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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1907)
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.
