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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XXXII TEN
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL
QUESTION REVIEWED
BY PROF. DENNINQTON
Hampton’s able and veteran educa
tor points out many wrongs to -
the public school teachers of
this grand old State.
WANTS PRESENT LAWS AMENDED
HAMPTON, GA., 4-17-1907.
Editor—Henry County Weekly,
McDonough, Ga.
My Dear Sir :
i desire some space in
your valuable news medium to set
forth some thoughts on a subject
of interest to school teachers. The
teacher is a public officer of incal
culable value in the development of
the great resources of the common
wealth of Georgia.
You can mot dispose of the teach
er—the vitality of civilization. You
have crippled his usefulness by
idly passing by his protest against
existing conditions that have been
sapping his physical emvironment
since 1870. A few times, in a feeble
and timid way, lie* has offered to
assert his right. The news medi
ums and legislators have said little
and done less to keep this poorly
paid servant.
It seems that the people have
been in a Utopian dream when this
subject has been discussed. Not
half believing that the teacher has
been yearly—yes monthly, robbed
of a part of his earnings. In per
cent it seems fabulous. And all
becase of the failure of the Legis
lature to do her duty to the teach
er. It is an old story in Georgia.
Perhaps the history of our country
shows not another instance of such
wrong. 1 say wrong—a piece of
legalized liigh-way robbery. The
Legislature has permitted this to
be done. The teacher is an officer
paid by the state thereby a state
officer. Every other officer receives
his pay weeks except very high sal
aried men who receive tlieir’s quar
terly. That is law and is right.
The teacher receives about two
months wages in the early part of
the year and receive wliat is termed
a scrjp for the balance which the
state will have paid by February
of next year. The teacher is com
pelled to find a Shylock to discount
her script from 10"-,, up to 40 and
r>0"„. I have known teachers to
to discount their papers at 10",,
which the state paid in 00 days.
That was 5% per month but it was
60 per cent too. This was paid by
young ladies who were poor—who
depended on salaries.
This is law but it is wrong. Who
among business men has not seen
the Shylock is legalized by Geor
gia—the Empire State of the South.
Yes legalized by Georgia. That the
fair name of the Grand Common
wealth of Georgia, should be be
smirched by such a dastardly de
generacy is a blot upon the civiliza
tion of the new century.
The Legislature can right this
wrong, Law is is not always right.
Every legislator should study this
subject. There is a cause for this
wrong. The state should have
enough to the credit of the school
fund on January first to pay off
every teacher for the incoming
year s work. Oucc tuftt the
case.
McDonough, Georgia, Friday april 26, 1907.
In 1870 the Legislature was in
session 154 days. Each member re
ceived $9.00 per day. Pay roll $lB9,
882.00, besides other expenses in
cident to the running of that great
machine. There was no available
money with which to pay off this
demand. The treasurer w*as author
ized to draw on the school fund.
This amount was about equal to
one year’s salary to the teach
ers. This money has never been
paid back to the school fund. This
lias been, is and will be the source
of all this delay, in paying teachers
when the work is done or at the
end of the month. Do you see the
problem, gentle reader. Cun yon
estimate within SIO,OOO what the
teacher has paid out on discounts
to the money sharks in Georgia in
the space of 37 years. No, no, man
can do it.
If it were not that the western &
Atlantic’s rental, liquor taxes and
etc., came in so early, the teachei
would not get anything till the end
of the year, Is’nt it shocking to
think about. You boast about
business. Now, go, talk to your
representative—show him, plead
with him Be like Jacob, don’t let
him go till he grants the blessing.
Wrestle with him till day till you
see the Father face to face.
The $189,882.00 and „the other
running expense, I will say $192,
000.00 at interest for 37 years will
amount to $8f>0,420. not compound
ed either, but computed 8 % the
highest that the teacher should
Iptve paid. Let the state pay this
amount back Into tin* school fund
and t 11 will be well with the teach
er and better for your boys and
girls.
Has it occurred to you that the
teacher received no interest for de
ferred payments. So then his
scrip was really not worth the
SI.OO jt called for in its face.
