The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-17
Waterways Of Alabama Are Property Of Citizens They
 Bring Money When haproued
Victory for Seaport Amendment Assured Impressive Ma jorty Wanted-Usng River Means More Prosperity, Cheaper Transportation and Increased Business.
 No Increase of Taxation and No Cost to State

l thought to the subject now for the first time The process of instruc- ton has been gradual, methodical and thorough, with nothing spectacular about it.
 Reports from various parts of the state indicate that the seaport amend ment would be safe of a majority were
 the election held today. But President
 Murray Brown of the state harbor commission, his associates, the active men in the Alabama Waterways Asso-
 citation, and the workers with the sea-
 port amendment campaign committee
 are unit in saying that d bare ma
 jority won't do. The affirmative vote
 must be large enough to carry with it
 powerful suggestion to the next legislature that the seaport not only
 may but must be made adequate and effective by the enactment of permis- sive legislation authorized by the amendment.
 Except in the Seventh congressional district and in some of the counties where party contests wax warm, it is not expected that the rural vote will be large, scarcely more than half the number cast in the last primary cleo ton, perhaps. But the vote in Bif- mingham and Jefferson county prom ises to be large on account of warm local fight.
 What percentage of the voters east ing their ballots on the main issues for Cox, Harding and company, Will pick up the small oblong slip contain ing three lengthy amendments and make the cross mark between the brackets "yes'' or mo?
 That depends upon how much work is done by the advocates of the amend ment between now and election day. FACTS FOR COTTON GROWERS Campaign Manager T. P. Hays, Jr., of the amendment committee, has pre- pared a mailing folder for dlstrlputloh among farmers and cotton men. lt repeats the argument of w. r. T Haro- ing, governor of the federal reserve system, the best plan to save the value Of the cotton crop is to organize texporr cotton associations.
 The circular tells that "the adop- ton of the amendment will enable the legislature to authorize the state harbOr commission to build m export cotton warehouse at the seaport, large enough to serve the cotton growers of this state; that they can reach the outside world with greatest economy by utiiiz- 1 ing their own waterways and sea port.
 | The farmers are told therein just WDdL JJOulSiafIu HdS QOHe III lilt way tof building an immense cott1n ware> house at New Orleans, and how suc> cessfal it has been, and how all this l has been accomplished under just such
 a plan as the seaport amendment pro- poses. without one cent of cost to the taxpayers of that state; the whole be- : ing more than self-supportins.
 i For the final drive, four vigorous
 men have been placed in the field by 1 the campaign committee. Each is | given a sector of the state, wherein he
 will visit the county seats and chief
 cities, meet the county chairmen and
 committees, receiving reports and con veying information. Evans Dunn, rice president of the Birmingham Commun-
 fly Club; John w. Rish, a prominen,
 lawyer of Dothan; R. N. BrasselI oi Montgomery and T. A. Turner of Bir-
 mingham are the field men.