The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-12
Neu, Method To Bring
 Out Vote

TT WAS not unexpected that Ala bama women should decide upon
 unique and original method Of getting out the vote after the National League of Women Voters decided that the organization would make this their principal intent during the year 19Z4.
 Mrs. Brenton Fisk, Alabama's pres ident of the league, called together the leaders of all statewide organizations and many plans were worked out for the purpose of getting the qualified voters to go to the polls on election days and cast their ballot. Alabama, having only one season during the year when people may register there are many men and women who have neg lected that duty and are therefore not qualified. The League hopes that this campaign to "get out the vote" will not only arouse the consciences of those who have not had enough civic inter est to register and pay their poll tax but according to Mrs. Fisk and other leaders it is hoped that the importance of having the franchise and sufficient interest to use it will 50 impress itself upon the minds and eOnsciences of the people that they will register when the time comes and always hereafter pay their poll tax so they may vote their preferences and wishes when elec- tions occur. So this campaign Is more far reaching than just to 'get out the vote" this year. A plan adopted this year in Alabam and will be carried out by the many organizations interested is to tag every voter the day before the national election as a remainder to go to the polls next day and vote. Many thousands of tags will be print ed. There will be no charge for the tags on the streets of the many cities of the state.
 It is predicted by national leaders that this campaign will greatly increase the electorate. A Washington political statistician, Mir. Simon Miehelet, has stated that women if they desire can prove the controlling factor in the cleo tiOn of president of the United States.
 Mir. Michelet, who started a national movement to get out the .'stay-at-hOme" vote, declared that this vote and the women's vote are two hitherto unknown factors that have weight enough to settle the issue of any national cam paign.
 While there are few official returns showing the vote of women apart from men, Mir, Michelet said that the size of the women's vote may be determined with fair degree of accuracy by com pairing the returns for president in a given state before and after suffrage, giving due allowance to the national increase in the male vote.
 My analysis shows" said Mir. Mich elet, 'that in 1920 the presidential vote of native white and naturalized women was recorded about as follows:
 'They cast approximately 10000, 900 votes. or 37 per cent of the total of 20, ,713, 800 for presidential candidates.
 ''They boiled 43 per cent of the women of voting age in 42 of the AS states.
 In 20 states they cast 40 per cent to 45 per cent of the total vote for president.
 Tn B states, they pOlIed 40 per cent and over of their own vote, and in 21 states they polled 50 per cent to 70 per cent of women of voting age.
 "1n one-fourth of the states the per centage of women voting equals or ex- cells the percentage of the male vote for the country at large.
 "In a number of states, including some on the Atlantic, where women voted for the first time. they boiled as high a percentage of the total vote as in states where their suffrage is of many years standing.
 There are 23,994. 300 native and naturalized white women of voting age, as shown by the 1920 census, and 43 per cent of them in A states went to the polls and voted for president.
 ''This indicates that in 1920 65 per cent of women of voting age failed to