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CHANCE 13 TO COME
Present System of School Tax Criticized
by Slate House Officers.
MAY REDUCE THE APPROPRIATION
Com mis* oner Glenn Will Fight Me hr in *) to
lut it DownFavor* Uniform
Local Tax.
One of tbe biggest fights in the next
legislature will come up on the mo
tion to reduce the state school appro
priation from $1,000,000 to $600,000 or
to repeal the $1,000,000 appropriation
altogether, says the Atlanta Constitu-
• tior. That such a motion will be
made is certain, and it is equally cer
tain that it will be advocated with
tremendous energy. Every state offi
cial who is in any way related to the
state's finances is strongly in favor of
cutting off the additional $400,000
which the last legislature directed the
state to raise by extra taxation in the
year 1899, and the position taken by
the Consttiution editorially yesterday
was generally’ endorsed.
Comptroller General Wright, who
holds the purse strings of the state,
and knows better than any one e.'s
how pressing is the need for economy,"
said:
•‘No one believes more than I do that
too much money cannot rightfully be
spent on the public schools, but at the
present time it is a most unwise thing to
increase such expenditures, and I think '
the extra appropriation made by the late
legislature was a particularly unfortunate
one. The state school should take <a e j
Di its finances as an individual would, ]
and I do' not believe that in times like (
these toe fax payer feels like removing his t
child from the. school which costs him £
S6OO a year and placing him In a SI,OOO i
schooC. yet that is just what the state of t
Georgia is doing.” t
System is B d 1
The question of raising school futids
is one which is agitating the present
administration a good deal, as well as the
various county school boards throughout I
the state. The present system is annoy- *
ing and vexatious to all concerned and c
there is little doubt that a system of local '
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taxation to be supplemented by the state
will have to be inaugurated at an early s
date. Governor Atkinson is in favor of .
such a system and so is School Commis- j
sioner G. R. Glenn, who, in his report to ,
tbe legislature, will strongly advocate the j
chancre.
Commissioner Glenn, however, does J
not want tbe extra $400,000 clipped off
. his annual appropriation. In discussing ,
the matter yesterday he said :
•‘You ask if I think that the legis
lature will be inclined to repeal the ,
law appropriating $400,000 additional ;
to the school fund, I answer frankly
that I think the majority of the leg- I
islature will insist upon the appropri
tion standing as it is. I know as well i
as the Constitution does that the rich
and strong counties are contributing,
according to school population, a
great deal more to the school fund
than the weaker counties are paying.
But you must rememember that the
weaker counti ss argue this way. They
say:
“ ‘We contribute to the upbuilding
of the stronger counties. We con
tribute not only everything that we
produce for the markets, but it has
so happened that we have contributed
o’
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the period preceding A®®®a®
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of the organs dis
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great suffering, the loss of her baby, and
possibly the loss of her own life. This is a
great and unnecessary risk to run. By tak
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Mrs. Hmma Crowder, of Anthoston. Henderson
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a great deal in the way of popula’ lin
and wealth to tbe Strong counties. A
great many of our wealthy people are
moving from the weaker counties to
the central cities, and for the present
st least it is only fair that tbe strong
should help tbe weak.
Must Have Loe 1 Tax
“But I am sure that the sentiment
in favor of a local tax is growing
everywhere in the state. At least a
dozen counties will take a vote on
this matter during the present fall.
In some counties, like Cobb, for in
stance, the younger people are debat
ing the q uestion in their local literary
societies and the masses of the peo
ple are becoming informed not only
as to the justice, but as to the value,
to the counties of levying the local
tax. The young people are now get
ting more valuable inforiuat'on on
this whole question than they have
ever had before.
“My next report to the legislature will
show just how much local tax and how
much state tax is raised by every state in
the union. The Constitution stated the
case correctly in this morning’s editorial
when it said that all of those ’states that
have satisfactory school systems raise
about one-third of the s<h>ol tax by a
general appropiiation and the other two
thirds by a local tax. We will come to
that in Georgia before a great while. In
the meantime we can well afford to let
the million dollars stand as a direct ap
propriation from the state at large. This
is only $2 50 per thousand and I do not
think that anybody who studies the
question thoughtfully will object to this.
“If you travel with me for a few
weeks I will show you in these counties
more new, bright and cosy school houses
built during the last two years than
have been built in Georgia for perhaps
twenty I will show you another
thing, that the people in the country
are improving the roads, they are build
ing new barns and new residences, and
there is every indication that the coun
try people ate entering upon an era of
prosperity.
Three Millions Wanted,
“Many of the states pay as high as
S2O per thousand as a tax for school
purposes According to the population of
Georgia, school money to direct tax is
only about 50 cents per capita. In all of
the northern states, middle states and
western" states the school tax varies
from $2 to $4.50 per capita. This will
show you that our people are not pay
ing an exhorbitant school tax. States like
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
nearly all of the western states pay
from S2O to $35 per school child each
year. Georgia pays $1.92. These are
reliable figures from the school reports.
