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BRUCE CATTON’S COMMENT
RIS ol T e S e
Now that the smoke has cleared away at Wash
ington, it is pretty evident that the acts of the last
three months have started us off at one of the
most rapid clips we ever attained.
But it isn't yet all clear in what direction we
are going.
Maybe we are heading toward socialism; maybe
we are swinging off for state capitalism of a Kkind !
that will make Signor Mussolini’'s Fascism look
watery. Nobody can tell, today, and so far nobody
seems to care very much. The important thing is
that we are on our way. We can figure out the!
goal later, : |
That, in fact, is one of the most interesting things
about the new program. We have passed one greatl
fork in the road—we have swung away from the
free individualism of the past, and it doesn’t look{
as if we should ever go back to it—but the main!‘
fork is still ahead of us. We still have plenty of
time to decide whether we are to go on to outright |
socialism or whether we can build our next cen- |
tury of progress on a controlled, carefully regu—!
lated capitalism. {
Lump together all of those amazing recovery
measures — industrial control, farm relief, Muscle
Shoals, inflation, mortgage relief and all the rest
and you find that we haven't definitely committed
ourselves.
Capitalism gets its chance to prove that it can
lay down and follow ‘out a plan in which the in
terests of the average citizen will be fully pro
tected.
The great fields of manufacturing, transporta
tion, finance, agriculture and distribution are still
held by their originla owners. If they can produce
a satisfactory crop during the next few years, well
and good.
On the other hand, we are going to get a pretty
good idea of what the federal government can do on
its own hook. Is it * capable of running a large,
publicly-owned industry, of overseeing every sort
of commercial and financial activity, of maintain
ing decent wage levels and stabilizing money and
prices? We shall have pretty good answers to those
questions in a very few years.
Meanwhile, we are still free to make our choice.
We are not, at the moment, trying to go toward
anything; we are trying to get #way from some
thing—the depression, low wages, unemployment,
hunger, chaos, misery. Where we may fetch up, in
the end, is something for the seventh son of a
seventh son. Meanwhile, we are on our way. 5
The encouraging part about the hearings on .the
industrial recovery act now under way at Wash
ington is that practically everybody seems to rec
ognize the importance of giving the laboring man
a better break.
Those minimum wage scales may sound extreme
ly low, and there is no sense in pretending that
they are as high as we would like to see them,
but the trend they represent is a healthy one, and
the fact thatr their provisions are being written
into law sands for protection of a kind that Am
erican workingmen have not had before.
What we are doing, in a slow and round-about
manner, is to agopt the viewpoint first popularized
by Henry IFord—that industry can prosper only in
a direct ratio to the amount of money it pays out
in wages. ‘
That proposition has always been exceedingly
simple. The more money the workingman earns
the more he can spend on the things the factories
produce—that's self-evident. Yet its obvious truth
has failed, so far, to prevent § wage reductions in
this country, because there is a little catch in it.
If it is to work, it has to be applied all along the
line. No individual employer can afford to follow
it unless all of his competitors do; and in an un
regulated society there is not the slightest chance
that all of them will do so.
The measures that are being taken now do not,
as some suppose, restrict the freedom of the indus
trialist in any very genuine sense. They are in
tended to provide for him a fairly rigid basic code
of the wages he must pay and the hours he must
operate; but beyond thpt they actually set him
free in a way that he has never been set free be
fore.
He is made free, that is, to reap the advantaXe
of this simple and important little equation of Mr.
Ford's—that higher wages, in the long run, equal
higher profits. He is freed from the competition of
the sweatshop, the fly-by-night operator, the indus
trial pirate.
The economic enfranchisement of the worker is
going to mean a brighter day for the workman's
boss.
The tremendous complexity and almost over
whelming difficulties involved in.the mnew industrial
control plan grow more évident each day. It is too
early to say whether Uncle Sam has bitten off
more han he can chew, but it is pretty clear that
he has bitten off a lot more than anybody ever
dreamed of chewing before.
