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SPRAYING FRUIT TREES.
The rapid increase of fungi and Insects
preying upon the trees and fruits of our
orchards within recent years make it
incumbent upon the orchardlst, whether
he be large or small grower, to resort to
th* use of insecticides. As to whether it
will pay or not to spray our fruit trees at
this season of the year has been long ans
wered tn the affirmative, hence there is no
need to enter upon any argument of tne
question. Our orchards have become in
fested with these destructive diseases
through the importation of infected fruit
trees prior to passage of stringent laws
requiring all fruit trees which come into
the state to bear a certificate of inspec
tion from the state entomologist of the
Ftate from where the trees are shipped,
and requiring all nurseries in this state
to be inspected by State Entomologist
Scott at least once a year. The evil is
now being properly combatted, and the
whole work of eradication Is being carried
on with state assistance backed by the
energetic exertions of the growers. It is
Just as important to spray an orchard
of 50 trees as it is one containing thou
sands of trees. The small grower is Just
as much entitled to fine, perfectly formed
fruit as the large grower, and It is to
that class especially the Information con
tained in this article is directed.
Bordeaux Mixture.
As a preventive of all kinds of fungus
parasites, the bordeaux mixture has been
long regarded as the best and most effect
ive preparation yet discovered. The chief
points in its favor are its thorough ef
fectiveness as a fungicide its cheapness,
it* safety from a hygienic standpoint, its
harmlessness to the sprayed- plants, and
its beneficial effects on plants generally.
The best results have been obtained
from what Is known as the 60-gallon
formula of the preparation.
In order that the formula may be fully
and correctly given, the recipe as stated
by the United States department of ag
riculture is quoted as follows:
The preparation contains when mixed:
Water. M gallons; copper sulphate, <
pounds; unslaked lime. 4 pounds.
In a barrel or other suitable vessel place
5 gallons of water. Weigh out C pounds
of copper sulphate, then tie the same in a
piece of coarse gunny sack and suspend it
Just beneath the surface of the water. By
tying the bag to a stick laid across the
top of the barrel ** D**<ber attention will
be required.
In another vessel slake 4 pounds of lime,
■sing care in order to obtain a smooth
peste. free from grit and small lumps.
*l% accomplish this it Is best to place the
lime in an ordinary water pail and add
only a small quantity of water at first,
say a quart or a quart and a half. When
the lime begins to crack and crumble and
the water to disappear add anotbe? quart
or more, exercising care that the lime
at no time gets too dry. Toward the last
considerable water will be required, but
it added carefully and slowly a perfectly
smooth paste will be obtained, provided,
of course the lime is of good quality.
When the lime is slaked add sufficient
water to the paste to bring the whole up
to 25 gallons. When the copper sulphate
is entirely dissolved and the lime is cool,
poqr the lime milk and copper sulphate
solution slowly together into a barrel hold
ing Sh gallons.
"The milk of lime should be thoroughly
stirred before pouring. The mtehod de
scribed Insures good mixing, but to com
plete the work the barrel of liquid should
receive a final stirring, for at least three
minutes, with a broad wooden paddle. It
is now necessary to determine whether the
mixture is perfect, that is. if it is safe
to apply it to tender foliage. Tb accom
plish this, a simple test may be used. In
sert the blade of a common knife In the
mixture and allow it to remain there for
at least one minute. If metallic copper
forms on the blade, that is. if the polished
surface of the steel assumes the color
of copper plate, the mixture is unsafe
and more lime must be added.
“If. on the other hand, the blade of the
knife remains unchanged, it Is safe to
conclude that the mixture is as perfect
ss it can be made." Spraying should com
mence when the bud begins to swell, and
at intervals of from 10 to 15 days,
until at least five or six applications have
been made. Where there is danger from
the codling moth and other insects dam
aging the fruit. Paris green or London
purple should be added after the first ap-
BLOOD TAINT i.
tThe man whose system Is polluted with
blood poison was for a long time consid
ered to hare a dark future, for among
those physicians who had not given the
subject constant study and research this
disease was considered incurable. I had
an abiding belief that science was able to
provide a cure, however, and after years
of experience with ths disease, devoted
to its close study, my efforts were re
warded with success and some of the
worst cases on record have yielded to my
original method of treatment. If you
have been dosed on orastlc drugs, you
will immediately see the superiority of
my treatment, for I do not saturate the
system with potash and mercury, the ef
fects of which are as damaging to the
__ uATuiu/iV system as the disease itself. My treatment
Dn. naiHAWAT, promptly dispels all outward signs of the
disease, and gradually cleanses the blood
of the last vestige of taint, the cure is permanent, and the disease is not
constantly breaking out again. My specialty also includes all chronic dis
eases, such as Stricture. Varicocele, Loss of Vigor. Bladder and Kidney
Diseases, etc., and I invite consultation, either at my office or by mall. Send
for book and symptom blanks, mailed free tn plain envelope. Correspond
ence confidential.
