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FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1936
GEORGIA ONE OF THE
NATION’S "WET" SPOTS
HUNDREDS OF STILLS SEIZED
AND PROPERTY CONFISCATED
BY DRY AGENTS. MOONSHINE
BUSINESS FLOURISHING.
Though Georgia is legally “dry,”
federal alcohol tax agents seized and.
destroyed $221,659 worth illicit stills,
whiskey and mash in the state dur
ing 1935, R. E. Tuttle, district su
pervisor for the Alcohol Tax unit,
declared.
The twenty-five ATU investiga
tors raided a total of 1,245 stills
and destroyed 50,923 gallons of
moonshine liquor and 1,755,183 gal
lons of beer mash, capable of being
distilled into 175,500 gallons of
whisky. While comparative figures
are not available, this is regarded as
leading the nation.
There were several thousand per
sons arrested in moonshine still or
liquor running cases, and 303 cars
and trucks seized for the yer. Mr.
Tuttle said $58,768 worth of prop
erty, consisting of the automobiles,
was not destroyed.
The United States imports about
10,000,000 pounds of tung oil each
month, mostly straight from China.
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JACKSON, GEORGIA
CHANGE IN MAIL SERVICE
FOR JACKSON POSTOFFICE
Due to a change in the Southern
Railway schedule, all mail intended
for the northbound train should be
in the poslioffice not later than 3:50
p. m.,.it is announced by Victor
Carmichael, postmaster. Train No.
2, northbound, now arrives at Jack
sen at 4:31 p. m., and train No. 26,
northbound, arrives here at 5. p. m
The schedule of mail trains is as
follows:
Train No. 8, northbound, 5:35 a.
ui.; train No. 27, southbound, 8:18
a. m.; train No. 1, suthbound, 11:19
a. m.; train No. 2, northbound, 4:31
)). m., and train No. 26, northbound.
5 p. M. Central time.
TOM SIMS, AGED NEGRO,
BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN
FROZEN DURING BLIJZARD
Uncle Tom Sims, an aged and re
spected negro man, about 85 years
of age, w-as found dead in his home
on the W. J. Woodward place Friday
morning. The aged man is believed
to have frozen to death during the
recent cold weather.
An inquest, presided over by Judge
W. J. Bankston, Justice of the Peace
for Buttrill district, in the absence
of Coroner A. A. White, was hold
and it was found that the deceased
came to his death from natural
causes.
Two and one-half million horse ■
pewer is constantly going to waste
over Niagara Falls.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-A RGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
By BASCOM ANTHONY In Macon Telegraph
Governor Talmadge says that the
schools of cGorgia have had more
money this year than ever before in
any one year. That’s good. The
teachers say that they are not get
ting all their money. That’s bad.
Like many others I feel that we are
not getting our money’s worth in the
output of the schools. Of the hun
dred and nine dollars state and coun
ty tax I pay on my home in Macon,
sixty-five dollars go to education,
1 don’t know how much of the seven
ty-eight dollars city tax I pay on the
same home goes to the schools. I
cnly know that I have to employ a
woman typist in nearly every town
I visit, and that a large per cent of
them know about as much as a sev
enth grade pupil ought to know;
most of them are too ignorant to
know that they are ignorant.
They know what keys to hit and
that’s about all they do know. They
know but little about spelling, gram
mar, capitalizing, punctuating, para
graphing, or anything else that has
to do with composition or rhetoric,
and yet most of them are high school
graduates.
They usually are perfectly lovely
looking young women. They look
like they have good sense and they
must have superior ability to be able
to accumulate as large a lot of ig
norance as they have gathered in
their short lives. A few rare souls
might be born that ignorant, but it
requires rare genius to get as much
of it in one little skull as they pos
sess.
Regarding Young Typist
Recently I was dictating from my
almost unreadable manuscript to a
very charming typist in a hotel lobby.
She was a temporary substitute
“Elude was typed “allude” and ther
by produced a sentence without
meaning. “Reward” appeared
as “ award” “cessation” was spelled
“sessation.” I soon learned that
“Bureaucrat” was too big for her
and instead of bureau I should have
given her a foot-stool or something
else nearer the size of her spelling,
l’y the same rule she missed
“ieopaid,” but I daresay she can
spell cat.
Capital lettero like lip paint were
something to be used where they
would look good. Punctuation points
like pepper and salt were to be
dumped in and ehen stirred until
properly diffused through the whole
mass. Paragraphs were arranged
according to a standard length and
not according to subject matter,
even Ripley of “BELIEVE IT OR
.NOT” fame would have been stag
gered had he heard me give out to
one of the dear dumb typists, “she
was filled with consternation,” and
find it typed “she was filled with con
stipation.” I gave out to one of them
“Sodom and Gomorrow.” She wrote
Sodom and Tomorrow.” The day
after tomorrow or even next wee):
would have meant just as much to
the poor girl, and she was not a
raoron either, she was just a high,
school graduate.
But why go further to show that
many of those graduates have ma
jored in nearly everything except the
rudiments of an English education.
Inquiry revealed that some of them
had a “unit” in sewing or domestic
science, and from their looks they
seemed to have had several units in
primping and painting on skin, but
not on canvas.
I do not claim to be competent to
tell our educators how to do their
.cork, but I am competent to know
an' ignoramus when she does typing
for me. I suspect that the educa
tional world like the political world
has too many theoriests and not
enough realists in it. In trying to
relate education to life they get
off on so many side tracks that they
miss the main line. Our teachers
are kept in summer schools trying
to learn to teach anew educational
fad until they and the pupils fail;
to get in the essentials.
Patting Fadt Hit
Too much attention given to shift
ing things leaves too little time for
the abiding things. Passing fads
crowd out an education, as in relig
ion, the things that endure. The
multiplication tables and all mathe
matical matters will be about the
same 50 years hence that they are
today. The rules of spelling will
change but little in that time. The
growth of language is slow and never
becomes out-modeled in a single gen
eation. So I would suggest that
the spelling be carried further than
the seventh grade, and that all hign
school pupils be required to diagram
and parse “John’s Cap is Red” be
fore they be given a diploma.
It will be easy for some teacher
to put my hide on a pole for writing
this, but it w'on’t improve the qual
iiy of their graduates who need
learning more than they need fend
ing. Instead, I suggest that they
read this article to their pu
pils. Such stenographers may give
satisfaction to business men who are
their fellow-graduates, but as I had
to quit school and go to work just
before I was 13 years of age. I
never had the chance to accumulate
the same sort of information that
these high school graduates have.
My teacher made me learn spelling,
arithmetic, algebra, English and
Latin grammar. English sentences
had to be diagramed on the black
board and then parsed. Latin hau
to be translated into English and
English into Latin. If we didn’t
do it our jackets were knocked into
lint. Asa result the children of my
day had “lintitis” from breathing
lint and not from “chewing the rag ’
v/hich the teachers as the moderns
do. I am not saying the old way
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JACKSON, GEORGIA
was better, but I am saying that
change does not necessarily mean
progress.
I am sorry for the teachers. I
have put several girls through col
lege, two of whom are now teach
ing, and I have set up three others
in the beauty parlor business. The
latter receive far more pay than the
teachers. Maybe they are doing a
better job, or it may be that folks
pay most for what they value most.
One other thing needs to be said.
There are more criminals 19 years
old than any other age. Many are
young. All these were pupils in our
public schools and doubtless, some
of them in our Sunday schools.
Teachers cannot take the place of
parents, nor off-set corrupt moving
pictures, but clearly, something .is
needed to be added to our schools.
Better pay for our teachers is one
thing needed, lam sure, but that
will not meet! our greater wants.
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