Study the affair from any angle you choose;
problems that look well-nigh insoluble pop up by
the handful. The real test of the “New Deal” has
not begun yet. It will come very soon, and when
it does it will bring the old and the new concep
‘ tions of American economies into a conflict sharper
ga.nd',mdre bitter than anything the country has yet
. seen.. .
- With one hand the government seeks to raise
commodity prices and wages; with the other it
seeks to restrain the rise in retail prices. It plans
to spend around $100,000,000 to get the South to
stop production on 10,000,000 acres of cotton land.
It hopes to give industry most of the advantages
of monopoly but at the same time to outlaw the
disadvanages. It seeks to unionize all labor bxt
desires to avoid industrial strife. It wants the
benefits of inflation without the disastrous conse
guences.,
All in all, it is beginning a job so stupendous
that one gets dizzy thinking about it. It has a
hundred chances to make mistakes.
And yet, however easy it may be to point out
these mistakes, however easy it may be to say that
the job is simply too big for human ingenuity—it
is as clear as daylight that nothing less than this
could have been attempted. .
We got pretty close to the jumping-off place,
last March The situation called for drastic meas
ures; the temper of the country was, and still is,
ready to support measures even more radical than
those which have been adopted. The financiers and
‘rich industrialists who are beginning to grumble
‘about these new restrictions on individual enter
prise and the profit motive ought to thank their
lucky stars that the program is as conservative as
it is.
Hard as il may be, this new set-up has simply
got to work. It may look radical, to eyves still fo
cussed on 1929; but.the one certainty in an unger
tain world is that its radicalism won’t be a patch
on the radicalism of the program that will: be
_adopted if this program fails, .
SLIGHT INCREASE IN LYNCHINGS
The period of the first six months of this
year shows a slight increase in the number
of lynchings over the same period for $932.
These reports are col zplled by the Tus
kegee school, under the supervision of the
prineipal, R. R. Moton, who is a leader of
his race, and one who has contributed and
accomplished much for the benefit of the
negroes. .
In making up his report and announcing
his findings, Principal Moton, said:
“According to the records compiled at
Tuskegee Institute in the department of
records and research, I find that there were
6 lynchings in the first six months of 1933,
This number is one more than the numbet
five for this first six months of 1932. In
1923, that is ten ye:rs ago, there were 13
persons lynched in the first six months of
the year. _ : |
“During the first six months of 1933
{there were 14 instances in which officérs
lof the law prevented lynchings. Of these
|8 were in northern states and 11 in south
ern states. In 9of the instances the pris
oners were removed or the guards aug
‘mented: in the 5 other instances force was
used to repel the would-be lynchers; thus
a total of 17 persons; 6 whites and 11 ne
[groes, were saved from death at the hands
lof mobs.
i “Of the persons lynched 2 were white
‘and 4 were negro. The offenses were rape,
|1; murder 4; charge not reported, 1.
| “The states in which lynchings occurred
land the number in each state, are as fol
[lows: Georgiag 1, Louisiana 2, Tennessee 2,
| Texas 1Y {
| Last year, for the first six months, only
|five lynchings occurred, while this year
Ithere were six lynchings, but back in 1923
|a decade ~go, there were fifteen lynch
lings for the~sameperiod of time. However,
lthe report shows a most stable and sound
condition ariong the people of this coun
itry. Only occasionally, in recent years, has
|lynchings occurred. Ouy people are grow
|ing more sober minded and law abiding,
'and only in extreme cases of crime do thev
resort to such methods of dispensing what{
they believe to be justice in cgses of rape.
