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.WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7. 1918.
TIIE MH.LEDGEVII.LE NEWS.
THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
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THE ANTI-TIPPING BILL.
It seems that Georgia is to soon to be included in the list
of states having in force the hnti-tipping law, and in few
Instances will there he any complaints on account of this
measure.
It could not be accepted as a bad idea, the bringing about
of any legislation that would tend to protect the public
against any hold-up measures usually employed by many
employes of public service corporations. Fcr many years
the uncertainties of what we pay for have resulted in a
botheration to the public generally and^this matter of abol
ishing the tipping custom will be learned with genuine sat
isfaction by the people of ibis state.
During almost a generation the people of the various
states, not yet bringing about a law to prohibit the nui
sance of tipping have been unable to estimate the cost of
any amount of travel with any assurance of proper accom
modation. Heretofore, the people of Georgia have been
forced to take chances on unregulated conditions existing
in the service department cf many public carriers, and
while it took a long time to bring about a remedy of the
state of affairs, the people will certainly be gratified to
learn of the enactment of this long needed law, should the
Legislature pass the measure
THE RED CR OSS AND WAR SAVINGS STAMPS.
The people ol' this county not so long ago pledged them
selves to make provision to go to the aid of our govern/
meat in carrying on the war intended to insure us against
any possible oppression by our European enemies. The
matter of paying strict and lasting attention to the object
and put pose of our promise in this matter is of vitdl im
portance, no less so than was our acti n in guaranteeing
o. r government all of our physical and linancial strength.
As a matter of fact, the time for our test is now at hand,
end we must give to o r government until we feel the ef
fects of , ho demands made upon us. Our declarations have
long ago been made and we are all on the firing line, so to
speak. The man-power of, this country must be fully
brought into action, else the endurance of a longer and
more serious struggle will be thrust upon us.
When we speak of the workings of man-power of this
country, let us bear in mind the various classifications of
our requirements. First, of all. we are going to be forced
to build up our armies almost to the maximum, and in or
der to be able to do this, we might as well concede, right
now, that it will give us plenty to do.
It takes stores of r scurces to carry on a war like the
one in which America is involved and to bring about these
resources we need not hesitate to say that production is
the factor which we must rely upon.
Many obligations are necessarily to be continually thr c t
upon us during the period of our struggle and to meet the
demands required of us will not be a matter of little sig
nificance.
The government has asked us to make pledges for the
support of v ar measures and the fulfillment of thtse pledg
es will be expected. These pledges without fulfillment
■would bo as useless in the carrying on of the war as would
be a :rain loud of guns without ammunltl n.
Those of us who have pledged ourselves to financially
aid our government in carrying on the war arc now being
called upon, again, to meet our promises. We are going to
be called upon, and that soon, t ' make additional pledge .
and we might as well get busy now and begin to pay ns we
go. We ere already obligated to a considerable extent,
though we are only getting ready to wage a real fight with
the Huns.
Pay your Rod Cross dues and fvlflll your War Savings
Stamps pledges now and get ready for the next call to be
made by the government.
ATHENS AND MILLEDGEVILLE.
From The Macon Telegraph.
T HE State generally is to he congratulated that the Board
of Trustees of the Georgia Normal and Industrial Col
lege promptly refused to consider the resignation of Dr. M.
M. Parks as president. Such a thing Is unthinkable. Parks
is the G. N. & l. C. And .Judge Gober who has displayed
singular faculty for stirring up trouble in this affair would
do well to go about the business he as been delegated from
Athens to do and quit devilling the conduct of the affars of
tlie Milledgeville institution. It may be true that Judge
Hamilton McWhorter, the dominating personality now in
the internal and external affairs of the State institutions of
education at Athens is anxious to see as staunch and indi
vidualistic personality as that of Parks removed from the
I McWhorter orbit of rule or ruin, but If that ambitious gen-
I lletuan, whose penchant for pushing things too tar some-
I times has barked his shins before now, wants to raise the
| issue of AthMis or nothing in Georgia education at this
i time, the opponents of his ideas could not themselves have
j selected a better college for their purposes for him to pitch
i his fight against them than the Georgia Normal and Indus-
I trial College. And if Gober is doing the work of McWhor-
| er in this instance he may rest assured the best he will
i get s the burned paw of the chestnut puller that tried but
I didn’t even get the boss the chestnuts.
