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 Should Bs Optimistic. The bank deposits in Alabama total $188, 100000. an average of SIPS for each white man, woman and child in the state. Even if you haven't your equal share, it is encouraging to know that this amount is here ready to be. placed ilf circu-' lation in exchange for our labor or the prod ucest of our labor and our farms With pros. poets of bumper crop at good price this year we should all( Dc feeling optimistic. Moulton Advertiser.
 Longer Adult School Terms-The four weeks term devoted to fighting adult illit- eracy each summer is not sufficient time for the work to make satisfactory progress. Twice this length of adult school terms would be very much better and would hasten the com plete elimination of illiteracy among the older people Next year, 1t is to be hoped, longer terms of the schools will be planned Toward making this possible, the civic organizations that have given such fine aid this year doubt less would be willing to contribute, even more if necessary, than they gave this year.--An- niston Star.
  body in Leeds any authority to offer any real inducement for new industries to locate here except as an individual proposition? That's why the town needs organization. Let's have a strong organization, and delegate some one or more with authority to offer some real inducement for industries here. Other towns do 1t and they get them. Leeds can do it. We have the coal, we have the raif- roads, we have hepower, we have the water, hn We simply have forgotten to turn on the 'pep." Turn her on and let's go.--Leeds En- terprise.
 Tge Burglary Epidemic. = Regardless of any and all precautions by the police de- pertinent and the public, burglars ply their trade whenever and wherever the notion strikes them. They break in and steal in the most daring manner and with an etfrontery that is sometimes amazing. When they are in a mood to commit robbery there is apparently nothing that will stop them until they make a slip and fall into the tolls of the law. Just now Gadsden seems to be having an cpl demic of burglars of the boldest sort. It is 8 thing that happens everywhere occasionally, but that is no reason why every effort should not be made to catch and punish the guilty. We are sure our police force is doing its best. The crime is a difficult >one to handle.-7- Gadsden Times.
 The Point of View.-0ne of the biggest faults of the editor of The Florala News as an editor, as we see it, is in the fact that we think what we please and say what we think-sometimes. And as we do not always think what many better thinkers think, we don't always say what the better thinker would like to have said. But we are liberal enough that we are always ready and will ing to give the fellow that thinks different to ourselves all the space he needs to reply to anything we have said If we think and say wrong, we will give. the other fellow space to say it like it ought to be said. And the fet low that thinks to say good thing and Noes not say it has made about as big mistake as we have made when we tried to say the right thing by saying what we thought was right and said the wrong thing only because we were deceived in our thoughts. .--Florala News.
 Value of Tourist Traffic.-It is estimated that there are now from forty to fifty. auto- mobiles (which are known as tourists1 pass ing through Carhnn Hill every day. X greater per cent Of these cars stop here some phtron izing the garages, and others the cafes, drug stores and other business houses of the city. With the opening of the Bankhead highway late this year, or early in the spring, the tour ist traffic will be greatly increased and much greater patronage will be given to Car bon Hill if there are inducements here that will cause them to stop. The tourist camp and city park will undoubtedly be worked out within a few months, and there is much talk of large tourist hotel being constructed in Carbon Hill. The future of Carbon Hill was never brighter than at the present time, and there is every reason to feel optimistic in what the future months and years will bring to all the people of Carbon Hill, if the spirit l of progressiyeness is ever kept to the front and an effort made to realize fully all the city has for natural advancement and growth Carbon Hill Index.