Men of Old Georgia rouse from
your lethargy and wipe off this
foul bird from her fair name. Hurl
it back to tin* Plutonian shores
from whence it came. Let the
mutty pinions of this foul bird no
more hamper the goddess of Wis
dom. Let it no more backen the
fair escutheon of Georgia. Place
your ballot and influence for your
homes and schools.
Yours very truly,
J. W. Dknnington.
PNEUMONIA CLAIMS CHILD NEAR
REX.
Little J. C. Scarborough, the lit
tle son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Scar
brough, died at their home near
Rex Saturday morning at 11:30
1 o’clock after an illness of two weeks
from pneumenia.
The funeral and interment oc
curred at the Master’s burying
' <«rr*rjnd near Fllem- < .I *' 'uduy vf
tUiUUVAM aw wa» sj •
SPEAKERS AND DE
BATERS CHOSEN
LOCUST GROVE
INSTITUTE.
The following pnpils of Locust
Grove Institute have been awarded
places on the Commencement pro
gram.
SPEAKERS.
V
Miss Elon Tolleson, McDonough, Ga.
Miss Leone McVicker, Locust Grove, ”
Miss Lizzie McDowell, Monticello, ”
Miss Clyde Adams, Fayettevlle, ”
Mr. Elton M. Chapman, Lithonia,
Mr. J. K. Abney, Conyers,
Mr, P. L. Johnson, Dublin,
Mr. X. H.Bursh, Rentz,
Mr. S. R. McDaniel. Conyers,
Mr. Paul M. Cousins, Lutherville, ”
DEBATORS.
Philosophian Society,
Elton M. Chapman, Lithonia,
Claude Grimes, Xewnan,
Philoniathinan Society,
Carson Farmer, Palatka, Fla.
Paul E. Lester, Conyers, Ga.
JACK.
Our communication of last week
did not reach the Weekly in time
for publication, which accounts for
our absence last week.
On Sunday the 14th inst. at the
residence of the bride’s parents Mr.
and sirs. I. H. Gunter, in Tussahaw
Dist., Mr. J. T. Craig and Miss Lelia
Gunter were united in the holy
bonds of matrimony. Rev. C. V.
Weathers oiliciating. We join their
many friends in extending best
wishes.
T. B. Mayo, one of Bethany’s
best young men, has invested in a
handsome new bike buggy, which
was put up by the McDonough
Buggy Company.
Lum Jackson (col ) a big liealty
stalwart negro who has been in the
! employ of the Planters Warehouse
and Lumber Co., of McDonough
j this season, stuck a nail in his foot
several days ago, and the effects of
it caused lockjaw a few days after
wards which resulted in his death.
The Farmers Union of Georgia
seems to be getting ready to go on
lan excursion, as they have asked
i for reduced rates bn passenger
| trains, but we have not been in
formed on wliat date the excursion
will run. Hurrah, for the farmers,
! anyhow, for they are the backbone
!of the world, hut say, what are
cheap rates worth to - the farmers?
WANTED—Cotton seed by al
most every farmer who planted
! early.
TRAINS COLLIDE AT HAMPTON,
An Atlanta bound Central of
Georgia freight train was run into
by a second section at Hathpton
yesterday afternoon and the rear
engine and the caboose and several
boxcars of the front section were
almost completely demolished. The
wreck occurred in a cut just-' south
l of Hampton and, while the track
was badly torn up, trains passed
! the obstruction on a side track.
! The cause of the wreck is not
known. No one was hurt, though
several trainmen had a narrow es
; cape.
STANDARD SEWING MA
\ CHINES sold by B. B. Carmichael
A* Sons are the undisputed leaders,
father rreef can casi’y he hu<‘ by
..lii -g „ them.
1
LOCUST GROVE FAST
BECOMING A GREAT
EDUCATIONAL CENTER
*
Prof. Ham contributes an interest
ing article on the wonderful de=
velopment of the schools at
Locust Grove.
MORE THAN $20,000 IN IMPROVEMENTS
ADDED DURING THE PAST YEAR.'
LOCUST GROVE, GA., 4-16-’O7
Editor of Weekly :
With your kind indugence, I
desire to say a word as to the edu
cational progress of this enterpris
ing and progressive community.
