Education: For Alabama White Boys

Fourth most illiterate of the United States is Alabama; 16.1% of its total population (2,573,000) can neither read nor write.* Alabama education has had no great patron like Delaware's Pierre Samuel du Pont or New England's Edward Stephen Harkness. Last week, however, it was revealed that Alabama would get some $7,500,000 worth of brand new boys' schools, bequest of the late Harvey G. Woodward, Birmingham real estate and iron man who died last November.

Terms of the will were explicit, tightly limiting the use of the money. Each Woodward school is to be built at least 15...

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