The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-10
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 Well to Keep In Mind May 11th is Mothers Day, but don't forget that every day in the year and part of the night IS also mothers day.--Troy Messenger.
 aConsistency, Thoh Art" Etcs-Doesn't it hurt your gizzard to hear man talk about his services to the community and then ac- company him to the post office while he sends off a mail order AlabHmian- Dispatch.
 A Serious Omission.-T Gadsden Jour nal recently told of an. assembly of 300 to take part in . big chicken fight on Sunday It Is said the officers got about twenty five of them. but it did not say what became of the surviving chickens Talladega Home
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 Knowing Ones Homo Town. To know ones home town better is to have greater pride in that town and will strengthen the spirit that makes for progress The state of Alabama has number of towns large enough to gain much.sthrough an exhibition of home made products Gadsdep Times News. sss 4s Aassss < ss .ls e -xgFt- s.s4 4sssts Ss,ss r sst } Merely Suggestion. 4 young woman at Palatka. Fla. died from the bite of . rat
  Alabama was bitten on the neck by rat while he slept. Perhaps rats are having ac- cess to some of the brain-d destroying hooch that you hear about.-Huntsyille Star.
 Danger to Free Government Ell ipinos are fighting for free government. Here in Florence it is a hard matter to get peo- pie to take any interest in governing them selves An election for bond issue to i'm
 
 poral.s guard People are just chronically after something they haven't got Once they have it their interest ceases. And in this simple fact lies the greatest danger to free government.-F Florence, Daily News. . Remedy for DenfhgTraps. There is one. way by which crossing disasters may be eiim. mated, and probably but one way, and that is to eliminate the crossing. This is being done in some states, and in time it probably will be done in all states. In Alabama an agreement was reached between state high way officials and officials of railway lines in the state for the gradual elimination of grade crossings in this state. This is q work that cannot be doneeinea rush, for the cost is too great and thas task too heavy, but if a few crossings can be eliminated each year until finally all are done away with, the plan will be splendid success.-Anniston Star. -t t
 Burden of High Taxes.-For seven years the people have borne with uncomplainin9 courage the tremendous burden of national and local taxation. These must be reduced. The taxes of the nation must be reduced now as much as prudence will permit. and ex- penditures must be reduced accordingly. High taxes reach everywhere and burden everybody. They beaRgmost heavily on the poor. They diminish industry and com merce They make Agriculture unprofitable They increase the rates on Transportation. They are charge on every necessity of life --Selma Times Journal.
 Inducements to Small PIants.-The num- Der of articles which can be manufactured from the wire, rods, billets and other forms of steel produced at the Gulf States Steel Company is very large. Location of such plants in the Gadsden district eliminates one great item of cost, that of freight bills on material. This, coupled with the good SUD- ply of native American labor and the other advantages of this section, should prove an added inducement to these small plants to establish themselves here Attalla's example might well be studied and emulated by Gads- .den capitalists. Gadsden Journal.
 Conservation Activities Lauderdale Col bert and Lawrence counties are now under the Jurisdiction of Dr. c. W. Brown, of TuH- oumbia, as game warden, and the new off ciaf is planning to work through the local or ganizations of sportsmen to bring about q complete observance of the state game and fish laws as is possible. Plans for stocking the streams with additional game fish are under way, and if there is full cooperation on the part of the people 1t will be only few years until the supply of game and fish will increase to such an extent that hunting and fishing in season will become greatly im- proved from a sportsman's point of view Florence Times.
 The Pullman Surcharge. e.-An examiner of the interstate commerce commission has rec commended the discontinuance of the Pullman surcharge. His report held it to be unrea- sonable. The Pullman surcharge came with the war Not many have ever been con vinced that there is any justice in it. Ala. bama's public service commission has never recognized the right of the railroads to inn pose this additional hstden, It declined to permit the assessment against intrastate trav- elers in Alabama Travellers intrastate are forced to pay it now because the interstats commerce commission ignored the publs service commissions decision and ordered ths imposition of the charge Montgomery Journal