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NEWNAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 5
ONE DO
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IN AI1VANC*.
YEAR
Awful Warnings.
Dorothy Dix.
Every now and then Rome humanita
rian amen and broaches the project of
establishing a School of Matrimony, in
which prospective brides and bride
grooms could be prepared for the ca
reer of wedlock. It in a grand and
beautiful scheme, and would undoubt
edly prevent many divorces, since ap
parently the vast majority of men and
women marry under the impression
that the holy state is a succession of
never-ending thrills, and when they find
out that it is mostly bills, they are apt
to become grouchy and disgruntled in
consequence thereof.
A school of matrimony would certain
ly fill a long-felt want, but it still waits
for its realization to a distant and a
wiser day, when we shall have learned
to regard marriage as a profession, and
not as a picnic—which shares the com
mon fate of picnics by beginning glo
riously and ending in a fight. In the
absence of this beneficent institution,
however, a clergyman has suggested uh
a substitute the Court of Domestic Re
lations, and he advises every young
man and woman who is thinking of
getting married to spend a week at
tending its sessions.
Probably if they did there would be
no more wedding bells. It would cer
tainly take a courageous and love-drunk
man or woman to go on with marriage
after looking upon the wrecks of mat
rimonial misery that wush ashore in
that bleak tribunal.
It is the place of the matrimonially
damned; the place of utter and com
plete disillusionment; the place of bro
ken hearts; of broken vows; a place
peopled by the ghosts of dead youth, of
dead love, of dead hopes dead all that
made life sweet and beautiful.
The green and yellow bruise on the
face of yonder woman was made by the
fist of the man who used to kiss her
eyes and tell her they were like violets
washed in dew. That wife deserter
was once an ardent and impetuous lover
who pleaded on bis knees with a girl to
murry him until she consented. That
woman with the little children clinging
to her gown, and trying vainly to get
the court to mnke her husband support
her, married a man who swore to love
and cheiish her. This drab, bound over
to keep the peace, was a delicate and
gentle looking little thing, who won her
husband by her angel face and tirnid
manners. This couple arrested for
fighting were once upon a time so
much in love with each other that they
apooned in pqhlic, and billed and cooed
like turtle doves.
No other place on earth is moro full
of tragedy than the Domestic Relations
Court, because it does not represent
the end of misery as death does, but the
anguish of soul that is still alive, and
that may be still alive for many tortur
ing years. Nevertheless, no experience
would be more valuable to the man or
woman about to be married or to the
man and woman already married, than
a visit to this court.
For it shows not only to what a dis
astrous end marriage may come, but
how this catastrophe could be avoided
It gives a chart and compass by which
to steer across the dangerous sea of
matrimony.
Supposing that any young couple
took the preacher's advice, and spent
a few days in the Court of Domestic
Relations, what lesson would they
learn?
First, that the unconsidered mar
riage, the marriage of impulse, almost
invariably cornea to grief. Swift and
violent passions have swift and violent
ends, and the youth and maiden who
rush into matrimony after a few hours
or days acquaintance rush with equal
celerity to the divorce court. In the
great majority of cases that come up
before the Court of Domestic Relations
the husband and wife have married
when they were very young, and have
found out that they didn't suit each
other when they were grown up.
The second thing the young couple
would find out is that the marriage that
is not properly tinunced almost invaria
bly cuuses trouble. People who are hun
gry are not sentimental, and when ev
ery day is u never-ending struggle to
make ends meet, the niBn is sure to
feel the woman a burden and tell her
so. and the woman is dead sure to re
taliate by reproaching him for dragging
her down to want.
The third lesson the young couple
would learn is not to live with any of
their in-laws, and not to let any of their
in-laws live with them. The mother-
in-law is the trouble-maker in an ap
palling number of homes.
The next lesson that the young couple
would learn is that drink on the part of
tie man and laziness on the part of the
woman are about equally responsible
for the wrecking of homes.
Let a man begin spending his earn
ings and his evenings at the corner sa
loon with the boys, or a woman com
mence dawdling around all day gossiping
with the neigntors, and going to the
moving picture shows, and feeding her
husband out of the delicatessen shop,
and the end is in sight.
