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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
SHAPIRO OUTLINES REASON FOR NEED OF NEW CONSTITUTION Legislator Will Work for Calling of Convention to Strengthen Weak Spots EVEN LEGISLATURE
 IS HANDICAPPED Tells of Things Which Cannot be Done Because of Certain Inhibitions
 in the Present Or
 ganic Law

Isadore Shapiro, to be one of Jefferson tounty's representatives in the next ses- sion of the legislature, in support of his contention that the constitution of the state ''disfranchises the negro and en- slaves progress" outlines this morning for readers of The Age-Herald his argu- ment.
 MT. Shapiro will exert himself when the legislature convenes in obtaining a call for constitutional convention. It is his Idea that in such a convention a new constitution could be drawn drawn and submitted to the people which, in the event of it's adoption would permit Ala bama to move forward"
 Mir. Shapiro makes timely and practical his argument by showing just what good the legislature in its next session could accomplish. but for constitutional ob- stacle. He says:
 Here are few examples of how the present constitution will hand-cuff the next legislature.
 Education
 Our educational department should be removed from politics. There should be created an appointive state board of ed- ucation. which board should select the state superintendent of education. The board should enlist the services of a great educator and educational administrator, irrespective of his vote-getting qualities or his place of residence. The board should have power to employ non-resi- dent If an efficient resident be unavail- able
 "Alabama's educational system is mis-system. It is an educational crazy quilt. We have too many scattered, small unequipped and mis-equipped schools for misnomered higher educa- ton, and not enough well equipped schools for rudimental education.
 During the fiscal year 1912-13 Ala bamas educational system cost the peo- pie S2,259i97.45. This i3 exclusive of $40,- 600 expended on agricultural schools, $l47- GOO on County high schools, $S6,00o on the University of Alabama, 7,2S0 on Auburn, and $5000 on the Dale County High school There is need for centralization on in stitutions for higher education, and soldi- fcation of schools for primary education. To accomplish this our constitution must be altered.
 "The constitution prevents local taxa Aion for schools.
 Biannual Sessions
 ''Under the constitution the legislature meets quadrennially and each session is limited to 50 working days. The legisla- ture should meet at leasl every two years
 Poll Tax
 ''The constitutional requirement 10 pay back poll tax has put thousands of de- serving white men beyond the political pale. The ballot should not be penalized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02

Voting should be encouraged. not taxed. Our poll tax system should be abolished, and in lieu thereof there should be a compulsory school tax levied on every male inhabitant 21 years of age. irrespec- tive of his voting participation. If this tax is made compulsory. no one would escape, and school funds would be more than adequate.
 Taxation
 fundamental reform taxation cannot be effected minus a constitutional amend ment.
 Registration
 "Our registration system is cunber- some. It is an open door to election frauds. Jefferson county has outgrown our registration scheme. To require one to stand in line several hours to register is not conducive to patriotism A man should be permitted to register any day in the year. But the existing plan is de- tailed in the constitution and the legisla- ture is shackled.
 Fee System
 Alabama's fee disease cannot be fully doctored without constitutional revision.
 Municipalities
 Home rule for cities must come through change in the constitution. Birmingham can never be thoroughly lib- erated unless constitutional chains are shattered.
 Judiciary
 We have too many courts, judges and solicitors. Our judicial system needs q complete overhauling. An elective judi c1ary means a political judiciary, and a political Judiciary spells an inefficient ju- diciary. Judges should be nominated by the bar and appointed by the governor. Their terms should be long. Our consti- tuition calls halt to any real attempt to achieve judicial reforns.
 Numerous other instances could be invoked to display the crampiness of our present constitution. It Is too minute; goes too deeply into detail; not elastic. It is misft a maladjustment.
 Other Needs
 "A compulsory workmen's compensa- tion law, compulsory education, equal suffrage, the initiative, referendum and recall, and other fundamental needs demand a new constitution.
 Governmental Taxation Commission government for states may appear to be visionary and imprac- tical, but it is inevitable. The trend is toward efficiency in government. Exper- fence has doomed a large number of elec- tive offices, and cumbersome, unwieldy legislatures Politics and governmental do not mix. Our constitution has been the bartender to mix the two. The result has been governmental intox- cation. new constitution will sober he state.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02