«l. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D.
C Inman Building. 8 South Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga.
plication at the rate of four ounces to
50 gallons of the mixture. If prompt, ef
fective measures are taken, any kind of
fruit can be preserved from the attacks
of insects and fungi diseases.
We often find our apples, pears, peach
es, quinces and plums defective after they
ripen, and full of worms. If the bordeaux
mixture is applied early to the blossoms,
and later the Paris green Is auded to the
mixture, the fruit will mature sound and
delicious. A spray pump can be bought
for a small sum and the entire work done
at but little cost. It has come to be a
necessity and the sooner every man who
owns sn orchard fits up a spraying appa
ratus and gets his mixtures In shape for
spraying, the better.
HARVIE JORDAN.
INQUIRY DEPARTMENT.
W. G. 8., Westminster, 8. C.:
Please give tne recipe for making graft
ing wax through the columns of The Semi-
Weekly Journal, at your earliest con
venience.
Answer: Take equal parts of rosin,
beeswax and tallow and melt together,
stirring the ingredients well while melt
ing. As the mass cools down knead it
thoroughly with the hands.
J. T., Jefferson. Ga.:
* have enjoyed reading your "Talks to
Farmers" and would be ever so much
obliged to you to answer thees for me. I
have a young mare which is a little both
ered with sweeney in her right shoulder,
can you offer some remedy by which I
can relieve it? Is the disease curable?
What causes it? She is very free, and a
good animal.
Answer: Sweeney is a wasting away
of the muscles pt the shoulder, and is
thought to be caused by some disease in
the foot or leg. Examine the leg and foot
of your horse and see if you can find out
the origin of the trouble. Apply to the
shoulder soft soap with a little salt added
four or five times a week and rub the
affected part well. This simple remedy
will give relief and may effect a cure.
There is perhaps more merit in the rub
bing than anything else, unless you can
trace and cure the foundation of the
trouble in the leg or foot.
A. H- McC.. Blackwells. Ga.:
I have a piece of mediumly dark mulatto
land that I wisfi to plant in cotton. Will
you please advise me what kind of seed to
plant? The frost sometimes injures a late
variety here. To plant King’s would it
pay to get his reimproved seed? They
seem to run out after a few years.
The land was sowed in sorghum last
year and turned in January. I am thinking
of putting 200 pounds of 10-2-2 fertiliser
deep in the ground and 200 more with the
seed. Do you think this would be advisa
ble?
Answer—lt always pays to get the best
Improved varieties of seed for planting
any crop. King's early Improved variety of
cotton seed, if planted the latter part of
next month ought to easily mature before
frost in your section of the state. It is
not desirable to place fertllsers for cotton
too deep in the soil. The fertilisers Should
be well mixed with the soil in the furrbw
and if put in with a distributor, should
not be over an inch below the seed bed.
With only 400 pounds per acre I do not
think you will get any better results from
dividing the amount into two separate ap
plications, than from putring in the whole
amount just before planting.
A. B. T., Rockwell, Fla.:
Please give me In your asked and an
swered column of Semi-Weekly Journal
what information you might know in re
gard to the wells on farms and other
places in Kansas and other prairie states.
As to kind of earth they may have to go
through, average depths and if they are
dug or driven, etc.
Answer—Windmills are largely used in
all the prairie states to supply the farms
with water, some pumping up the water
from shallow wells not more than 30 to 40
feet deep, while others are bored to a
depth of from 200 to 500 feet. The variety
of soils, rock through which
borings are made ior artesian water va
ries with the different formations and
stratas which underlie the surface. In
some cases the formation is of lime or
sand and in others granite and different
kinds of rock are bored through after the
top surface has been
Subscriber, Clarkston, Ga.:
I see you have a column In your valua
ble paper devoted to the farming interest,
especially as to answering questions. As
a farmer and a subscriber of the daily I
feel Justified in writing as regards the
sowing of oats. I bought my seed first of
January, was advised by Colonel Redding,
of the Experiment station to wait till
«tt) of February. I did- so, and since
then have not. on account of the wet
lands, been able to plow a furrow, nor
will I be able to plow any in ten days if
it should rain any more. Yesterday and
this morning were very heavy indeed.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA,, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1902.
DR. PARKS ANSWERS OBJECTIONS
TO STATE INEBRIATE ASYLUM
To the Editor of The Journal:
I feel very much gratified and encour
aged since the Atlanta Journal has so
strongly indorsed my effort in presenting
the great need of an inebriate sanitarium
for the state of Georgia. In fact, it has
become proverbial that when The Journal
voices a cause and an enterprise, that it
voices the people, proving its policy is the
interest and welfare of the public at large.
