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THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
HRE ON LUXURY
|WN EDUCATION
Leans Spend More in One
[year for Luxuries Than in
330 Years lor Education.
F use A PAMPERED NATION
i j 3 ,i;es Commissioner of Educa.
" , G.voc Some Startling Fig-
re . an a Great American Delu-
cn _Pace Powder Costs.
i _>u.
|i. (’.—P. P. Cliixton,
„f education, exposes In
. ment what he consldera
(iclnsion of the American
. I e _lui;in«*ly, that from time tin*
leniorl,'! li "'> lmVH strulned Uielr
' strings in behalf of learning and
(i,,, public schools—elementary,
kcomlary ami higher—constitute our
jief Jnniieial burden,
I„ „ formidable array of figures Mr.
lax ton sheas that the people of the
Ini'tesl Sunes spent more for luxuries
the single year 1920 than has been
>nt on education In the 300 years
Lpj c j, |,:- : irti.-ally cover the entire hls-
>r y of the country.
Educational Costs for Fifty Years.
"In WIN. the last year for which
implete reports have been compiled,"
the statement, “we spent In the
Jolted States for public education,
jletnentary and secondary, $702,259.-
M; foi normal schools for the train-
ijr of teachers, .$20.41 -1.(180; for higher
lucntioti la the colleges, universities
professional and technical schools,
thetlier supported by public taxation
privately endowed, $137,055,415.
'he grand total was $919,729,253. In
50 years from 1870 to 1920. we
iltl for public elementary and high
$12,457,484,963; for normal
rliools, $29!.111,232; for higher educa -
la tux-supported and privately on-
lowed colleges, universities and tech-
lileal schools, $1,804,200,272. a total of
114.552,790,037 for the 00 years.
"For the yeara preceding 1870:
,000,000,000 for public elementary
id secondary schools, $,''.000,000 for
tortaal schools and $190,000,000 for
Other education would be very liberal
>»tlra»t*». Adding these to the totals
[Ivtn will make a grand total of about
114,500,000,000 for public elementary
secondary schools, 1296,000,000
for nurmil schools and $1,990,000,000
higher education, approximately
[<16.945,000.000 for public schools, ela-
issnttry. secondary, normal schools
[sod higher education la schools of all
Mods front the beginning ef ear hte-
t»ty until 1920.
"Making all due allowances for
defective returns, the total amount
spent for public education lu 1918, In
"lading current expenditures for pri
vate and endowed colleges and univer
sities, and all expenditures for capital
Investment in buildings and equip
ment, was less (ban a billion ef dol
lars. According to government re
turn* for 1920, tlie people of the United
States spent for luxuries In that year
122,700,009.900; more than twenty-two
times ns much as they spent for educa
tion only two years before, and $6,000,-
OOo.ooo, nr 30 per cent, more than w»
hove spent for education in all our
hlltory.
For Faee Powder and Joy Ridas.
"Expenditures for luxuries in 1920
Included among other Items;
For face powder, cosmetics, per
fumes, etc rW.OOO.OOO
*00.000,00*
Furs
Soft drinks S60,000.000
Toilet snaps 400,000,000
1 tnrettea 80kt.000.000
610,000,000
tobacco and emifT 800,000.000
, Jew « lr y 600,000,000
t-uxurloun service 3,000,000,000
oy rldca, pleasure resorts and
vTiewlng mim 60.000.000
cream 260,000,000
think we believe In education,"
concluded the statement. “No doubt
"" (l " hellcve in education In a way,
hut we have not paid and we do not
Pay much for It."
Pastor Refused Thousand
Dollar Salary Increase
ltcv. Otto P, Iinrtholow, pns-
tor nf (i le l.'t rst Methodist
church of Mount Vernon, N. Y.,
1 - refused n salary increase of
?l.4ioo n year, offered him by the
•-liurch hoard. He said his $(!,-
,l "° n year salary Is sufficient
m "l he will return the lncrcnse
if ‘t Is sent to him. He bus
l"'ci. pastor of the same church
f" r 10 yeurs and Is lender of a
Wide class of 1,800 members'.
MILLEDGEVILLE, 3 A.