I have always believed in the
doctrine “that to the victor belong!
the spoils,” and whether we be
lieve in it or not, such is always
the case in every line of human ef
fort and endeavor.
Locust Grove has certainly erect
ed a high standard in our county
in her selfsacrifice for, and devo
tion to the great cause of univer
sal education.
She has not merely theorized on
the beauties of education, hut she
has shown the heroic spirit by go
ing down into her pocket and erect
i ing and equipping a complete school
system of secondery education,
consisting of a Grammar school and
a High School \Vith curricula co-or
dinated with the colleges of our
state.
Think of it, Mr. Editor, a small
town of 400 people having a school
plant costing from forty to fifty
thousand dollars, more than twen
ty thousand of which sum was ex
! pended last summer for the com
j pletion of her modern and normal
school system.
i Such enterprise needs no com
-1 mendation from me or anyone else,
I but to the intellegent and observ
! ant it at once speaks in clarion
j tones the large-visioned and lib
eral hearted people of this com
munity.
The scriptnjes teach ns that
“there is that that scattereth and
yet increaseth and there is that
| that withholdeth more than is meat
I and it tendetli to poverty.” And
again, “seest thou a man diligent
in business, he shall sit in Kings
Palaces.” This larger vision and
public spiritedness has already
made Locust Grove the “school
center” of the county, and, indeed
of this whole section of country,
and is destined in the near future
to make this place far-famed for
its unselfish devotion to the great
est of all causes—that of true edu
•
cation.
The cynic, the materialist, or
the man of commercial methods
may ask, wliat has been the good of
it all?
If he will take the trouble to
come here and inquire into the
price of property, lie will soom dis
cover that something has greatly
enhanced the value of all the prop
erty in and adjocent to Locust
Grove, hut this is only the smaller,
narrower view to take of it, for
from well-orderded, well discip
line progressive schools there em
enates a finer, more subtle in
fluence which thoroughly pervades
•<rd 7v>m»'Htes the hidden :• »c.‘sses
'' r i >, --1 ' *•’. -.Ujoe ll JL - q
PAGES f' A year
trend and direcetion to all his af
ter life.
Germany owes her greatness to
day to her “old field” schools, and
President Rose volt is right when
he says that our place as a nation
must rest on the virtue, the intel
ligence and manhood of the indi
vidual citizen, and this citizen must
be trained at all.
Yes, Mr. Editor, under the splen
did leadership of Prof. Claud Gray,
this community has accomplished
much, and what has been done
here can be done elsewhere, and
in this way only can our common
country rise to the pinnacle of true
greatness and be a benodjptjon to
the human race. *■'
Yours respectfully,
O. E. Ham.
HOWARD CARMICHAEL
Leading Undertaker.
hi “
Complete line of Caskets all stvles anti
prices.
Careful and polite attention given all
funerals entrusted to me.
Embalming done according to latest
and most improved methods.
Newest and most up to date equipment.
Call answered promptly day and night.
Phone 30.
McDonough, ga.
_
LUELLA.
As I see no one is giving the lo
cal happening from this place I will
jot them down in brief order.
The school at this place will close
the present term on Friday, the
2'>th, inst. Mrs. Everett our faith
ful and efficient teacher has given
general saticfaction.
Mr. W. H. Bailey celebrated His
birthday on Sunday last by giving
a dinner to which several of his
relatives and friends were invited.
Among the attendants were Mr Y 7.
F. Nutt, of Gainesville, and Miss
Annie Lois Nutt, «n<f Miss Lillie
Maddox, of Locust Grove.
Mr. and Mrs? Dobbs, of Newton
county are visiting her s:ster, Mrs.
B. F.
Mr. and Mrs. Akin visited the
j armor s parents at Ochard Hill
Sunday.
Rev. L. Hooten has been railed to
p.-isioiafe of the Baptist elm roll at
1 1 place and will till Ms appoint
ment next Saturday and Sunday.
iio of young ladies and gen
tlemen were seen driving around
Sunday afternoon.
Miss Mamie Everett is the guest
of her aunt, Mrs. E. E. Adams this
week.
More Anon,
v-AKIj.
