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{EDUCATIONAL
AND
. INDUSTRIAL
EDITION.
ESTABLISHED 1887.
LAST REPORT
Oi Our State School
Commissioner
FULL OF INTEREST
A Detailed Statement of the Public
Schools of Georgia
STATISTICS OF MUCH IMPORTANCE
The Number of Pupils and the
Average Cost of Each.
PRDF. GLENN'S GOOD SUGGESTIONS
Information < 'xncrrning the Srh<»t>l> of
The State That Will be Head
With Interest.
The last report of Prof. G. R Glenn,
state school commissioner, contains
much interesting matter that ought
to be thoroughly disseminated among
the thoughtful and intelligent people
of Georgia. In this report, which is
for the year 1891, is a derailed state'
mt ut of the public schools of Georgia,
giving statistics of vital importance.
They show the average cost per
scholar under the common school sys
t n in each county, the plans of man
agement, number of children of
scjijool age, together with a statement
Miie amount of all funds appropri-
The purpose :>f public edllea
the ili.-bm-M inent of the
-
Mihllien is attended with
grave results as in ‘this problem
education of our children. For
Hnit reason the statistics given in this
. rtiele should be carefully considered.
Prior to the war nearly all of our
s bools were private schools for the
n ost part, our children were educated
.rider private tutors, or in the coun
try academies, many of which were
bilious in those ante-helium days.
Tlie tutors and teachers who had
barge of our schools were, as a rule,
i.ien distinguished for their intellect
ual acquirements, their scholarly
training and ability to teach the
young. The salaries that the teachers
received in those days from private
tuition were sufficient to command
the very best talent. With the many
changes that have come to us since
the civil war there lias been a sweep
ing change in our system of educa
tion. Gradually the private schools
hat e nearly all disappeared. Indeed,
there is not a school in the rural dis
tricts of Georgia that can now be
strictly called a private school. The
old buildings are well nigh all gone.
And, as there is no use in mincing
matters, it can truthfully be said that
in their stead we have in the country
districts of the state a great mativ
small school houses, wretchedly tin'
comfortable, and unsuited for school
. drposes. The teachers in charge of
these schools are receiving the pit
tance that comes from the public
fund, and. as a rule, receiving no
other fees in the way of tuition. The
result of this tendency has been that
the best teachers have all abandoned
the rural districts or else have left the
school room altogether for some other
in'itns of livelihood. Prof. Glenn is
striving manfully to remedy this evil
and in tins good work Le should have
the co-operation of all thoughtful and
intelligent people. He says:
“1 find that it is difficult, as matters
now stand, with the inadequate sala
ries that the teachers are receiving
tti Georgia, to secure the best talent
for our school rooms. 1 think that
the legislature will agree with me that
st school system that provides no bet
ter pay for the teachers than our
school system in Georgia provides,
Adi eventuate in driving out of the
system all t lie teaching talent neces
sary to sustain a good system of
schools. ”
As a rule the country school bouses
are in such a wretched condition that
the schools cannot be conducted dur •
ing the winter at all. For this reason
nine tenths of the country schools
must be conducted in the summer,
during the hot summer months, ami
sometimes during the months when a
great many of the children are com
pelled to work on the farms. In this
way a great many of our country chil
Iren do not have an opportunity to
zo to school at all, and in this way
largely may be explained the fact
that, out of a total school population
in the state of 604,971, according to
the last census, the total average at
tendance all told of white and color
ed was 273,426
It is a well known fact that a child
will do its best work and get its largest
intellectual growth during the winter
time, and yet in Georgia the rule is
that the child in the country is com
pelled to go to school in the summer,
if he goes at all.
Prof. Glenn suggests the following
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
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EMORY COLLEGE BUILDINGS, OXFORD, GA.
'WHIN FOUNDED, Ibis famous institution was chartorctl in 1836,and has been in successful operation
for nearly sixty years.
IPS ALUMNI—Its roll of alumni now numbers over 1,100, ami the names of those who have taken par
tial courses in its halls exceed 6.000. Among its prominent graduates maybe mentioned the late L. Q. (
Lamar, Associate Justice of the I . S. Supreme Court; Bishop Joseph S. Key : Bishop A. G. Havgood; General
James F. Izlar, Member of Congress from South Carolina: Hon. Olin Welborn, Member of Congress from
Texas; Hon. James E. Cobb, Member of Congress from Alabama; Hon. Thomas M. Norwood, I'.S Senator from
Georgia: Judge Woodson I’. White, of Florida: Hon. W. N. Sheafs, State School Commissioner of Florida:
Judge Waiter 1. lurubml; General K. W. Carswell: Hon. Thomas Hardeman, Member of Congress from Geor
gia; Hon. J. J. Jones, Member of Congress from Georgia : and Rev, Young J. Allen. L. L, D. one of the fore
most men in the Orient.