The comments in favor of such an insti
tution from some of our most prominent
and well-known citizens indicates, also,
that the people are well awake on the
subject, and all that Is needed is action.
It cannot be expected that any city in
the state will give the land necessary, nor
the legislature make suitable appropria
tions for an inebriate sanitarium unless
the practical workings ot such an institu
tion, and the actual results obtained, are
clearly shown.
As indicated before, a well-regulated
and modernly equipped hospital is the
first essential in treating inebriety, which
is thought by many to be a disease.
Whether it is a disease or not, it is cer
tainly an abnormal condition, without
a definitely located microbe or germ, and
this makes the victim more dependent, for
specific medicines cannot be applied to the
abnormal conditions which are manifested
in so many symptoms of inebriety. To il
lustrate: Two young men were admitted
at the same time into a certain inebriate
sanitarium for treatment. It was fourid
from the history of one of the young men
that he had contracted the habit very
gradually, by taking the occasional socia
ble glass; he was dismissed in eight
months, cured, by exercise, some medicine,
kind treatment, etc.
The history of the other was very dif
ferent, for it was ascertained that he
drank all kinds of intoxicants heroically
from the very first, and as a consequence,
he was maniacal with murderous ten
dences. After being in the institution 15
months, a surgical operation was found
necessary, and as the result, a splcula
of bone was found, reaching down in
the front part of the brain, from an in
jury he had received on his head several
years previous. After the removal of the
WATTERSON’S SCATHING REBUKE
OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELI
WASHINGTON, March 25.-Col, Henry
Watterson, of Kentucky, delivered the
principal speech last night before the
biennial banquet of the Virginia Demo
cratic association, held in the dining room
of the Metropolitan hotel.
He administered a scathing rebuke to
President Roosevelt, the administration,
Geweral Funston and others, in part, he
spoke as follows:
"We are Democrats. We love our coun
try. Our hearts beat true to its institu
tions. We would rescue the government
from the hands of those who are con
verting it into a government of the trusts
for the trusts and by the trusts, and re
store it to the hands of those who will
have some regard for the rights of the
people. The Republican party is a syn
dicated party. Arbitrary power is its
motor, the almighty dollar its trade
mark. If it be not checked in the gait it
is going, it will in the end surely Mexl
canize the republic.
"Once again in the white house we have
the man on horseback. Affecting the sim
plicity of the cowboy, he conceals beneath
the self-confidence and queer manners of
the broncho buster, the sentiments and
emotions, if not the talents, of a Diaz.
“To him a little thing like treating an
admiral of the navy, wearing the laurel
leaves of imperishable renown, as if he
were a baby in arms, now to be dandled
and now to be spanked, is merely an un
dress affair begun and ended during oft
moments between breakfast and luncheon.
To. him, the reprimanding of the lieuten
ant general of the army, grown gray in
the fighting of the battles of his country,
becomes an amusing horseplay, meant to
relax his muscles and illustrate his high
mightiness, whilst warning lesser officers
of the army to obey orders and say noth
ing. As these things go forward, par
taking somewhat of the character of feats
to divert and blinds to hoodwink public
opinion, a bill of army reorganization is
prepared and urged upon congress which,
if it becomes a law, will make the power
of the president absolute, and which it is
not too much to say ought to be entitled,
‘An act to make the president of the Uni
teu States a military dictator.’ Because
he reprimanded the lieutenant general for
answering Jhe summons of a committee
of congress, as was his duty, expresses
an opinion adverse to this bill, it is pro
posed to retire him from the service.
Taken in connection with some other
matters of more or less sinister sugges
tion, there are menaces of most ominous
import.
“But, turn from the w’hite house to the
capitol and look at the Republicans in
congress.
“The trail of the trademark is over them
all. Old high tariff dances the can-can in
the house, while old ship subsidy does
the regular cakewalk in the senate.
Please give your candid opinion as what is
best to do.
Answer —If you could have planted your
oats by the 20th of February or even the
latter part of that month In rich land a
good crop of light spring oats could have
been harvested with good seasons in May
and June. The chances now are that the
crop planted this late will hardly pay you,
unless we have a wet May and your Jand
is unusually fertile or highly manured.
You would have to sow from, three to four
bushels per acre as the plants would not
have the opportunity to spread or turf out.
Planting now would be experimental with
but little prospect of making anything
but a crop to be mowed for hay.
POLITICS IN JACKSON COUNTY;
MR. RAINEY MAY RUN
JEFFERSON, Ga., March B.—Politics in
this Jackson county, are beginning to
be discussed pro and con. Several candi
dates for the legislature have already an
nounced and others are being prominently
mentioned.
Among the probable candidates Is Mr.
