The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-28
JITNEYS S00N ID KN0M THEIR FATE BY BALLOT COUNT
Birmingham To Settle Long Controversy At Polls
 Today

Final guns in the jitney owners ordinance controversary Monday night were fired by both advocates in mass meetings in Central Park and North Birmingham, and Birming- ham citizens Tuesday will decide by ballot whether jitney busses shall continue in operation in Birmingham. CT whether, according to promise the street car system shall come out of the hands of a receiver and be re- habilitated or, losing the issue, in time cease operation entirely, it is predicted.
 Frank E. Butler Commissioner William l.. Harrison and George Lewis Bailes were the principal speakers at the Central Park meet ing in opposition to the jitney mems ordinance. They urged the benefits to be derived by the people from the settlement ordinance providing lower street car fares and other features, and pointing out defects in the jitney mems ordinance, urging voters to op- pose the measure in the best interest of the future of Birmingham.
 Several speakers favoring the or dinapce adressed the North Birniing- ham meeting
 School Tax Included
  be voted on at the polls Tuesday. Included in the four mill tax is three mill and a one mill tax on which the time limit has expired. and which county educational forces are submitting to the public asking that they vote for continuation of this measure, in effect for a number of years, not as additional legislation or an increase in taxes, but to con tinue in force a tax already provided with which to further educational work in Jefferson county, and make possible the program of expansion the board has mapped out.
 Only the ordinance will be sub mitted to voters in the initiative election Tuesday, the jitney mems ordinance A vote for this ordinance is a vote in favor of the continuation of jitneys, vote against it is a vote against the continued operation or jitneys.
 dinance was predicted Monday by members of the citizens committee who declared they did not believe II would carry a single box in the clty' A good vote is forecast.
 Polls open at o'clock Tuesday morning and close at o'clock in the afternoon. All necessary supplies TOT the election were delivered to the voting places Monday.
 Statement By the City.
 "The city commissions greatest ln- terest in this campaign has been 10 get the people fully informed on the city commissions ordinance ana agreement and the benefits that It bears to the city and public, and that they may also be fully informed as to the provisions of the jitney own ers' ordinance and the effect 1t will have upon the city and public,
 I've now feel that every qualified voter in the city of Birmingham can cast an intelligent vote, knowing full well the import that their vote will have upon the city and the public, which ever way it is cast. We urge every qualified voter to so to the polls and vote as duty they owe 10 themselves and the city.
 We want tC sincerely thank the of citizens, which was created at the request of the city for their unselfish time and service given to the city in the conduct of this campaign before the people. Never was any public ques- tion in the history of Birmingham sponsored by a committee of citizens If higher character and of greater devotion to the interest of the city than was this question. The slurs and false charges that have been made against them are unworthy or notice and the patriotic people or Birmingham will answer them With their ballots"