The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13

cations which provide them with
amusements. The puzzles are made II
the United States for slightly less
than cents each, are sold by Wilson
for 8 cents and are retailed in Lon
don for 6 pence, about two for quar-
ter.
| The ingenious Mr.. Wilson has al
ready made a snug fortune and his
conscience is clear. No "blood money
is going into his pocket. However, the
Teuts may bear him i'll will for calling
his puzzle Capture the Crown
Prince"
NOTWITHSTANDING the wide
IN publicity given the school tax
amendment to be submitted to the
voters at the general election in No
vember for ratification or rejection
many people are
Work for School under the impress
Tax Amendment sion that ratifica-
ton would carry
with it an additional tax burden to
the property holders. But that is not
the way it would operate.
AS the constitution stands now
counties and districts with inadequate
revenue for maintaining public schools
are helpless. Although every citizen
might be eager to pay special school
tax for school improvement he is not
allowed to vote school levy. The
amendment authorities the electorate
of each county to vote 3-mill tax,
and after that each school district to
vote an additional tax up to 3 mills.
In many cases mills for the county
would be ample, but it would be for
the people to say.
Some proposed amendments to the
constitution have not commended
themselves to the electorate. Some
have been defeated because the people
did not understand their provisions.
This school tax amendment should
be ratified by an overwhelming ma
jority. That fact Of itself would have
far-reaching effect on educational
progress in Alabama.
| * X
A CORRESPONDENT of the New
"A York Sun has made a tabulation
of states for Hughes, for Wilson and
doubtful. Everybody knows that it
is too early to forecast with any de-
gree of certainty the result of the
election in states
| States Not in the that are conceded
Doubtful Column to be doubtful;
but the table pub
lished in the Sun on it's editorial page
| is based on prejudice and hatred.
No observer of the political trend,
| if he has any breadth of view or liber-
atty in conceding that there is always
something to be said in favor of the
"other party" or the "other fellow
becomes angry with an opponent, I'M
less there be Misrepresentation of facts
or inuendoes exceptionally vicious
The tabulator referred to writes with
such ill temper that he cannot see
straight or take in the situation as
it is. His figures are as he would wish
them to be on election day, but not as
any intelligent person thinks they
will be.
The victor must have 266 electoral
votes. In 1912 Wilson received ass,
but conditions then were phenomenal.
Nothing like that election will be seen
again soon. The states which Wilson
will carry in November next without
Opposition are those that formed The
Confederacy-ele of them-with an
electoral vote of 1876. But the writer
in the Sun, who, by the way, signs
himself Progressive, puts Tennes-
see in the doubtful column. These
are the other doubtfuls, according tc
Ex-Progressive: Kentucky (Wilsor
sure), Missouri Wilson sure) anc
Oklahoma Wilson sure). The states
claimed for Hughes are all the 'othel
states of the union with 361 votes
The absurd method which Ex-Progres
sive uses in arriving at his arithmati
cal conclusion is consolidating the Taft
and the Roosevelt vote and calling 1T q