So long as that crime is committed, lynch.
ings will be hard to obliterate from the
calendar of crime, and in these days, rape
lis about the only crime that causes the
people to forget legally constituted au
|thorities and courts and take the punish
ment for the crime into their own hands
lto be administered. ,
“THE BRAIN TRUST”
Many of th newspapers of the country
as well as men of ranking position in the
service and out of the service of the gov
ernment do not prize highly the selection
of the members of ‘“the brain trust” or
ganizaztion established by President
Roosevelt. Tt is alleged that these mem
bers are theorist and are not practical and
sound in their views on matters of such
great importance as are entrusted in them
to solve. That may be true, but we are of
the belief that President Roosevelt knows
what he is doing and when he selects a
man or woman for some particular post,
it may be depended that the “goods will
be delivered.”
Senator E. D. (Cotton Ed) Smith, -of
South Carolina, does not agree with the
President on his organization of ‘““the brain
trust.” He speals lightly of it and discre
dits it in a manner that cannot be misun
derstood. Some days ago at Greenville, S.
C., Senator Smith injected into his address
considerable criticisms of the “brain trust”
brigade which has been recognized as one
of the pillars supporting the administra
tion. But Senator Smith does not so agree,
as will be seen from a paragraph taken
from his Greenville speech:
“The ignorance of the ‘brain trust’ is as
tounding. Some of them haven’t as much
sense as this hammer I hold in my hand.”
Of course, if Senator Smith is correct in
his estimate of “the brain trust” evidently,
President Roosevelt has made a serious
mistake, all of which he will gladly correct
when he is convinced “the brain trust’ is a
failure. But not until the president is con
vinced on this point will he undertake ta
abolish or otherwise interfere with its op
eration. So far, the reorganization meas
ures of President Roosevelt appear to be
sound and without flaw. If they are suec
cessful, then the whole nation will profit
therefrom, but if they prove to be a failure
it will be something unusual for President
Roosevelt.
Of course, it will take time to work out
the details for the operation for the many
reforms, but if the people will remain satis
fied, “the best is yet to come.”
BRIGHT PROSPECTS FOR AIRPORT
1t is quite certain that the city and coun
ty officials in co-operation with citizens
and the Chamber of Commerce will agree
on a location for a modernly equipped air
port to be located either at the present site
or at the proposed location on the old polo
field with several acres of adjacent proper
iy
The enterprise is one that should not
be delayed, but organization should be per
fected and arrangements made to com
mence work immediately. Already many
airplanes pass through or ocer this city.
If the proper facilities were provided, a
great many of these tourists and commer
cial planes would land in this city. How
ever, we can not hope for much air patron
age until a modern airpront has been com
pleted.
Many birds mate for life and many keep
within sight and hearing of the mate year
in and year out.
The barque Constance is said to be the
oldest steamship in the world; it was built
in 1723 and is now in use as a training
ship in Copenhagen, : e
DIDITEVER
OCCURTO YOU - -
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A Little of Everything,
Not Much of Anything '
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BY HUGH ROWE |
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It begins to look as if Ath- i
ens may get an airport before |
the end of the year, If our
people could agree on one
site and center their forces,
the question would be settied.
Unity of action and cooperation
is of all importance; divided, we
and bound to fail. Why not have 1,
Tove feast, shake hands, swing your
partners; balance all differences
and views, and agree on a loca
tion and build an airport. While‘!
we are “fiddling” around, the cily
is suffering for the' enterprise.
The cost of grounds and equip-!
ment is not prahibitive, but the
lack of harmony and co-operatiol
appears to be the barrier that is
causing the delay. This is no time
for bickering or “skinning” but it
is a time for action. Why not zu't'.’l
Keep in mind that tomorrow
(Wednesday) is election day.
The responsibility for the elec
tion of a congressman rest
upon the voters of this, the
Tenth district to succeed the
late Judge Brand,
Judge Brand was one of the
ablest members in congress—so
recognized by his colleagues, and
appreciated by his constitiuents,
who kept him in office until his
death, 'l‘u/succeed Judge Brand,
the voters of this district should
weigh the qualifications of each
candidate before casting their bal
lots, Our investigations have con
vinced us that Paul Brown is the
man to succeed Judge Brand, and
we' firmly believe that when th:2
ballots are counted tomorrow
night, Mr. Brown, of Elbert coun
ty, will be elected by a large ma
jority.
