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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1908)
DEMAND FOR CONVICTS Greatly Exceeds Supply—l,437 Overs Have Been Asked For. MANY REQUISITIONS MADE Prison Commission Prepares Table Showing That Counties Will Take All Convicts State Can Supply. Atlanta, Ga. —Secretary Goodloe Yancey of the prison commission has compiled a table of the counties that have made requisition upon the state for felony convicts, to be worked on the public roads after April 1, 1909, when the 'lease system will expire. The table is interesting and estab lishes beyond the shadow of doubt that the demand will far exceed the supply. Fifty-four counties have made for mal application, and the following summary is based upon their requisi tions: Total number of convicts wanted, 1,855. Actual number counties are entitled to under quota, 448. “Over*” desired by the 54 counties, 1,437. In other words, the 54 counties want 88 per cent of all the convicts the state expects to have in the peniten tiary next April. The number of “overs” requested is 58 per cent of the whole number to be disposed of under the law. Of the 54 counties heard from 42 want tlieir quota and more, while only 12 ask for their quota alone. Chatham and DeKalb counties are the biggest bidders. The former, un der its quota, is entitled to 71 con victs, and it wants 129 men to make the total number 200. DeKalb county is entitled to only 21 men, but she wants 1779 “overs,” so as to have a road gang of 200 men. The appended table is self-explan atory : County. Quota. Overs. Total. •Baker ........ 7 .. 7 Banks 11 15 26 Bryan 6 8 14 Bulloch ........ 22 .. 22 Burke 25 20 45 Camden ........ 8 17 25 Chatham 71 129 200 Campbell 10 .. 10 Clarke ...... ..18 32 50 Clayton 10 20 30 Clinch 9 11 20 DeKalb ...... ..21 179 200 Dougherty 14 26 40 Early ...... ..15 10 25 Elbert 20 30 50 Emanuel 18 .. 18 Glascock 5 15 20 Green 17 .. 17 Hart ..'.... ..14 6 20 Heard 11 20 31 Henry 18 20 38 Houston 23 .. 23 Jasper 15 20 35 Jefferson 18 42 60 Jenkins .. 10 10 20 Johnson ..... . .11 9 20 Jones 13 .. 13 Laurens 26 74 100 Lee 10 10 20 Lincoln ....... 7 .. 7 Lowndes 20 30 50 Macon 14 20 34 Madison 13 12 25 Mitchell 18 12 30 Monrod 21 40 61 Morgan .. .. .. .16 40 56 Muscogee 30 20 50 Newton 17 7 24 Oconee 9 6 15 Oglethorpe ..... IS .. IS Pike 19 11 30 Putnam ..13 25 3S Randolph 17 18 35 Richmond 54 .. 54 Rockdale .. v . .. . 8 7 15 Telfair 10 15 25 Troup 24 .. 24 Turner 7 33 40 Walton 21 .. 21 Warren 11 9 20 Wilcox 10 .. 10 Wilkes 21 10 31 Wilkinson .... ..11 15 26 Worth .' ..13 40 53 University of Georgia, 50. Brooks, Clav and Macon have ap plied for misdemeanors, but no felo nies as yet. STATE FACES M DEFICIT. Incoming Administration Confronted by Serious Problem of Debt. Atlanta, Ga. —When the new state administration assumes charge of af fairs next June, it will face one of the most colossal financial deficits in the history of Georgia. Captain R. E. Park, state treasurer of Georgia, estimated that the deficit confronting the treasury will not be less than SBOO,OOO, and may reach $1,000,000 Provision to meet this burden, in ad dition to the regular state budget of something like $5,000,000, must be made by the Joseph M. Brown admin istration, and the legislature which meets next June. Just how it is to be done is causing deep apprehension, on the part of the lawmakers. The cause of the concern of the al ways conservative state treasurer and the newly elected governor is pre sented in the following table; Loss from the hire of con victs $250,000 Loss from liquor revenue .. .. 24(1,000 Increased appropriation for common schools.. .. .. .. 250,000 Appropriation for 11 districts agricultural schools 77,000 Normal increase in appropria tions 30,000 Total $847,000 THROUGHOUT THE STATE The state department of entomol agy, after four years of experiment, has succeeded in producing a hybird type of cotton which resists the rav ages of the black root fungus, gener ally recognized as the worst of all cotton pests, with the exception of the boll weavil which is not known in Georgia. It has taken long and expen sive series of experiments to produce this resistant type, but this important work has at last been accomplished, and the department announces that it has a limited amount of the seed on hand. Samples of the seed will be sent to representative farmers throughout the state, their names being neces sarily limited on account of the recent farmers’ institutes that have been held in various sections. Information of an experiment about to be made in raising sea island cot ton in California was contained in a letter received by Commissioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson from Robert H. Harris of Holtville, Cal. Mr. Har his stated that an association has been organized for the purpose and that about seven thousand acres of land will be planted in Egyptian cot ton of the Texas variety. He express es the opinion that the cotton raising experiment in California will prove a great success. According to a list compiled by Sec retary Goodloe Yancey