Mrs, Prank Mebane of Spray, N. C„
photographed while wearing the Hon
inaniun peasant costume presented to
her by Queen Marie of Houmanhi dur
ing Mrs. Melinite's recent visit to Buda
pest. The costume was always worn
by the queen during her visits to tht
peasant districts of her country and at
various national festivals. The queen
made the gift to Mrs. Mebane in order
to express her gratitude for the latter’s
lectures in behalf of the ltoumanlan
relief campaigns.
GETS KING’S SUIT ANNUALLY
Great Ceremony Mark* Historic eas
tern on Epiphany Day
in Sptin.
Madrid.—Great ceremony attends
the gift of the suit of clothes worn by
the king of Spain on Epiphany day.
to which suit the duke of Allugn
count of ItlvudHVia. possesses the lie
reditnry right.
This he inherited from an ancestor
»f the fifteenth century, who obtained
ilie grant from the (hen king of L'ue-
ule. Juan H.. who changed suits with
I be duke'a forbear on the battlefield
of IDvudnvIa, where the king was In
danger of being ruptured by bis vic
torious enemies, but succeeded iu es-
t-aplug in hla vassal's suit.
The state couch, accompanied by
royal footmen In ancient liveries and
bearing staves, conveys the suit to
the Madrid palace ef the duke, who
receives It with due deference and
adds It to the considerable museum be
pnuesmia. which fonns a lilatorlra)
record of men's fashions dating back
a long time.
TOO EASY TO GET DYNAMITE
One Drunken Man's Luck.
Louisville, Ky.—Called to a grade
‘fossing by a watchman who reported
•' > k n there who refused to move Ids
"'■'I auto out of danger, the police
~" u ,,l:| de better speed than n train,
1 hi'd the inilo off the track ami nr-
1 "'e ninn Just a second before n
> t passenger spod by. The man was
• ' led on u charge of being drunk.
When Stronq Men Weep.
1 -■ "i-<\illo. K.v.-TP htlng men cried
J 1 "'one] Bunt" was lowered Into
s "rave hero. Il > was just a dog, hut
” Wlls i 1 " tiitiseot of the First Ken-
' *' v *'•'-tiim>i)i and saw service In
tnnoe. An auto ran over him and
Louisville police nursed him back
1 eplth. Thru somebody poisoned
Lnn
Federal Law to Control Explosives
Urged by United Btatoo Bureau
of Mines.
Washington.—Withdrawal of super
vision over the manufacture anil sale
of explosives with the repeal by con
gress of war legislation lias made It
easy for militant anarchists, safeblow-
ers and others to obtain explosives for
illegal purposes, said a stuteinent Is
sued h.v the bureau of mines.
In urging legislation to control the
handling as well us the manufacture
and sale of explosives, the bureau said
that the United States Is practically the
only civilized government In the world
that fulls to exercise a notional super
vision over explosives and declared 11
is eusler to obtain explosives in this
country than iu any other.
Large stores of explosives, the
statement snld, have been found within
the limits of cities and towns where
an explosion might cause loss of life
and property. State convicts hnve
been known to hide dynamite which
they hud for road work to use for safe-
blowing when their terms expire.
WOULD DISARM ! REAP RICH HARVEST
GERMAN SCIENCE
Still Menace to Peace Unless
Checkmated by Intelligence
of Other Nations.
COGERT POINTS OUT DANGER
Carlin Marriage Profiteers Prey
cn Young Couples.
HARVARD INCREASES TUITION
Boosts of $50 to $75 In Yearly Fees
for Several Departments
of University.
Cambridge, Mass.—An Increase In
tuition fees at Harvard university was
announced. In Harvard college, the
engineering school, the graduate school
of arts and sciences, the school of
architecture and the Bussey institu
tion the tuition fee is raised from $2(K>
to $250 n year. Scholarships will be
Increased at the same time so sis to
Impose no extra hardships on ueedy
students.
In the medical school an Increase
from $225 to $"00 will become effective
with those entering next year, but
will not apply to those already In the
school. All students In the dental
school must pay a $200 annual fee.
The law school rate remnins station
ary, as an Increase was put Into effect
last year. The graduate school of
education and the divinity school are
not affected.
Pa Helped Out.
