Georgia Historic Newspapers

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BUILDING UP HIGH SCHOOLS.
There la no doubt but that the great
est educational question of the day In
this country Is the building up of the
high schools, especially In the rural
counties. This work Is the supplying
of the connecting link between the
common schools and the Universities,
thus making the school system perfect
In every detail and affording the chil
dren the advantage that can only come
from this complete system.
For several years the University of
Georgia urged tills reform In educa
tional methods, and at last it fell to
the lot of a Ccorgln educator to push
this work to the front.
Under the administration of the late
Chancellor 1IIII, of the University of
Georgia, this work was given great
Impetus by the selection of Prof. J. S.
Stewart as professor of secondary ed
ucation at the University. The work
of Prof. Stewart has been so success
ful that the General Education Board
has furnished a professor to do this
In every state In the South.
The effect of this work has become
more and more apparent as the
months have passed. The high schools
of the state have been brought to a
higher degree of efficiency, and there
lo a lioalthv.aml determined movement
on foot is many communities for new
high schools and better high schools.
Under the accrediting Bystem inaug
urated by the University of Georgia
quite a large number of high schools
In this state have been put on a high
er plane of usefulness and have been
Immeasurably benefited.
As it is now in this stute, every
branch of education Is being taught
with effect, and the child at every
stage of its education Is receiving the
most systematic and most careful'ed
ucation.
The work of the professors of sec
ondary education throughout the
South Is becoming very beneficial, and
It is telling in the Improvement of all
the schools. The benefllclal effect is
being seen in colleges and In the com
mon schools, as well as in tho high
schools.
Every county in the state should
have at least sue high school of the
highest grade, and as many more as
possible. This will be brought to pass
before tho movement reaches its full
fruition.
Just now the main efforts are being
directed to the providing of such
schools in the rural districts where
they are moat needed. Tho cities as
a rulo have fine high schools, and
many of the smaller towns have good
schools of this kind. The rural com
munities are for the moBt part with
out the best high school facilities.
This work Is In a measure In Its
Infancy, but It has already been gives
a good start and Is destined to accom
plish much for education In Georgia
and throughout the South.
boys a mood of Byronlc despair which j taurant or hotel keeper can be prose- ^ hemlock, and It Is to be noted that In
would be laughable If one were hard- cuted for refusing accommodation'to the last six years the output Increased
hearted enough to laugh at young peo- negroes. The one who obeys the law | 53.3 per cent, and In 1905 the output
pie's troubles, and unimportant, did ■ sees his white patrons walk out In was greater than tbut of 1901 by 4.0
not the terrible thoroughness of the real or affected disgust. If so minded ' per cent.
Japanese character at once translate Jthe negroes of every Northern city
It Into defiant und disastrous action.” ^jcould keep such lines of business con-
Mrs. Fraser recalls two suicides of stanlly In hot water merely by de-
boys of good family who threw them
selves Into the crater of Asamayama
In a fit of mad despair.
Japan lias a plague of cheap novels
which Is making hard the way of Its
teachers. These evil romances, “be
sides undermining morality In the
specialized sense of the word, describe
the adventures of robbers and cut
throats, who become heroes to the
young Imabinatlon, which can con
ceive nothing more splendid than to
emulate their deeds."
Ten years ago, according to Mr. Ma-
klno, minister of education, whom Mrs.
Fraser quotes, girls were left out of' throughout the entire country, but llio
niandlng the enforcement of existing
(laws. They show a not unnatural ton
dency to do so North and South, and
thereby force the issue. Tills is ap
parently the most nearly hopeless
'problem of the time. The more rea
son this that it be attacked with the
most serious care and freedom from
prejudice."
DEFEAT OF DEMOCRACY.
The result of the elections through
out the Union Tuesday was a defeat
of the Democratic party. The Demo
cracy expected to make large gains
the educational scheme In Japan. This
was a result of finding, after a rush
for the schools a decade earlier, that
girls returned to their homes “quite
unfitted for domestic life." Says the
minister:
“They had learned nothing practi
cal. They despised the domestic life
which Japaneso women of almost ev
ery class are expectod to perform, and
were useless as daughters and unde
sirable as wives. The result was a
general feeling of deep disappoint
ment.