He had hard luck fishing,
and on his way home he enter
ed the fish market and said to
the dealer: “Just stand over
there and throw me five of the
biggest of those trout!”
“Throw ‘em? What for ” asked
the dealer in amazebent.
“S 0 1 gan tell my friends 1
caught ‘em. I may be a poor fish.
erman, but I’'m no liar.”
While it is several months
in the future, yet we should
not forget that next year, it
will be Clarke county’s time to
elect a state senator.
Besides the election of a senator
the voters of this"county will be
called upon to elect two represen
tatives in the lower house. The
character and ability =of thesc
representatives are of great im
portance to the interest - of this
county. It is not ati ) to pay
political debts or to v:)xg for a
man on grounds 0f4,. persgnail
friendship and favoritis but " a
serjous condition faces the people
here and men, who are en, and
have been tried and ound to
measure up to such re‘ponsibili
ties as will rest upon the repre
sentatives from this county should
be drafted and ei.cted next year,
Athens has suffered in many
ways from unwise legislation,
The time has arrived when se
~ rious thought should be given
to the election of representa
tives to both houses of the leg
islature.
After the election it will be toa
late to bemoan the condition and
reminisce over what might have
been. The term of . office is for
two years, tH€ terms ean not be
changed, but the interest of this
co‘my can suffer, if the wrony
men or women are elected to rep
present us. It is a time when the
right kind of citizen should make
the sacrafice and become candi
dates for these offices. Think it
over, gqod people, and lets see to
it that Clarke county sends a del
egation to the lwuse and senate
that will be representative in
every respect free from politicay
alliances with the purpose of
serving the interest of the people
and the county to the best of their
ability . ‘
FUNERAL NOTICES
SMITH—Died suddenly yesterday,
Monday, July 38rd, Mr. William
D. Smith, in his 29th year. He
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Vir
gfinia Smith, j 1 dajghter, Miss
Bettie Smith, 1 son, Mr. William
D. Smith, jr., 5 sisters, Mrs. J.
E. Jones, Mrs. J. L. Vaughan,
Mrs. L. E. Reese, Miss Berdie
Smith, Miss Mary Smith, 2
brothers, Leßoy Smith, ' John
Smith and parents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. M. Smith, all of Ogle
, thorpe county. The funeral was
today, Tuesday, July 4th, at 4
o’clock, at the residence. Rev.
D. M. Joiner of the Christian
church officiated, with _inter
ment in the Smith family ceme
tery. Bernstein Funeral Home.
NOT SO WILD
SHERIDAN, Ore.— Several, wild
ducks, imbued with a sudden
streak of domesticity, have taken
over H. G. Funk’'s ranch for their
home They waddle up from the
viver and eat with the chickens.
The smallest amount of annual
precipitation in the United States
is in the' southeastern portion of
California and the western por
tion of Arizona.
Vote for Cartledge for Congress
and show your faith in the Wat
son principles of the 90’s, which
are still good today. Cartledge
for Congress.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
Harris Story in New
York Times Tells How
Gov. Talmadge Rules
(Continued on Page Four)
by . military force Captain J. W,
Barnett, chairman of the Highway
Board and notified another mem
ber of the board he was no longer
functioning in that capacity.
4. Placed Adjt. Gen. Lindley W.
Camp in charge of all these activi
ties and named Jud P. Wilhoit, the
third member of the Highway
Board to assume all the functions
of that boay.
Arrested Court Officers
b. Ordered a detachment of Na
tional Guardsmen to the Gover
nor’s Mansion to patrol the
grounds throughout the night.
