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Must Have Clear Land Titles
. Georgia must have clear and unquestioned land titles for the
foundation of a substantial and efficient system of rural credits. There
are no more productive or valuable farm lands in the country than
those of this state; and the one great trouble with them, as a basis for
credits, is that in many instances titles have become clotded, some
times seriously, but more often in some slight technical manner, re
sulting from failure fully to comply with Georgia’s intricate and deep
ly involved legal requirements, covering this question.
This important probiem would have been completely solved if
the house of representatives could have found time for consideration
and enactment of the Torrens land registration measure introduced in
the sevate by Judge L. Sweat, of Waycross, representing the fifth
district, and passed by that body. The senate committee gave the
measure, although a long and intricate one, full and careful considera
tion, and saw that it was adapted to Georgia’s needs. Unfortunately,
in the closing hours, with numerous other measures demanding its at
tention, the house did not have the time to give to the proper consi
deration of this measure; but through the efforts of Judge Sweat ai
splendid foundation has been laid tor this much-needed legislation, |
which is practically sure to be enacted into law at the next legislative
session.
The Torrens system of land title registration was investigated
vears ago by a special committee from the Georgia Bar association,
following which that association strongly recommended its adoption
by the legislature. This indorsement of the state bar was followed by
the appointment of a commission by Governor Terrell, of which Judge
Sweat was chairman at the time when the final report was made pre
senting a bill adapted to the conditions in Georgia. Since that time
Judge Sweat has been deeply interested in this question, regarding it
as a piece of legislation which will bring untold benefit to the state,
The enactment of a land registration bill would not only speedily
adjud.cate and settle in favor of the true owner the title of every farm
and piece of real estate in Georgia, but would make them available as
security for loans, where desired, even to the utmost limit. Under
the present system not only is the land owner put to a great expense
for title investigation in the case of every transaction involving his
holdings, but 1n perhaps as many as 50 per cent of the cases some
slight technicality is brought to light to create doubt, While these
techuicalities may never affect actual ownership, they necessarily re
sult in weakening the security.
Under the Tocrens land title registration system this expense and
these technicalities would be done away with. In making a sale or
negotiating a loan, a simple certificate of the registered title is ob
tained from the clerk cof the court by the owner, and this 1s accepted
without question, as the state’s indorsement of registration in favor of
the true owner of it.
Georgia tust adopt and put into effect such a system as this be
fore she can hope for the establishment of a satisfactory and efficient
~ystem of rural credits, Rural credits may come today or tomorrow,
but generally speaking, there can never be established between bor
rower and lender that feeling of absolute security which will unques
tionably come when the state undertakes to indorse the true owner
ship of land.— Atlanta Constitution,
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1915
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Wesley R. Walker Headslmpertant Committee
Representative W.R. Walker was made chairman of the
committee on Couuties and county affiairs as a result of the sud
den illness of the Hon. Wm. Rushin, former chairman of this im
portant comniittee. Mr. Rushin had an attack of paralysis of the
brain and is under treatment at the hospital in Atlanta. The
friends of Mr. Walker while regretting the misfortune of his
colleague, are gratified that as vice chairman of this committee,
he was thus in line for promotion. Since all county legislation
has to come before this committee it is apparent that itis one of
the busiest assignments to be filled. ;
Every Child A Citizen
How one community trains its children for the responsibilities of
citizenship is described in a bulletin just issued by the U. S. Bureau
of Education on *‘Civic Education in Elementary Schools as Illustrat
ed in Indianapohs.”
““The practice 1n the Indianapolis schools,” says Arthur W. Dunn
author of the bulletin, “is to help the pupil to understand the nature
of his own commumty hfc, his dependence upon it, and his responsi
bility for it; to develop a right attitude toward government as the
means by which all members of the community may cooperate for the
common interest; and to cultivate habits of right action as a member
of the community.
The bulletin emphasizes the fact that ‘‘civics is not taught as a
separate subject until the eighth grade, but that civic education is a
phase of all the work of the school. The aim seems to be to make of
education, not a process of instruction in & variety of subjects, but a
pr(:icess’ of growth, during which the various relations of life are un
folded,”
| Incidentally it is pointed out that ‘‘there is no ‘subject’ of ethics
or moral education in the Indianapolis schools, but the direct mora
training afforded by the course here outlined is peculiarly virile, So,
also, while there is no attempt to give direct vocation training in the
strict sense of this term, nor even any organized form of ‘vocational
guidance.” nevertheless the fact is always taken into account that the
citizens must be a worker and the worker a citizen.