“Gradually parent* ceased to sen I
people were evidently not of a mind
to change the party In control of the
government. It Is true that In sonic
Instances there were shown pro
nounced Democratic gains, hut they
were Isolated Instances, and the gen
eral result is entirely In favor of the
Republicans.
In New York the bead of the Deno-
cratlc ticket lest, but quite u number
«>f tho minor Democratic candidates
won, and In some of the Western
states the races were close and excit
ing.
While tho result of the elections
their daughters to school after : !•; was defeat for the Democracy, still
compulsory period had been ful ,'LJ, there is much to encourage the party
and many girls! schools were cl < I. [to keep up Its fight against the ilo-
Tho reaction began only since the b :-‘ publican and their theories of govern-
glnning of the war.”
meat. The principles for which Dera
ilr. Maklno opines that "wo have ocracy fights are not to be turned
JAPANE8E SCHOOLS.
One of the chief reason* for tho rise
ot Japan among tho world powers has
been the earneatness with which her
young people seek an education. The
development ot the schools of Japan
is a subject on which numbers of most
interesting articles have been written,
and on this subject, in the World's
Work, Mary Crawford Fraser has the
following to say:
"The ambition to rise in the social
status, to work with the brain rather
than with the hands, has been aroused.
With it haa come the craze for more
eaae, more material comfort , more
luxury in outward things. These
mixed motives work on the young
people's minds till they persuade
themselves that they are consumed
with a passion for learning.
“They give their troubled elders no
peace until they gain their point and
go to one of the great towns to attend
a secondary school ot some kind. In
•everal cases yonng girls, unable to
persuade their parents to comply with
their desires, hare fled secretly from
their homes, trusting to the kindness
ot stxansars to support them in the
further itagss of their rebellion."
from among'the disappointed who
cannot gat into school come recruits
to socialistic societies and boys who
taka to bad ways. failure to pass ex
amination Is apt to ladsoa in the
gone too fast, and the teachers are
not, as a class, what they should be.
It Is not the education, but the moral
ity, which is wrong Just now.”
Agninst morality are the influences
ot poverty, loneliness, despair, over
failures and the working of socialistic
propaganda ot cliques of boarding-out
students. On the other side, Mrs.
Fraser finds the discipline and physi
cal training under the military ele
ment In the secondary schools, “which
Is bringing them (Japanese boys) Into
Into the foremost ranks of the world's
athletes."
CANT DODGE I88UE8.
The pcoplo havo re-elected a Re
publican Congress, and that means
that the malting ot laws and the ex
penditure of money In this country for
tho next two ycafB will bo entirely In
tho hnnds of the Republicans.
Therefore when tho presidential
election of 190S rolls around there
will be no dodging of Issues by tho Re
publicans. Tho fight that will bo
waged will bo squarely on the record
mado by tho dominating party, backed
as it will be, by a working majority In
both houses ot congress.
Perhaps in a sense it Is well that
this situation confronts the country.
Tho peoplo will bo more clearly able
to seo their needs now than ever be
fore. There Is now doubt but that
Dcmocratlo principles will win In tho
end. Tho stealing of a considerable
ixirtlon of Mr. Bryan's thunder by
President Roosevelt was In a largo
mensuro responsible for tho hold tho
Republicans maintain on the peoplo
this year. By and by tho pcoplo will
realize who tho real reformers arc,
and to whom they can best trust their
Interests. Then tho Democrats will
come Into power.
All told the tendency has been to
wards Democratic gains. These gains
will continue as long as the American
people study tho economic questions
and weigh them with care and earnest
ness.
SEEING THE LIGHT.
The North Is at last seeing tho
light on the negro question. Discuss
ing the laws us passed by Congress
and the fact that many negroes are In
sisting upon acommodations in sleep
ing cars, where white people are rid
Ing, the Lincoln Journal, a Republican
sheet, has the following significant ut
terance:
“The law is perfectly clear on these
points, but what will happen when It
Is enforced fn the South, and what
will bo the effect ot the advent of ne
groes In Northern sleeping cars? ft
Is the evident Intention of a consider
able section of the negroes to Insist
upon the very letter of their civil
rights, and they are organizing for
that purpose, the trouble will nut be
confined to the South. Despite Mr.