6. Placed the Governor and his
department heads under military
guard when Captain J. W. Barnett
sought an injunction in the State
courts to prevent the Governor
from dispensing of State highway
funds.
7. Ordered S. C. Wooten, deputy
gheriflf, removed from the State
iCapitol when he sought to serve
the Governor with notice of the
gtate court action filed by Captain
Barnett before the removal of the
Highway Board.
8. Snatched from a deputy's
hands notice of a suit for damages,
tore the document into fragments,
threw them at the court officer
'and exclaimed: “Take it and go to
hell.”
& Ordered the deputy and his
yassis‘tant under military arrest held
until the Sheriff’s office apologized
for their zeal in carrying out the
law, The deputies were held under
military guard for four hours.
~ 10. Asserted the Governor would
not accept -service or any notice
sent to him by the Federal Dis
trict Court of North Georgia.
11. Decided not to lead the Na
tional Guard in a war against the
government, and accepted . service
in the Federal court action for in
junction brought by Captain Bars
nett, of the highway board.
12. Inveighed against the govern
ment’s proposal to cut the cotton
acreage and advised Georgia farm
ers to go ahead with their crops as
planted.
Criticized Civilian Corps l
13. Denounced publicly as “bums
and loafers” the young men doing
work in the Civilian Conservation
Corps.
14. Summoned the five members
of the Georgia Public Service Com
mission to show cause why they
should not be removed from office.
The charges against thé commis
sion were filed by the Atlanta- Fed
eration of Trades and the Georgia
Federation of Labor.
15. Decided to sit, under military
guard as both judge and jury in the
hearing of the charges against tge
five Fublic Service Commissioners
and the hearing is now on.
The foregoing entries which
might have been made in Governor
Talmadge’s diary cover the young
Governor’s volatile activities of
scfircely more fthan two' weeks.
’Much of what he has done smacks
of buffoonery and might be amus
ing but for the fact that the major
ity of Georgia voters 1001.. on him
las the Caucasian John Henry of
Georgia polities, So strong is the
Governor’s hold on the polls, the
press and the populace, that - a
resolution calling on him to settle
the highway squabble in an orderly
manner was lost by a vote of near
ly two to one during the State
Press Assoication meeting.
There has been a minimum of
adverse criticism against the Gov
ernor for his various vagaries and
usurpation of ecivil authority. But
when he insulted the young men
who had joined the Civilian Con
servation Corps, there was a re
percussion which seems to have si
lenced Talmadge for the moment.
Not only editors, but fathers and
mothers of young men in the Ci
vilian Conservation Corps have
taken up the cudgel against the
Governor’s statement. One father,
Paul M. Sikes, of Atlanta, wrote
directly to Talmadge. His scathing
fetter informed the Governor that
young Sikes was “making a sacri
fice to aid his unemployed “father,
his mother and little sister and
brother.”
One mother, Mrs. Lawson Boy
kin, also of Atlanta, in an -open
letter defending the character and
courage of her own son and two
of his comrades, asserted: *ln' re-;
cent months, we of Gerogia have
come to expect the radical out
pursts of the man who now holds
the exalted position of Governor of
our state, and we have bowed our
heads, may I say, sometimes in
shame to the inevitable.”
Banker Is Named =\ !
By Talmadge For
: Recovery Program
(Continuec From Page One)
sell, jr., both of whom are yet to
make their selections, .
Under. plans revealed in Augus
ta by Congressmen Robert Rams
peck and Homer Parker, the, three
commission members jointly will
select an active administrator.
The four together will have
charge of expenditure of funds
estimated as high as $100,000,000
in the state.
Governor Talmadge said that in
addition to the four-man board,
he planned te name a ten-mamn
group to serve as ‘“citizen-advis
ors.” The larger group will include
one member from each congres
sional district.
Muzzling of dogs during the
summer months causes an almost
immediate decline in the number
of cases of rabies.
