac. turer whose business yields but 3.1 per cent. probably is looking around for some other kind of business. The farmer cannot be blamed for doing the same thing under pres: ent condtions.-Anniston Star.
 Changes in Text Books.-Alabamas next text book adoption takes effect this fall. Most of the text books have been changed with means that hardship is to be placed upon the parents of children who are entering school at time when these parents can ill
 
 changing these text books every few years has never impressed itself upon us. To our way of thinking there should be no whole sale change in any one year. Where there are changes to be made it strikes us that it would be a better policy to change few grades each year so as to make the burden lighter on the patrons of the schools.-Anda- lusia Star.
 The Squirrel Season.-The season forS shooting squirrels in Alabama does not open. until November l under new law passed by the recent legislature, and those who have heretofore been hunting them on September should not make any mistake, as the game wardens are now making special effort to enforce all game laws 1t may be foolish official notion, as some claim, to restrict the squirrel reason as was done by the solons at Montgomery, but it is the law and should be obeyed to the letter. The statute was un- doubtedly framed or recommended by men who ought to know what they are doing and whether the best interests of the people are being served.-Gadsden Times.
 The Season for Canning.-This is the sea- son of the year for canning. At this season fruits and vegetables are usually cheap and plentiful Those who have been fortunats enough to secure home-canned fruits and veg etabes know that they are superior to shipped canned goods in taste. Of course, it requires some experience to be able to can things properly. Practically all canned fruits and vegetables require some processing; that is, one must know how, to heat them, how to put them in the jar and what to do with them after they are canned. Many of the conservatives are harmful and should not be used. Any intelligent person can soon learn to can things properly. The main thing now is to get them to do it. Too much canned goods is being consumed in Walker county. Yet enough fruit and vegetables are allowed to 20 to waste in this county annually to feed the whole county. It is not too late to < ,Srasarvo fruits and vegetables enough for