of the prison commission, between sixty-five and seventy counties have applied for con victs under the new law to the num ber approximately of one thousand eight hundred. The counties which have already sent in requisitions for convicts number only about half of those in the state, and do not include Fulton and many of the larger coun ties. From prescent indications the 2,500 felony convicts of the state will all be employed upon the public roads of the various counties and there will be no “overs” to dispose of. The membership of the commission to investigate the advisability and feasibility of extending the Western and Atlantic railroad to the sea with the aid of convict labor, was complet ed by the appointment by Governor Smith of Honorable Paul Trammel of Dalton, and Honorable W. H, Burwell of Hancock. Tbe "overnor had form erly appointed Honorable J. R‘. Gray of Atlanta, and George Dole Wadley of Monroe county, as members of the commission. As announced at the time of the passage of the bill, Presi dent J. J. Flynt appointed Senators J. D. Howard of Baldwin, and C. W. Brantley of Laurens, as members of the commission. Speaker John M. Sla ton named Messrs. Hooper Alexander of DeKalb, Joe Hill of Bibb, and H. J. Fullbright of Burke, as members of the commission. The citizens of Wadly voted almost unanimously to grant to R. L. Perkins the right to operate electric lights and waterworks there, Mr. Perkin 3 is the lessee of the Wadley Yellow Pino Company’s plant at this place, and the light and power will be generated at his mill plant just outside Wadley city limits. Mr. W. A. DuPre, a prominent bus iness man of Marietta, has on exhibi tion a fine specimen of an American ’ eagle that measures eight and a half feet from tip to tip. This eagle was killed by four school boys who were out hunting near Marietta. The eagle came down and was .making an effort to capture the bird dog of the school boys and all the boys immediately opened fire and after shooting four or fie times each, finally succeeded in killing the eagle. This is a fine spec imen and is one of the few eagles that hae been seen in Cobb county for a long time and is the only one that has been killed in the county. Savannah has developed what Is thought co be a brand new swindle. It is nothing more nor less than the col lection of city taxes on personal prop | erty from new comers to the city. The scheme seems to be to watch the col umns of the daily newspapers to see j where new arrivals live and to then present themselves as city tax collec- I tors who want to collect money for j personal property. The scheme has worked very well in one or two in stances and it is not known how many unreported cases there are. Mayor Tiedeman will make an effort to have these petty crooks run down. Stockholders of the former Bank of Waycross have announced that the re organization and re-opening of the bank was now practically assured. Several have canceled their stock and | subscribed to the new stock. Colonel j W. M. Toomer and Colonel L .A. Wil son were authorized to appoint a com j mittee of five to confer with leading bankers in Atlanta, Savannah and Jacksonville in the formulation of a plan for the re-organization to be sub mitted at a meeting in Waycross De ! cember 5. W. R. McCants of Winder, Ga., has been named by Governor Smith as a trustee of the North Georgia Agrcul tural college at Dahlonega. Mr. Mc- Cants is a well-known business man of Jackson county. His appointment is for six years for October 1, 1908. An incident of interest to the medi cal and scientific world occurred at Eatonton when grave diggers, in dig ging the grave of Major William A. j Crawford, unearthed the corpse of an infant brother of the deceased perfect ly preserved after sixty-two years’ in terment. The grave was opened by headstones being misplaced and the grave diggers struck the glass plate ; covering the metalic casket with such force that it was dislocated and the features of the corpse revealed. The facial and physical features were re markably preserved, even the teetn and h&ir, with the exception of being very dark. The headstone bore the [name Flournoy Gatewood. t- a THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. H. MARTIN, PH. D. Subject: The Abundant Life. W Brooklyn, N. Y. —Sunday morning, in the First Church of Christ (Disci | pies), the pastor, the Rev. Herbert : Martin, Ph. D., preached on “Religion ; and Life.” The text was from John j 10:10:“! came that they may have ! life, and may have it abundantly.” ! Dr. Martin said: j Christ came not to teach a theol i ogv primarily, if at all, but to give ' life, more life. He came to give life j to others rather than live a self-cen tered life. I came that they may have | life. He came to give life here and 1 now. His emphasis was upon the present life. He that hath the Son i hath life. Life in the future is a | corailary to present life. To have life ; here and now is the only guarantee, j the only possibility of future life. The value and need of religion for I the present life are being emphasized j to-day as at no time since