These are some of the lessons that
the young couple would learn by spend
ing a few days in the Domestic Rela
tions Court. And it would be borne in
upon them that all the misery that they
have aeen was unnecessary, and that
had the man and woman in any case ex
ercised common sense and common for
bearance they would not have come to
this sorry plight. They had all the ma-
The County Unit Plan.
Macon Telegraph.
There has been considerable discus
sion of the county unit plan since its
adoption by the State Democratic Ex
ecutive Corfimitt.ee at the meeting of
the committee some time ago. The
county unit plan in a State-wide contest
puts the nomination in the hands of the
terial out of which to make marriuge a j counties, instead of popular majorities,
success and th ir lives happy in their an ,| j H the only system by which the
own hands, and they threw it away.
Teachers’ Examinations.
Atlanta, Ga., June 1, 1914.
Shortly before the date of examina
tion, June 12 and 19, questions will be
sent by express to each county su
perintendent, and to those special sys
tems where arrangements are made
with this department. If the questions
are not received by June 9, communi
cate with me without fail on that day
by telephone or telegraph. I’lease note
the condition of the package and see if
the seals have been broken. Within
the package you will find envelopes
containing the questions. Those marked
June 12 should be opened at 8:110 on
Friday morning in the presence of
the applicants; those dated June 13
Rhould not he opened until the same
hour on Saturday.
On Friday the teachers are given the
examination for the primary license
and this is also the firBt day's work for
the general elementary. In addition,
on this date questions will be. sent, for
two of the five groups of high school
and supervisory examination: I. His
tory (Anciert, Modern and English.)
2. Languages (Latin, French, German,
Spanish, and Greek.) Two of these
languages only are required. Also on
this date there will be questions for
both the high school and the elemen
tary reading courses, and the question
on the history and geography of Geor
gia for those teachers having licenses
from other States.
On Saturday there will be questions
for the last half of the general elemen
tary examination and for English,
science, and mathematics in the high
school test. English includes grammar,
composition and rhetoric, English and
American literature. The science test
will consist of questions on agriculture,
physics, and biology. Mathematics
will include arithmetic, algehra through
quadratics, and plane geometry.
The high school and supervisory cer
tificate may he secured by taking ex
amination on any three of the five
groups mentioned in the system of cer
tification. Applicants are to take all
subjects of the three groups selected,
except in case of the language group,
where two only are required. This cer
tificate not only gives authority to
tench all of the high school studies, hut
also to give instruction in the primary
and general elementary grades as well.
If you have an applicant for a pro
fessional license, your letter requesting
this must certify as to the diploma,
(giving the name of the college and the
year granted) at least three years of
successful teaching, attendance for one
session on such a summer school as the
University of Georgiu, Knoxville, Chi
cago, etc., and an average of 75 per
cent, upon the reading course examina
tion. i’rofessional certificates may be
sent out from the State Department
only upon meeting the four require
ments just mentioned. Where there is
any doubt as to a teacher’s ability to
obtain this professional certificate it
would be better to take the high school
and supervisory license.
It is especially to be desired that the
examination be above reproach front
the standpoint of good order and hones
ty. Occasionally criticism is heard as
to carelessness in these particulars in a
few localities. If communication i9 al
lowed and there is careless supervision
the results obtained are of little value,
some systems will be unwilling to ac
cept the certificates, and our whole ed
ucational work suffers in the estimation
of all good citizens. The superinten
dent has the right to pay for all the
help needed to supervise the examina
tion properly, and there should be no
carelessness and indifference at this
point.
Tapers are to be graded by
perintendents as usual. They
course, consult with the State
the su-
will, of
Depart
ment about the grading of high school
papers where necessary.
In order that the teachers may have
full information about these matters
pleHse give this letter as much publici
ty as possible. Sincerely yours,
M. L. Brittain.
State Superintendent of Schools.
small counties of the State are given
their just part in the affairs of the
State. Under the majority-rule system
three or four largo counties, with con
gested votes, dominated by large influ
ences, would rule the State. A brain
storm, which iB easily stirred up in one
of the large cities, could undo the work
of a score of counties, whose sober-
minded, thoughtful citizens had reached
their conclusion through reason, rather
than spasms of fanaticism or prejudice.
