The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
E1HE AIABAMA1 1 a16;EZzzARiPRESS

Preventing Open Crate Fires.-We ought to have . law requiring the use of wire net ting before open grates and failure to use wire netting should be adequate evidence of guilt of contributory negligence. And there should be punishment for such an offense.- Montgomery Journal.
 Willing To Risk It-It has been proven that old and delapidated paper money carries germs, but in all our life we have never seen old and looked like a wash rag. Most people will take the money, germs and all, and run the risk.-Centreville Press.
 No Longer Banner Hog County.-Dale county is no longer the banner hog county of the state. Our farmers have very few to sell this year, and if we are reliably informed some Of them have none to kill for their own use. We have certainly taken a tumble in hog raising, but we can soon reclaim our standing and prestige.-Ozark Southern Star.
 As To Canned Editorials."-Some of the weekly papers, when they ,un out of some thing to paw up the dust about proceed to get ireful against what is known as "canned editorials" Judging from the sort of stuff appearing in a goodly number of these sheets. they ought to spend some money for some thing really fit to print.-Enterprise Ledrer
 Sure Way To Profits-Reducing the cost of farm operations is the surest way tho farmer has of making increased profits The production of larger yields on fewer acres by the enrichment of the soil, the breeding and production of good quality livestock, which means the use of only good purebred sires, are good steps in this direction.-We Wetumpka Herald.
 Tho World Getting Better.-It is hopeful sign when men and women give not only th4,,~ k% <a kLo l~,,k IL their hearts to them and give with liber- ality that is far-reaching in order that othets may have better chance to learn and to live. The world, despite the pessimism of those who see its dark side, must be, in fact is, getting better when its people display such charity as men of wealth today are show ing.-Anniston Star.
 A One-Man Affair.-Senator La Toilette made good race, polling over 4,000 000 votes. Nevertheless the issue as between the La Toilette brand of progressiveism and Coolidge conservatism was met and answered by an overwhelming Coolidge victory. If a third party is launched, it will be more one-man affair than the independent movement of this year.-Mobile Register.
 Must Meet Her Own Needs.-Alabama's colleges need few James B. Dukes and George Eastmans. None of the rich legaces and bequests handed out by the millionaires for education is ever sent in this direction, except to Tuskegec. Alabama must meet her own educational needs and solve her own educational problems and she is amply able to do it-Selma Times-Journal.
 The Best Apples In Alabama.-The 1924 season demonstrated beyond a shadow of doubt to local people that this section of Ala bama produces apples far superior in flavor to any of the Western apples shipped into this territory, and in appearance the local apples are as large and fine as any grown. This information is not new to apple experts, who had already discovered and given out the information to the apple growers of the country that the finest favored apples in America grow in a strip of territory lying in North Alabama, North Georgia and part of Southern Tennessee.-Jasper Mountain Eagle.