the early j Christian era. This identification of 1 religion and life tends to make re ligion a normal phenomenon in hu ! man experience. Religion has long suffered because of its almost ex clusive other-world emphasis. Its re moval to the future as the proper sphere of its activity, its other-world ! advantages caused men to regard it | as an abstract, vague and unreal, and ] to treat it as having little practical 1 benefit for the present. Under such j conditions religion would he disre- I garded, or, if accepted, it would be in j an almost altogether objective way as a precautionary measure, and thus | never become a vital element in the program of daily life. The normal man is intensely interested in the present, and in the sweet by-and-by only as it is related to his present interest. If religion is to cut any real figure in this life it can do so only as it links itself to and identifies itself with his present interests. And this religion is capable of doing, and is doing. The Master identified Himself with the life of the people; in fact, He came that He might give life to the people. The same hopeful sign is discovera ble in the educational world. Com pare the curricula of the schools and colleges of other days with those of to-day and how evident is the differ ence. Education as preparation for living in the far future, even of the present life, does not and never did appeal to the normal mind unless the appeal was effected through a liberal, application of physical force. Since the days of Rousseau education as | mere preparation has gradually and I beautifully fallen into disrepute. Ed ] ucators have discovered the practical ly complete absorption of the child in the present. They have discovered, furthermore, that even the young child must live while being educated, and that as such it must enjoy certain rights. As a result of these discov eries education is no longer a mere formal process whose goal is utterly remote from the present life inter ests. Education aims to equip the student for present living since he must live while he is in process of being educated. You cannot take a boy of fifteen years and educate him for some position at thirty and ex pect him to fill that position satisfac torily if you wholly disregard the fact that he lives and must live from fifteen to thirty. Modern education takes note of this and seeks, while looking toward the future, to qualify the student in the largest way to live the fullest life in the present days and by so living will he be able to realize those future expectations. In addi tion to form, education gives content, or better, to-day minds are formed and fashioned by giving them a con tent. Education and religion seek to vitalize the present and out of it to make possible the future. Their aim is one, inspired by the Master, to give more life. Jesus came with life for the peo ple and brought it to the people. He sought the people. He went out af ter them instead of waiting for the people to come to Him. His life was one of faith in God and service to and among men. He came to min ister, and did minister. He came to give life and He gave it every day. The life of men was being enriched and ennobled as He gave Himself, His life to them each day. The giv ing of His life on the cross was, from this point of view, the final act of | that life which was, par excellence, i the life-giving life. Organized re ! ligion is beginning to go out after and to the people. Churches have | long since ceased to be built whose | entrances are guarded by iron gates j and padlocks. “Strangers welcome,” ! that condescending phrase, does not ! appear so frequently on our church signs. Religion has girded herself ; for service. She is working in the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Christian Associations, and is found in settlement and slum work. Her voice is heard in the factory noon-day meetings, on tbe street corners, in j the theatres and in all the busy haunts of men. Organized religion is hearing the Master’s voice, is catch i ing His inspiration who said, “I came that they may have life.” So of edu l cation. It is being given to the peo- I pie. It is no longer the peculiar i privilege of the few. The people are being sbught out and compelled to be educated. Education is fer the peo ple and is being given to the people. Education aims to give more life to the individual, and more life for more individuals. It is true that knowledge enlarges one’s world and contributes to his survival. His hori zon is widened, his ideas and ideals are enlarged, he discovers a deeper meaning in things, life takes on other and better aspects; in short, he pos sesses a larger life. This larger life, more life, is becoming possible for more Individuals. While this is true, there remains yet much to be desired ip our public schools, high schools and colleges. Let us remember that in our system the higher the grade the fewer the pupils; that out of one hundred pupils who enter public schools only twenty-five stay long enough to read and write; that only twenty out of one hundred stay