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MONROE ADVERTISER
VOL. 59
THE PAY OF PRINCIPAL
TOO SMALL SAYS WILDER
Says Salary of $ 1200 as Fixed by Board of
Education is too Niggardly for Good Man.
Believes Forsyth District Should Sup
port Own School, if County Feels
that the Drain Is too Great.
OnTuesday, April Ist, the Mon
roe County Board of Education
■elected a principal forßanksSteph
ens Institute for the ensuing term,
fixidg the salary for his services at
$1200.00 per year, which is the
same that is being paid at present.
Now in justice to our town 1 raise
a protest, for in making this sala
ry so small it is discounting the
dignity of our town and the jus
tice of our people, for in other
towns the size of Forsyth princi
pals of schools are being paid
SISOO to S2OOO per year.
We have outgrown canditions
that existed ten years ago and
now deserve better by people tiiat
represent us on this line. I think
it has come time to remedy a
trouble we can help.
Last summer Forsyth almost
unanimously cast its vote for
a ten thousand dollar bond issue
to complete the school building
the County Board of Education
had abandoned. In doing this
and by the natural growth and in
creased population of our city we
have a right to demand a better
Superintendent than SI2OO will
get and keep. If we secure a com
potent Superintended! for this
price it will be merely a chance
and a greater chance of losing him
in one year, for such a salary is
not adequate for a person who has
qualified for such duties and had
experience to back up such quali
fications.
SUPERINTENDENT M. L. BRITTIAN
ADDRESSES COUNTY TEACHERS
On Saturday, March 29th, Mr.
M. L. Brittian addressed the
Monroe County Teachers Associa
tion and the Senior Class of Bes
sie Tift College.
Ml Brittian’s address was both
inspirational and practical. He
explained the new system of cer
tification of teachers which will
be put into full operation this
year for the first time. He touch
ed upon the problems of the
“BIG MONEY” BEING COUNTED
IN WASHINGTON, D. C., NOW
The greatest count of actual,
real money in the history of the
world is taking place in Washing
ton. Former Governor John
Burke of North Dakota has suc
ceeded Mr Carmi Thompson as
Treasurer of the United States
and Uncle Sam requires that the
retiring Treasurer’s record be ver
ified by an actual count of money.
Secretary McAdoo will appoint
a committee to take charge of the
vaults and each vault and safe
has been sealed in preparation
for the count. Only enough
money to k^ep the wheels of gov
ernment revolving have been laid
aside for dai i y use while the count-
K ing is in progress.
It generally requires from two
five months to make the count.
A government mathematician has
figured out that it would take one
person 300 years to verify Mr.
Thomson’s records. Ordinarily
every note bond or other security
is counted. Unless a shortage or
error is discovered the gold and
silver, stored in bags, containing
SI,OOO each, usually is weighed, a
test bag being balanced against
all others for verification. Armed
guards stand over the counters
and workmen to protect them
FORSYK., MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA. APRIL L 1913
Now one other thing, it has been
stated by same member of the
Board of Education that Forsyth
had receiv d more than her part
of the school fund in complteing
the buildnig and maintaining the
school. In fact, this impression
is out the county over; yet it is
not correct, for I have the figures
to stand by what I state.
Now to the point: If the Forsyth
school is a burden to the County
Board of Education, or to put it
more plainly, if the county dis
tricts are taxed to support the
Forsyth school, wouldn’t it, be
better to separate them so as to
have each carry their own burdens?
A thorough investigation will
prove that the tax ievied for school
purposes in Forsyth and her pro
rata part of the state fund has ov
er paid the bills for the Forsyth
schools since the McMichael law
went into effect. Forsyth district
also pays eight to ten thousand
dollars per year to maintain roads
and bridges and receives less than
one tenth of this amount in the
district yearly. This we gladly
are willing to do as good roads in
!he|coun!y help the town and on the
other hand a good school in For
syth helps the county, as it is im
possible to have high graded
schools the county over.
Give us justice or turn us loose
or pull loose is my motto.
Respectfully,
F. N. Wilder
country school as well as those
of the city school and showed how
the town and country are bound
together by a community of in
terest.
Among other things, Mr. Brit
tian referred particularly to the
teaching of reading in the grades,
making a plea fur more attention
to the subject and suggesting
methods of making the reading
book both instructive and iuter
taining.
from interference.
Losses seldom have been found
m these counts. When the treas
urer was changed some years ago
S6OO was stolen during the official
count. A laborer engaged to lift
the heavy bags of coin substituted
leaden disks for silver dollars
in several bags, necessitating a
a five months’ count of every dol
lar of the $115,000,000 in the big
silver vanlt. The laborer was con
victed of the theft.