During 1928, 420 merchant ships,
with a total tonnage of 445920
were launched in Great Britain and
Ireland.
Mount Lassen veolcano, in Cali
fornia, is the only valcano that
has erupted in this country during
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SURVEY REPORT TO BOARD OF
REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
“Whether or not other curri
cula are offered, this curriculum
in social intélligence should be.
Analy§is of the desires and in
tentions of most parents and stu
dents, as revealed by enrollment
figures and interviews, indicate
that this curriculum should enroll
a large majority of the students
;on the junior college level. Here
'should be enrolled many students
l‘now taking university preparatory
COUrSes: . i
. “The new curriculum for social
citizenship, recommended as the
future central core of junior col
lege work, will differ markedly
from university preparation in its
purpose, scope, selection of mate
rial, and method of approach. To
the larger central group, approxi
mately 85 percent of the junior
college student body, this differ
ence in the two types of courses
is fundamental. It may be well
to note certain probable reorgan
izations of material implied in the
new-type course. A few will" il
lustrate.
“The courses will tend to or
ganize kgowledge and intelligence
for effective social behavior rath
er than for the intense and detailed
mastery required for professional
or avocational scholarship. They
will be comprehensive rather than
intensive, presenting major bodies
of important facts in their rela
tions to each other in a whole,
rather than resolving them into
their precise details through min
ute analysis. Orientation and
summary gain a new importance.
The organization of the curricu
lum will often disregard normal
academic subject boundaries, Cer
tain aspects of civilized life, high
ly valued in cultured, social liv
ing, which are omitted or subor
dinated in the ordinary academic
curriculum, will be added or made
important. Literature, as con
trasted with languages, will be
emphasized. Musci and the visual
arts will be given a new recogni
tion. Since the purpose will be
.appreciation of social values as
well as of scientific facts, the
methods of teaching and learning
will be more varied than in tra
ditional university courses. In the
%ciences, demonstration will be
come very much more general and
more varied in its application.”
(State Higher Education in Cali
fornia, Report of the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching, June, 1932, pp. 35-36).
' The junior -colleges should also
develop specialized vocational
curricula pitched at a higher level
than are those of the high schools
and designed to meet the needs
of those students who must soon
enter some occupation. These cur
ricula should be offered only after
a study of the local needs of the
students and the conditions of
employment leads to the decision
that a useful purpose would be
served. The California report
makes the following statement: ‘
“Fr_om the testimony of those
concerned, it would seem that
specialized vocational courses are
generally unsuccessful in attract
ing students unless the institution
is fairly successful in placing its
students in remunerative jobs.l
Changing employment conditions,
which are part of normal,pro-]
‘gress, and the present economic
situation have had a demoralizing
effect on vocational enrollments.
The Commission therefore feels
both the importance of having the
establishment of such vocational‘
l\courses sanetioned by the facts of
need as revealed by regional and
lstate-wide surveys such as’ might
be initiated by the council fori
leducational planning and coordi- |
nation, frequently corrected for!
change, and also the wisdom of
the junior college maintaining a
placement service to cooperate
with and to enlist the cooperaion
of employing concerns. The junior
college that operates in academic
isolation from life, without con-
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tacts with those activities of the
community which give rise to its
educational offerings and in which
its human product ultimately finds
a place, is doomed to ineffective
ness in the vocational field.”
Some of the students entering
junior colleges will be looking to
ward university work in special
fields and, while the percentage
of the junior-college population
planning to ent& a. university
will decrease as the junior col
lege increases in popularity, these
students will from the social view
point be an important group. The
California report states as fol
lows:
“Preacademic Curricula. A group
of curricula preparatory to. uni
versity concentration in one or
more of a group of arts, sciences,
and literatures, provided by the
senior colleges to give an ad
vanced education in some phase of
civilization for avocational or
civic purposes, or provided as pre
professional preparation for ad
vanced work leading to a profes
sional career of scholarship in
research or teaching.