longer than the fifth grade; that less than one out of one hundred who enter our public schools graduate from the high schools; that a small proportion of high school graduates enter col lege, and that a small percentage of those who enter college remain until graduation; all this in the face of the fact that our system is graded largely toward the university. If ed ucation gives life it should give more life to a greater number of Indi viduals. Jesus taught that the ninety and nine that were safe within the fold could not furnish an excuse for the neglect of the one tl .t was away. With these things in mind should we rest content with that system which saves the one to the neglect of the ninety and nine? To produce such a result, no one cause Is adequate. It has been fre quently said, and with truth, that the course of study does not have suf ficient vital contact with the life and interest of the pupil, and consequent ly, because of Its lack of Interest for him, fails to hold him. Rapid pro gress, however, is being made in our own city toward the correction of such undesirable conditions. Anoth er cause, more deep-seated and more serious, is the growing commercial spirit of the day. The dollar is the circle of life. Men sell the.r own souls and put under tribute their children’s for dollars. There Is great need for resolute struggle against the allurements of dollars. Too many altars are being builded to the god of gold; too many souls are being sacri ficed upon these altars. It is hard, yes, well nigh impossible, to trans mute commercial ideals, dollars and cents Into more abundant life. Our course of study may well need revision, may require a radical change in content. But our greatest need is larger and truer ideals established firmly in the hearts and minds of our boys and girls. A greater emphasis must be placed upon moral and ideal thap upon material and commercial values. The voice in defense of the child’s inalienable rights, his heritage of moral and religious ideals, should ring deep Into tho hearts of parents. Parents need to learn that the dollar is not the goal of life, that the child is more than the victim of a parent’s base ideals; that he is nltrre than a money-making machine. They need to learn that the child ha 3 a self-hood to be developed, a soul to be cultured, and a destiny to be achieved. To take a child out of school and compel him to earn money is to deny him his rights, is to degrade him. For parents to do so is selfish, brutal, im moral. I repeat that one of the great est‘evils that threaten our nation i 3 our too complete allegiance to com mercial ideals. Our mad rush for gold makes us a nation of individuals rather ■ than a democracy. Christ says, “No man livetli unto himself.” In New York it sometimes seems as though every man reversed that prin ciple. Individualism is a menace to the life of the republic. There is, as never before, a crying need for parents and teachers to exalt moral and spiritual values; a need to de throne the god of gold and to re enthrone the God of old; a need to engrave upon the very physical and spiritual fiber of tho child’s nature the exceeding, the incomparable worth of moral character. Parents themselves need to possess and prop erly estimate these ideals and then to instill them and give them first place In the hearts of their children. Such ideals of truth and righteousness, im plying as they do a profounder sense of social obligation, will contribute in the highest degree to the enrichment of human life, to a more abundant life. Mighty possibilities are resident in the teacher’s vocation because of the material with which he works. Eter nal consequences follow therefrom. The true teacher spends little time waiting for pay day to come. His is a worthier work than that of a mere wage earner. He is a maker for social betterment, not a mere hire ling. As with the preacher, right eousness is his concern;, with God he is a co-worker. That our teachers might feel that they are called of God and are doing God’s work, there was a Man sent from God who was named Teacher. He Himself says His mis sion was to give a more abundant life. That was His mission, that was His religion, that was His life. The religious aspect of the teacher’s work, the religion of education, if you will, is a subject worthy of more thought than it has received. While there is an imperative need for teachers with ideals, we must not forget that the ideals must be of pos sible attainment.. We need, then, sane teachers, teachers balanced by perspective. False ideals, ideals be yond the realm of the possible, held up before the young, defeat the teacher’s purpose. Hold up before a boy an impossible ideal, making him struggle toward its realization until one day its utter absurdity dawns upon him, and with what result? His cherished idol falls and with it there come tumbling down all his ideal con structs. In this day when our coflege presidents are little more than money gatherers, when our school principals are little more t''an clerical workers, there is a positive need for teachers with lofty