ITS LOCATION - The college is located in the village of Oxford. Newton c.ountv, Ga., forty miles east of
Atlanta, one mile from the Georgia Road. A street ear line runs to the depot. Oxford is proverbially healthy,
and emphatically the student's home The village is on a high granite ridge, with no possible local cause of
sickness. Its literary, social and religious advantages, combined, are unexcelled. By special act of the Legis
lature, drinking, and gambling saloons are excluded from the town ami from within one mile of its corporate
limits. The quiet seclusion of the place invites to study, and prevailing influences around favor the formation
of good habits and the development of a true manhood.
ITS ENDOWMENT AND EQUIPMENT—The endowment of the institution, which constantly in
creases, now exceeds $200,000, and its equipment was never in its long history so g. oil. Its faculty is large and
able. Its buildings are commodious and its apparatus excellent.
ITS PATRONAGE —Fora number of years its patronage has exceeded that of any other male college in
Georgia or Florida.
EXPENSES—The cost of a year at Emory College is as low as can he found at any first-class college in
the Knifed States —lower than the expense almost. Board can be had al $> to $16.50 a month. The entire
expenses of the college year in iv be brought within $200; many studen s go through a year on less.
For further iniormation address,
XXL JV CAN I I lei It.
remedy, and it is a good one, for this
evil :
“A local tax upon all the counties
that have not already imposed such a
tax, for a continuous school term dur
ing the winter months of at least
eight months The funds derived
from such local tax to he used also
when necessary to provide comforta
ble buildings and furniture for the
proper maintenance of the schools. 1
have taken a vote for the purpose of
getting the sentiment of the peo] 1 •
in regard to this important matter of
providing better school houses, longer
school terms and better pay for teach
ers. The vote has been upon the
question as to whether the people
were willing to submit to a county
tax for raising as much money locally
as the state appropriates; and the
people have voted unanimously for
the local tax.”
Under our school laws, each county
in the state is a school district, under
the control of a board of education,
selected by the grand jury. When it
is remembered that these gentlemen
who compose the boards of education
of the counties have the very higlie t
interests in the county entirely in
their control, the reason for insisting
that they should be the strongest ami
most intelligent men in the county
becomes apparent.
The boards of education in most of
th ■ counties of the state have already
undertakt n to consolidate the schools
in the various centres of the county.
The necessity of this movement is, of
course, apparent. The people in the
rural districts will, in the end, locate
their homes near the school centres,
and in this way social advantages, as
well as a great many other ad van
tages, will r< s dt from the centraliza
titAi of the schools.
What is needed now’ to make this
movement successful is money fora
longer school term and for aiding the
people in providing school houses.
In this connection the following
statistical information in regard to
the public schools of the state will be
read with interest. The “common”
system means the country system.
Amcunt paid to county school cimrais
stoners *51.718.53
To superintendents under local sje etns 35,75000
Total amount paid supei intenile its ana
comtnisaionera 91,498 83
Amount paid tor postage ard oth r
incidentals under the common
school system 11)966 95
Under the local school system 124.74! 67
THE ROME TRIBUNE, ROME, GA., TUESDAY. MAY 26. 1896.
Total at'endarce under c m non school
sysem 377,671
Under local system at/J35
Anoint paid t > t lacbers under com
mon ached system §976 3*7 21
Under loca sistsm 472.751.:3
amount of ecoool fund received from the
state for c. nun n school systems.... 1.093,093 81
For lonal system* 175,53196
Amount of school Hind raised for
local systems by local taxation.... 375,042 88
Number oi sc‘l >ols under the common
s hool si st< m ....7 668
Under local system 285
X umber of teachers under common
siste 8.296
lU.der local s,stem.... 1,04.5
1 he average amount paid teachers for
the year under the c >mmou system is. ..$129 111
Under the local system .. 8452.40
1 he am tint per capita of school find to
the children under common school
sy-tein 2 S>
Under local system 12.91
The sources from which the school
fund is derived in this state is from
the general ami local tax, poll tax,
specific taxes and lease of the state
railroad.
The number of schools in Georgia
for the year 1894 were 8,668,4.941 white
and 2,727 colored; there were 8,296
teachers, 5,398 white and 2,898 colored;
there were 377.571 pupils admitted,
white male 117,456, females 109,813,
colored males 70.951 and 79,351 females.
| In Floyd county there wereßo white
schools and 47 colored, total 127; there
I were 40 white male teachers and 53
I females, total 93; 21 colored male and
'4l colored female teachers, total 62,
( total white and colored 155. Thenum
; ber of pupils admitted in Floyd
■ county were white males, 1,859, fe
I males 2,159, total 4,018; colored 1 miles
■ 1,132 females 1,362, total 2,494; total
I white and colored 6.512. The average
i monthly cost per pupil is .81 00, of
which the state furnishes 80 cents.