m:ngham paid for 1913 taxes: To city. sS65, 242.45: to county, $605,669.72; to state, $562, 407.59; total, $2,033,319.76.
 Municipal governments proportion of the total, 421s per cent.
 County Road and Bridge Fund
 Of the taxes paid to Jefferson coun- ty on property inside of the city lim- it's of Birmingham there was for roads, bridges and buildings, s173,04S.49.
 Jefferson county will pay to the mu- nicipal government on account of road tax. $21. .631.06.
 Making one years contribution by propeEy inside the city limits of Bir- mingham to Jefferson county roads, bridges and buildings, s151, ,4f7.43.
 In order for the municipal govern ment to get the aforementioned s21,- 6S1.06 the board of revenue under the law added .0n5 to the tax rate for roads and collected this on the entire val uation in the county of $127 462, 463, or S6S,731.23, gaining for Jefferson coun- ty, $42,10017, or practically twice the amount she will pay the municipal government.
 School Taxes
 Of the taxes paid 15 cents of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
PROMINENT MEN
 SPEND WEEKEND
 IN BIRMINGHAM

While it is the rule that Birmingham by Saturday night of every week is emptied of it's visitors, last night was an exception.
 .rehn S. Mooring, chairman of the state tax commission, and Henry P. White, associate member, having failed to com plete the work on which they have been engaged for several days remained in Birmingham for the weekend. Another well known visitor was Chairman Banks of the excise commission of Montgomery county the three members of which have just been re-appointed to serve other terms.
 Col R. A. Mitchell vice president of one of the subsidiary companies of the Alabama Power company, after visiting Tuscaloosa on business. came to Birming- ham yesterday and remained here for
 the night. Colonel Mitchell stated that 1 he had been making arrangements for | getting the current of the power com | pany into Tuscaloosa. He expressed him. self as confident that the city would be receiving his power by the coming of fall. | Colonel Mitchell, who is a student of municipal growth and development, ex- pressed the belief that Tuscaloosa was destined to be one of the big cities of | the state.
 | Charles Martin of Apniston, former
 member of the legislature and now back | tax commissioner of Calhoun county, was I another visitor. He came to transact some business with John s. Mooring,
 chairman of the state tax board. Other
 well known Alabamians who were in Bir-
 mingham last night were Prof. James S.
 Thomas of the University of Alabama supervisor of high schools of the state | George Wakefield of Selma, manager of
 the Arcadia hotel of that city; A. &.
 Preston. banker of Jasper; w. S. McNeil
 of Fayetts and J. H. Kramer of Gull
 man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
STEINER BROS. TAKE
 TUSCALOOSA BONDS

J. M. Levine manager of bond depart ment of Steiner Brothers. was in Tusca- loosa yesterday, where he arranged for the delivery of s100,00o per cent 3o-year waterworks bonds issued by the city of Tuscaloosa.
 The proceeds from these bonds will be expended for improvements and exten- sions to the waterworks system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
|GADSDEN CONCERN
 TOOPEN DOORS
To Ask Receiver for Gads-
 den Hardware Co.
MYSTERY IS UNSOLVED
Stricter Regulations of Voting VIII Take Place in Second Primary M0nday-Cotton Makes Re
 markable Progress

