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Congressman Walter Wise
Seeks Re-Ele<ftion This Year
HON. J. W. WISE
HON. J. WALTER WISE
MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT
Hon. J. W. Wise of Fayetteville
announces this week for re-elec
tion to congress from the sixth
district in the primary of Sept. 12.
M-i. Wise’s announcement will
be of political interest throughout
the sixth district. He is now
serving his first term, is able, ac
tive and very popular with his
constituents. Mr. Wise is mak
ing a splendid record in congress
and is a fit successor to the able
leaders who have represented the
old sixth district in former years.
It is not known if Congressman
Wise is to have opposition this
year, but in any event he is as
sured the hearty and loyal sup
port of thousands of devoted ad
mirers in every county in the dis
trict.
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WORTH VILLE
Mr. and Mrs. ,1. J. Hammond
and children, Mr. Charles Ham
mond. Mrs. W. A. Aiken and
Miss Jewel Mae Aiken motored
to Hampton Thursday, and at
tended the commencement exer
cises.
Mr. Ocie Stodghill. Mesdames
W. F. Stodghill and Troy Lofton
and Miss Lessie Stodghill were
visitors to Jackson Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chambers
have the sympathy of their
friends in the death of their
eighteen-months daughter which
occured Friday. The funeral
was at the Baptist church, Sat
urday at 3 p. m. Rev. T. H.
Vaughn officating.
Mesdames G. W. and Will
White spent Wednesday in Jack
son.
Messrs. J. J. and Charles Ham
mond, W. A. Aiken and Kenney
Wilson were visitors to Milner,
Sunday.
Miss Lessie Stodghill left Sun
day for a lew weeKs visit with
FOR BETTER RURAL
EDUCATION IN GEORGIA
Conference on Rural Education to Be
Held at University of Georgia
During Week Beginning
July 17.
Athens, Ga. —The annual conference
for rural education in Georgia is to
be held at the University of Georgia
at Athens during the week beginning
with July 17. This will be during
tiie Summer School that will be in
session here. It will very appropriate
ly tit in with the special emphasis
which is being put on rural educa
tion and vocational training at the
Summer School this year. The coun
ty superintendents will be looked to
for practical information about Geor
gia problems.
State Superintendent Brittain and
others who know the conditions in
this state will lead the thought of
the meeting, while specialists of high
standing like Hon. Thos. E. Finnne
gan of New York state and represen
tatives of the United States Bureau
of Education will be looked to for
inspirational talks and guidance out
of their wide observation and study.
During this conference the agricul
tural club work among the boys and
girls will come in for a large share
of discussion, with a view to increas
ing the effectiveness and numbers
■ f these clubs. The part which the
ehool can play not only in boys and
girls clubs but in the home econo
mics work contemplated by the
Smith-Lever bill, will be presented by
the leaders now directing the work
in the state.
In the courses offered at the Sum
mer School of the University of Geor
gia increasing attention is given to
making rural teaching more effective
not only in aligning the schools with
agricultural club work but in fitting
the rural teacher to teach agricul
ture in an intelligent and interesting
wav; in preparing them for teaching
handicraft as represented by draw
ing, basketery and manual training;
in qualifying them to present the fun
damentals of home economics with
respect to food values, cooking, sew
ing, etc.
relatives in Atlanta.
Mr. Robert White spent the
week-end in Atlanta.
Mr. Lutfier Cawthon and Mrs.
Luke Cawthon spent Monday
with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cham
bers.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Stodghil’J
Mr. and Mrs. Ocie Stodghill and
children were visitors to McDon
ough Sunday.
Mr. Jim Houses spent, the weelS
end with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pope.
Value of the Farm Woodlot
J. B. Berry, Prof. Forestry, Ga. State
College Of Agriculture.
Just what value do you place on
that patch ot woods on your farm,
or do you consider it only as an ob
stacle to the cultivation of the land?
A hundred years ago timber was very
plentiful and prices low. At the pres
ent time the best of the timber in
the East and South has been logged,
or destroyed, and lumber prices are
advancing rapidly. No longer are the
big timber holders of the United
States recklessly logging their lands
—rather, they are holding their tim
ber to take advantage of the rapid
increase in wood values. It is con
servatively estimated that the pres
ent forests of the United States
cannot supply the demand for
more than seventy-five years.
When this is gone we shall have to
compete with England and Germany
in the world’s markets. During the
year 1914 lumber prices in Germany
ranged about four times as great as
in the United States, and these prices
showed an increase of 10 per cent
to 15 per cent over the current prices
of the year 1913. If this then is true —
that the present lumber prices of the
United States will be increased 300
per cent or 400 per cent during the
next twenty or twenty-five years—can
there be any doubt as to the value
of a timber investment?