Falmouth. K.v—A pupil In the
mouth city school was asked to
300-word essay about the now
mobile his father had bought.
!,oy wrote about the purchase and
llrst trip Into the country, where
got stack In the mud. The essay
eluded with this sentence, "I
now used 100 words, and pa spok
other 200 when he hud to walk
through the mud."
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Scientist Declares What Country Needs
Isa Well.Organized Chemical War.
fare Service—Exports Should
Be Regulated.
Wilmington, Del.—Ilow German sci
ence, unless checkmated by the Intel
ligence of other nations, still will men
ace Ihe peace of Hie world, was told
by Dr. Marston T. Bogert of Colum
bia university In an address, “Sci
ence and Disarmament," delivered be
fore the Delaware section of the
American Chemical society.
Doctor Bogert said that In chemical
matters disarmament both for Ger
many and the allies must provide for
the definite reduction and control of
the coal supply, of the fixation of
atmospheric nitrogen which Is the
mother substance of all explosives,
and also the reduction of the synthetic
dye plants which are the sources of
all poison gases and the actual man
ufacturers of most of the explosives
used In war.
Regulate Exports.
"Exports of all such substances,”
continued Doctor Bogert, “should lie
carefully regulated, for export trade
is the familiar excuse for the main
tenance und expansion of colossal
plants of latent war possibilities. The
same disarmament commission might
he very keen for the dismantling of
the Krupp establishment at Essen, and
yet not hat an eye over the continu
ance and expansion of mammoth ar
senals, camouflaged ns dye factories
or agricultural chemical works, ul-
though the actual military damage
Inflicted upon Germany might be
much greater were the dye and nitro
gen factories destroyed than If the
Essen plant were rased.
“For example." asserted Doctor Bo
gert, "if tbs allies fall to reduce di
rectly the present Gennnn supremacy
In synthetic dye and nitrogen flxatloo
plants, there will be no safety for thla
country until we have a development
of those vital Industries here superior
to that af Germany."
The Columbia scientist took excep
tion to the view ef Oeneral March,
chlaf of staff of the United States
army, who tn opposing the extension
of the chemical warfare service said
that he would keep those substance#
used In the manufacture of poison gas
from being Imported Into Germany,
and thus kaep down the poison gas
output. The speaker eald that from
such simple substances as aalt, coke
or charcoal and air. could be manufac
tured phosgene and chlorine.
“All that Is necesaary, therefore,"
observed Doctor Bogert, Ironically, “Is
to remove from Germany all the salt
underground or close the salt mines,
and to exclude Germany from access
to the ocean; to place a similar linn
upon the sulphur mines and the smelt
ing of sulphur ores; to Interdict ihe
raising of sugar beets and other sac-
charlfereous crops, and to cut down
all the forests—since cellulose, which
Is obtained from these sources, can
be converted Into alcohol. As all mod
ern warfare depends upon nitric acid
and as nitric ncld Is now being made
from the nitrogen of the air. it is
equully clear tbut this manufacture
cun be easily and completely stopped
by excluding the atmosphere also
from Germany. Except for these
s'iglit objections, the plan is doubt
less tin admirable one."
Chemical Warfare in Infancy.
1 'octor Bogert declared that In or
der to cope successfully with a nation
having such skill In chemistry as has
Germany, It would he necessary to
have In this country a well-developed
chemical warfare service. The speak
er was of the opinion that chemical
warfare was yet In Its Infancy, anil
that after It had run its course the
j military art might also invoke medical
I ami biological warfare, which could
j be done by Ihe dissemination of
j germs and disease. He therefore
maintained that the military efficiency
of the future would depend In large
measure upon science.
“Most fundamental of all, however,”
he concluded, “for all else rests upon
! It, Is tin Intelligent grasp by our peo-
' pie and government of what is an Im
mensely powerful factor. That Is, the
scientific development which makes
| for the progress of civilization ntid
i upon which, to a vnst extent, the
j safety of the coun.ry is dependent
; Without such a general understanding,
! It will he difficult or impossible to
i awaken our fellow countrymen to the
menace of our unprepiiredness in such
j matters, so os to secure that wide
I spread education and individual pro-
I fteleney in science which is our safe
I guard. With It, there* will he no dlf-
j Acuity, whatsoever, In getting con
gress to ennrt such leglslntlou ns will
| foster and stimulate not only our syn
thetic dye and nitrogen Industries, but
also our chemical warfare and air
services. Such action will have an
Immediate and far-reaching beneficial
effect upon the entire course of our
, development In science, at a time when
the world Is looking to us for a
I loud in such matters."