Gadsden, August 1.-tSpecial 1.-The Gadsden Hardware company failed to open it's doors this morning, and A re- ceiver will be asked This company. capitalized at $75,000, was the result or the consolidation of the Smith, Echols- Burnett Hardware company and the Ewing Hardware company. Both had large stocks and large book ae- counts. In a statement President c. P. Smith says: We are glad to say that satisfactory assurances have been given that the business will be taken oyer immediately at price that will pay the creditors in full and at the same time guarantee good harware concern af ample capital to supply the needs of the territory"
 No progress has been made in solv- Ing the mystery surrounding the death or II. G. Mayne. whose body was found Thursday evening in a shallow part of the coosa river. The police are work Ing on several clues. Mayne, it is un- destood, was to have been married to an Atlanta girl August s. After his death, a letter addressed to him was received by members of the family and was opened. It contained only the given name of the girl, and nothing could be learned from it. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon. conducted by Dr. George w. Read of the First Methodist church.
 Stricter regulations of voting will take place in the second primary Mon day. More care will be taken to see that voters living in West Gadsden vote at that box. and that voters in the Gadsden district do not vote there. There are four candidates in the Third ward, where the fight is particularly warm. They are J. l.. Curry, J. D. For man. J. M Hooks and Ralph w. Stock dale. In the Fourth ward the race is between L. A. Heaton, T. A. Jelks Carl Lay and Roe G. Tinsley-
 Cotton has made remarkable progress during the last week, and 1t is pre- dicted the first bale will be received in Etowah before the end of the month A bumper yield is expected. Feed crops also are doing we'll
 At the Seventh district progressive convention at Attalla this afternoon pr. D. A. Morton, wayor of Boaz. was nominated for Congress to oppose Con gressman John l.. Burnett The repub- ltcan nominee is Thomas H. Stephens of Gadsden, who was named at conven- tion earlier in the week
 War on vagrants has been inaugur- ated by Chief of Police Roper and he issued orders to several today to leave the city
 A branch of the Southern University of Music, with headquarters in At lanta, will be opened< here by Mason Bilbro.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
His Way

From Judge.
 MT. Lobstock-Has yo' any faith in bank, sah? MT. Bentover-Yassahl I has plenty O faith in lem, but Ts done got muh money buried in de ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02

John Howe Toe has recently been made instructor in chemistry and biol ogy at Vanderbilt university. He is at present teaching zoology in the George
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02

War on vagrants has been inaugur- ated by Chief of Police Roper and he issued orders to several today to leave the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02

At the Seventh district progressive convention at Attalla this afternoon. Dr. D. A. Morton, wayor of Boaz, was nominated for Congress to oppose Con gressman John L. Burnett. The repub- lican nominee is Thomas H. Stephens of Gadsden, who was named at conven- tion earlier in the week
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02

Cotton has made remarkable progress during the last week, and 1t is pre- dicted the first bale will be received in Etowah before the end of the month. A bumper yield is expected. Feed crops also are doing we'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02

A branch of the Southern University of Music, with headquarters in At lanta, will be opened< here by Mason Bilbro.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02

Of the taxes paid 15 cents of the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-09-03
UNITED CHARITIES

Editor Day Book:-The Chicago
United Charities spent part of the
money given them to help the poor
sending lobbyists to the last legis-l
lature and had the mothers pension
law emasculated on their statement
that they would take care of father
less dependent children.
Now they send out appeals stating
that they have not funds to help the
very children whose mothers would
be getting pensions and would not
need charity but for fact that the
United Charities prevented them
from getting the pension. The United
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-09-03
1858, A. F. of L., on Saturday, Aug.

~, 1914.
Chicago, Aug. 20, 1914.
The members of the firms compOs-
ing the Chicago Embroidery Manu-
facturers' Association in establishing
the open shop in. their respective fac
tories have been impelled to take this
action through the necessity of per-
sonally conducting their individual
businesses in such a manner as would
tend to Perpetuate their business.
The purpose of the stitchers' union
to establish a minimum daily wage
that would be prohibitive in the COM
peting for orders with eastern manu-
factuTers, together with the proposal
that fOremen and employers operat-
ing machines be brought, under the
jurisdiction of the stitchers' union,
and with the expressed intention for
the organizing into union of the
female hel p in these factories, togeth-
er with the right to employ or dis
charge any individual at will, for the
good of the business, are reasons all
of which combined have brought
about a condition making it impera-
tive for each factory to run it's own
business without incoming dictations
from any outside osurse. Signed,
Chicago Embroidery Manufacturers
Association.
Chicago Embroidery Co., 1715 w.
Ohio st.
Garden City Embroidery Works,
1850 Otto st.
Walter H. Hildebrandt, 934 w.
North AV.
J. ]. Naef, 3748 N. Lincoln St.
Swiss Embroidery Works, 1741-43
Sheffield AV.
Sheffield Av.
The Embroiderers' Union has been
in existence since May 1, 1903, the
wage scale referred to was made two
years ago and, though it constituted
a reduction of scale formerly paid,
every assurance had been given the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-09-03

