The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-18
Tax League Officers Are All Ready for Whirlwind
 Campaign
COMMITTEES NAMED
 TO CANVASS CITY
City Divided Into Sections-Formation in Montgomery Last Week of State Organization Gives Much Im-
 petus to the Movement

Big preparations are being made for for new members of the Jefferson County Tax league Those back of the under taking say there Is much enthusiasm all ready manifest.
 With the indorsement of the governor of Alabama and also of Governor-elect Charles Henderson, the tax league feels jubilant. The men behind the movement are very optimistic of ultimate success. The meeting in Montgomery last week at which the state organization was formed, appears to have added much inn petus to the movement.
 The object of the league is as follows:
 Its purpose is hereby declared to lt to organize into one compact body all those who are willing to contribute their best efforts to bring about such funda- mental changes in the present antiquated, obnoxious and burdensome tax laws of the state of Alabama as will cause the burdens of taxation to be distributed in accordance with the principles of justice and equality, and at the same time pro- duce sufficient revenues for the purposes of state and county government, when economically administered Also to bring about such reforms in the machinery and method of assessing and collecting taxes as to conform nearer to the present day of progress and business methods, there by avoiding the continual struggle which has been going on between the tax gath erer and the taxpayer. since the state through an appointive tax commission has undertaken to regulate individual affairs of the private citizen'
 Platform of State League
 The platform of the state league form ally adopted at the organization meeting in Montgomery last Thursday is as fol- lows:
 T. That the system of taxation long in force fin Alabama is unequal, unjust, and oppressive in it's application; and we de- mand it's reformation.
 ''2. That no tax is justifiable except so much as is necessary to meet the needs of the government honestly and econom- ically administered.
 '3. That this body constitutes itself tn. tax reform league of Alabma.
 A. That the chairman and secretary of this meeting be continued In office until the next meeting of this league.
 ''5. That this organization be composed of representatives of county leagues by
 
 each county in Alabama under the au- spices of the chairman and secretary of this convention.
 e. That this session of the league ap- point a committee charged with the duty of formulating, for presentation at the next meeting of the league, to be held in Montgomery on December 3, 1914 a plan for promoting the work of the league in a broad and effective manner"
 Teams Are Named
 The teams which will conduct the cam paign have been completed and are an- nounced as follows:
 No. 1. Brown Marx and Farley Build ing-Walter Fowlkes, chairman Otto Marx. George w. Connors, C. J. Perry, J. G. Whitfield
 No. 9. Empire Building and Chamber of Walter Sessions, chairman; w. D. Nesbitt. T. II. Benners, Charles F. Rice George T. Stafford.
 No. 3, American Trust and Steiner Bank Building-L. Sevier. chairman: H. U. Sims, J. B. Robinson, H. l.. Badham H. E. Mccormack.
 Woodward Building and Potter Building Hill Ferguson, chairman; Oscar c. Tur- ner E. H. Andrews, Robert l. Tngalls. Crawford Johnson.
 No 5. First National Bank and Clark Building-P. c. Ratliff, chairman; S. J. Bowie F. H. Gunster, Edgar Adler, H. w. Coffin.
 No 6. Jefferson County Savings Bank w. N. Malone chairman: M. P. Messer, J. l.. Yancey, Charles DeBardeleben, J. Frank Rushton.
 No ', First Avenue East of Twentieth Street; Morris Avenue East of Twentieth Street-Paul Chalifoux, chairman; w. M. Cosby, w. c. Hill, A. R. Dearborn, M. J. billiard.
 No. s, First Avenue West of Twentieth street-S. w. Lee. chairman; H. M. Beck, l. r. Young, W. H. Nevins, J. D. Collins.
 No. g. Second Avenue Between Six teenth and Twenty Streets M. J. Gregg, chairman, w. M. Drennen, Geoge McCleery, Ed g. Moore, T. A. Weller
 No. 10, Third Avenue Between Six teenth and Tweenty-seventh Streets R. B. Smyer, chairman, Bert Jacobs. Hale V. Tarrant, Phares Coleman, Dr. J. H. Finder.
 No. Il, Fourth Avenue Between Six teenth and Twenty-seventh Streets s. P. Fowlkes. chairman, Coleman Blach, Wallace Johns. Eugene Fies, George A. Bfinn.
 No. 12, Fifth and Sixth Avenues Be- tween Sixteenth and Twenty-seventh o. Broyles, chairman, P. H. Linnehan, John K. Warren, T. J. Gala well, l.. l.. Stephenson.
 No. 13, Seventeenth. Eighteenth and Streets. North--Joe Saks, chairman, Sterling J. Foster. George B. Louis Pizitz. Carl Seals.
 No. 14, Twentieth, Twenty first and Twenty second Streets, North--M. r. chairman. H. J. Porter, !. B. Pool, F. W. Dixon, J. N. Rose. c. w. Green.
 No. 15, Twenty-third. Twenty-fourth, fifth. Twenty sixth and Twen- ty-seventh Streets, North-John T. Yeatman, chairman, Alan L. Jemison.
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