The South is particularly favored
in the matter of wood produc
tion. Now'here else do trees and for
ests grow more rapidly. During the
course of twenty years a second
growth thicket of old field pine and
yellow poplar has developed into a
forest, the trees of which average 12
to 15 inches in diameter. While trees
of this size do not produce a high per
centage of good lumber, there is a
strong demand for this class of mate
rial in the production of boxes and
packing cases. Even as rough lumber
the product of these trees would have
a value of from S2O to ?40 per thou
sand feet, and, at the present rate of
increase, these prices will have dou
bled in ten years, quadrupled in twen
ty years. If this is true, and there
can be no doubt of it, are there any
other portions of the farm with the
potential value of these thickets of
young trees? What, then, is to be
thought of a man who clears away
this young timber, often from steep
slopes, with the object of placing the
land under cultivation for a few years
until erosion has carried away
the surface soil) and then abandon
ing the area to weeds and small
trees until nature has painstakingly
and slowly re-established a forest cov
er? Instead of creating wealth, is he
not in reality destroying it?
TIMELY AGRICULTURAL
BULLETINS ISSUED
Among the recent bulletins issued
by the Georgia State College of Agri
culture which are for free distribu
tion within the state are "Soil Survey
of Stewart County,” "Forest School
Announcement,” “Teachers’ Manual
of Agricultural Club Work.” "An
nouncement of Veterinary Degree
Course,” Catalog 1916-17, “Boys’ Pig
Clubs, 1915.”
Circulars recently Issued have been
on the following subjects; "Corn Cul
tivation," "Lime and Its Relations to
Potash," "Peanut Oil Production.”
“Cotton Variety Tests,” ‘‘Poultry
Clubs, 1915," “Summer Courses in
Agriculture, 1916.”
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For Ready-to-Wear and
Millinery phone 94.
For Clothing, Shoes and
Dry Goods phone 167.
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Carmichael-Mallet Cos.
There will be an all day Sacred
Harp singing at Old Bethel Sun
day, June 4. and singers and lov
ers of music and the public gen
erally are invited. Dinner will
be served on the grounds and
those who attend are requested
to take the well known well filled
basket.
Now that the hot season has
arrived, see to it that the dumb
animals are treated in a kind and
humane manner. There is no ex
cuse for the cruel treatment of
dumb animals
RURAL CARRIERS
HAVE MEETING
JACKSON MANPRESIDENT
Delightful Session Tuesday
at Indian Springs
The Sixth District Rural Letter
Carriers Association met in an
nual session at the Foy Hotel at
Indian Springs Tuesday, and a
Jackson man. Mr. S. J. Watkins,
carrier on route No. 1, was elec
ted president for the following
year. Charles T. Wolf, of For
syth, was named as secretary and
treasurer.
About twenty-two members
were present and considerable en
thusiasm and interest was mani
fested. Miss Joe Varner made a
short but interesting talk, telling
GEORGIA HIGH
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
What the Summer School Means for
the Advancement of High Schools.
The teachers in the high schools of
Georgia generally receive higher sala
ries than teachers in the lower
schools, and the terms are longer
than the terms in most of the rural
schools. These high school teachers
should become the leaders of educa
tional reforms and activities. They
should patronize more freely the Sum
mer Schools, the chief agencies to
put them in touch with modern move
ments. There is a great and increas
ing demand to re-order education so
that it may minister more directly
to the life needs of the children. This
calls for the vocational trend in new
subjects, and a remodeling of our
older subjects. The following will
give some idea of the courses offered
and the talent secured to reach the
high schools through their teachers
in the Georgia Summer School.
English.
Miss Elvira D. Cabell, A. B. (Chi
cago), the head of the English depart
ment of the Chicago Normal College
and a teacher of superior reputation
has been secured to give a course in
High School Literature, and a course
in the Teaching of Composition. These
are two most important subjects of
ten nor. well presented because of
difficulties. Miss Cabell will be a
great help to all English teachers
who come to the Summer School.
English Grammar will be given by
Dr. S. V. Sanford, author of the State
adopted text. Professor Steed of
Mercer University will give courses in
Shakespeare and in the Novel. He
will also give a series of interpreta
tions, lecture readings, of great mas
terpieces, leading to a genuine insight
and literary appreciation essential to
inspiration in the teacher of litera
ture. Dr. Sanford will give a compan
ion series on Tendencies of American
Fiction, and Dr. Park one on Literary
Criticism.
