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THE SEARCH LI6HT.
. mjSftKLL. BRINSON
Mon o* mop
OFFICIAL ADVERTISING MEDIUM
ml 4 th * lYistOHice at Bainbridgi
u , . M‘.c, .nd-cUv* mail matter.
The Macon fair opened up a
right Tuesday last, notwith
standing a street car strike was
on.
Judge Hodges, of Macon, a -
nounces that he will put down
the Macon riot if k. takes all the
troops in the state.
Since Atlanta has a little en
forced prohibition just now, the
Cyprionsare lugging beer by the
trunkful down there from gry
Chattanooga.
A1 Adams, the “policy king,”
of New York, committed suicide
this week. His policy was to
swindle the tenderfooted public
on a big scale.
The Charlotte News dubs John
Temple Graces 'The nighter.-
gale of the south.” Oh! the
nightingale sings in the wild
wood as if every note that he
knew!
We are continually hearing
about the opening of a syrup
mill in Wayeross. In Rainbridge
there is one already doing busi
ness, and has been for a year
passed.
The Quitman Free Press keeps
up its merciless thunder at the
Atlantic Coast Line Railway. It
is consoling to know that we
still have free presses if we are
minus free passes.
The Atlanta race riot has given
a great stimulus to the prohibi
tion cause. It has demonstrated
that drunken maniacs are more
to be feared than any other class
or kind of mad men.
The Atlanta Journal says that,
many of the negroes at first re
ported dead were “merely
stunned by blows on the head.’
Those Atlanta colored people
must have mighty soft heads.
Nine miles of track over the
Escambia bay is reported
blown away by the crew of the
steamer Gertrude. Apalachicola
Times,
That steamer must have a crew
of blowliards.
The Savannah Press is affect
ing the so-called simplified spell
ing. It certainly has a foolish
effect upon the editorial page of
that otherwise strong and bril
liant newspaper. Cut it. out,
Stovall.
Hearst has been nominated
governor of New York by the
Democrats of that state. Mc
Clellan, Jerome and a number of
other so-called Democrats have
bolted and will support the Re
publican nominee.
Judge Samuel B. Adams, of
Savannah, has been nominated
'to Congress to succeed the late
r.ongressman Lester, and he has
declined the honor with thanks.
Judge Adams is whfit you might
call a political vara avis. *
If you have got the money and
want to take a trip north, where
you might have an exciting
time, go to New' York and watch
the state contest between Hearst
and Hughes. You would get
your money’s worth, gentle read
er.
The platform upon which
Hearst was nominated for gov
ernor of New York, was silent
upon the Bry»» sped of govern
ment ownership * of railroads.
There will be some pulling and
hauling within the Democratic
party before 190S puts in an ap
pearance.
Council and the School.
At ? meet ; ng of the city coun
cil held Monday night, the levy
for the maintenance of our local
public schools, was cut exactly
| in half. The action ot council
i means that from direct taxation
I the local school is to receive only
one-half the support it has re
ceived under the old board. This
reduction was voted for by Al
dermen Callahan, Patterson,
Cliason and Gurley; Aldermen
Wimberley and McCaskill voting
against a cut in the school fund.
Since council’s action, which
was a surprise to many, there
has been much discussion on the
t ie st .-eets, and among the citi
zens generally. It is safe to say
that a majority of the people
take this action as a stab at the
now school board which has just
been elected uf>on a platform
pledging the abolition of uni
forms and military tactics in the
school, pledging the removal of
all matriculation fees for the
common school branches. Wheth
er this criticism be just, or un
just, it is being freely waged
just the same.