diction to all workers actively en-
gagged in the embroidery industry is
neither an innovation or a crime.
The organization of the girls was
prompted by humanitarian consid-
Grafton for a class of embroidery
workers who, because they lacked the
protective powers of a union, had
been systematically exploited by the
rapaciOus employer during the IL
years the Embroiderers' Union had
given the employer to demonstrate
his boosted fairness and justice. At
last, convinced that the employer
would never voluntarily be either gen
erOus or just to the women workers
i'll the embroidery industry, the I'M
ion decided to extend the long-de-
layed helping hand.
The union was told bluntly and
plainly that if they would sidestep
this chivalrOus impulse they could OBJ
tain anything within reasonable
bounds for themselves. This I'M
American proposal was treated with
the contempt it deserved and now
the men are Iocked-out; but the ma
iority of the women and girls are out
also and organized.
A letter of protest might force.
these petty commercial rulers to rea-
lie that the American public has no
sympathy with either the policy of
RULE. O. RUIN or those who prac-
ice it:-United Embroiderers of Chi
cago, Local No. 14648, Per Kuno Han
gartnef,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-05
U. S. TROOPS RECEIVE VILLA
General Oregon Pays Visit
to Fort Bliss, Texas.

FL Paso, Tex.-For the first time
since the beginning of the Constitu-
tionalist revolution Generals Aware
Obregon and Francisco Villa crossed
the international line here. They
we're received with military honors by
General J. J. Pershing, commander Of
the American troops.
A troop of cavalry with drawn
swords formed a guard of honor for
the two Constitutionalist commanders
as they were driven to Fort Bliss.
Obregon and Villa will leave at once
for NogaIes, Sonora, to settle internal
disputes in that state. They will jour
ney through American territory.
The visit to Fort Bliss. as well as
the expedition through the United
States to Sonora, has been arranged
by the Constitutionalist agents here,
who are Carranza officials. This, to-
gether with the joint entertainment Of
the CarFanza men with Villa, was
taken locally as indicating an accord
between the two factions.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-05
GEN. POWELL CLAYTON DIES
End Comes to Aged Arkansas States
man and National Committee
man in Washington.

Washington, D. Cen. Powell
Clayton. 81 years old, distinguished
statesman, diplomat and soldier, is
dead at his apartment here He had
tce1 in feeble health for many months.
A native of Bethel, Pa, and edu-
Gated as a civil engineer, General Clay
ton emigrated to Kansas in 1861 and
there entered the Union army. He
rose to the rank Of brigadier general
After the war he went to Arkansas,
and in 1868 was elected governor of
the state. Three years later he was
sent to the United States senate.
The general was appointed ambassa-
dor to Mexico by President Mckinley
in 1897, and held that post until 1905,
when ne retired from public life For
forty years he was a member of the
Republican national committee, and
attended every meeting.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-05
KANSAS MINERS GO TO WORK
Meeting at Franklin Votes Almost
Unanimously 10 Resume Opera
tions-Sheriff Talks.

Miners at a meeting held in Frank
lin recently voted almost unanimously
TO return to work at once. They in
dorsed a message John P. White, inter
national president of the U. n. W A,
sent to the district ordering the insur-
gent miners back to work and threat
ening to revoke the charters of the To-
Gals refusing to obey the order. But
since similar action was taken by 9th
er miners meetings and the MASKING
continued, union officials are not Ger
tain that the trouble which resulted
in an armed clash at Mulberry has
ended.
Sheriff Huntington and the district
officials addressed the open air Frank
lin meeting. Their addresses we're re-
peated in Italian and French Consid-
cradle animosity was displayed toward
Dan Gatti, an Italian leader, who ad-
vised the insurgents to return to work
at once. Gatti was one of the first
leaders of the insurgents to persuadi!
the men to dfsobey the union officials
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-05