Instruction through the course of study is, however, only a part
of the training for citizenship given in these schools. ‘*An understand
ing of community life and of government,” declares Mr. Dunn, *‘is
fruitless without the cultivation of qualities and habits of good citizen
ship. Instruction and training must go hand in hand. The later is
largely a matter of practice. ‘‘Pupil participation in school manage
ment is a verv real thing in Indianapolis, and in some schools it is
carried to a high degree of effectiveness, It manifests itself in the
!method of preparing and conducting recitations; in the care of school
property; in protecting the rights of younger children; in maintaining
}the sanitary conditions of the building and grounds; in beautifying
school grounds; in the making of repairs and equipment for ‘our
school;” in fact, in every aspect of the school life.
The importance of arousing a personal interest of the child in civic
affairs and duties cannot be overestimated. Fitzgerald like al! other
cities has among its children some whose home influence is not strong
enough to fully perform its duty 1n forming higher ideals for citizen
ship and for these the school should especially perform this service.
The lack of this collateral branch of education is plainly indicated by
the many boys in the city whose deliberate acts of wrong doing, in
dicate a lack of traming in the duties and ideals of good citizenship,
Every teacher is responsible, morally responsible for the future con
duct of the children in his or her charge during any period in their
lives. The respect for law and the rights of property are two lessons
that should form part of the daily program to be taught in the
school room and practiced by teachers and pupils alike.
~ The German Reply.
The reply of the German Government to the note sent by
President Wilson has at last reached official Washington. Its
contents are about what in all fairness could have been expected.
Full repentance about the fated Lusitania but denying the moral
responsibility for the act. The German government makes fair
proposals to protect the iuterest of Americans and the lives of
citizens of the Unlted States on the sea. It requests assurance
that vessels carrying Americans be freeof munitions of war and
asks a guarantee from the United States to that extent. It does
not seem to us that this proposition be diffi
cult to meet if we desire to sincerely maintain our neutrality. In
the light of the treatment fof the South by the English Govern
ment the action of the German government is extremly mild and
concilliatory. England is deliberately impoverishing the South
and enriching its own manufacturers and the speculators at the ex
pense of the southern planter without right or reason, basing their
action only upon their ability to enforce their demands. Until
England recedes from its order of embargo against southern cotton
we of the South should accept whatever efforts are made by Ger
many to weaken the ‘‘Order of Council’’ as an act in defence of
the southern interestsfas well asjthat of the Fatherland. The eas
tern manufacturers and the western wheat grower, growing rich
through their war contracts, may well favor embroiling this coun
try in the European war, but the South has no part in it but to
pay the freight at home and abroad.
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Why Not Make Georgia A
Livestock And Dairy State?
NORTH CAROLINA to BE a f
LIVESTOCK and DAIRY STATE.
The increasing interest in livestock and dairying 1s one of the
finest indications of progress in North Carolina today. Look at these
signs of the new day: .
1. The willingness of tarmers to pay higher prices to get good
sires, as indicated by recent sales in this state, and by the increasing
business done by leading breeders;
2. The growth of livestock and dairy associations, as illustrated
by the increasing support given the state organizations, the formation
of county branches, and especially the organization of neighborhood
sire-owning associations;
3. Getting boys and girls interested through pig clubs;
4. The increasing tendency to substitute brood mares for mules
as work stock;
5. A recognition of the fact that cheap and abundant feed must
be the basis of success, hence the increasing use of forage and grazing
{crops the building of silos, and especially the planting of various new
crops for making cheap pork instead of depending on high-priced
corn; :
| 6. The starting of new creameries under the direction not of &
fake promoters but along the safe lizes mapped out by Agricultural
Department experts;
7. The inauguration of numerous cream routes to serve these
new creameries;
8. The revival of interest in county fairs, the exhibits of pure
bred livestock being a chief feature in nearly every case,
And all these are signs to make us rejoice. A cheese factory in
Watauga is the latest enterprise, As the Winston-Salem Journal well ;
says:
*Of old it was said that the greatest benefactor of his race was
the man who could make two blades of grass grow where one blade
grew before. Not long ago we changed it to apply to conditions ex
isting right now in North Carolina, and said that the man worth while
in this state is the man who makes two pigs squeal where only one
pig squealed before. Or it might just as well be stated that the great.
est benefactor of North Carolina right now is the man who will make |
two head of cattle grow whereonly one head grew before.”—The Pro- !
gressive Farmer,
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