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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, G*., Thursday, March 3, 1960
Brantley Enterprise
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia
Carl Broome —• Editor and Publisher
Mrs. Carl Broome Associate Editor
Second class postage paid at Nahunta, Ga.
Official Organ of Brantley County
Address all mail to Nahunta, Georgia.
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
By Bernice McCullar
State Department of Education
DON’T MISS THIS: I hope
your child's teacher of English
literature is getting her students
ready to look with interest at the
television adaptation on Febru
ary 18 of Edith Wharton’s novel
ETHAN FROME. This is a fine
study in mental health, revolv
ing around three pathetic New
Englanders.
NINETEEN MILLION MORE
FOR SCHOOLS Well, we had
all waited breathlessly to hear
what the Governor would say
about schools in his message to
the General Assembly on its
opening day. We went swarming
over to the capitol, where every
body else had swarmed, too
and listened. By now you know:
a S2OO raise for teachers, begin
ning in July, a 5 and one-half
million building amortization
that will let us build the class
rooms we need (in partnership
with local communities) and
build our area trade schools, SSO
per teacher added to the Main
tenance and Operation money
which goes to local systems, a
half million to build the Way
cross television station, and near-
ly five million for our regular
Minimum Foundation Program.
WHAT DOES YOUR CHILD
READ? Listen with three ears to
this one. Francis Shurling, our
State Board member from
Wrightsville, has come up with
this idea: giving youngsters in
high school credit for reading the
great books of the world. 1 his is
over and beyond what they nov.
read in their English classes. IL
thinks that we might give a stu
dent entering high school a list
of about a hundred books, maybe.
Each book would carry so many
weights. The really serious one.,
that are the rich heritage of culti
vated people would count more
than the lighter ones. For in
stance, Emerson’s Essays might
count more than Mark Twain s
Huckleberry Finn, or Goethe’s
Faust more than the poems of
Robert Frost. But the children
would get credit for these books,
and when they had really read
and understood a certain number,
they would get a unit of credit.
When they finished high school,
they would have a running start
toward being educated people,
whether they were going to col
lege or a job. Moreover, they
might have cultivated a taste for
reading that would be lifelong.
BOY IN STORE TO BUY A
PRESENT FOR HIS HIG H
SCHOOL SWEETHEART.
"What could I give her?"
Clerk: "How about a book?"
Boy: “Oh, no. She's got a
book!”
HERE’S A USE FOR THEIR
ARITHMETIC: Some math
classes are getting ready to help
the students help Papa figure out
his income tax. Good thing to
take a look now and then and
see what kind of math course
your child is taking. If he
doesn't know enough math, he’ll
find it hard to get into college.
HAVE TO BE GRADUATE
COURSES: Board has decided
that ALL grants in aid for in
service teachers this summer
must be graduate study. Teachers
can get S3OO for six weeks, or
$450 for nine weeks. What is
more, they can get it summer
after . ummer, until they finish
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the record showed at the same
ITS A DATE — Next meeting
of the State Board of Education
is February 8 and 9. (Some talk
round and about that we may
have five more members added
to the Board from the State
at Large.) . . . Sparkling pro
grams for the annual GEA con
vention March 17-20 . . . Jan
Miles of Metter, national vice
president of the Future Home
makers, has a star-studded ca
lendar for spring. In February
she goes to Atlantic City to
speak to the home economic’s
section of the NEA, and in March
to Washington to represent the
national FHA at the White House
Conference on Children and
Youth.
YOUR HOMEMAKING ,
TEACHER MAY HEAR HIM
Georgia's home economists from
the classrooms, from business of
fices and their other jobs will
go to Macon April 1 and 2 to
the 1960 convention of the Geor
gia Home Economics Association.
Frances Lewis of Swinsboro,
vice-president in charge of the
program tells me that their
speakers will include a high
powered public relations man
from Madison Avenue, and a
brilliant former Hungarian offi
cial who fought the Nazis and
now speaks to Americans on
“Stronger Than the Atom."