H. N. Rainey. Jr., of Mulberry, son of
Rev. H. N. Rainey. He Is one of the most
promising young men of the county and
would make one of the best representa
tives that could be selected. He was
raised on the farm and not afraid to
work in any capacity in which he Is
placed. He Is a young man of fine judg
ment and thoroughly qualified in every
respect to make a safe, competent and
prudent legislator and one who would
look closely after the varied interests of
h.s constitutents. Mr. Rainey is a young
man of splendid address, open and can
did. and makes friends of all with whom
he comes .n contact. Having been a stu
dent of Mercer university and the ad
vantages of a commercial education and
training, he is well equipped for life’s
work. He is deservedly popular with the
masses and would get the almost unani
mous support of his section of the county
where the people all know him.
Mr. Rainey has always been a strong
Democrat, rendering valuable aslstance
to his party and helping it to win suc
cess here when the opposition has been
strong and active. Should he conclude
to enter the race, he will develop a
strength among the voters that will, his
many friends result in his nomina
tion in the coming primary by an over
whelming majority. The political pot will
boll for the next few months her* and a
lively campaign Is expected.
foreign bone, he made a quick and per
manent recovery. These two cases illus
trate that inebriety is an abnormal con
dition with all kinds of manifestations,
requiring the most delicate treatment and
consideration, which can be successfully
given only in an institution with facilities
to meet the varous demands and condi
tions.
Dr. E. Park Gioson, of Milledgeville,
Ga., sfiys to maintain an inebriate sanita
rium would be an unnecessary tax on the
people of Georgia. His argument contra
dicts itself, for he says our state "lunatic
asylum is Imposed upon by incompetent
jurors or kind-hearted men.” He evidently
means by sending the inebriate to the in
sane asylum, for there is no alternative
for the incompetent jurors or kind-hearted
men. This is one and the main reason
why we wish to establish an Inebriate
asylum in Georgia, in order that the in
ebriate may be not only humanely treat
ed, but restored, as Dr. Powell says, to
society and family, thereby saving the
state actual money in maintaining him
as a hopeless lunatic.
Dr. Gibson’s method of treating the
drunkards as he calls them, to "sweat
it out in the chaingang” calls to mind a
case that came under my observation a
few years ago. I received a note written
by a mother, no doubt with trembling
hand and bleeding heart, asking me to call
to see her son who was somewhere In the
city chaingang; she was afraid he was
sick. Through professional courtesy. I
looked up the physician who attended the
city’s prisoners, and after traversing the
city, we found, among a squad of con
victs who had taken temporary refuge
in a horse stable from a terrific thunder
storm, the object of our search, the moth
er’s son, who was pointed out, and on ex
amination, we found his temperature 103,
very nervous and almost exhausted from
the effects of a debauch that had caused
him to be sentenced as a convict in the
chaingang.
I secured his release as soon as possible
by paying a fine for him, and soon after
death released from him the chains of
inebriety. This 18 one of the many hun
dreds of unfortunates that Dr. Gibson
would have to sweat it out by working in
Everything for the syndicates. Nothing
for the people.
“And, not content with their arbitrary
power in the white house afld their
mercenary power in congress, the lead
ers of this party of federalism and false
pretension would rip open Pandora’s box
to filch thence the black, piratical flag of
negro domination—the equally disreputa
ble and bloody shirt of sectional agita
tion—and, in order to make sure of the
next house, they are proposing to bring
forward another force bill to smite the
south, to blight the north and to con
vert a land teeming with love and peace
into a land reeking with hate and strife.
Such is the banquet to which the exit of
McKinley, the statesman, and the advent
of Roosevelt, the rough rider, has invited
us.
"I am something of a jingo myself. I
believe in the expanding greatness and
glory of my country. I never see the
flag floating above the dome on yonder
DOOL rs MAGNIFICENT SHOWING.
BY PROF. WM. P. FLEMING.
Recent government reports afford some
gratifying Information with reference to
this community and this section of the
state. The following statements, which
may be easily verified, are submitted for
what they are worth.
The mortality report from Washington,
D. C., witnesses to Cordele’s having the
lowest death rate of any city in Georgia.
This is very strong evidence that health
conditions here approach the ideal. The
report from the state agricultural depart
ment, with reference to the fertility of
our soli, Is eminently satisfactory. Dooly
county produced, in 1889. 1,425 500-pound
bales of cotton more than the following
18 counties combined: Bryan, Catoosa,
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the chaingang.
Dr. T. O. Powell, superintendent of the
Georgia lunatic asylum, a man who has
done more fqr suffering humanity than
almost any one in the state, and is recog
nized as one of Georgia's greatest bene
factors, and who has been for years a
trusted state officer, says that he has, for
many years called the attention of the
general assembly to the great need of an
inebriate sanitarium in the state of Geor
gia. /
As he is in a position to know whereof
he speaks, there is no longer any doubt
as to Georgia’s crying need.
WILLIS B. PARKS, M. D.