“Such academic preparatory
curricula should be open only to
students qualified to pursue one
of the well-defined purposes
stated above. Students whose rec
ord of performance is not intel
lectually promising and whose in
terest is not definitely set upon
the purposes of advanced aca
demic study in the university
should be discouraged or estopped
from taking such a senior college
preparatory course. Inasmuch as
the chief function of all such cur
ricula is social in nature, they
should all provide for the funda
mentals of social training ‘as well
as for the specializations indicat
ed. Here again the university re
quirements for transfer may legiti
mately determine the quality, ex
tent, and method of coufses offer
ed to effectuate transfer from
junior college to senior college.”
Another approach to the curri
culum offerings of the junior col
leges might be made by devoting
the main curriculum to general
education., It would be the pur
pose of this curriculum to give
tthe students a unified and con
sistent outlook on Ifie.® It should
not be thought of as preparatory
to the university curriculum. For
ithe majority of students, this
‘'would be a terminal curriculum
land its content and method would
‘!’ind their place in an effort to
provide general education.
Provision should -be made for
some elective subjects for those
students whose abilities and inter
ests can carry them on to the
University with its specialized
‘work. The character of these elec
tives for any given student would
be determined by such plans as
he may have for specialized sub
jects. These electives may be
thought of as tool subjects of
‘which foreign languages, mathe
matics, and statistics are exam
ples. In addition there shéuld alko
be some vocational courses of a
terminal character,, such as were
described in the f&’egoing pages.
This plan has some advantage,
over the plan proposed in Califor
nia, in freeing the junior-college
period to a greater degree from
pre-professional and pre-academic
requirements. This would be a
distinct gain. It has the further
advantgae of not making as num
erous demands on the junior col
lege for specialized courses. The
time appears to be ripe for such
a 4 movement; professional schools
are rapidly coming to a realiza
tion of the desirability of freeing
this period of education from
their demands.
Prior to the time the Survey
Committee began its work in Geor
gia, steps had been taken to co
ordinate the extension activities
of the following insfitutions,
which were the only ones selected
Adult Education
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by the Board of Regents to
in this field:
University of Georgia, At
State Teachers College, Aty
College of Agrigulture, Aty
(These institutiong are now g
| bined under the. méime of the
'\'ersity of (je()l‘gia).
| School of Technology, Atlan
’ The Georgid ~State College
Women, Milledgeville,
South Georgia ‘Teachers (g
StateSboro.
| Georgia State Woman's Coll
! Valdosta. A 5
A committee representing i
institutions had agreed upon
put into operatien policies ass
| ing the program of adult edi
| tion' for the stateé that on
i\vlmlc are satisfactory. The
vey Committee recommends
| the plans be exténded by ma
ithe following changes:
. 1. The director of the prog
luf adult education—General
tension — should be respons
directly to the Chancellor of
University System.
2. The Evening School of C
merce should be placed in the
‘isiun of General Extension in
cordance with:+ ‘the - sugges
imudu‘in the report on instruc
in business administration.
| 3. The Board of Regents sh
}muko some budgetary provi
for the Division of General
)lension.
| 4. In connection with the
cussion of ‘the preparation
teachers, attention has been
'wcted to the .importance of
ing into consideration the w
'done in that field by the priv
linstituti(ms of the state. In
[dcvelupmcut of the plans for a
| education, due considera
‘should be given "to the possibi
‘of cooperation with the pri
‘institutions. Phe way: should
‘opened for the ' Division of @
eral Extension to secure the
sistance not only of the inst
tions mentioned above but als
any other state-supported or
vate institutions which have f
ulty members qaulified for s
vices' that are needed. Atlanta
fers an excellent opportunity
a cooperative endeavor of
character.
5. Provision should be made
close cooperation between the
tension work .in agriculture
home economics and the gen
program of adult education.
(To Be Continued.)
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