The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
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.It Can't Be Did."-A correspondent in the Andalusia Daily Star mentions a ssgirfs' silent club" We have always considered the Star truthful newspaper, but "silentY club of girls can't be did.-Moulton Ad. vertiser. 3
 Dark and White Horses.-There are \ Iot of dark horses in the background of inc presidential campaign and doubtless a mum Der of them would look good beside some of those who are parading, as white ones-- Ashland Progress.
 < Athletics and Scholarship p-Too much stress can be laid upon athletics in a high school, and it is done in many. Scholarship is sometimes laid on the shelf in favor of football and baseball. This should not be done. Gadsden Journal. dhss r
 Friends and Enemies of Ford.-If there were some way of telling who was sorry and who was glad when the Ford bid was shelyed for season, it would then appear who are the real friends and the real enemies of that offer.-Albany-D Decatur Daily.
 Some Comparative Prices.-Hogs are now seven cents per pound gross. Cattle, four cents per pound gross; cotton, thirty cents per pound, and yet the manufactured prod ucts sold to the farmers are really based . on twenty cents pound for hogs, fifteen cents for cattle, and fifty cents for cotton. How long can the farmer continue to exist under such conditions ?--Prattville Progress. Moonlight in the Country Moonlight in the country is just as beautiful and more magical and enchanting than moonlight in the city, and there is no lovelier city than Talladega, no more entrancing valley and modntain, creek, farm, and woodland sceh- ertg the world over than Talladega county presents, as viewed from its splendid high ways under the "pearly luster" of June moon Talladega Daily Home
 5FIapdoodle and Twaddle.-The platform writers had better have a care this year to forget some of the flapdoodle and meaning less twaddle used in making up the warp and wool of those documents. The people have more sense than the politicians are wont to credit them with, and they are not sgoing to be lulled to sleep on any downy feather bed of plattitudes and pleasing phrases Selma Times-J Journal. +
 A Fine Spirit Behind Birmingham, in keeping with her well known generosity, has bought a site containing eight or ten acres near the city and will erect a home for homeless, friendless women. Not every one who makes one crooked step is a profess sional crook Many ex-prisoners an dout- casts may feel the lure of higher things and desire to "come back" This home furnishes them an opportunity. A fine spirit prompt ed this labor of love."-Marion County News. A arsty A
 Indication of Progress.-No stronger evil dence of the fact that the peopleof Florence are going right ahead in, building up the city and community can be cited than the en- thusiasm being shown in the new building and loan association now being organized; [; Citizens of Florence are confident of the continued rapid growth and prosperity which lies Before us and they are backing that confidence by aiding in the promotion of this much needed enterprise--Florence Herald.
 The Problem of Distribution.-Last week when the producer in Baldwin county waas 'receiVihg $1.10 for his potatoes, new pota- toes were retailing in-7J Jacksonville at the rate of a bushel and cucumbers and beans that are drug on the market in the south. ern part of the state were not to be had at any price. It must be potent to all who will but take the trouble to examine the facts that the problem confronting the farm CT of Baldwin county, like the problem con fronting the farmer of other sections of the country, is one of distribution and not, one of production.-Jackson Argus.