DR. PARKS’ SUGGESTION
ENDORSED BY GOOD WOMEN
To the Editor of The Journal:
Dr. Willis B. Parks struck the key note
when he said Georgia’s crying need was
an asylum for inebriates. He is one of
the best read young physicians in the
south, and his extensive practice and wide
experience has taught him that our em
pire state of the south has as great need
for this institution as she has for the halls
of Justice, or for a reformatory for boys.
The old Atlanta Woman’s Christian Tem
perance Union endorses evepy word Dr.
Parks says, and we will reiterate Mrs.
Felton’s words: "The women will all
heW’ for is it not the helpless women
ana the innocent children who are the
greatest sufferers from this awful drink
habit; and we would add that when this
sanitarium is built, that a part of it be
reserved for the treatment of the boys
who are killing themselves smoking cig
arettes.
MRS. JL’LTETT NIX. President.
MRS. H. F. ELLINGTON,
Vice President Old Atlanta W. C. T. U.
THAT HACKING COUGH
is' a source of annoyance to yourself and
others, as well as of distress. By taking a
teaspoonful of Painkiller in half a glass of
warm water or milk every hour or two, you
will be surprised to find how quickly the
cough will disappear. Insist upon getting
the genuine. Sold in two sizes. Price 25c.
and 60c. Avoid substitutes, there is but one
Pain-Killer, Perry Davis’.
capltol that my heart does not throb with
the proud, glad thought—that <ny eyes
do not fill with happy exultant tears—tnat
I, too, am an American citizen. God
bless the flag, and God bless the boys
that fight beneath It. I would carry it
inviolate. I would keep it spotless.
“And, with this in view, I want to know
what is going on away out yonder across
the multitudinous, the mysterious waves
pf the Pacific sea, I want other witnesses
than self- seeking politicians and self
exploiting soldiers to come here and tell
tne. I refuse to hold my tongue. I refuse
to rest content. And, if I am told by a
whipper snapper in shoulder straps that
unless I do I am a traitor to my country,
my reply to him shall be a slap in the
face.”
Note premium fist In this Issue,
make your selection and subscribe at
once.
Charlton, Clinch, Dawson, Echols, Effing
ham, Fulton, Habersham, Liberty, Lump
kin, Murray, Pickens, Pierce, Telfair,
Ware, Wayne and White. This signifi
cance of this statement is emphasized by
the fact that the combined areas of these
counties is more than 12 times the area
of Dooly. It will be observed that of these
18 counties, eight are in north Georgia
-and 10 are in south Georgia—showing that
Dooly’s precedence is not a matter of sec
tional favoritism.
It is also true that Dooly produced
500 pound bales of cotton more than her
four neighbor counties combined: Irwin,
Coffee, Colquit, and Brooks—although the
combined areas of those four counties is
more than four times that of Dooly. It
will be observed that when the compari
son is confined to counties in South Geor
gia, the showing is not so overwhelmingly
favorable to Dooly, which speaks badly
for North Georgia.
Now, if the health conditions here are
so good and other conditions so favorable,
it would appear that people would avail
themselves of these advantages and that
the tide of population would be in this
direction. Such has been and is the case.
The increase of population in the state
since 1800 has been 328 per cent: the in
crease in Dooly county since the same
date has been 1,144 per cent. The rate of
increase in the state during the last 10
years, has been 20.6 per cent; that in
Dooly county has been 46.4 per cent. Ac
cording to the last census the largest per
centages qf increase were shown by the
following counties: Colquitt, Irwin, Tatt
nall. Laurens, Johnson, Worth, Telfair,
Berrien and Montgomery. It happens that
all these counties are in South Georgia
and that Dooly is in the midst of them.
On the other hand, the census reveals
that of the 137 counties in the state, nine
had decreased in population during the
last decade. It happens that these nine are
in North Georgia—the one nearest to Cor
dele being about one hundred miles to
ward the north, as the crow flies. Dooly,
Wilcox, Worth and -Irwin are adjoining
counties and their average increase, dur
ing the last ten years, has been 64 per
cent, as compared with 20.6 per cent for
the state—the ratio being more than 3 to 1
in favor of this immediate section. Dooly,
together with the eight counties that
bound it, made an average Increase during
the last ten years of 29.4 per cent—showing
9 per cent above the average of the state
and a large per cent in favor of Dooly as
compared with some of her immediate
neighbor counties. The average Increase
in the 60 counties on and south of an
east and west line passing through Bibb
was 29.5 per cent—showing unmistakably
that North Georgia’s loss has been South
Georgia's gain. Since the ten years in
crease in Dooly was 46.4 per cent and
that in all South Georgia was 29.5 per cent,
it is evident that Dooly has been regarded
by the incoming people as offering supe
rior inducements to those offered by most
other South Georgia counties.
This county is .sometimes referred to as
“the State of Dooly,” because of its size.