CHILDREN OFF THE BUS
The famed writer, Elizabeth Bo
wen, describing a trip through
the deep South, writes this
charming paragraph about child
ren getting off a school bus in the
afternoon: “The children seemed
to be doing everything for the
first time. From nothing had the
excitement worn off. You
couldn’t believe that they hopped
from the same bus at the same
spot at the same time every
afternoon. Every day is to them
a fresh drama, with a touch of
emergency about it, necessitating
in almost every case, a shout
back to those inside the bus, or
frantic afterthought signaling as
the bus moved off." (Holiday
Magazine, February).
HISTORY WILL SMILE
Robert Hutchins, former chan
cellor of the University of Chica
go, says history will smile sar
donically at the spectacle of our
great country getting interested,
slightly and temporarily, in edu
cation only because of the tech
| nological achievements of Russia.
EXAMINATION DAY FOR
■ TEACHER — April 2 will be an
important date in Georgia: exa
mination day for teachers. On
! that day, at places yet to be an
। nounced, the National Teacher
, Examination will be given in
Georgia. We hope that many
j teachers will take this exam. It
1 will make them eligible for such
' things as the S3OO or $450 state
’ grants for graduate study in
' j science, math, social studies,
1 1 foreign languages including La
tin. business education, English,
' and in some cases, library
science. It will also qualify those
who have done six years of col
lege work for the stepped-up
salaries to be added to the state
salary schedule. Deadline for
sending in applications is March
7. Remind your teacher. This
could mean a great deal to her.
Whether you ore the
cause or the victim
of on accident, the
costs may easily ruin
your entire life. Pro
tect yourself. Be
adequately insured
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ONE TO GET READY! —
Georgia teachers have only one
more year and a few months to
get themselves certified in the
field in which they teach. Most
are already, but there are some
who — in addition to teaching
their own subjects — teach an
other course assigned them by
the principal. State Board of
Education says, “After Septem
ber, 1961, no teacher may teach
any subject for which he or she
is not certified.”
ANY CLASSES WITH FEWER
THAN TEN? — We have lately
discovered that there are a few
classes being held in Georgia
schools with fewer than ten stu
dents in them. This is against the
state regulation, unless it is the
second year of a course that a
student MUST have. State could
take back the money it has paid
a teacher if she is teaching few
er than ten, in violation of the
rules.
THIS-AND-THAT: The S2OO
teacher-pay raise, effective July,
will bring the present average
salary of Georgia teachers (in
cluding principals, who are
counted as teachers, too) from
its present $3,798.03 to $3,998.03.
Somebody ought to add that $1.97
and make it an even four thou
sand, don’t you think? . . . Dr.
M. D. Collins, state superinten
dent emeritus, is out again after
being ill with a virus at his home,
1286 Oakland Road, N. E., At
lanta . . . Dr. Claude Purcell,
state superintendent of schools,
has an interesting hobby. He col
lects coins. That is a natural hob
by for one who was formerly the
“money man” of the State De
partment of Education. Dr. Pur
cell was once director of the
Division of Finance and Adminis
tration. Then he was chosen as
sistant state superintendent, and
a ray of hope brightens
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DIFFERENCE: Great minds
discuss ideas; average minds dis
cuss things; little minds discuss
people. So says somebody. Do
you agree?
WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT
AT OGLETHORPE: We gathered
around a fireplace out at Ogle
thorpe University here the other
night to talk about something im
portant. What is a good man? We
had two books: Ruth Benedict’s
Patterns of Culture and Shaw’s
play St. Joan. There were more
than a hundred people trying to
figure out what a good man is.
Is it one who adjusts to the cul
ture? If it is, how does humanity
progress? Suppose your child
asked you, "What is a good man?
You say you want me to be a
good man. Tell me what a good
man is.” What would you say?
CHILD, READING INNOCU
OUS TEXTBOOK; Who writes
this stuff?
LINCOLN: Two students one
who had moved down here from
the North and another a gener
at ions-and-generations Georgian,
— were discussing Lincoln,
whose birthday comes up Feb
ruary 12. The Yankee said, "My
Granny always wondered how
Lincoln got his night-shirt on
over his wings.” The Georgia
child said, “My Granny wonder
ed how he got his hat on over
his horns.”
Suppertime and after-supper
snacking are the most popular
occasions for eating ice cream,
states John Conner, dairy mar
keting specialist, Agricultural
Extension Service.
