The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
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 women on the watch Tower.-Good mer and good measures will have no fear at tht hands of the women voters. But woe untc the grafters, the self-seekers and time-servers. The majority of offices henceforth will be filled with real men who stand for some thing and who prove their willingness to place service to the people above service to self.-Andalusia Star.
 Better Stick to It--We agree that pres. ent condition of our greatest industry, agri- culture, is deplorable, and we believe that the farmer must be more prosperous before business conditions in towns like Dadeville will be right. But,w also believe that the farmer who sells out the accumulations of a lifetime at forced sale merely to get into the city where life seems so much easier is mak- ing a mistake.-Dadeville Spot Cash.
 For Picnics and Excursions. Cultivation of the present crop is almost at and end and farmers are willing to take things easy for the next few weeks. We suggest a good picnic or barbecue for each community. The farm bureau should sponsor such things farm tour or excursion is also in order. Any farmer canslearn much by visiting other farm CTS and studying their methods. Your county agent will be glad to help in arranging 2 tour.-Alabama Farm Bureau News. 1, Trying Out Bus Lines-Selma bids fair to be one of the first towns in the state to install bus line through its streets to super cede a slower and less adequate street rail- way system. The motor bus is rapidly win- ming it's way in all the larger cities. It is proving one of the least expensive modes of transportation as well as one of the most convenient and expeditions. Where employed on paved streets the bus is also one of the most enjoyable modes of conveyance in reach- ing ones destination, Selma Times-Journal.
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 Are Doing Practical W0rk.-The work that is being done by the club boys and girls of the county under the supervision of the county demonstration agents is being recog- nized as of great value to them. Both the boys and girls are doing practical work dur ing the summer months that will be of future benefit as well as of present financial advan. tage and through the things they are learn ing the farming sections and the entire dis tricts in which their influence may be felt will profit in the future. Better farmers and better home builders will be the result.-- Gadsden Times-News.
 Concerted Action Needed.-With coal of the best red ash quality at her door deliv- cred in your home or factory at less than $6 ton with electric power unlimited, hay. ing one of the best equipped sub-stations in the country within three miles of the town: with running water, shale and iron ore all around and a bed of imerock that would feed five-hundred-kiln cement plant thou sand years, all we need to do is to get toe gether and have a little concerted action. Or ganization of our people is what is needed. A business organization, with a wide-awake secretary who has the ability to write letters and to otherwise keep Leeds before the in- vesting world.-Leeds Enterprise.
 Have Vital Interest in ROads.-The roads of Calhoun county should be as good and as extensive as the roads in any North Car olina county, but Calhoun cannot afford to wait for state and federal road building to bring about the improvement. The city of Anniston. it's business interests and its man ufacturers and property owners have vital interest in the improving of all roads leading to and from this city and they can bring about, the transformation of poor roads into good ones by uniting in a road building cam paign that will carry the work forward to the point where every mile of highway lead ing to Anniston will be the kind that people will like to travel over and like to bring their farm products over to Anniston.-An- niston Star.
 Must Have Local EncOuragement.- must be something given in turn for the service that has been done in interesting out side capital and peopel that are worthwhile. Scores of manufacturers have been brought to- Albany-Decatur and have been sold on idea of Albany-Decatur, the possibilities To- cation, natural resources and a hundred other advantages, yet they have been allowed to slip away to another city or another sec tion solely because they have not been prom ised local backing. When the time came for the opening wide of the treasury of the Twin Cities there was a silence Foreign capital must have the assurance of local backing be- fore they will attempt to help build a city and become a part of the citizenship. bany-Decatur Daily.