The impression prevails with some of our
friends who live even within a few hours
journey toward the north, that Dooly is
sparsely settled by pale-people-on-the-po
tato-diet. Not so. The average number of
people to the square mile in Georgia is 37.5.
This is also the average in Dooly county.
The average population of the counties
in Georgia is 16,177; the population of Doo
ly is 26,567—64 per cent above the average,
and there are 17 counties in Georgia each
of which is very much larger than Dooly
eight of which have an average of 50 per
cent greater area each than has Dooly.
Our friends among the hills and gullies
are sadly deluded who fancy that Dooly
county is a vast expanse of miasma
breeding marshes. The soil is not course
white sand that groans to grow a sprig
of wiregrass. The fields are not in con
stant upheaval by burrowing salamanders.
Reliable citizens of the county would, I be
lieve, make affidavit that they have not
seen a horned malarial germ since the
war.
Time was. Indeed, when "Dooly” was a
by-word—when to tell a man to "go to
Dooly” was, to say the least, suggestive
of pyrotechnics and, in no way, to be in
terpreted as evidencing affectionate inter
est. That time Is past—long past.
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SUGGESTIONS FROM I
Mi*
OUR CORRESPONDENTS I
CANDIDATE W. B. MERRITT
DEFINES HIS POSITION
VALDOSTA. Ga., March 20, 1902.
To the Editor of The Journal:
On February 17th a statement appeared
in your paper in regard to my position on
the state uniformity schoolbook question.
The statement is entirely unauthorized,
and I do not know from whom your re
porter could have received such informa
tion. I saw it at the time, and did not in
tend to refer to it, but this statement has
been widely copied, and other ainauthor
ized statements about my position on this
question have been printed in various pa
pers in the state; therefore, I wish to de
fine my position clearly on this question
in your pap£r, since The Journal was the
first paper I have seen that made an ef
fort to give my position on this sftbject.
In my opinion, state uniformity has both
advantages and disadvantages. Many of
its opponents claim that state uniformity
will not cheapen school books. They are
wrong in this, and have been proved to
be wrong in half a dozen state adoptions.
State uniformity will cheapen books and
will unify the work of the country schools
to a considerable extent. It has disadvan
tages, however, from an educational
standpoint, in that it may unify'the work
in a state system of schools to an extent
that is really harmful and hurtful. Diver
sification of methods and of school books
is as Important in school "matters to obtain
the best results as it is important for
farmers to diversify their crops and cul
tivate such crops as are best adapted to
the soil.
If any system of state uniformity should
be adopted in Georgia, unquestionably all
communities that levy a special local tax
to support their schools and have school
terms longer than those supported by the
state alone, should be exempt from the
operation of any state uniformity act.
When any community, whether it be
county, city, town or school district, is
willing to tax itself for a longer school
term, it should have all the encourage
ment and latitude possible in the manage
ment of its own affairs.
My position is, and has been all the time,
however, that the school laws of Georgia
can be much better administered than
they have been recently, whether there
are any changes in existing laws or not.
It is easy for any one to say he could
accomplish wonderful results provided he
could get such legislation as he wanted. I
realize that the state school commissioner
has no voice in legislative matters, except
in an advisory capacity. If the majority of
the people of Georgia want state uniform
ity, they can undoubtedly get it by in
structing their representatives in the leg
islature to vote for it. If elected state
school commissioner, I shall certainly not
lobby for or against any bill on the sub
ject, but should be glad at all times to
give any Information possible to such
members of the general assembly as might
ask it—l mean information on both sides
of this question.
‘ I do not consider state uniformity of
school books the paramount issue of this
campaign. It may be all that is claimed
for it by its advocates—that it would
cheapen books and unify the system, mak
ing it possible to have a uniform course
of study tn the various counties.
It is not, however, a panacea for all out
ills. Even if it should be passed by the
next legislature and enforced to the letter,
and our other school laws be administered
as they are now administered, the educa
tional situation in Georgia would not be
relieved one iota> \
There are other and greater issues in
volved in this campaign than that of uni
form textbooks. While many of its advo
cates claim that it will cure all our His,
that it is the "sine qua non” of educa
tional success, I cannot agree with them
to this extent. I am perfectly willing that
state uniformity should be tried in Geor
gia if applied only to those schools that
are supported entirely from the state fund,
but I am unwilling to put myself in the
position of holding the schoolbook ques
tion to be of such importance that it
should be considered to the extent of neg
lecting all other matters, many of wjiich
I think more important.
Georgia can have a magnificent system
of state schools either with or without
state uniformity. The question of how or
by whom the school books are selected in
the state has nothing to do with the edu
cational results. Those states which have
the best public school systems have wide
ly varying school book laws. Ohio and
some other states have splendid systems
of ’public schools under county and city
uniformity laws. Pennsylvania. Massa
chusetts and most of the other New Eng
land states have splendid systems of pub
lic schools under the free textbook law
adopted by local district school boards.