Just how’ council figures that
the trustees can run a school on
one mill taxation without matric
ulation fees and still keep the
standard of the school up to
what it was under the old board
to whom council voted two mills,
and an additional matriculation
fee was charged, is not just
plain. When matriculation fees
are cut off, as they will be, the
fund will be reduced at least
$900 if we are correctly inform
ed. It may be that for the time
biing council overlooked the fact
that they were placed on full
notice that these fees would be
cut off under the pledge of the
trustees-elect, sanctioned by
vote of the property-holders’
scarce a week ago. It may be
that council figured that under
an increased property valuation
in the town, a greater amount
would be raised by direct taxa
tion than in previous years. This
is true, hut will not the expense
be alike increased by reason of
a natuial increase in the children
of school ugo in the town? An
investigation of the returns
show that the increase from this
source can not exceed $300. In
addition,' it has been hoped to
bring into the schools numbers
of children who have hitherto
not attended. In other words,
the people expected the school to
be strengthened, both in re-
s lurces and attendance.
Just prior to .the recent local
school board election, the report
wus circulated that if the old
board were definite*), the school
fund would be cut. The old
board were defeated, and the
school fund has been cut. We
do not mention this except as an
incident, which may be taken I'or
whatTt is worth, if it is worth
anything af all. It. may be that
council was not actuated in th
least by this threat. We would
hate to believe that they were.
The public may be their own
judge.
Now, wa all understand thor
oughly that council is the source
to which the local school board
must look to provide funds for
maintaining the school. The
board are entrusted with the
d sbursement of the funds
provided by council. W e
all understand fully that
if council shuts off' the support
to the Bchool and the funds can
not be made to meet the de
mands, that council alone is
sponsible for the state of affairs,
and the people will look to them
to remedy conditions which they
have made; conditions which they
can by taxation meet, and w hich
the school board cannot by law
satisfy.
In conclusion let us say that
nobody in Bainbridge, so far as
we know, are clamoring to be
taxed unnecessarily, but they are
willing to be taxed whatever may
be required in order to maintain
and equip one of the best schools >
anywhere in the country. IfJ
council barf by levying a school
tax of onreVnil! provided the board !
with adequate funds, then every- ■
body will be pleased. On tho|
other hand, if adequate funds]
have pot been provided by coun-1
cil, and the usefulness of the j
school is impaired, we believe
that the people understand fully
where to attach the responsibility,
and they will not hesitate to im
press upon their representatives
in council their demands. To
make our meaning perfectly clear
on this point we would say that
the people who have so recently
voted their minds upon this pues-
tion expect city council to provide
adequate funds to maintain the
school quite up to its present ef
ficiency, and in conformity to the
lines mapped out in the recent
campaign. If the one mill levy
will do this, then the people will
be satisfied and delighted. On
the other hand, if one mill will
not meet the requirement then
it becomes the plain duty of coun
cil to take steps to provide the I
required funds, even if they have J
the money to borrow.
It ,is not necessary, to our
minds, to impute bad faith npon j
the part of council in cutting 1
down the school fund; but it is
important that council understand
from the beginning that it is up
to them to provide the necessary
revenues for the conduct of the
school; and in turn it is the plain
duty of the school authorities to
judiciously administer the funds
placed in their hands. Let us
hope that with this initial under
standing of the relations council
bears toward the board of trus
tees and to the school, both bodies
will perform their duties to the
future good of the school, and to
the credit and furtherance of the
interests of Bainbridge.
The Atlanta race riots caused
a temporary closing of all the
saloons in that city—during
which time the Recorders court
almost went out of business.
Conservative estimates of the
damage done by tropical storm
along the Gulf of Mexico, Wed
nesday and Thursday of last
week, were at least 150 lives
lost and $23,000,000 of property.
Captain R. F. Wright, assist
ant commissioner of Agriculture,
wants all the had niggers expor
ted to the Phillippines. Now
what has those islands done to
deserve such an influx of im
migration.
A Klu Klux Klan was un
earthed at Carrollton last week.
Dr. Ray Sox and Red Thornton
were ordered ha fore the Mayor
to answer to the charge of being
instigators of the organisation.
They pleadtxi guilty but refused
to implicate their colleagues.
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