ideals, but ideals within the realm of possible achievement. Impossible ideals made for lawless ness rather than for righteousness and the betterment of life. We need, finally, to rediscover the meaning of life, to learn that a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things that he possesses. We need to rediscover the fact of God, and that in Him we live and move and have our being. He is the source of our life and to find Him is to find fuller life. There is need to re-em phasize the fact of Christ as the Re vealer of the true life which is the life of service. The life of the world ' has received a new impulse In Him. His faith and practice were that the only way to find life is to give life. Christ gave His life in deeds of loving service oven unto death that the life heritage of humanity might be en riched. He thus emphasized in teach ing and in life social obligation. For Him every enriched life was an in creased social asset. From Him we learn that the inheritance of life into which wo have come must bo shared with our fellows and passed on to others enhanced in value by reason of our participation. To give life is to make life more abundant. / PROMINENT PEOPLE. Richard Croker decided to leave Ireland for a visit to the United States. President C. W. Eliot, of Harvard, resigned, and his resignation, to take effect May 19, 1909, was accepted. Howard Gould won the honors for chrysanthemums at the first day of the National Flower Show in Chicago. Seth Low succeeds James R. Morse In the presidency of the American Asiatic Association, now eleven years old. Dr. Sven Hedin. the Swedish ex plorer, says that he has discovered the true sources of the Bramaputra and Indus. DeLancey Nicoll, attorney, of New York City, said that Howard GouM’s income had been cut. down $300,000 and was now only $400,000. One of the be ct known mining men in the country, Walter Fitch, has re signed as superintendent of the Cal umet and Hecla properties. Duchess Alexandra Victoria of Schl°swig-Holstein was married in Berlin to Prince August William of Prussia, fourth son of the Emperor. R. W. Gilder, of the Century, said that the Kaiser article was not. with drawn because of anything in it likely to cause International complications. Kenyon Cox, tho painter, is aiso an accomplished writer. He is a son of General Jacob D. Cox, Secretary of the Interior in President Grant’s first Cabinet. Amid great ceremony the Czar of Bulgaria convened the National As sembly for the first time since claim ing regal dignity, and was enthusias tically cheered by the people. Henry P. Davidson, vice-president of the First National Bank of New York, and Professor A. P. Andrews, members of the National Monetary Commission, have returned from an official trip to Europe. LADOF. WORLD. There are signs of a revival In tho lead and slate industries of Wales. A union labor club was formed at the last meeting of the San Francisco, Cal., laundry workers. Typographical unions have been formed in the colonies of Earbadoes, British Guiana and Trinidad. Printers’ unions have been started In the sister colonies of Trinidad, Barbados and British Guiana. Organizers in the anthracite field of Pennsylvania are endeavoring to rehabilitate the miners’ union. retail clerks of San Francisco, Cal., will start an employment bu reau for the benefit of members. No one in Spxony is allowed to shoe horses unless he has passed a public examination and is duly qualified. fn the shipbuilding trades on the Mersey and Tyne there are 20,000 fewer men employed than last year. An Oklahoma farmer insists that a man can live on nine cents a day, provided he uses the products of his farm. The strike of chauffeurs against the New York Taxicab Company has been settled, both sides having made con cessions. For strike benefits, 2118,332.70 was paid out by the United Brewery Workmen of America for tho two years ending August 31, 1908. Machinists of San Francisco, Cal., qnd of Oakland have under consid eration a proposition to form a dis trict council of lodges of machinists. At a meeting of the United Hebrew Trades Union, of New York City, it wa3 decided to affiliate with t'ne Workmen's Circle, the national He brew labor federation. Henry Abrahams, secretary of the Boston C. L. U., recently predicted the five-hour workday in the shoe making business of New England within a very few years. CHINESE TREATY' PLANNED. United States arid Japan to Respect Independenc eof China. New York City.—The Herald gives prominence to a dispatch from Tokio thar a report is prevalent in thee high financial circles close to the Katsura ministry that Secretary Root and Ba ron Takahira are negotiating a new treaty between the United States and Japan, the chief terms of which are that the high contracting parties shall respect the integrity and indepen dence of ihe Chinese empire. The Prophetic Eye. Barber (looking for business) —Ex- cuse me, sir, but your hair is going to come out soon by the handful. Jaggs (who was out all night and is going home to face his wife) —You (hie) shpose I don’t know (hie) that? —Bohemian. ,