I Even friends of the institutions ol Athens and The Ma-
on Telegraph is one of tlie stunchest, have been apprehen
sive of late that the group of units gathered there, them-
! elves under a comm nity of well regulated and dominant
control, lias been betraying too great an avarice for edu-
■aiional administration and power throughout the State.
That it was hound to precipitate the issue where it would
lave to be eiought out was apparent some time ago if the
hea existing trends were followed along. It seems they
have been, but when they walki d into the tieloved and lusty
G. N. and I. C., with the fierce and eplendid pride cf alma
mater that burns in the breast of students, alumnae and
faculty wherever they may be in the State, they walked Into
vhat will prove the well known buzz saw.
G. N. & 1. C. does not rest on the Athens organization
or the slightest measure of its success. In fact it is not
too much to say that the least Athens mixing in there is
the better It will get along. It rests on its own feet, on the
ureat usefulness it has accomplished in the State, and tlie
lffection in which ft is held by all who have come Into
■ontact with it. The Fniversity control is only technical
and in the existing inline of spirit of not a few of the gen
tlemen whose hopes and fears are centered In Athens it
would be better they got off the Milledgeville board entire
ly. Certainly Judge Gober, despite his mild but unconvinc
ing protestations to the contrary, hasn’t proved himself in
the present embroglio a man who realized what G. N. & 1.
C. and Dr. Parks have come to mean in the State.
If the University crowd want to force this issue before
the General Assembly or anywhere else the G. N. & I. C.
folks nee< worry little because the only result would be to
throw oft' the University yoke entirely, to stand G. N. & II
C. officially and formally on its own feet as it has been ac
tually for years, and run it as a separate institution answer-
able to the General Assembly alone. Which might be a fine
bin: lor G. N. & I. C., but wouldn't do the State Universi
ty any good in the years to come. G. N. & 1. C. might *outl
grow Ihe University. It would seem that a man who used
to he as shrewd as Hamp McWhorter in judging which
way the wind hlovys. to say nothing of guiding its direction
occasionally, would see that.
In the meantime the thing for G. N. & 1. C. to do 1b to
lit steady in the boat. They arc right and the other crowd
s wrong. Gober has already started to explain. Let him.
keep it up. It will at least afford him mental exercise and
it would appear the guiding destinies of the Siate Univer-
-ity could stand a little more of that indulgence than they
have been getting lately.
.MrLLEDGEVILLE, CEnon.,
FOR GEORGIA'S GIRLS.
From The Savannah Press.
II'E are very glad to see that Prof. M. M. Parks Is not to
sever Ills connection with the Oeorgia Normal and In
dustrial College at Milledgeville. He has, we understand,
withdrawn his resignation and is to continue in the service
of the state. It is fortunate in these days when good
si bool principals are so scarce that Professor Parks has
consented to remain in the position he has filled so credit-
a lily for such a long time. He has done great work at this
school and he should be encouraged in every way to con
tinue It.
The Legislature should deal as liberally as possible with
the Milledgeville school for girls in making up its appro
priations each year. There is no educatlona institution in
tlie state that does more for the girls of Georgia than this
school. It reaches the homes of the state through its grad
uates. makes for better living, more comforts and longer
li:e among the great middle class of the people. The girls
u ho go to the Normal and Industrial College are those who
make better wives and mothers as they grow older because
o. the training they have received.