Sell License to Those Seeking Room*
—Move Started to Stop the
Practice.
Berlin.—Marriage licenses are be
ing utilized for profiteering by Ger
mans. The marriage “profiteer" de
veloped out of the situation which has
made necessary the strict “rationing"
of housing space.
A married couple or n pair about
to be married may obtain permission
to occupy certain rooms h.v presenta
tion of the marriage license to the
housing offices.
It has been discovered Hint many
marriage licenses have been issued to
men and women who have no Inten
tion to marry, hut having secured the
license and the permission to occupy
the number of rooms allotted to mar
ried persons sell the "permission" to
married folks or others who need
rooms and cannot find them.
Tlie officials say some profitable
business Inis been done, hut that the
practice is being stopped by keeping
a watch on those to whom marriage
licenses are granted and withdrawing
permission to occupy rooms unless the |
marriage Is performed.
Marriages, however, eclipsed nil I
previous records In the Inst year. The
number has Increased two-fohl over
prewar years, and many fold over the
marriages during the war, which fell
to less than half the normal number.
"Many young folks toduy are get
ting married here simply tn get n
room cheaply,” said n Berlin official.
"Tlie cost of the dwelling Is eut Ir.
half by the mnrrlnge of a man and
woman both of whom are working.
“They also feel they can eo-o|iernte
to some advantage In the mntler of
food, which is a serious problem."
PLUMBING
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HaMtaal Constipation Curd
la 14 to 21 Days
•LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a specially-
prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative (or Habitud
Constipation. It relieves promptly but
should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days
to induce regular action. It Stimulates end
Regulates. a Vary Pleasant to Take, e Mr
ger bottle
LIQUID ASPIRIN
DOESN’T HURT
THE HEART
Collier’s Capstone Takes
Place of Dangerous Tab
lets, Stopping Headaches,
Nausea, Colds, Grippe and
Nervousness Quickly.
Collier’s Capatone ia the beat
aspirin, but in liquid form, with tbs
dangerous matter taken out. You
can use it without fear. All drug
gists have it in 30c and 60c bottles.
*2ach bottle must carry the signature
"J. Homer Collier.”
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"We Sell Them”
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AND COME TO
Montgomery's
Market and Grocery Store
We are now able to sell you Groceries and Fresh
Meats at Pre-war Prices.
Beef Roast _ _ 20c lb.
Sausage A 20c lb.
Pork Roast __ 20c lb.
Pork ChoDs __ _____ 25s!b.
Best Steak 25c lb.
Stew Beef _ 12- 1 '2c lb.
Sliced Ham 45c lb.
Pork Hocks _ __ 15c lb.
Liver 20c lb.
15c lb.
$1.00
$1.15
$1.30
85c
$1.00
35c
10c
15c lb.
15c lb.
Mullet Fish
8 lb bucket Snowdrift Lard
Self Rising Flour.
Best Self Rising Flour _ __
10 lbs. Sugar
20 lbs Cracked Rice
10 lbs. Grits
1 lb. Can Salmon _ _
Best Green Coffee „„
Good Parched Coffee
“WE SELL FOR CASH”
“SO WE CAN SELL FOR LESS”
W. H. Montgomery's
PHONE 126
EXCURSION FARES
Certificate Plan
Account
Georgia Sunday School Association Convention
Macon, Ga., April 19-21, 1921
Account the above named Convention Georgia Railroad Ticket
Agents will furnish certificates to delegates purchasing one way
tickets on the going trip, which will entitle the^bolder to half fare
returning, providing the attendance Is sufficient to grant reduced
rates on the certificate plan arrangement. ' -mwm
Ark Nearest Ticket Agent or conitiv.:nlcate with the undersigned.
A. C. McKinley, Agent Georgia Railroad
J. P. Billups, G. P. A., Georgia R. R.
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