The compensation of the county
school commissioner is $550.00. The
amount expended in this county in
1894 for the purchase of school sup
plies and buildings was $399.00, the
amount paid to teachers was $lB,
216 00.
In the city of Home there were 24
teachers and the number of pupils
' admitted were white males 395, fe
males 358, total 753; colored males 187,
females 274, total 161, total white and
colored 1,214, average monthly cost
per pupil $1.20. The total amount
1 of school fund received for the year
' for the city of Rome was 10,933.75.
The total number of pupils attending
colleges and universities in the state
( in 1894 wa53,998.
The legislatures in the South
insist upon appealing to the general
~ government lor national aid toeduca •
tion. We are taxed to support the 1
general government: we are taxed to '
’ I support our local ami state govern- 1
I merits; we are taxed to pension the
■I federal soldiers; we are taxed to edu
■ ! cate our own children, and we are
also taxed to educate the children of
1 the colored people. The time has
come for the general government to |
. come to our aid in tlie education of;
’ the children. The people in the North ;
and West have grown strong and I
i great financially, while we of the;
South have been struggling for thirty
, years to rally from The tremendous
loss of propertv occasioned by the
war.
Inasmuch as ths genera! govern
ment freed the black man. ami in set
ting him free left the South so im
poverished that she was not able ade
quately to educate her own children,
and far less adequately to furnish
education for the negro, it seems that
the general government should come
to our aid in the struggle that we are ■
making to upli.t the black man's
child. It is marvelous that we have
accomplished what we have, under
all the disadvantages that have been
about, us. The North and East and
West would not fail to urge upon the
general government to come to our
aid in our efforts to elevate the col
ored children if the matter were
placed before the country in the
proper light. We cannot afford to
leave the negro in the South without
giving him an education. A strong
writer has well said: “If in the body
politic there are dregs of misery,
whether emanating from misfortune
or from vice, they must be purged
away, or they will poison the whole
body. The fumes of rotting garbage
in the alley pollute the roses which
kiss the cheek of innocence in the
mansions of the rich.”
We cannot afford to leave the negro
in ignorance If he is to remain here,
; he must be educated. The only safety
to our homes; the only safety to our
public and private institutions is to I
elevate the colored man out of bis I
natural infirmities. The only remedy ’
for lynchings is to bs found through
the school houses, where the colored
man is to be lifted up and out of his
natural infirmities.
•
The cause of education is receiving
much attention in Georgia.
S BONG A? J) I’OINTI l>.
I
The Cash! r( f a II une Bank High!/ Coin
i mends a Nashville Burners College
i The following letter explains itself:
Home, Ha.. March 11, 1896.
Mr. R. AV. Jennings, Nashville, Tenn.
Hear Sir: On the Ist inst. I was
elected cashier of the Exchange Bank < 1
' this city. I don’t say it because lam
' writing to you. but I have said to inai y
[others that the three months 1 spent wn.i
you were worth as much to me as were
the twelve years' schooling 1 had gotten
previously. I have compared my hooks
which I used at Jenning’s Business Col
lege with the hooks of several other col
leges, which other young men from this
section attended, and they all acknowl
edged that your course is much more
thorough and practical than the schools
they attended, and I certainly think it is
worth any man's time and money to take
a course in Jenning’s Business College,
i Nashville, Tenn.”
I Yours truly.
T. J. SIMi’SOX.
See display card of this excellent
school elsewhere.
Xust < liltr.;*.*• Burnsides.
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fV< • • i Vehorn ha, Mich., pa u
ei'oiut i<i;s f a hrraute iraratar- c< r'
uncling. Tt.o resolutions st.tie that
sine.’ the c.u.a.p is n;..:i< d after t-.e 1;.
m us Gen al Buri; de, the criginntm
of the i, aa; 1 ' Burns dcut in wins' rs.
iho members at commanded to put 1 th
tiuir best e.i ;'ts in growing E.t.'a id,'
whisht rs. The res mti; 1 main it. .
force until :.;lr the in ;.t annual < ::•
■ impmt i tat 7i< lim'd Ju: e ,23. 'ihe pen
dty « 1 failure is ; i,y treat the successiul
members may demand. Several hair
tonic agents arc in town.—Chicago
Tinn s-J it raid.
/* Cimm' Investment.
I r I*< • .'Sylvania railroad offer.' an
11! tithe far r til ng the lim
■ - r .a. : >m< tb< r.utifii s ins farm
I tit 11’. ■ ra;.r. :.d s ’ue'.l;.ty. 'lbis is g< ing
ahead of the chi plan < l rewarding the
most artistic stair n master and seems
to point-to the ultimate b< nutil’yittg < f
the scenery all ul mg the route. —B. ston
Herald.