Washington's advice the disfranchised
negroes ot the South are certain to
trek slowly Northward, and r'ceen'. his
tory shows the race feeling Is no mild
er in a Northern city than In a South
ern, given equally large proportions of
negroes. Under the law a Lincoln res-
down forever. They are sound and
enduring and in the end will triumph.
.The Democracy In every section of
the country will draw still closer to
gether and get ready for too big fight
in 1909.
THE MAKING OF PAPER.
Tho average render of a newspaper
seldom stops to think of the paper on
which the news Is printed. The study
of paper-making is In Itself a very In
teresting one.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun has the
following fhterestlng comment on this
subject:
“Little has been heard recently of
tho exploited proposal to manufacture
paper from cotton stalks. That a
grade of paper can ho manufactured
from this material has been demon
strated, but whether even coarse ta
per can be mado from cotton stalks
upon a profitable basis Is as yet a ques
tion. Not many years ago an attempt
was made to manufacture paper from
the touch gvar” that grows near lie
coast In the Roiitheastern part of Geor
gia and, wt”; an inferior grade of pa
per was produced, the cost of manu
facture exceeded tho price that could
bo obtained for it. A cable dispatch
announces the discovery by a Euro
pean chemist of a process for tho pro
duction of paper of excellent quality
from brushes. Of course, the import
ance of such an announcement Is de
pendent wholly upon Its accuracy anil
upon the realization of the expects
tlons of tlic Inventor.
"Tho desirability of finding some
material oilier than wood pulp for the
making of patter has many phases. In
tho matter of making paper from cot
ton stalks, If It could be done sue
cessfully the revenue derived from tho
South's staple crop would be increased
greatly. Tho present prices of paper
arc high. It Is estimated that the sup-
ply of the timber In this country
which can be used In wood pulp mills
will last about twenty-one years only.
"The anxiety as to the growing con-
emotion ot the pulp mills Is based, or
should be based, on esthetic as well as
on economic grounds. Tho propor
tion of the lumber production that Is
turned Into the raw material for read
ing matter Is only about 4 per cent
uiuuiu lillli 5 pel CCUl
but the reason Is obvious. The pulp
mills consume a vast amount of ma
terial, chiefly spruce, poplar and hem
lock, of quality and size that Is ol
little use for other purposes; but the
effect In the denudation ot section-: of
tho country Is all the greater. The
scientific lumberman passes over tim
ber which still serves a useful purpose
in beautifying the country and con
serving tho moisture; but almost any
thing In the form of a tree ot the right
species large enough to stand Is grist
to the wood pulp mill, and a vast
amount of It finds Its way to that de
stroying agency.
"Ijist year nearly 3,200,000 cords of
lumber, valued at ft”,735,000, went
through the grinders nnd acid tanks
to produce 2,084,492 tons of pulp.
About 71 per cent of this was spruce,
10 per cent poplar and 11.8 per cent
BANKS IN GEORGIA.
A bank Is a pretty good Index ot a
community's prosperity. Where there
aro ample banking facilities there Is
pretty apt to be progress and prosper
ity.
To run the business of a growing
community, to provide money for all
kinds of Improvements, to keep the
manufactories going, to develop the
latent resources of a community,
money Is needed. Hanks furnish '.he
money and men with brains do the
rest. The more development that is
going on the more demand for tho
money and the more money necessary
to meet the demand. "Under such cir
cumstances more banks come Into ex
istence.
Judged by tills standard, Georgia is
enjoying unprecedented prosperity,
nnd this standard Is a good nnd safe
one to judge by. Last year eighty-five
new banks were started In this state.
This year the number will be at least
seventy.
The savings deposits are also rapidly
increasing In this stute. A few years
since these deposits were very small In
Georgia, comparatively speaking. To
day they represent a large amount of
the bank deposits of the slate, and
show a constant and growing In
crease.