When Carmi Thompson succeed
ed Lea McClung as treasurer he
received over $1,400,000,000. He
must account for every cent o!
that amount, plus the millions he
has since received, minus expen
ditures .
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VALE! LEAD PENCIL FIGURE.
April 8, 1918. Curves and dim
ples have come into their own in
Atlanta again this spring. The
strenuous straight front lines
have disapdeared in the new mo
del gowns, and Peachtree misses
who looked like fence rails last
year, appear to have gained about
20 pounds each in avoidupois.
The Lead pencil figure has appar
ently been thrown into the dis
card.
FOUNDER'S DAY
AT BESSIE TIFT
Beautiful Exercises on Campus. Class
Pennants Presented. Rev. S. B.
Cousins Delivers Address.
Beneath a cloudless sky the an
Dual Founder’s Day Exercises of
Bessie Tift, commemorative of
the adoption of this institution
by the Georgia Baptist Conven
tion, was held on Wednesday.
The beautiful girls in their
white dresses, carrying their vari
colored pennants, and with the
campus in its dress of early spring
flowers and green presented a
most attractive picture.
The most spectacular of the
day’s exercises was the parade on
the campus by the entire college
student body and the presentation
of the pennants to Dr. C. H. S.
Jackson, President of the Insti
tution, by each of the classes.
Forming in front of the audi
torium building the faculty and
the classes, bearing pennants,
wearing their colors and preced
ed by a huge Bessie Tift Banner
the girls marched in double rank
to the campus entrance; there
they divided, circling the campus
on opposite sides and crossing in
front of Wiggs hall they contin
ued to the entrance, where they
again formed twos and marched
down the center walk. There
they formed a lane, with a canopy
of their pennants, through which
the huge Bessie Tift banner
was borne by Misses Lucile Jar
rett and Lula Mae Morgan of the
Senior Class The girls were then
grouped around the entrance to
the main building, where each
class presented its pennant to
President Jackson who responded
to the delightful presentation
speeches of the girls.
The following young ladies act
ed as spokesmen for their respec
tive classes; Senior, Miss Wrea
thea Rogers; Junior, Miss Esther
Cutts; Sophomore, Miss Emilio
Sargent; Freshman, Miss Carolyn
Ballantine; Fourth Academy,
Miss Lillian Fulguin; Third
Academy, Miss Katherine Nichols
Second Academy, Miss Heardie
Brown, and First Academy, Miss
Clara Williams.
The song contest, in whieh the
songs were written and sung by
the girls of the respective classes,
was won by the Freshman class,
while honorable mention was
made of the songs by the Juniors
and the Second Academy: the
songs and music showing a high
grade of excellence.
In the auditorium at 11 o’clock
the Founder’s Day address was de
livered by Rev. S. B. Cousins ot
Waynesboro; while Dr. E. C.
James, Dean of the College, de
livered an able address on “The
Meaning of Founder’s Day ’.
TheaddreSsof Mr. Cousins w'as
on education, mid m a masterly
way he delineated the various
kinds of education and showed
th , u the only education worth
wh. the only real education,
want, ristian education,education
that moulded character ami prop
erly prepared men and women for
Christian citizenship. His elo
quent and logical address made
lasting impression on ms hearers.
At three in the afternoon tin
field day exercises were held, the
Junior and Freshman classes car
rying off most of the honors,
U. D. C’S. MEET FRIDAY.
The Daughters of the Confed
eracy will hold a meeting on next
Fridry afternoon at thiee o’clock
at the lesidence rJi Mrs. John O.
Ponder. The sii juct for discus
eion will be “Georgians in the
<Confederate Navy.”
It is hoped that the attendance
will be large.
Mrs. C W. Center, Pres.
Tillman Pleads
for Harmony
Os course, after Senator Till
man’s manly retraction ot the
statement that Senator Smith had
anything to do with the defeat of
Senator Bacon as president pro
tempore of the Senate, few there
are who believe that Georgia’s
junior senator “conspired” to de
feat his colleague. Indeed reports
indicate that they are altogether
friendly and that there is no re
sentment between them.
That the people may see for
themselves, we print a part of
Senator Tillman’s speech before
the caucus. Aside from throwing
light on this occurauce ; he strikes
the right note in his plea for De
mocratic unity and concert of ac
tion. We hope the House and
Senate will profit by it.
“Yesterday one of the newspa
per boys told me that he had seen
the two Georgia Senators in ami
cable conference in the restaurant.
Immediately the thought flashed
on my mind, if Mr. Bacon and
Mr. Hoke Smith are friendly af
ter what has happened why should
Mr. Hoke Smith and Mr. Tillman
fall out about it. 1 have already
m the caucus, told Mr. Hoke
Smith how 1 felt about Mr. Ba
con’s not getting the place of
President pro tempore, and it was
that indignation which prompted
the interview with the correspon
dent ot the Atlanta Constitution.