They are taught to do things at the G. N. & I. C- It is
. o school fcr an idler, and the young woman who has her
■‘noughts upon a useless and frivolous life has no place in
• Ills college. Here the girls are taught practical things and
■v.iat they learn is of benefit to them throughout their lives.
Because of these advantages and these virtues the school
i entitled to evrey recognition possible. The legislature
h Id not give thought to cutting its appropriation in any
particular. To the contrary, those who want to do some-
: lug for the future of Georgia should work out some plan
1 y which the school can get more money than it now re
ceives.
Only the best men must be given to the war
tries. How can a manufacturer send his sons t o.
to fight and then send to those industries upon 1^“'
lives of his sons may depend the less efficient »„, 11
hi 0 men in his plant? This country has not yet Va ' U
the stage where it must bear real sacrlfice butTt i"*^
ly coming to it. Man after man will be lost by ermu^
and business of a non-essential nature must surf‘ *
proportionately their losses are no greater -and ^ '
great In many instances—than those borne by 0 the '’ 0t
after all, the man who does not contribute his ne^ “
part in this war and contribute It cheerfully hi * SSa
in America. no pl *
WAR OUTPUT IS CHECKED BY LACK OF
SKILLED LABORERS
The war industries of t’.ie country are now short of
between 300,000 and 400,000 unskilled laborers, but th.ei
situation with regard to certain classes of skilled crafts-i
men is nearly as critical. Because of the lack of first
class merchanists, toolmakprs, boilermakers, and otlur
trades, our production of war materials is only 75 per cent
of what it should and must he. On the other hand, the
labor turnover is such that reduction to a nearly normal
figure w uld mean an increase in the available labor sup
ply of abut 20 per cent. The above figures are only in
dicative, as the needs are mounting daily, and some of the
largest Government projects are but just started.
No one knowing the real situation and realizing its
seriousness can fail to welcome the centralization of war
labor supplying in the United States Employment Service.
War manufacturers are sick and tired of the confusion,
instability, and labor "stealing” that have marked the past
year. It is impossible for a war concern to find new la
bor except at the expense of some other equally essential
industry; and the employer who aguments his force at the
cost of some othet essential soon finds his men taken
from him by others. •
The reserves of skilled labor are virtually gone. It is
the task of the Employment Service to carefully c'mb the
country for machinists, boilermakers, coppersmiths, and
other needed craftsmen now engaged in non-war work. In
—— I the cties and the rural districts there are still many valua-
\N EDUCATOR THE STATE CAN ILL AFFORD TO LOSE ' ble nien en S a ged In unnecessary jobs and these must be;
replaced in war production. The non-essential manufac
turer will be treated fairly, and the Government will
From The Atlanta Journal.
rgiHU resignation of Dr. M
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Our Store Will Close ev
ery Thursday Afternoon!
at One .o’clock Until Sep
tember 1st.
DR. MARVIN M. PARKS.
A crisis In the educational affairs of the state was pre
cipitated with the resignation last week of Dr. Marvin
M. Parks! who has been president of the Ge rgia Nor
mal and Ind.strlal Collego for thirteen ’ears. Assum
ing control of the college in 1905, Dr. Parks has made
a record as a constructive administrator of which any ed
ucator in this broad land might well bo proud. Possessed
of pre-eminent ability as an educator together with a
business acumen which if applied to private enterprise
for pecuniary gain would yield abundant success, Prof.