There Is no stale In the Union with
blighter prospects than Georgia, and
her people are to bo congratulated on
tho unceasing efforts they arc making
to make the state greater and greater.
THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM.
The immigration problem In the
South In one that Is now commanding
the attention of the people In no un
certain way. The bringing of Immi
grants direct to the Southern ports
has been decided on as the best
method by which to secure results,
and commenting on this subject. The
Wall Street Journal has the following
to say:
At last the Southern States are
solving their own labor problem by di
rect Immigration. It has been a long
while since nn emigrant ship landed
at a Southern; port. The one duo at
Charleston'on Saturday last was not,
however, the first of Its kind. Several
weeks ago GOO immigrants came to
New Orleans, and meanwhile others
have arrived. But the advent of Eu
ropean Immigrants through the ports
of the South Atlantic coast is probably
the beginning of a new era, not only
in supplying labor, but In shipping con
nections with Northern Europe and the
Mediterranean. Direct steamship
lines connecting this and tho Gulf
coast with Kurojtean ports have excel:
lent possibilities In them from Bovernl
vital points of view, It Is believed.
“Among tho consequences to follow
from tills new development tho follow
ing are to lie considered:
"(1) The tendency to eliminate the
negro still further from those occupa
tions In which Ills labor Is now too un
certain or inmloquato.
"(2) The presence In the labor sup
ply of the South of a class of steadier,
more Industrious ami more efficient
employes, whoso example, whether In
co-<qierutlon or competition with the
existing supply, will have a good effect
upon the body as a whole.
"(3) The necessity of the South’s
providing for Incorixirntlon Into Its
economic system of a non-negro, for
eign iHipiilntlnn us u new type of social
problem for that section of the coun
try.
"(4) The-competition of the direct
European steamship lines with the
coastwise linos of tho United
for tho freight which reaches Northern
[torts for tran shipment lo Europo.
“(5) A more direct Interest on the
part of Kuroiwan Investors in South-
ture, mining, manufacturing und truns-
purtutlon, as well as banking.
“(G) Is‘ss direct dependence of
Southern economic developments on
Northern capital.
“(7) The Infusion of more high-
grade skilled labor, Including technical
talent, Into the various Industries and
constructive undertakings, and the con
sequent elevation of these occupations
to a higher plane of competitive effi
ciency with other sections of the coun
try as well as with foreign countries.
“These various changes are of coune
of unequr.l Importance, but each one Is
more or less directly connected with the
new laltor movement ns a consequence
arising from the presence of a new
economic factor In the existing indus
trial and commercial system.”
MUNICIPAL PRIMARY
FOR NOVEMBER 2IST
Executive Committee Fixes
Date and Adopts Rules
for the Governing of
Aldermanic Primary.
The municipal primary has been or
dered for Wednesday, November 21.
It Is agreed that there shall bo
three managers and two clerks at
each polling district
Each candidate for alderman is as
sessed the sum of $10 for the purpose
of defraying the cost of the election.
These assessments are to be paid to
T. S. Mell, chairman of the committee,
by November 17 at noon.
The time for opening and closing the
polls shall he the same us In a regular
city election—that Is, open at 9 o'clock
a. m. (city time) and close at 4 o'clock
(city time).
Ally-suggestions for nominations of
managers ami clerks shall lie submit
ted in writing to T. S. Mell, chairman
of the committee, not later than tho
17th inst. at noon.
The election shall be governed by
the rules governing a regular city elec
tion. In addition tho following rule
shall be established: As Instructed
by the convention selecting tho com
mittee, the Australian ballot system
will he enforced. For thut pmiiose a
screen and table shall be provided in
each voting place, and each voter shall
he required to make Ills ticket behind
such screen. Nobady shall be allowed
In the room with the managers and
clerks except the voters, and they
siiuii be admitted only one at a time.
