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^uUtin
Official Organ of Wilkinson County
Published Everyay Friday
Gjo. H. Carswell Editor
Orian Wood Manson
Asst Editor Business Manager
Subscription One Dollar a Year
In Advance.
Entered as second class mail mat
ter at the post-office at Irvinton: Ga.
under the act of Congress of March
3, 1879.
When a feleow comes around
trying to organize a “Harris
club” in order to be chairman,
ask him what job he wants.
These chairmen are after the
pie, but their chairmanship is
about the only job they will land
While the Editor of the Amer
icus paper, Harris’ man Friday,
was asking Cooper, Upshaw and
Shaw why they were running,
he should have asked his cher i
lie had not been honored witl
a job entirely too big for him.
A young man without a jol
is with out pride or ambition an<
is an object of pity without a fu
ture. Young man, get you one
and get on it, not a Ford but a
man’s job. You will feel better
and look lots more respectable.
Mr. Farmer, why not plant th
things to fill a silo? With hay a
S4O a ton and corn at two doilai
a bushel, a well-filled silo wit
$40.00 a t.n materialas goo
as either will come in might
handy this fall. See your fan
demonstrator and he will tell yc
about it.
As we see it, there are onl
two men in Georgia.who can be: '
Hardwick —Murphy Candler an
Hugh Dorsey. With the preset
line up thousands of Georgia!
will support Hardwick becau
they have nothing better to sup
port, and they are just as tri
to Wilson and America as any c
their following.
«»
A sure enough man is tl
Georgian who says that he ’ll <
what he can to assist in the wa:
and will contribute his money t -
the extent of his ability, whet
called on. We have lots of thei
in Wilkinson, and only a feu
who are too busy doing nothin ■
to help his ccuntry.
Every month, read the order
passed by the county - commit
sioners which will appear in th
Bulletin. If your neighbor
getting too much for removing ;
tree, placing a plank on a bridge,
tell us about it and we will pub
licly call attention to same- I
a fellow appears too regular on
the payroll, inquire as to hi;
job. Its your business and yo’’
are enti Jed to know.
And still they come!
Charlie Edwards, Watson’s cal
ico Cnarlie, is threatening to
run for the United States Sen
ate. He says that Hard
wick has been untrue to his party
and country. Well, Charley what
did you do when th? democrats
and honest republicans tried to
unseat the Kaiser Cannon? Did
you stand true to your country
and party then? The people, of;
Georgia haven’t forgotten that;
you were a deserter, and they •
will not reward you by placing
you in the Senate. The trouble
with Charlie was, the congress
man’s job was a liltte too big for
him.
There are enough idle men and
women in Georgia to run all the
crops and a few on the side, if
the town and county officers will
get aftr them. The Governor has
no more power to put the vagrant
ti work than the grand jury has
to repeal the ten commandments,
but if the marshals, sheriffs,
mayors and court officers get on
the job, there will be a great
deal of moving or working.
Our Georgia System
I
Georgia has been so interested in the small “isms”, Brownism,
Smithism, Watsonism, Catholicism, Frankism, and every other
kind of pro and anti, that the people have gone to sleep on the
real things and big issues that confront us, towit: Education and
Taxation.
At the last session of the Legislature, the members of the House,
. [ who saw the great injustice that is being done the common schools
and the colleges of the common people, came near forcing an ex- (
! tra session to right these wrongs.
। The Constitution of this State expressly provides for the educa
tion of the masses, and for years the people were only taxed to
support the common schools. Up to the year 1897, there was no
direct appropriation for the University of Georgia at Athens. But
since that time the appropriations for Athens have grown by leaps
and bounds, with practically no benefits to the people of Georgia. I
Under the Constitution, all money appropriated for higher edu
cation must be made in the name of the University of Georgia,
': the School of Tecnology, the Normal and Industrial College, are
all branches, or rather they are supposed to be, of the University i
of Georgia. In usefulness, especially the Normal and Industrial
College at Milledgeville and the School of Technology at Atlanta,
। some of the branches have so outstripped the University at Ath
ens that the men who are supposed to assist in the building of
these branch Colleges are fighting to keep them back, and to cen
tralize everything on the Campus at Athens. The trustees of the
State University, and the Chancellor of the University are expect
ed to render all aid possible to the School of Technology and the
Normal and Industrial College, but their efforts and actions in the
past few years show that they care nothing for the betterment of
any college unless it is on the Campus at Athens, and unless it;
tries to further the effort of centralization of the educational in-;
terests oi this state. That one of the most powerful and well or-j
ganized bodies of men to secure money and more money for the .
I Diversity at Athens, with a reckless disregard for the common '
schools, appears before each Legislature, is well known to any j
man who has served in either branch of the General Assembly. ;
So bold have these men become in their demands upon the State I
treasury for the appropriations at Athens, that it is an open se-!
cret that no man can be elected President of the Senate or Speak-1
er of the House unless he has the stamp of approval of these men.;
they have built and are building stronger each day at Athens a
political machine that will control the politics of this State to the
hurt and injury ot the common people. The election of a Govern
or depends upon their will, for he appoints the State Board of Ed
iiication, and this board does the rest- A glance at the State
Lcard of Education will show that there are men on the same
who have been for years, if not now, the hired representatives of
; the American Book Company. Country children today are re
quired to study inferior books because this board has more con-
Icern in the welfare of the seller than it has in the poor children of
Georgia So long as the machine elects the Governor and he ap
pomts the State Board of Education, the people may cry for bet
: ter books and free bo?ks, but they will never get either. Tne
people will either have to elect the Governor or elect their own
trustees and their own Board of Education.
hen the crowd at Athens begun to light for Athens as against the coin-'
mon school children, they first passed an amendment to the Constitution of I
this State limbing the taxing power, for till purposes to five mills. This j
crowd, that runs hand in glove with the rich corporations of Georgia, knew i
that when appropriations were increased for the colleges that the representa
tives of the people would demand an equal increase for the common schools.
They placed the property tax at live mills, and then cried for more appropri
ations for (he colleges to be pai l from the sweat and blood of the laboring
man. They prepared a bill about two years ago and duped the State School
Commissioner and the forces of the common school to approve it, limiting '
the tax levy for the common schools to two mills. This would have served
their purposes for years to come, for the common school fund could not grow
but the appropriation for colleges would have been without limit.
In 1897, the University of Georgia, for the first time, had the Legislature
to make a direct appropriation of $14,500. At the same time the Girl’s
Normal and Industrial College at Milledgeville was given $22,500, and the
School of Technology the same. In 1917, just twenty years, the Normal and
Industrial College received $67,500, for the education of eight hundred girls;!
die school of Technology received SIOO,OOO, for about two hundred boys, and f
the University of Georgia received $148,650 direct from the State, SIOO,OOO 1
from the Federal Government, ami about SIOO,OOO from the different conn-,
ties in Georgia. with only about one hundred and fifty boys in College, and !
for the year 1918, may be added another SIOO,OOO, making nearly one half
million dollars to be used for the centralization of power on the campus at
■ Athens. In a few years, if the state will continue to meet the Federal Ap
propriations for Athens, this school will receive annually $100,000,00» Aside
from this, the State Normal School at Athens received $57,000, and as a feed-
: er for the State College of Agriculture the District Agricultural Schools and a j
( broken down medical college at Augusta $50,000, while a bill is pending to !
i establish a woman's college at Athens, were given SIBO,OOO, while eight
■ hundred thousand school children in Georgia only received a little over $3
each, with no opportunity to go to a high school. A bill is now pending in
, the legislature to authorize the county boards of education to levy five mills •
