The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-19
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Good Schools the Foundation. - The Progress has appealed for better school build ings and equipment here because it realizes towns do not grow without them. It knows that all progressive towns first have good school buildings and equipment and that good churches are the best advertisement any town can have. Now that we will soon be closely connected with the outside world by 6 great highway we can only expect outside people and progress as we do our part in attracting the people here. - Prattville Progress.
 Value of Credit Associatfon-A credit as- sociation would be as much of a protection to the buyer as to the merchants. It would determine who was entitled to credit and in the very nature of things would react to the advantage of everyone concerned, lessening the losses to the merchant and thereby re- ducing the cost of doing business and the cost at which goods would be sold. When a condition arises where a large proportion of the people are spending too much money for a non-essential to the detriment of their other needs, some remedy must be forthcoming in order to stabilize conditions. We believe that the credit association and commercial club combined would do much to clear up the situ- ation here as it has in other places-Green- vile Advocate.
 Waterway Program Justified.-Secretary Weeks makes the customary excuses for the Warrior, but as everyone in authority seems to know what is wrong with the Warrior, and these difficulties can be removed, the Warrior will succeed, once it is given a fair opportunity. If the Mississippi Warrior sys- tenn is to be the criterion by which congress will judge of the value of waterway trans- portation and the need of developing other water carriers, well and good. By the achieve ments of few years the waterway program has justified itself, and it will never be abandoned-Mobile Register.
 Transforming the World.-Wouldn't this world be transformed if we all gave more attention to what we can do for our govern ment, our associates and our people, and less to what we can do for ourselves ?-Albany- Decatur Daily.
 Greater Interest In Home.-There be some who are still interested in the home. Witness the fact that nearly 100000 people attended housewives exhibit, a place where manufac- turers and merchants of Birmingham dis played all kinds of things for use in the home. The show was pulled off in Birmingham, and proved great success.-Opelika News.
 Cashing In On Foresight-Eggs are sixty cents dozen and going higher. The fellow who has a bunch of matured bullets that are just well started in laying now is called lucky guy, but as matter of fact he is merely cashing in on foresight and industry. He is doing nothing that you could not do, but he did do what you only talked about Florence News
 Reasons For Blue Sky Law.-We have not reached the day when every American citizen can protect himself and his money. That is the reason we have the blue sky law. There are scores of persons who exploit specula- tions. There hundreds who seek to speculate with their money. The blue sky
 laws are intended to keep the explloiters and the thoughtless spectators apart.-Mont- gomery Journal.
 It Makes Difference.-Sheffield is the market place for whatever you produce, whether it be labor or farm products. With out home trade there could be no town of Sheffield. Everybody would move away; trains would soon cease to stop and it would be but a short time before our home town would be but memory. So you see, it does make a big difference with you and your neighbors where you spend your money Sheffield Standard.