Each voter on entering the room shall
he hnnded a ballot, numbered In its
order by the managers, and the voter
shall not be allowed to cast any bal
lot except the one numbered and hand,,
cd to hint. The managers shall not be
allowed to Inspect or examine any bal
lot except in the case of a voter who
cannot read and is not able to prepare
his own ballot. In that event two of
the managers shall mark or scratch
the ballot of such voter as he may dl
rect. The registration list furnished
and certified to by tho clerk of tho
city council will contain the names of
persons entitled to vote. The regis
tration of a voter, however, shall not
exempt him front challenge. Any can
didate desiring to challenge any voter
for any cause shall furnish the man
agers In writing the name of such
voter and the ground of the chal
lenge.
It shnll be the duty ot the managers
to administer the necessary and the
proper onth to such challenged voter,
and, It he takes the oath, to mark his
name challenged, nnd deposit his bal
lot Before entering upon the dis
charge of their duties the managers
shall take and subscribe the oath pro
scribed by law, together with nn addi
tlonal oath to faithfully execute th
rules Imposed by the committee. All
candidates shall be required to pay the
amount of their assessment by the
17th of November nt noon—othcrwls,
their names will not npiicar on the
official ballot. As soon as the returns
of election In tho different wards are
made out by the managers it shall be
their duty to carry such returns to the
city hull, where the same shall be
opened and the result declnred by
the committee.
All the candidates arc allowed the
privilege of suggesting the names of
fit and suitable iiersons for managers
lerks, but the committee shall
have the authority and power to »e
lect the same.
The candidates for aldermen shall
be given equal representation, as near
ly as practicable. In the appointment
of managers and clerks.
T. S. MELL, Chairman.
T. W. REED, Secretary.
MISS JENSON
Will Recover From Her In
juries. She Remembers
Nothing of the
Accident.
MARKETS
Will be Received in This
City. Cotton Men Will
' Organize for That
Purpose.
It Is understood that the cotton men
of this city will In a few days orga
nize an association for the purpose of
receiving cotton market reports. The
Boykin bill, which was passed nt the
last session of the General Assembly,
prohibits the operation of market ex
changes, and on January 1 It Is under
stood that all exchanges now operat
ing in this state will close. It Is high
ly Important, especially for the cot
ton men. to have the service, and some
arrangement will ba mado before that
time to secure the markets.
Some time ago President Michael
suggested to the cotton men a propo
sition to secure tho service through
tho Chamber of Commerce, which
could ho handled at a very nominal fig
ure. This arrangement has been per-
j footed by the Chamber of Commerce In
Atlanta, nnd will bo operated by that
j body after the first of the new year.
It is a question as to whether the
Miss Georgia Benson, tho young lady
who fell from a street car on Broad
street Saturday night and was badly
injured, will recover. This will be
good news to her many friends, who
were quite apprehensive about her.
Drs. McKinney, Holliday and Proc
tor, who are In attendance upon her,
state thut she has very much Im
proved since Sunday morning, and
that the chances now entirely favor
her recovery. The fracture of tho
skull turned out to tin less serious
than was nt first thought. She suf
fered, however, severely from concus
sion.
Miss Benson has no recollection j Boykln b|| , wl „ reBcdy , hc ev „
whatever of the accident. She remem- whlch it wag lntended> thrit b( ,, nR .
hers starting down-town, and the next [ to prevent .peculation. If persons
thing she remembers was when she
awoke Sunday morning Ir. bed. Th
accident and all the Intervening oc
currences are a perfect blank.
It is now thought that Miss Benson
was faint and started to the door of
the car for fresh air, when she stepped
too tui towards the platform, lost her
balance and fell to the street.
c I so desire to speculate they may easily
l! do so by writing their orders through
either of the telegraph companies to
exchanges In any of the large cities
outside of the state where there aro
exchanges, nnd there Is no provision
in tile Boykln bill to prevent such
dealings.
Made Happy for Life.
