The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-13

I'M HE work being done by MISS
y Crumpton. head of the Engllsf
department of the girls Industrial
school at Montevallo, in campaign
for better English in Alabama deserves
every encourage
No Excuse for ment. Miss Crump-
Careless Speech ton is in charge OIL
an undertaking that
should appeal to all the intelligent peo-
n,e Of the state and is part Of ma
tion-wide movement.
Educational matters are attracting
more attention now than ever DeIore
in Alabama. Too long the state has
suffered under the blight of illiteracy.
An amendment to the constitution per-
hitting counties to tax themselves Tor
educational purposes will be voted on
next November. This measure Is pelng
supported by teachers and public splr-
tied citizens.
Miss Crumpton's work is properly
. mart of this great movement. 1t con-
Germs not only the illiterate but ed1-
Gated people, as well. Carelessness IN
speech is almost universal. Yet, good
habits" in speaking should be Guilt
waited, along with good morals and
good manners.
a VERACIOUS newspaper CORE.
IN spondent relates that some Wis
itors on Broadway who were out rather
late one night-which is not unusual
on Broadway observed party OF
Young women, about 20 in number,
swoop down on soda water store that
was lust about to close and regale
themselves on ice cream sodas.
There is nothing extraordinary in
the sight of young women taking re
freshmen" of that sort. In fact, it is
Strange Sight Is sight wher-
Observed on Broadway ever tn e
brisk soda
clerk is abroad in the land. But these
were not honest working girls, of the
factory, store or office type. They
were honest chorus girls, who work
about as hard as anybody, but never
get any credit for it.
Instead of imbibing cocktails and
smoking cigarettes, according to all
the hectic fiction written about the
chorus girl in Lobster Land" these
Young women who came from the front
row of the Winter Garden show, so it is
said, were conducting themselves just
as any Sunday school teacher in the
country might do, except for the late
hours they kept.
But why not? The uplift is marching
on. The other day the Yukon territory
went "wet" by a narrow margin of
only three votes. If prohibition follows
close on the heels OF the gold seeker
in distant corners of the earth, why
shouldn't a reform wave invade the
chorus? Even the old-fashioned cho-
rus girl who toted spear in ely
by-night" buflesque show was not as
bad, perhaps, as she has been painted
I'D ERSONS feeling an interest il
u political statistics found thu
campaign map section of last Sun
DAYS New York Herald convenient
reference compendium, covering presi.
dential-year information from George
Washington's time to the present. In
the four-colol
Doubtful States and chart showing
the Way They Lean stronghold
and the battle
grounds of two parties for 1916" this
is the Herald's classification: States
normally republican, Maine, Vermont
New Hampshire, Rhode Island
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois
Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Min
nesota, North Dakota, Wyoming
Utah, Washington, Oregon ane
California, with an electoral vote
aggregating ITO; states normally dem
ocratic- Virginia, Kentucky, North