“Let me call your attention to anoth
er fact in connection with this matter
that to my mind is as exceedingly hope
ful indication. The returns from the
counties to the comptroller's office show
you that more than eighty counties,
that may be called purely agricultural
counties, have shown an increase this
year in their tax returns of about $6,-
000.000; while the counties that contain
the cities and larger towns have shown
a decrease of about $7,000,000. Here,
for the first time in many years, is an
indication that the rural districts have
begun to prosper.
“Now, then, for heaven’s sake, for
the sake cf our children, let us not do
anything that will tend to check the
improvement that has begun. Let us
reduce the tax for anything e|se rather
than reduce the tax that goes directly
into the lives of our children. An effort
was made in the last legislature to force
the local tax of the counties, but lead
ing attorneys who investigated the
question decided that this would be un
c institutional; that the legislature could
not force a county to raise as much by
local tax as he receives from the state.
If this be true I think it would be ex
ceedingly unwise for the legislature to
to disturb the amount that they fixed at
their last session for general school pur
poses. I hope it will not be two years
longer until the counties will raise as
much by local tax as the state has pro
vided. '
“Three millions of dollars is the
amount that Georgia ohgbt to spend on
her schools. Three millions of dollars
of school fund would do more than
anything else, in my judgment, not
only »o double the population of Georgia,
but to more than double the taxable
wealth of the state. We only want to be
patient and continue the agitation of th s
school question, including the local tax
idea, for a little while and you will find
that the people themselves will do the
right thing in the end.”
Long Ago Life In Washington.
There are some entertaining pictures
of life Ai Washington 70 years ago in
Stratford Canning's diary and letters.
“My predecessor,” he writes, “had
i greatly the advantage over me in his
collection of good stories. I record one
i of them to serve as a pattern of the rest.
• He was Sir Charles Bagct, a man of
' very attractive manners, intelligent,
• witty and kind. An American minister
and his wife dining with him one day,
■ he heard Lady Bagot, who was at some
j distance, say rather quickly, ‘My dear
\ Mrs. 8., what can you be doing?’ The
i salad bowl had been offered to Mrs. 8.,
I and her arm was lost in it up to the
elbow. Her reply was prompt—‘Only
rollicking for an Cfiion,' my lady. ’ ”
THE ROME TIHBLNE. FRIDAY. ’ AUG IST 27. JB9 .
HARO TO SECURE A JURY.
The Luetgert Wife Murder Trial Attreete
an Immense Throng.
Chicago, Aug. 26. —There was no
falling off in, the crowd that surged
aroumj tbe courthouse door seeking ad
mission to the Luetgert wife murdei
trial. Many women and girls were in
the throng. No additional jurors had
been aeeepted by both sides when recess
was taken, but the state’s attorney still
believes the jury will be completed dur
ing the present week.
The first act of the jury will probably
be to y>;it the cellar of Luetgert’s sau
sage factory and inspect the surround
ings and the vats in which Mrs. .Luet
gert’s corpse is alleged to have been de
stroyed. There is some talk that Luet
gert is showing signs of breaking down,
particularly if he should be on the
stand.
The two little children of the defend
ant were again in court. Elmer, the
younger of the two boys, climbed upon
his father’s knee and drew pictures on
a pad of the state’s attorney’s paper,
crowing and laughing at his childish
efforts.
MULATTO TURNING WHITE.
A Trenton Barber Gives the
Something to Think About.
Trentojj, Aug. 26.—Harry Cole, a ne
gro barber at West Hanover and Chan
cery streets, is greatly puzzled now, for
his skin is changing its color. A little
less than two years ago Cole, who is a
mulatto, noticed oil his right arm some
little white spots.
They gradually spread and ran to
gether until they formed large white
spots. Then the same thing occurred
on his chest, legs and hands, unfit now
he is more than two-thirds white.
Strange to say, the change of color is
less noticeable on his face, while the
only portion of the body which is un
changed is from the ankels down.
Physicians nave decided the change
Is djie to a gradual absorption by the
blood or the pigment that colors the
skin. What is the cause of the absorp
tion is unknown.
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it may be worth something to know
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Whet She Wouldn’t Do.
At Hawick the people used to wear
wooden clogs, which made a clanking
noise on the pavement. A dying old
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A Kapiat Legally Hanjed.
Richmond, Aug. 2fi.—Joseph Fife, t :
negro youth, convicted of attempted as- |
sault on Mrs. Marks, a widow, andwhc
subsequently confessed to two other
like crimes, was hanged in the yard of
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Election Notice—“For Fence”
or “Stock Law.’
GBOIGI I. F'ojd County:
Notice is hereby given that a» election will be
held at Kdg»r Bn om’s shop, ti e mlglual court
ground, aod usual ulace for h’> ding el. c
tioue in the 1119th (Floyd Sprlngf) district < 4 . M.
of "tid count on the Ist Cay ot Septe über next
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