The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-30
LOCAL SCHOOL TAX
 PROVES 4 SUCCESS
Letters From Superintendents
 Who Have Tried It
BAPTIST WOMEN TO MEET
Days' Convention at Evergreen. Woodward Proposes a New
 Traction Company

from county superintendents of education
 Of those counties which have adopted tn,
 l mill tax for schools has just been is
 sued by the state department of educa I tion. These letters all contain indisput
 able evidence of the fact that local tas
 for schools is approved by the countie.
 that have tested the system, and further more they contain expressions to the ef.
 feet that the constitutional 1 mill tax would not be given up by those counties
 in which it has been levied.
 1 Most of the replies from the county su. | perintendents state that the people wish the right to vote a larger levy by dis l triets. announcing that they esteem this | privilage that should be given them
 for the building up of education in their l respective counties
 According to the letters published in
 this little pamphlet the plan. wherever | adopted. is not only unhesitatingly com
 mended, but is regarded as absolutely | necessary. County superintendents con tend that the system promotes longer | terms and provides for better salaries for their teachers, thus enabling them to se- cure the best possible instructors. It Is understood that a number of other counties in the state are making preparations to vote on the local school tax. among which have been mentioned Marion and Lawrence. It is stated that these two counties are making a great fight for the 1 mill tax, and that the question will be voted on within the near future.
 The letters published in the pamphlet are regarded as interesting in that they show the sentiment of the people of those counties which have adopted the tax Some of the replies speak of the system in the most enthusiastic terms, one of the most emphatic being written by c. K. Sharpe, superintendent of education of Crenshaw county. MT. Sharpes letter in part is as follows:
 We voted on this tax in 1905 and car ried it, with only about 200 votes against 1t, for five years. As the five-year levy had expired this year. we voted to con- tinue the levy, and we had only 7S votes out of HOO votes cast against it. Our people could not do without it. It en- ables us to run our public schools one month longer, and I honestly believe if the entire vote of the county could have been cast in this election the ratio of dis senting voters would have been less. I believe we could have carried a 3 mill tax as easily as we carried the 1 mill tax''
 Another strong letter commenting the tax is written by W. H. Storey super intendent of education of Pickens county MT. Storey says:
 'The county school tax was levied in Pickens county in 1905 for a period of 10 years It is my opinion that the educa- ton committee should prepare petitions asking the legislature to submit an amendment to the people allowing the people of the state to vote on this propo- sition. With this petition should be a copy of the proposed amendment and some reasons for its adoption. The de- mand should be made by the, people, and this can be secured by placing these pe- titions in the hands of the three trus- tees in each school district in the state. In this way the entire state can be can- vassed in few days.
 "The legislature should pass a bill pro- viding the machinery for carrying the amendment into effect should 1t be adopt ed without waiting for the next session of the legislature
 J. A. Barnes, superintendent Of educa- tion of Monroe county. says:
 Tn 1905 Monroe county voted the levy of special 1 mill tax for the support of the public schools of the county for a period of five years. The election was held and carried by four-fifths majority. The mill tax is a very popular scheme with the people, and I hold no doubt whatever that 1t will be continued, and even increased if the legislature will pro- vide for such increase"
 The pamphlet contains number of other letters to the same effect as those quoted above, and all show the fine ef- fects of the tax in those counties In which it has been levied.
 Baptist Women to Meet The Baptist Young women's Missionary Union of Alabama, auxiliary to the state convention, will hold its seventeenth an- nual session in Evergreen Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. At that time it is expected that dele gates will be in attendance from the 700
 women's auxiiaries, Sunbeams and Royal Ambassador Bonds connected with the union.
 The programme for the Women's Mis- sionary union convention includes a num- Der of attractive, impressive and fluent | speakers who are prominent and suc- cessful in their work in the state. and in the south. All three days of the ses- sion, as a consequence, bid fair to be brimful of interest.
 | At Evergreen is located the Baptist Or | phanage of Alabaam, in the care and | maintenance of which the aid societies of the union largely share.
 | Officers of the Women's Missionary | union are as follows: President, Mrs Charles A. Stakey; vice presidents, Mrs | T. w. Hannon of Montgomery Mrs l D. M. Malone of Birmingham, Mrs. O. | M. Reynolds of Anniston, Mrs. w. J. E. 1 Cox of Mobile, Mrs. F. B. Stallworth of l Cuba; state organizer. Mrs. T. A. Ham, | iton, Birmingham; leader young people, $
 work, Miss Mary Rhoades; secretary
 treasurer, Miss Kathleen Mallory, Mont gomery; recording secretary, Mrs. w. H l Sanford, Montgomery; auditor, Mrs. G
 M. Morrow. Birmingham. Advisory board
 Mrs. w. B. Crumpton, Mrs. A. J. Dick.
 nson, Mrs. Jesse Cook, Mrs. J. L. Haiti
 mer and Mrs. Mcqueen Smith. Secretary
 aged and infirm ministers relief work Mrs. Grace Wilkinson; assistant visitor
 Mrs. D. M. Malone.
 1 The programme follows:
 l Tuesday, 9:30 a. m.-Matin overture
 Mrs. W. c. Crumpton, Evergreen; de votional exercises, Mrs. o. M. Reynolds
 Anniston welcome address, Mrs J. e | Cheney. Evergreen; response, Mrs. R. G
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