The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-15
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+ How To Help Ones Town.-one way to
help your town is to speak good word for
it when opportunity presents itself And
| your town is the people who make up its
citizenship. What do you think of your
neighbors, anyway ?--Andalusia Star.
Too Few Eggs Produced. -Statistics show
that Alabama is now producing over ten
million dollars worth Of eggs annually. And
still, it is said, that this is only little
more than half what the people of Alabama
consume.-Oneonta Southern Democrat.
Way To Get Inspiration.-Talk about
catching inspiration-ju stroll out into ths
country, drive around in pretty good cir
Gle, and observe the hundreds and thousands
Of plows and many tractors making ready
for the 1924 crep.-Huntsville Times.
win Be Welcome Addition.-And from
strictly selfish point of view, the many
| thousands Of dollars to be spent by the rail-
roads on track changing, new depot and
such will be welcome addition to the cir
culating medium in this county the coming
year.-opelika News
win Land In Poorhouse-The Henry
corn to feed mules to pillow cotton to get
money to buy foodstuff is travelling in an
endless circle. Well, not exactly endless,
'either-for it will finally land him in lie
poorhouse. -Abbeville Herald.
A Problem OF ercentage-"Our political
parties are 90 per cent. honest" protests an
indignant citizen, who doesn't overstate the
matter at all. And everything would be
A. Is
ing the 10 per cent out of public life.-Tus-r
caloosa News. @
A Better Plan For AIl.-The banks Of the
county are doing land office business these
times. The banks furnish the people now
instead Of the merchants, as used to be the
custom. This plan is better for the farmer,
the merchant and the banker.-ozark South
ern Star.
NEED For New Ghamber.4For some
time there has been growing demand for
new or revived chamber of commerce for
sTalladega. 1t is almost unthinkable that a
city Of the size and progress Of Talladega be
without one. It was a. mistake to permit
the former one to go dead, and it's bigger
mistake that new and more active one has
not taken its place.-Talladega Daily Home
EOE DotueE CcHOOa 6yStcAus-1nSCedu OF
calling for more funds for Alabama schools
the cry should go up for a better school sys.l
TEN. The educational work of the whole
state should be- co-ordinated. A small board
should handle the entire system-from the
university down to the common schools. In
other words, a new system and business
methods should be adopted.-Huntsviifs
Star. as,s.a
m. nFfA.- A..
of illiteracy, school attendance, teacher
training. length of school terms and money
spent for educational purposes-all vital Ia
estimating a comparative rating Of the
states educational work, Alabama is entire
IL too near the bottom for honorable mem
ton. Our state educational activities are
nothing of which to be proud. We are so
far behind the leaders that comparisons are
indeed "odious." The less said the better.
until we change our relative location on the
honor roll--Muscle Shoals Sunday News :
BusinessIike Methods Needed.-If you, 60
in a storesand ask merchant the price Of .
certain article, he will tell you. Ask him
why he asks that much for it, and the an
swer will be: at costs me 80 much, then 4
1 add so much for freight and overhead ex-ge
penses." Take the average farmer with a
dozen eggs in a basket and. ask him these
same questions. IN almost every case ne
will tell you he doesn't know what they are
worth nor does he know what they cost
him How. under these conditions, can he
be expected to make money Alexander
City Outlook.
Interest In The Results.--A new era Of
industrial peace certainly would follow if all
employers took the same view of the relas
tionship> between employer and employee az
was held by the late John J. Eagan Of At
lanta, president of the American Cast Iron
Pipe Company at Acipco in efferson county.
Mr.. Eagan had already contributed a val.
liable experiment and experience in indus
trialism during his lifetime, but he has made
an even more worthwhile one in his will.
The result vii be waAckea with great inter-
est by both employers sh9 employes.-Gads-
den journal.
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