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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. ... : PuE . ■ ' ~ ■ ... r"'- . ’ - h i i.apbl ' a/ ; \ TvLk" ! I v • . : : ._‘kl 'M / 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. Ik • ' . i Sui? 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.