The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-01
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OPINIONS OF OTHER EPIT2Es ] Cotton Mills Coming South-New Eng
 land cotton mills are coming South. It's the perfectly natural thing for them to do.
 Greater Huntsville welcomes them, but at the
 same time she is striving, and will have line of diversified industries that will swell the
 pay rolls of the entire community.-Hurhs-
 vile Times. +
 Road Building Slow Prpcess.-Road build- ing is slow process, say3 Chairman Rogers of the highway department. He needs no wit ness. It has been a year and a half since
 the work commenced through the twenty
 three miles in Shelby county, and a man said recently 1t should bs finished in another year he thought-Dothan Eagle.
 Would Welcome the Buffalo-In the Blue
 Ridge mountains, and among other ranges of the Appalachian system, there are ample forest reserves, where the buffalo could find | a home. There might be little of what Is called practical value in again having herds
 of buffalo on this side of the Mississippi, but
 most people will welcome their return. It would not be opposed by anybody, if the gov ernment would try to raise buffalo in its national forest in Lawrence county, just be- yond Moulton. Decatur Daily. Mcclellan Regular Asset.-Annistop may | count confidently upon having Camp Nc Clellan as regular asset. It will be each year, as it has been this year, and as it was last year, and the year before, an important part of Anniston's business and social life.
 Each year it may be expected to add nGlre and more to the pleasure of living in Annis- ton, to the substantial prosperity of Anniston as a whole and to the fame of Anniston and ali this part of Alabama as place of many
 delights and many fine advantages. ges.-Annistofn Str.
 Suspicion of Fire Jinx--It has long been
 conceded by the older citizens of, Florence
 that fire jinx exists in this city, and when-
 ever there is one fire the people look for two
 more to follow within the twenty-four hours. Of course, that is all superstition, but '.the darn thing" seems to work, and it certainly
 did work on Sunday, when the third fire alarm was sounded within seven hours of the first one. Sounds silly to be talking about fire jinx, but there has really been, on 50 many occasions as to attract local attention,
 a triple sequence in the fires here, that the people have begun to expect it.-Florence Times. x
 The Two Questionable campaign will turn upon the answer to these questions: Where did dishonesty in government happen and who brought out the evidence that drove out the plunderers of our national resources? The dishonesty happened. No person denies 2 this. The plunderers were expelled. Who forced the issue? Was it the administration of President Coolidge? If not, what claim has that administration upon the suffrages of the American people? No wonder the adminis- tration seeks to ignore the whole subject, and to lessen its importance.-Mobile Register.
 ny-- IT VEy- city attorney for Athens, in looking over the early acts of the legislature of Alabama dis covered the original charter of the town of Athens which was passed by the legislature of 1918 while sitting at the capitol which was then located at St. Stephens The original charter of Athens was granted by the session held that year, on the 18th of November 1918, before the state was admitted to the Union thence the city of Athens is older than the state of Alabama. Mir. Wall took d copy of the charter from the acts. We print this because of its age and for the fact that but few people know of the date when Ath- ems first became an incorporated city. It is an historic document.-Athens Alabama Courier.
 Should Be in Working Qrder-At best we have nothing but skeleton organization, made up of the National Guard and the small regular army establishment. We certainly ought to want that organization put into working order and we cannot do that without first testing its efficiency as it actually ex- ists The test is nothing more than an ef- fort to carry out the plans of the military arm of the national government just as they would be carried out in ease of emergency The main observance of Defense Day, as we view it, will be an assembly of citizens and n parade of military units. Here in Gadsden 1t will be the several patriotic organizations and our two National Guard companies and regi- mental band. Surely nobody in his right mind would call that militarism. The personnel, speed of mobilization and equipment of these various units and organizations will be in spected by competent army officers and they will report such success as may be had to the proper authorities at Washington. That's all there is to it, and we hope that no &hnnRhtflll nIadAa Aaank.t taAs. l.L. ,.