In the smaller counties of the State
the people live far apart, many of them
far from the county site, or voting
places. They have no large organiza
tions, causing them to vote as one man.
They do not get together every day and
night, forming combinations and clubs,
and the influences which feast upon the
"venal voters” do not reach them. The
expression which comes from a smaller
county of six or seven hundred voters
is as safe—because it is an independent
expression —as would come from 10,900
voters, which might be corralled or
whipped into line by some influences of
the large cities. It was in order to olT-
set the bad influences of the larger
places and at the same time reward the
country citizen, who has to take a day
olT to vote, that our Democratic fore
fathers adopted the unit rule, thereby
reducing the power of the congested
centers and proportionately increasing
the vote of the smaller, thinly-aettied
counties.
To show how the larger counties T . ■ . j j , ,
... . . .. .. . Late to bed and early to rise, hustle
would dominate the smaller ones it ib a u d a y an( j a d V ertise, has made many a
only necessary to take the figures of
the election in which Gov. Brown, Hon.
Tope Brown and Judge Rnssell were
candidates for Governor. In that elec
tion Fulton county cast 8,270 votes,
Haralson county cast 674 votes, so that
we see Fulton county cast more than
twelve times as many votes as Haralson
did; consequently, on the plurality plan,
Fulton would have had twelve times as
much power in the final count. Where
as, under the county unit plan, Haral
son had two votes in the convention,
Fulton county only six, which gave
Fulton county only three times as much
power as Haralson had, as against
twelve times as much under the other
plan.
In that election Fulton county cast—
Eleven times as many votes as Ap
pling,
Forty times as much as Baker,
Twenty-five times as much as Bryan,
Nineteen times as much as Burke,
Twenty times as much as Banks,
Fifteen times as much as Campbell,
Eighty times as much as Chattahoo
chee,
Twenty-one times as much as Craw
ford,
Fifteen times as much as Clayton,
Forty-five times as much as Catoosa,
Thirty times as much as Clay,
Sixty times as much as Charlton,
Thirty-five times as much as Camden,
Thirty times as much as Columbia,
Thirty times as much as Clinch,
Fifty times as much as Dade,
Fifty times as much as Daw3on,
Twenty times as much as Early,
Fifty times as much as Echols,
Forty times as much as Fannin,
Twenty times as much as Lee,
Twenty-five times as much as Liberty,
Forty times as much as Lumpkin,
Seventy times as much as McIntosh,
Twenty-five times as much as Mur
ray,
Twenty-five times as much as Miller,
Fifty times bs much as Union,
Sixty times as much as Webster.
Under the county unit plan all of
these counties, instead of having from
one-fifteenth to one-fiftieth of Fulton’s
strength, are given one-third. All of
these twenty-eight counties together
cast fewer votes than Fulton cast, but
who would say that the expression
from the strong-minded, hard-working
citizens of these counties did not come
from nearer the heart of Georgia than
the large vote that was caBt in Fulton?
What man living in one of the smaller
counties of the State would want to
give up the advantage which the unit
system gives his county, and what man
in the larger, congested counties would
deny the smaller county a system which
merely reaches an average expression
in the affairs of the State?
Where is the unfairness of leaving
the nominations to units representing
the 150 counties of the State, thus
equalizing the influence of all sections,
instead of concentrating in the four or
five large counties?
Slang.
Slang is a verbal vice. It is vile even
unto villiany. It taints. It is often
used by young people, who regard it as
an evidence of smartness, while, in
fact, it is in direct evidence to the re
verse. It pollutes.
A young girl's character is questioned
by a stranger when he hears her use
slang. It encourages familiarity. It
leads by direct route to wrongdoing,
shame and remorse.
A youth who uses slang is not trusted
by men who give employment. The
ability and repute of the young man
are at once in question. No employer
wants a slangy boy or girl about his
store or office. They are not the kind
of people to have about the safe and
till. In great cities, where the charac
ters of people are known by their de
portment and use of language as a book
is known by its cover and contents, the
slangy youth or maiden is at once set
down as from some frogpond district.
It is not regarded as smart. It is
about as much evidence of smartness
as wearing one’s pants in his boots and
adopting a swagger. Such a person is
the butt of ridicule. So is a slangy
person.
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