I used the word “progressive”
in that interview. The reporter
changed it to “conspirators, ” and
when I hastily revised the inter
view, I did not note the change m
the language. I do not think
that those Senators who brought
about Mr. Bacon’s defeat are con
spiratore at all. They merely ex
pressed their preference as between
the two men as they had a right
to do. I know if they saw this
interview they must have become
angry, because it was unjust, I
recognize that now, and I desire
to apologize to them for using the
word in the interview. I also de
sire to apologize to Senator Hoke
Smith for the way 1 have treated
him,
My regret is more keen because
I have since learned—only last
night.—that he was my friend on
the steering committee and battled
manfully to keep the rest from
demoting me or giving Mr. Mar
tin the chairmanship of appro
priations.
Yesterday, when I was so hot, a
reporter for a Georgia paper came
into my room and Said something
about Mr. Bacon and Mr. Hoke
Smith talking about Georgia pa
tronage and expressed surprise
that they should be speaking to
each other. I told him 1 hoped
Mr. Hoke Smith would never
speak to me again; but 1 do not
feel that way now. lam always
ready and willing—nay, anxious,
to make the amende honorable
when I am in error, and that is
my reason for speaking as I do.
The other dav I said 1 loved
the two Georgia Senators. I did
not tell the exact truth. 1 do
love Senator Bacon, and was be
ginning to like Senator Hoke
Smith very much. I hope 1 shall
continue to like him, and will un-
JURORS EOR APRIL TERM COURT
J. W. Ross 11, W. McKinney
S. Snead J. T. Gray
E. Stallings 8. W. Tarpley
G. W. Tribble R. 11. Bazemore
11. 'l'. Fitzpatrick J. W. Graham
W. L. Lindsey J. L. Brook
E. A. Bowdoin T. G. Scott
G. L. Sutton R. A. Phinazec
D. H. Torbett O. W. Morse
L. E. Harbuck J. P. Clements
P. L. Smith W. J. Sikes
C. N. Tucker K. R. English
A. J. McElroy C. C. Lunsford
J. It. Worsham W. A. Farley
C. A. Thorpe 11. L. Williams
W. T. Haygood J. H. Ellington
SECOND MONDAY
IS CITY COURT
April Term Convenes on 14th. Crimi
nal Docket for First Week; Civil
Business Week After.
The City Court of Forsyth will
convene for the regular April term
on the morning of next Monday
week, April 14th.
The criminal docket will be
first taken up and continued until
the cases are disposed of. The
civil docket will not be touched
until the second week.
The following order has been is
sued by Judge Cabanise:
Forsyth, Ga.,
April Ist, 1918
The next Quarterly Term of the
City Court of Forsyth will be held
the second Monday of the month
(the 14th inst.), at which time
the criminal docket will be called.
The civil docket wiil also be called
that day and cases set for trial the
following week, beginning on Mon
day the 21st inst.
T. B. Cabanihs,
Judge City Court of Forsyth.
less he gives me just reason not !c.
We have need in the Senate of his
brains, for we presented a sorry
spectacle yesterday for lack of
consultation among the leaders
and concert of action. The party
is so new in its role of conducting
affairs that the people must make
allowances. The new men are
nearly all awkward and green,
and unless they acquaint them
selves thoroughly with the rules
and precedents, they will be sub
jected to very many mortification
and the party itself will become a
laughing stock.
The Biblical quotation I used a
few days ago will become histori
cal. The “wild asses of the de
sert, athirst and hungry, have
broken into the green corn.” That
applies all along the line from
the top to the bottom. The Se
nators themselves are green and
the Democrats of the country
have been “out in the cold” so
long and have had so little hope
or opportunity to get patronage or
any of the offices that they are
simply wild. President Wilson
will, I hope and believe, as soon
as he becomes familiar with the
usages and customs ot the other
Presidents in dealing with Con
gress. become a good herdsman.
He is going slow, I am glad to
say, about making appointments;
has adopted David Crockett’s
motto: “Be sure you are right
and then go ahead.” Indeed, I
have no reason to believe other
wise than .hat the militant De
mocracy, after its long exile, will
assist and aid the President to
carry out his program and make
hi- glorious vision as portrayed in
his inaugural address a reality.
I shall, what little time I have
left, in this world, watch with
deep interest and concern his suc
cess or failure. lam sure, if ho
does fail, it will be due to the
Congress and not to him. I ap
peal to all Democrats to throw
aside selfish ambitions and im
pulses, and let us all unite and
work for the good of this great
Republic”
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