State Agricultural College Can
Register 1000 Students
Each Day Now.
WILL SAVE TIME AND TEMPER
New Plan Provides for Bringing APP
APPLICANTS Together in Nichols Gym
nasium for All the Work.

thousand students can be regis
tered daily at the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college by means of new
system which is to be put into effect
this year Registration is to begin at
1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon, Sep
TENDER IA, and is to conclude Friday
afternoon. 1t is very important that
every student report promptly this
year, says Miss Jessie Mcdowell
Machir, registrar OF the college. Stu
dents who fail to register at the time
stated Will be held accountable for
their absence from college.
The old system of obtaining assign
ments was a tedious and time-killing
proposition as every student of the
college can testify.
This new plan which provides for
the bringing together in NicholS gym
nasium all the work of naturalization,
payment of fees, consultation of com
mittees and assignments to classes,
will save time and temper for every
one concerned. Tardy students, how
ever, will not be received joyfuily.
/ More than 5000 students enrolled
in the agricultural college in the year
] ending last June According to pres
| ent indications the enrolment this
fall will be larger than that of a year
ago.
Several new additions to the teach
ing force of the Kansas State AgricUl-
, tural college have been made the last
! few days. Albert Z. Shower is to be
head of the public speaking depart
ment next year.
Miss Grace Palmer. a graduate of
Mechanics institute. Rochester, n. Y,
has been elected an assistant in do
nestle art.
A NJ Patterson of the Fort Hays
branch experiment station. a graduate
OF the Kansas State Agricultural col
lege in 1913, is TO be an assistant in
animal, husbandry. =
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-05
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

Frank HEIDI, charged with the muir
der of Miss Louise Mick, a wealthy
Schuyler, Neb., girl, committed suicide
by hanging in the jail at Schuyler
HEIDI used a rope from mattress to
end his life.
Acting on advices from London,
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany announced that messages for
Switzerland may now be written in
English as well as in French.
After many days consideration the
federal reserve board has decided it
will open all twelve federal reserve
banks at the same time, and launch
the new banking system Simultaneous
ly ali over the country.
The war condition in Europe was
reflected in the wheat pit again in
Chicago by an excited advance in
prices, in the course of which May
wheat sold at SIPS, the highest in four
years, and 50 cents over the price just
before the start of the big European
struggle.
Three persons were killed when a
motor car plunged down a 1O-foot en-
bankment on the main highway, near
South Windsor, Conn. 1t is said the
driver Of the motor car was blinded
by the dazzling headlight Of a passing
trolley car which caused him to lose
control of his machine
The United States government
could stop the war in Europe by pIac-
ing an embargo on wheat. -four and
other products, it was asserted at Dis
trict Attorney Whitman's John Doe
Investigation at New York into the In
creased cost Of living since the con
fiict began.
Exhaustive tests have been made
OF the huge guns at the Pacific end OF
the Panama canal to ascertain their
fitness. The tests were entirely salts
factory There was an ali day firing
of the guns with both normal and
oyeTcharges-
Secretary Garrison, chairman o.
the governments relief board, has re
iterated that steamship accommoda
tons for Americans from all parts o.
Europe we're adequate for the present
and mis- reports showed improvement
in the financial conditions of Ameri
cans in the war zone.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-05
TYPHOID FROM WELL WATER
Twelve Chase County Young People
Take Down With Disease After
Drinking From Ii.

1t has just been discovered that a
single well having impure water
caused twelve typhoid fever cases in
the Diamond Creek neighborhpod,
northwest of Cottonwood Falls. About
month ago a party was held at the
home of George Guyton. Drinking
water was used from the farmhouse
well. Afterward several cases of fever
began to appear among the young
people who had attended the party
and increased until there were dozen
patients in all
The appearance of so many cases at
once caused physicians to suspect that
some well there might be responsible
for the disease and the county health
officer ordered an analysis of the water
from several wells. Typhoid germs
were found at the Guyton farm. The
well was one into which surface water
had seeped, thereby causing the con-
taminatiOn