Again. North Carolina, Tennessee and
Louisiana have state uniformity of school
books laws, and I am not at all sure that
the system of schools in these states is
any better than it is here in Georgia.
Florida has a county uniformity law;
Mississippi, like Georgia, has county uni
formity laws, but the cities and towns in
these two states make separate adoptions
if they so desire. Alabama has no general
textbook law at all, each teacher using
whatever books he desires, except In a
few counties that have local acts, and in
the cities which have local systems. So
far as I can learn, the public schools in
Alabama are about as efficient as in any
of the states which adjoin her, all of
which have different school book laws.
A careful investigation and study -of
these different systems has convinced me
that the mere fact of having state uni
formity like Tennessee, or county uniform
ity, like Georgia, or free textbooks select
ed by district boards, like Massachusetts,
neither adds to nor takes from a system of
public schools. Good teachers, such as we
ought to have in every school tn Georgia,
could teach successfully without any
textbooks, almost, and what textbooks
used and how they should be adopted are,
to my mind, matters of minor importance.
I am unable to see how a candidate for
the high office of state school commission
er of Georgia can possibly make state uni
formity of school books the paramount
issue in his race, no matter whether he
favors state uniformity or opposes it. If
the people of Georgia want a uniform
textbook law, all they have to do is to
elect legislators pledged to it, and I give
my promise now that I will not • lobby
against such a bill, or make speeches be
fore any committee opposing it. If I had
no higher motive in offering myself to the
people of Georgia as a candidate for the
office of state school commissioner than
to try to secure the passage of a uniform
textbook law, or to try to defeat the pass
age of such a law, I should certainly have
never entered the race. Yours truly,
W. B. MERRITT.
ONE OF LIFE’S TRAGEDIES
ENACTED NEAR ATLANTA
To the Editor of The Journal:
In a miserable little shanty, unceiled
and too well ventilated, on the outskirts
of our rich and prosperous city, a tragedy
staged in the squalid poverty of an hum
ble dwelling of the poor, has been played
to a finish—death. During all the bitter
winter just passed this tragedy scene has
been enacted in this little shanty. Two
old women, poverty, disease and death
were the actors. Death triumphed. This is
all, a common ocurrence, hardly worth
"space" in a great newspaper, but back
of this simple recital of poverty, disease
and release by death is a story as beau
tiful as the legend of Damort and Pythias.
One of these women owned the little
shanty and made a precarious living by
"taking in sewing” and doing odd jobs
for those who needed her services in
"cleaning up.” etc. The second woman
came to her to “rent a room” in her hum
ble home. It is not in evidence that she
was able to pay any "rent*” but she was
not refused the room. Sickness soon claim-,
ed the tenant woman and here began the. >
tragedy. This sickness proved to be a;
lasting one; in fact it was the most loath
some and hopeless of human maladies—
cancer. Though hard pressed to provide
food, fuel and clothing for her own chil
dren and herself, this true Samaritan, this
owner of the little shanty, that is not
ceiled and too well ventilated, gave up to.'
her helpless tenant who was a stranger
to her and who could not even pay her
rent, not only a room and bed with such,
food as she had, but nursed her dally
and nightly for long weary months, dress
ing the fonl sores that ate away the wo
man’s flesh and refused to heal. .
Finally when food and fuel were gone,
and every available “rag” had been used,
even the scanty "bedclothes,” torn into
strips, to dress the ever enlarging can
cer, she appealed to the “neighbors” for.
a little help, “Just some old clothee and*
any little ’bite’ to eat that could be read
ily spared,” was the form of her appeal.i
To be sure the neighbors did give some'
clothes to dress the sores and a little
bite to eat, a few dollars also, but this did
not lessen the ceaseless vigil of ths wo
man who owned the little shanty, nor les
sen the relentless eating of the cancer.
Finally death came and the county fur-,
nished a coffin and a grave.
Tolstoi says we deceive ourselves if we»
think we are Christians and make no
effort to mitigate the sufferings of the,
wretched. In view of this and all the facts*
above set forth, I herewith hand you, Mr.,
Editor. 51. and ask that you give it. along
with any other money that may be handed
you, to the woman who owns thei little
shanty that Is not ceiled and is too well
ventilated, and yet was cheerfully given'
as shelter to the woman who, though she}
could not pay rent, was fed and washed
and nursed till she died.
The little shanty is at the intersection
of Lucile avenue and Gordon street. The
woman who owns it is a Mrs. Gann, a wid
ow with children. Very respectfully,
W. H. WHITEHEAD.
Atlanta, Ga.