Parks has made of the struggling school of which, he
took charge thirteen years ago an institution of the first
rank, in 19ii5-0ti the attendance was just 399; when the
doors opened last fail fcr the 1916 session 946 Georgia
girls were admitted to its historic halls, and the num
ber turned away because of lack of accommodations was
not inconsiderable. Not alone has the college, under his
administration, turned out thousands cf Georgia girls
fuily (quipped and ready to take up the resp nslbiiities
of life in a manner worthy of the best traditions of this
Institution, but, at the same time, thanks to the admira
ble and well directed energy of Dr. Parks, it has expand
ed and developed in a material way to an amazing de
gree. so that with each succeeding year the facilities of
Georgia Normal and Industrial College comes as a pain- * , 8 raln withdrawals, but he will have to
ful surprise to the entire State. We say “the entire State” contribute to the winning of the war. The patriotic non-
advixedly, because the institution of which he. is the head essential will give its best men to war industries an;cU
draws Us students from homes in every county of the Clem- train green men
monwealth and sheds the riches of Its influence on annum-1 - _ ——
tiered lives. Every one of these students knows what Dr. j ,. #
Parks has meant to the life of the college; and so iloes, 1 ^
every woman among the thousands of its alumnae; and sol"*
Joes every citizen wlr has watched the State’s emu rational | !!*
endeavors and achievements. To all these Dr Parks ad- 1 •»
ministration stands out as a triumph of ideals translating ; *•
themselves into service.
When he became president of the Georgia Normal and !'
Industrial College fourteen years ago ihe idea of broadly
serviceable as distinguished from formally classical educa
tion was far from being as popular among schoolmen as it
is today. In fact it was pronouncedly unpopular, although
it never should have been so, because the spirit of the truly
classical is intensely human. It is a matter of record that
the Georgia Normal and Industrial College under the presi
dency of Dr. Parks was a Southern pioneer in the field of
serviceable educati n. It was the first Normal school in tlfis
State; it was the first college in this State to teach home
economics; and it was the lirst college in the entire South
to rank home economics with other departments and to of
fer diplomas for high specialization in the arts and science
of home making—which, after all, the basic art of State
building.
| The purpose :f this striking departure from what was
hen the beaten path of college curricula was not that tlie I
| fives of students and graduates might be made utilitarian
but that they might he made more richly human, more self-
BUflicing, more thoughtfully serviceable to those about
them and to the Commonwealth. Thus the deals which the
G. N. & I. C. championed and bore aloft as a pioneer are
fin ideals of democracy, and by virtue if that fact the
school has won a place in the hearts of the people us high
as Us Influence for their wellbeing. Its average attendance
liu. grown from about three hundred and forty in 1904 to
upwards of one thousand in the last sen-clastic year. Dur
ing that period, let us note in passng, the State appropria
tion for the maintenance of the school has increased only
forty-four thousand six hundred dollars, and the per capita
cost of lts upkeep is actually less than in 1904, not wit )t-
standing the fact that the cost of living has mere than
do hied. If thritt is patriotic, surely the G. N. & J. C. is
entitled to a distinguished service badge for the economy
it bar, practiced in its own management as well lor that it
has taught its students. Constantly studying the best in-
teier.fs of the State and constantly seeking to enlarge its
usefulness to the homes and the people of Georgia, this in
stitution stands a shining exemplar of democracy and of
Ideals borne out in service.
No wonder, then, it is close to the people's hearts, and
no wonder a wave of deep regret and protest follows the
announcement that it is to lose the leadership of the ear
nest and gifted educator under whose presidency its re
markable pr gress lias been made. The Georgia Normal
and Industrial College cannot-afford, nor can the State af
ford, to lose the services of a man who has the vision, the
sympath|, the constructiveness, the experience and the at
tainments of Dr. Parks. The Journal earnestly hopes that
conditions may he so adjusted that he may reconsider his
resignation, and this hope is shared, we feel si re, by every
friend of the o. N. & I. C. and by every well-wisher for the
cause of education in Georgia.
MORE GERMAN VANDALISM.