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Children's Dental Health
3. Diet and Children’s
Dental Health
America often is called the
“land of milk and honey” be
cause of its high standard of liv
ing.
But, prosperity has brought
problems, even in the dietary
realm of milk and honey.
Undernourished persons often
have better teeth than well-fed
Americans. A relationship has
been discovered between a low
intake of calories and little, if
any, tooth decay by scientists at
National Institute of Dental Re
search, Bethesda, Md.
This discovery helps reconfirm
the need for Americans to pay
careful attention to diet because
the temptations and possibilities
are so great.
The young growing child
whose teeth are developing with
in his jaws should receive ade
quate amounts of the building
materials found in good nutri
tion. The foods that contribute to
good general health also are im
portant in the development of
healthy teeth. But of equal im
portance are the foods one
should not eat.
After the teeth have erupted,
children should not be allowed
to have excessive and frequent
helpings of sugar-rich foods, es
pecially between meals.
Studies have shown that .acids
produced in the mouth during
fermentation of carbohydrates—
especially sugar — are a major
factor in causing dental decay.
For this reason, consumption of
sweets, such as candy, pastry,
chewing gum and sweetened bev
erages, should be kept .at a mini
mum. Experts agree that essen
tial daily foods for adequate nu
trition should include milk, vege-
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tables, fruits, eggs, meat and
butter.
Foods should be selected for
their physical character as well
as their nutritional qualities.
Many fibrous or firm fruits and
vegetables act as natural tooth
brushes. Examples of such foods
are carrots, celery, apples and
oranges.
Brushing after meals and
snacks is an important adjunct to
the principle of nutritious diet.
Brushing helps remove food de
bris that might be lodged be
tween the teeth. The next best
thing to using a toothbrush after
eating is to rinse one’s mouth
with water.
(Next week): First visit to the
dentist.)
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A small crack of dawn has pierced the century-old darkness surrounding
our state mental hospital in Milledgeville. This faint shaft of light can be the
forerunner of the fresh full beams of a new day for our “lost legions” of our
mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, children and grandchildren committed or
otherwise assigned to our present woefully inadequate facilities at Milledge
ville.
There are 12,000 citizens living in this small, crowded “city" and another
2,000 on furlough after temporary treatment. A total of 14,000 human beings,
or a number equal to the population of Gainesville, are at this second largest
institution of its kind in the nation.
While some of these patients can look forward to rapid restoration or im
provement of health through modem drugs and other treatment, all of them
must endure the personal discomfort and humiliation which overtaxed facil
ities force upon them. Approximately 2,000 patients live in substandard housing
which needs immediate replacement for simple reasons of health, comfort and
safety. All patients must endure an appalling shortage of psychiatrists, phy
sicians, nurses, attendants and other staff members. Most of them must be sub
jected to the embarrassment of Georgia’s antiquated commitment law which
deprives them of their civil rights.
It is certainly no honor that our state has the second largest mental hospital
in the nation. It is no mark of achievement that it has grown in size year after
year simply because forgetting about the problem seemed easier than facing it.
It is, however, most encouraging that we Georgians this year have begun to
awaken to the neglect of the 117-year-old institution, and to realize the ne
cessity of action now to forestall a further compounding of our present prob
lem.
Friday, April 24, 1959, was a historic day for the Milledgeville State ,1
Hospital. It was on that day that Governor Ernest Vandiver, acting upon the
recommendations of a special studygroup named by the Medical Association
of Georgia, transferred responsibility for the hospital from the Department of
Public Welfare to the Department of Public Health.
The improvements that have taken place since April only point the way
to the tremendous task ahead of recruiting or training an adequate hospital
staff, constructing or repairing housing and other facilities, including a chapel,
and of keeping the day-to-day operation of the hospital as satisfactory as possible.
Governor Vandiver, Lt. Governor Byrd, and most of the Georgia Legis
lature have personally visited the hospital for a better understanding of what
must be done, what it will cost and how long it will take to give Georgia an
adequate mental hospital and mental health program. They all need our in
terest, understanding and support in undertaking the necessary measures to |
correct what is probably our good state’s greatest single blight.
A small ray of light is shining now amidst a preponderance of gloom. Our
interest as citizens can add luster and illumination and help bring to pass a full
sunrise. Our mere indifference can snuff it out forever.
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