History.
With Dr. McPherson in American
History, Professor Payne in European
and Ancient History, and Dr. Brooks
in Southern History and Civics, the
field of history must bring forth good
fruit for high school teachers. In
addition, there will be offered a
course in Geographic Influences in
American History with Old World
illustrations by Dr. F. A. Millidge
(Chicago), now Professor of Geog
raphy in the Normal College of
Virginia. Another course especially
valuable for teachers of history and
of geography will be the course on
International Relations. This course
will present an interesting and valu
able study of conditions, geographic
al, industrial, social, and political in
Latin America, as the basis for furth
er extension of principles of interna
tional relations. It will be given by
a distinguished man sent by the Car
negie Endowment, Dr. J. G. McDonald,
now at Madrid, Spain. We are all so
little acquainted with our American
neighbors that this will be a valuable
course for all.
High School Science.
High School Science has been a
perplexing problem. Dr. Clifton F.
Hodge, of the University of Oregon,
author of Civic Biology, will give a
course based on his book offering a
solution to the problem of flrst-year
science. Dr. Campbell will give a
of the growth of the R. F. D.
service. Mr. J. H. Mills made an
address also. Congressman J.
W. Wise was invited to deliver
an address but could not attend.
The following delegates were
elected: To state convention in
Savannah July 4. John J. Fisher,
McDonough; alternates. I. T. Wy
att, Farrar, W. C. Smith, Shady
Dale, and H. B. Whitaker, Jen
kinsburg.
Miss Rudisill, post master at
Forsyth, and Mr. I. J. Slaughter,
post master at Jackson, attended
the convention.
The 1917 convention goes back
to Indian Springs.
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course based on Bailey and Coleman,
and an additional course in Biology.
Dr. Hendren will give a course based
on Clark’s General Science, also a
course in Physics and Laboratory
work. Courses in Chemistry, general
and household, will be given by Dr.
White. These indicate how science
will be cared for.
Agriculture.
One other illustration will be giv
en. Agriculture is one of t.he modern
subjects calling to the high school for
treatment and sadly in need of teach
ers. The College of Agriculture is
responding to the call with courses in
the Summer School for teachers who
should inaugurate this work in many
town and rural high schools. Even
the city schqols should have the Na
ture Study and Gardening, if not
more.
Professor Fain will give a course
in General Agriculture, Professor
Crabb in Soils and Field Crops, Pro
fessor Goodwin in Animal Husbandry,
Dr. McHatton in Floriculture and
Gardening, and Professor Hart in
Manual Training and in Farm Me
chanics. This is anew field for the
Summer School, but one whose call
for- the needs of Georgia should meet
with ready response from teachers.
Other Courses.
Mathematics, Household Arts, Phy
sical Education and Athletics, Draw
ing, Psychology, Music, and Foreign
Languages will be as strong as the
departments above outlined.
In High School Administration,
School Supervision, Principles of
Teaching, History and Principles of
Education, Educational Psychology,
and educational conferences, the pro
fessional side of the work will be pre
sented to supplement the scholarship
work of the other courses.
This story can give only this brief
of what the Summer School is pro
posing to do for high school teachers.
These courses nearly all extend into
college fields, carrying the teacher
over and beyond courses as given in
the high school. College courses are
offered, and a series of graduate
courses leading to the M. A. degree.
Adapted to the needs of Georgia and
the kindred South, teachers cannot
get so many valuable courses else
where. The strength and richness of
the 1916 Georgia Summer School
should be a source of pride to all
Georgia teachers, and their apprecia
tion should be shown in their re
sponse to the offerings.
STATE EXAMINATIONS FOR
TEACHERS’ CERTIFICATES
The dates for state examinations
for teachers’ certificates from the
summer school of the University of
Georgia, have been set and are
August 4 and 5. This will be at the
close of the summer school session.
These examinations, of course, are
all that are required of a teacher at
tending the summer school, who in
tends to teach in the state.
ENTERTAINMENTS AT
SUMMER SCHOOL.
Entertainments at Summer School.
Those who have charge of the sum
mer school of the University of Geor
gia leave nothing undone to make the
session both entertaining and help
ful. Among the attractions announc
ed for thia summer are the Coburn
players offering three plays; open air<
concerts; mountain excursions; local
excursions and picnics; opera con
certs; pageants; muslcales; games;
swimming; tennis; play festivals;
story teUlng hours, etc.