Great happiness came Into tho home
of S. C. Blair, school superintendent,
at St Albans, W. Vo., when his lit
tle daughter was restored from the
dreadful complaint he names. He
says: "My little daughter had St
Vitus' Dance, which yielded to no
treatment, but grew steadily worse,
until ns a last resort we tried Elec
tric Bitters; and I rejoice to say.
three bottles effected a complete
cure." Quick, sure curs for nervous
complaints, general debility, female
weaknesses, Impoverished blood and
malaria. Guaranteed by W. J. Smith
k Bro., H. FL Palmer k Son'* drug
On Fin* Printing—Th* Banner Lsads. stores. Pries 60c.
I.
1011181 CLASS
AT THEY.W. C. A.
Was Organizt d Last Night
and Will Do Much Good
For lis Members.
Last night at the Y. W. C. A. rooms
on Clayton street the gymnasium class
was organized, quite n number of the
ladles of the city becoming members.
The regular work of tho class will
begin Friday night, and everyone who
wishes to lake this work is requested
to he on hand nt eight o'clock that
night. At that time all the arrange
ments will bo mude for the gymna
sium suits that will be needed.
The Y. W. C. A. has already dono a
great work iu tui: city and tbu latest
movement Is destined to accomplish
much good for all tho members of the
news class that was organized last
night.
May be Asked of the Cen
tral of Georgia Railway
Company Unless Cot
ton is Delivered.
MADE EXAMINATION
OF COURT RECORDS
Special U, S. Examiner Ramsey
Hpent yesterday in this city. He had
Just come from Atlanta where he had
completed a thorough examination of
the papers und effects of the officers
of the government there.
lie made a thorough examination
of the palters, hooks, etc., of U. S. Com
missioner R. C. Kinnebrew, of this
city. He found the office In admirable
# upe and the accounts nnd books ail
correctly kept. Judge Kinnebrew
makes a very careful and thoroughly
able officer in Ills |>osltion.
A BURNING TREE
The cotton blockade is still worrying
the cotton men of this city ami very
little relief seems to bo In sight.
It has reached a point whero somo
of the cotton men have made up their
minds to bring tho matter before the,
courts and see whether there can be
gained any relief there.
The firm of Griffith & Welch havo
about six hundred bales of cotton nt
Watklnsvllle, that has been sold for
some time. They cannot get tho cot
ton to Athens anu iuu part':: to
the cotton has been sold have notified
the firm that unless It is delivered at
once they will cancel tho salo.
Griffith & Welch have put It square
ly up to the Central to deliver the cot
ton In this city within the next two.
days or stand a suit for damages. Un
less the cotton Is forthcoming by that
Unto the suit for damages against (In
road will be entered.
It is said that the Central now has
empty cars standing at Whitehall, cars
that might be used for the hauling of
this very cotton. ' ,
The railroads may be doing all they
can to relieve tho situation, but it
docs not seem so to thoso who aro
lookers on. it seems as it the switch
ing of cars might be carried on more
effectively and that the freight could
be delivered more specdly than It Is.
Yesterday afternoon Just before
dark a large oak tree In the front
yard of Dr. John A. Hunnlcutt, on Mil-
ledge avenue, caught fire from a spark
from a neighboring brush-heap that
was burning.
The top of the tree was dead and
dry, and the Haines soon enwrapped
It
Chief McDorman was close at ha.nl,
ami in a few minutes had ,i chemical
extinguisher and was In the top of tho
tree, putting out the flames.
The chief has had many experiences
ns a fireman, but that of yesterday aft
ernoon was probably the first wherein
he fought for tho extinguishing of a
fire In a tree-top. * •
On Fin* Printing—Th* Bannsr Lsads.
Mr. Roosevelt probably has learned
something additional about hls breth
ren In black, since the action of the
rn trnoiis upon being dismissed
by him from the service of the United
States.
President Teddy has gone down to
take a look at the dltCb, nnd when he
comes back ho will have everything
done to Insure Its immedlato comple
tion. *
The United States missed the North
Pole again In the Peary expedition,
but there Is some consolation In tho
announcement that comes from the
Philippines that the missing link has
been discovered on one ot the Islands
there.
Th* English papers think the result
of the election In New York was a re
buff to President Roosevelt, and the
Italian . papers think It a triumph.
Now,can’t some kind of a sensation be
stirred up between those two nations
for holding such diffsrsnt opinion?