CORRECTS MRS. FELTON
AS TO SCHOOL FIGURES
To the Editor of The Journal: •
In an article in The Journal last Batur-.
day, 15th Inst, Mrs. W. H. Felton publish
es a letter from an unnamed correspond
ent in which the charge is made that one
school teacher near Godfrey, Ga.. has for
several years been paid SSOJX) per month
and that she has never had more thani
two or three scholars to teach; and that l
another in an adjoining county was paid'
345.00’a month for teaching a like number.;
I have a niece, a graduate of the Girls’
High school in Atlanta, who has been
teaching near Godfrey for five years. I'
clipped Mrs. Felton’s letter from The
Journal and sent it to her and asked for'
the facts. From her reply just received!
I quote as follows:
"The clipping you sent me yesterday not
only aucceded in making me very indig
nant but raised somewhat of a storm
among several of the teachers in and.
around Godfrey. It is absolutely without'
foundation, and I am sure any person who
knows anything at all about the school
system of Georgia will realize that fact
at once. '
"I know personally every teacher in’
Morgan and Putnam counties, also some
in Jasper. There is not one in the crowd,*
who gets as much as fifty dollars per.
month, unless her school is large enough'
to require an assistant. My school is one
of the three smallest schools in this coun
ty and I have never had less than fifteen
pupils and then only for a snort while. J
"My salary is greater than most lady;
teachers near here get on account of my;
having had the school five years, but it is
less than fifty dollars.”
I know that Mrs. Felton would not know-,
ingly publish an untrue statement and I
think it due the public that she publish
the name of her correspondent and call
upon him to prove his assertions.
W. P. BURT, D. D. 8.
Atlanta, Ga.
THE EXACT FACTS ABOUT
JEFFERSON DAVIS’ BIRTHPLACE
To tbe Editor of The Journal:
In recent issues of the Journal I observe
some timely notices and comment anent the
birth place of Jefferson Davis, and as most,'
or all of your readers should desire to know
all the exact facta, as well as some
listed ones, I deem it a duty and pleasure
to furnish you herewith, as X lived in and
near the town of Fairview, Ky.. from 1846 to
1866, and have been in the house where ha
was born a hundred times. <No exaggeration,;
as my sweetheart lived there.) The statement,
of Mrs. H. K. Wade, in the Journal of the,
28th ult-. is not quite correct. The house was.
not a "cabin,” neither a two-story house, as
her mother "recollects.” I send you herewith
a correct picture of the house in. which Davis
was born, also of the magnificent church edi
fice now standing on the site of the old Davis l
residence removed, also the picture of Mr. I
Davis as he was presenting thia lot to the
church, together with his own modest but
magnanimous words, and other historic facts
Los interest not widely known as they de
serve. I was present there last September and
can testify as an eye witness.
My father was a senior deacon of old Bethel
church from 1847 to his death. I also became
a member in 1852, and my brother. Dr. J. B.
Moody, now pastor of First Baptist church
Hot Springs. Ark., a year or two later. Dr.
J. M. Pendleton, and other distinguished mtn-j
isters. also Bethel College, of Russellville, Ky.,
and Bethel Female College, of Hopkinsville,
are the children of old Bethel church, as also
many other churches that "swarmed out,"
gnd finally formed the great Bethel Associa
tion which has supported her own mission
aries since the forties. I mention this to
prove how God keeps his promise to "honor
those who honor his Son."
I beg the privilege here to state a beau-'
tiful unwritten incident tn the life of Jefferson,
Davis, which occurred about 1874-5, when Mr.
Davis went to Hopkinsville, county seat of
Christian, to address the citizens of his
native county at the county fair. The citi
zens of Fairview, his birthplace, ten miles
east of Hopkinsville, invited Mr. Davis to a
banquet given In his name, at the old Davis,
homestead, by all sects and sorts, in politics
and religion. In fact the “Union" citizens
seemed to lead in the movement. They bought
a SSO goldheaded cane for him. Mr. Nelson
Wade, a cabinetmaker and expert polisher,, ,
made a strong cane from a black locust tree
planted by Jeff Davis's father in the yard,'
and put in the gold head on it, which was
presented formally to Mr. Davis by an ex
federal soldier with touching words of ma«r
nanimfty and good will, in keeping with the
noble example of the good-hearted General
Grant at Appomattox (too familiar to men
tion). In accepting this cane made by the
Federal citizen. Wade, from a tree planted by
the hand of his own father, and presented by
a Federal soldier who once would have de
lighted to kill him, and at the very spot where
he first saw the light of day, of course >
brought tears to the eyes of the great ex
chieftaln and in response he said (in sub
stance), with other things characteristic of the
man: That life had been compared to a
circuit, and he felt on that most auspicious
occasion to say that he felt he had about
completed the long eventful and tiresome cir
cuit. and if it were only the divine will, he
would then and there most cheerfully, since
he had seen such evidences of reconciliation,
and peace with men and his Maker, take up
the exclamation of good old Simeon and say,
"Now let thy servant depart in peace!"
F. B. MOODY.
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