The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-25
4C|TY BEAUTIFUL
 IDEA IN JACKSON
Movement to Beautify Mis- sississippi Capital Will Be
 Made First of Year

Jackson. Miss, August 2f-t -tspecia1)---A
 city beautiful movement is to be inaug
 urated in Jackson the first of next year
 just like as has been done at Birmingham,
 Shreveport and other important towns
 during the past year or two, adding
 greatly to the appearance and attrative- ness of their streets. The fact Is. this
 has already been done to some extent several streets in the residence portions of town having been highly ornamented by the planting and cultivation of ever the edges of the grass plats in front of residences. and several of them have been made very attractive.
 But flowers are not the only things to be planted and cultivated. All vacant lots that are now given over to grass and weeds are to be spaded and planted to vegetables. provided the owners will agree to the improvement. A gentleman who is recognized as good a gardener as
 there is in Jackson has agreed to take charge of the work and to show the girls
 and, boys of the town how to raise vege- tables or flowers. He prefers the vege-
 tables. believing them more attractive because of the returns of sales.
 In most every city in the state there are vacant lots that could be utilized for shis purpose. and once the school children are interested in the work. and after the lots
 are gotten in good garden shape, there Is bound to be sufficient profit to make the work attractive to the small boy. At the same time he is learning something that l may be to his advantage in years to come when he has a family and garden of his l own to look after.
 | ~~~-~-~-~-~~~---~-~>~ l that this step would bluff private capi- | tai in this country into the business. He 1 is known to have been greatly pleased when J. P Morgan called on Secretary McAdoo of the treasury and protested against the government going into the transportation business.
 l As the President sees it, if the Nor l gan interests and other great financial combinations can be moved to rehabili- I tate the United States merchant marine l the government will be glad to ster aside and leave the undertaking to pri- vate concerns.
 l At the same time it is known that Rep resentative Underwood and his associates on the ways and means committee are
 working steadily on the foundations oi
 bill for an emergency war tax, if nec- essary No formal meetings have been held to consider the subject, but infor-
 maj interchanges of views take place daily and the initiators of the nations
 business operations are getting close to- l gether in their opinions.
 1 No intimaton of the articles on which such a tax rS.ght be levied has yet beer allowed to escape from any tongue bu' l for some reason belief prevails that liq l liors and tobacco will be the first arti l cles selected for the stamp impost Pro l tests against the designation of various 1 articles of commerce pour in daily oi l Mir. Underwood and his confreres, ane manufact and dealers in every com nodity from liquor to licorice, from dia l monds to delicatessen and from cloth o l gold to golf balls express irrefutable ar 1 suments why their articles should mol l appear in the tax.
 1 The committee, however, will regard ths l question solely from a business viewpoint l with the intention of raising the great 1 est amount of revenue with the leas
 burden to the people in general, and b, 1 spreading the load as lightly as possible OF the shoulders selected to bear it.