The innate vandalism of the Hun has not chan
since the troops of the Kaiser committed all kind
abominations in Belgium and nothern France at the
ginning of the war and the princelings of the house
Hohenzollern descended todhei level of common iarcem
pilfering the chateaux of the wealthy French families
which they made their temporary headquarters
Reports from Chateau Thierry, where the Germ
remained about eight weeks, shows the same irrati on
passion for destruction and the coarseness of (tu , (j
which is the Inevitable mark of the beast \v» „
• " c are to|
that when it became apparent that they would be ,] rjv
cut of that historic old city on the Marne, they took in
Petty vengeance by slashing the costly tapestries, bre
ing the handsome mirrors, throwing ink bottles agifin
the silken paper on the walls and even crushing the d 0
houses of the tiny tots under their Hessian jackboots
This aimless and impotent age gives us the measu
of the brutes with which we have to deal, hut these
not the only examples.
We are told moreover that thirty-two Americans,
eluding several officers, who have been captured duri
the recent fighting in France have been placed near
railway station at Mannheim where, in all probability t
would be hit if Allied aviators bombed the town as tin
have done with excellent results heretofore.
It was of course the Hun who began the pleasa
pastime of bombing cities behind the fighting lines. Moi
than a hundred raids by airplanes have been male
Lond.cn, exclusive of the Zeppelin attacks, and the i'iftlet
,air raid on Paris recently was repulsed.
According to German psychology, this is all perfi
permissible, hut -when the Allies do the same thing it
an unspeakable outrage. Unable to defend the
from these attacks, the Germans now mass Americ
prisoners at points where they may be killed or wounded.
But here again the Hun misreads American psyholo,
We shall probably lake care not to bomb any of our met
if any such precautions are at all possible, but at any
the bombing will go on.
The barbarians who broke up the very doll-houses
the children at Chateau Thierry merely gave addition!
proof that they cannot be dealt with by the ordinary
thods which civilized peoples understand. They tnu
have, n the language of ihe President, force and force n
the utmost.
It is the only thing they understand.—Macon News
Help win the war; buy
War Savings Stamps.
JOIN THE RED CROSS.
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the school allowed the admission of an increasing num
ber of students. 1
Hundreds of telegrams of protest at the idea of the loss
by the Georgia Normal and Industrial College of the in
valuable services of Prof. Parks have been received, and
reflect the sentiment of the public in this matter. Prof.
Parks has made the institution what it is. The people,
the fathers and mothers cf Georgia, want Dr. Parks to
remain where he is, and it is the earnest wish of Tim
Milledgeville News, speaking for the great people of Geor
gia and not for a few inconsequential politicians, that he
do so.
CLEARANCE SALE OF ALL SUMMER GOODS
One lot Organdie, Lawn and Mull Dresses, very snap
py styles, formerly sold at $7 .50, $9, $10 and $12, to
close at $6.00
Nine beautiful Organdie and Lawn Dresses that sold at
$7 and $8, to close at $4.98
WHITE WASH SKIRTS GREATLY REDUCED
Lot 1—Eight White Skirt3, sold a t $1.50 and $2.00. Your choice $1.19
14 White Wash Skirts Sold at $2.50 and $3, to close at S1.S8
11 White Skirts that sold at $3.50, $b and $5, to close out at $3.25
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SPECIAL SALE LADIES’AND GENTS TRUNKS, BAGS AND SUIT CASE
VACATION TIME.
New shipment ladies trunks, — $12, $15 and $I9
New shipment of suit cases $6.50 to $l 5
One Dozen new bags just in by express; black, tan
and brown. Modestly priced for your vaca
tion trip - $6.50, $9.50 and $l 2
£&•>
For
100 Beautiful organ
die, Voile and Lawn
Shirtwaists to be clos
ed out regardless of
former prices; some
are slightly soiled;
worth up to $2; spe
cial sale price • • • 98c
Special Closing Out Sale of
All Lawns Organdies and
Voiles.
Organdies and lawns that
formerly sold at 25c to close
out at 15 C
Voiles and Lawns that for
merly sold at 15c and 19c to
close out at 10c
See our middle counter.
E. E. BELL
Special sale of Misses
and children s Slipp ers
—white, patent and
gun metal—worth up
to $2; see our middle
counter, find your size,
Choice 75c
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