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 Tairing Prompt Start Taliadesa is get ting So swift nowadays that she starts to eel ebrating before the new water can get down weren't any top minnows in itl--Talladega it Daily Home.
 Big Trucking Industry.-South Alabama is shipping vegetables, strawberries potatoes and early crops of many kinds from which they are realizing splendid prices. That sec. tion down around Mobile has become great truck growing section.-Huntsville Star.
 Lee County In the Lead. -Comparine tho list of delinquent tax sales published in some twenty-five counties with the Lee county list proves that Lee county taxpayers settle more promptly and fully than any county in the state we find reports on.-Opelika News.
 A Chance for Praetice.-You expect to as sociate with Christian people up wonder. It will be a good plan for you to begin going to church Sundays down here so that you will recognize them on the other side.-Andalusia Star.
 Value of Road BuIIding.-Th building and maintenance of roads, good streets and better sidewalks is a matter of great con cern to the public. Educational sentiment, therefore, that will, and does, result in con- structive building along these lines counts for most-Huntsville Times
 Pardoning Power and Crime-H Hangings and officially taking the lives of criminals who have committed murder will never cease until life sentence in the pen means life sentence. The pardoning power is being more and more abused from day to day, and a person who is given life sentence seldom serves it out--Oneonta Southern Star.
 The Old Man, Not the Suit.--On Sunday we "blossomed out in our last summers suit, and the wife remarked that she thought a years storage had done the outfit good, stating that 1t looked better than it did last summer. We felt quite "huffy" about the matter; looks like she could have seen that 1t was the old man looking better and not the suit-Enterprise Ledger.
 Growth of the Schools.--Eyen with the recent additions that have been made to the housing facilities and equipment further ex- pansion is already seen as a necessity in view of the ever increasing demands on the schools. The growth of the city is graphically illus tratcd in the fact that each year about 20 per cent. increase in attendance at the schools is being recorded. 4Gadsden people would do well to begin pondering on the solution of the problem and the best meth ods of caring for the children,-G Gadsden Times-News.
 Growth and Unity of Effort.--Here of late it seems that life in Fort Payne has become just one donation after another However, it requires sacrifices in money and effort to build up any community, and the same re- suits accomplished along that line are bear ing fruit, as this city has enjoyed a steady growth for the last several months that Is very gratifying A community is worth just what the citizens put into it, and we are of the opinion that a city that grows the fastest is the one where the people unite in their ef- forts to secure that growth--DeKalb County Herald.
 Problem of the Drug Habit.-The narcotic problem has become a great one in America, in Alabama and in Montgomery, because there is money in the handling of narcotics by peddlers. Bootleggers of narcotics are able to dispose of their supplies at a great profit. They find ready sale for heroin, opium, morphine and cocaine because addicts have the feeling that they cannot live with out the use of the drugs. The traffic has be- come 50 great there is need for the support of all people in the campaign against 1t and against those who are profiting by its--Mont- gomery Journal.
 Many Paving PrOjects.-A number of Ala bama towns have started campaigns of street paving and sidewalk construction, Anniston being one of the number. Our street paving program is still being pushed forward and it is resulting in Anniston being one of the best paved street cities in the state. But Anniston really is just getting it's paving program under good headway. Many miles of paved streets are yet to be built here be- fore this city can lay claim to being a we'll paved city, and many blocks of sidewalks are yet to be constructed here to give the city the sidewalk improvement it needs.-Annis- ton Star.