PAGES 17«24
PRICE FIVE CENTS
A WONDERFUL WORK
Is That B'Jng Done For the “Chi’dnen
Os Silenci”
THERE ARE FEW PEOPLE WHO KNOW
What Splendid Results are
Reached
A VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE
On Hip Subject by Mrs. Stephens. \Vht>
Tells SojiiHhint* of tlx Work
Bcinv; Done.
In speaking of the education of the
deaf mute, I wish to say that a sur
prisingly large number of our people
are totally in the dark as to the work
that is being done for the “children
of silence." In our own state's capital
not long since, a prominent member
of society, whose interest ami sympa
thy were awakened during our recent
exposition, expressed her great, regret
that Georgia was doing nothing for
the education of the deaf. Has she
only knows the truth, in less than
one hundred miles of her, one of the
finest schools for the deaf in the South
is located; and has been in active
operation for a full half century, turn
ing out for the state some of her pur
est and best citizens.
Many people are also in error as to
the ability of the deaf to acquire an
education, looking upon them rather
as imbeciles, and their schools, as
asylums. A prominent lady of Ala
bama, in visiting the Georgia school,
expressed much surprise that a deaf
mute can be taught to read and write.
On anol her occasion a gentleman was
astonished at seeing a two-year old
deaf child making signs to its deaf
mother. This is like the traveler in
Paris who expressed surprise that
even the little children could speak
French.
If one wants a marvelous example
of ability, let him take the miracle of
the age, and of ah ages Helen Keller,
the most wonderful child who has
ever lived. This deaf, and blind girl
of fifteen Ims not only acquired a
good English education but has stud
ied some of the foreign language. She
is also able to eon verse in speech: and
by layir. glier lingers lightly upon thei
lips of the person with whom she ist
conversing, she readily finderstand 5
the words of the speaker. While we
know of the marvelous progress of
this wonderful child, we do not take
it for granted that all deaf children
can make such attainment am! while
we know that some children remain
in the deaf school for years, leaving
with a limited knowledge of the
Simplest English, neither does this
fact argue that no deaf mute can
make progress.
In regard to articulation, which is
being so much discussed just now
and which has been taught as inter
vals in the Georgia, school for forty
years. 1 can only say, “it is a wonder
ful thing." During the recent exposi
tion a lady visiting the oral school
for the deaf, which Was situated in
the Woman's Building, marvelled
greatly at the fact that the children
could understand their teacher, when
she said to them in speech. “Shut the
door,” “walk on the floor," etc. These
short sentences are taught during the
first weeks in on;] schools. We regard
it a most wonderful thing that rhe
deaf person can be taught speech and
lip reading at all yet it is a far more
“wonderful thing’ - that he can become
a master of the English language.
Only these connected with deaf-mute
instruction can fully appreciate this
statement, but the best authorities
will bear me out hi the assertion.
The toaeher of the oral school in
Atlanta distributed circulars reading
to the effect that she had come to
Atlanta to introduce the oral method
in the South; and many of Atlanta’s
best citizens believed that she was
the very first who bad ever been
known to teach lip reading in our
fair southland. These insinuations of
tin's teacher, which have been pub
lished ami republished in deaf
mute papers all over the South, be
tray an unpardonable ignorance of
the progress of her own profession
in the south —that is, if i i ignorance;
and making the judgment as light as
possible, let us so call it. Every school
for the deaf, not onlv in the South,
but throughout the United Stub sand
Canada, lias an oral department.
Miss King, the head of the articula
tion department of the Georgia school,
is one of the finest oral teachers in
the profession and has done some of
her best work in southern schools.
The present corps of teachers in the
Georgia school is the best it has ever
known, and the governor of the state,
in a recent visit, seemed perfectly sat
isfied with the school’s condition and
progress. The teachers in the manual,
or sign department are of the finest
to be secured: and let me say just here
byway of parenthesis, that one of
these same teachers, who has been a
member of the faculty for more than
twenty years, was educated entirely
in the < ieorgia school, both in oral and
manual; and is an exceptionally tine
lip reader as well as a good speaker.
And yet she was educated more tnau
t wenty years ago in this same poor,
backward south, that hardly knew of
the existence of an “oral method'’
until the Atlanta exposition in 1895?
All uepartuients of the Georgia school
are doing good work ami it may be
said the school is in a nourishing eon
dition. I should like to go into more
minute details in regard to this work,
but space forbids. \ ii-it the school
yourself and see what the children
can do and are doing. Uphold the
institutions of the south amt do all
vou can for the cause of educatii n.
H. C. Stkvkxs.