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The Atlanta Georgian and News
VOL. V. NO. 329.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDN ESDAY, JULY 24, 1907.
PRICE:
On Trains: FIVE i
EDUCATION’S GREATEST
NEED IN GEORGIA
Secondary Schools
Great Gap in
System.
long jump from
SCHOOL TO COLLEGE
Rural Districts Especially
Feel Need of Second
ary Schools.
By JOSEPH S. STEWART,
of The University of Georgia.
We have Increased our appropria
tions to common schools to neaVly two
million, have made possible local tax
ation in eVery district, have established
a comprehensive system of agricultural
and normal schools, and have planned
for the perfecting of a great univer-
sity.
We have left a gap, however, be
tween the 400,000 children who attend
the common schools and the doors of
the higher institutions. We have no
educational, system. What we call our
system is only the beginning and end
of a system with the connecting link
left out. We have elementary schools
and higher institutions but nrf well or
ganized secondary school system.
There is no law on our statute books
relating to state high schools.
The local school systems have pro
vided high schools for about 6,500 of
their own children. The churches, all
told, have established twenty-three
high schools with 1,600 pupils, and
private boards maintain schools with
possibly 1,400 students. In other words,
out of a population of over two million
people, 8,500 attend some sort of high
School. In Georgia one person out of
every 200 attends at some time a high
school, at least in name. A study of
the map will show that nearly all of
our real high schools are located in the
larger towns and cities, unrelated to
the rural districts about them. When
we consider the percentage of our rural
population to that of our cities and the
location of these schools, we are forced
to the conclusion that fully 80 per cent
of the youth of the state are at present,
without high school opportunities and
that this large p6r cent is chiefly
•mong our rural population.
Concerns 1,60.0,000 People.
The question before us, therefore,
does not directly concerh the child in
Atlanta or Macon and In similar com
munities, but it does vitally concern the
more than 1,600,000 people who live
outside of the centers of populatlon-
The estimated high school population
of Georgia is 130,000 youths. Why are
there only ten thousand In the schools?
Because there are no high schools for
them. Because the framers of the con
stitution of 1877, contrary to every
other constitution framed by the state,
restricted state aid to elementary
schools and the university.
These children sturted up the educa
tional ladder, but ’ere they reached the
seventh grade they discovered an al
most impassable gulf in their way.
They lost heart and dropped out.
the chances for success of a high school
graduate are, as has often been dem
onstrated, twenty-three times that of
sn elementary school man, how tragic
indeed is the crime committed against
cur youth by our constitution, which
alone of all the state constitutions re
stricts the education of the children.
If the earning capacity of a high
school graduate Is more than 8600 a
year above that of the common school
man, then the folly of the restriction Is
shown In the waste of mental power
and a financial lose of $72,000,000 a
year.
IE FELT
BY FLORIDA FIRM
A new wholesale candy and soda water
supply atore will be opened In Atlanta
August 1, despite the predictions of the
whne ty peop,e that business Is on the.
The F. W. Klttg* Company, with head*
quarters In Jacksonville, Fla., will begin
business at 34 Madison avenue. The
branch store will be In charge of B. B.
Taylor, at present a resident of Macon.
The work of moving the stock has already
commenced, and the proprietors are look*
8* year ;„ T" ooff At the
Idea that.prohibition will in any way hurt
WESLEYAN COLLEGE
SHOWS GREAT
Letters From the People
Commend The Georgian
GEORGIA, STEP BY STEP,
FORCES WHISKY TRAFFIC
FROM HER BOUNDARIES
An Appalling Loss.
Granted that all of the 130,000 youth*
would not avail themselves of the high
school, yet the state la deprived of the
services of thousands who would wel
come these opportunities and the finan
cial loan Is still appalling. In addition
to that greater Iosb of a “succession of
superior minds, by whom knowlcdgo
is advanced and the community is
urged forward In civilization.”
The public high school is the heart
and center of a system of education,
" Ithout which organic connection there
can never be a system worthy of the
state, one that will train the youth
to develop its resources and maintain
their place In the tierce competition of
this twentieth century.
'Ve can never heave an adequate
common school system without related
high achools. We may double the state
appropriation for common schools; we
may vote a local tax In every county,
hut unless there Is a high school sys
tem which will bring hope to the
brighter pupils of developing their tal
ents for the public good, and more-
0V{ r. supply teachers for the common
schools, our elementary schools will
continue to languish, and much of the
money win be wasted. At present our
rural schools suffer most from poor
teaching. Two-thirds of the white
teachers hold a grade below first on nn
examination, embracing only common
•chooi studies and school management.
A large majority of these have never
attended any school higher than that
Jhlch they are attempting to teach.
One*fourth of these drop out every
year. Thus our common schools re
solve about themselves, forbidding
frowth.
Not the Solution.
More money poured into the common
•chools will not solve the difficulty.
trouble lie* primarily In lack of
local center* for the training of these
teachers. Every friend of the common
•ohools must be a staunch advocate of
the public high echooi a* an organic
Part of the system, for else he can not
fOMlbly realise hi* best wishes for
them There Is no mistaking this rela-
■lotishlp. it I, fundamental.
Nor can the colleges ever do their
,' il duty to the state and church until
provision Is mode for preparing at
home tho students for entrance. The
-oiii-ses are as dependent upon the
•*con<lary schools for patronage as U a
upon the soil In which It rests,
‘here I, not a college professor or at-
"o-o. that should not be vitally Inter-
!*;**, In the development of the high
of the state. The question of
_l r "' r *hc college Is denominational
does not enter Into It, for the
growth of any one or all Is dspsndent
By DUPONT GUERRY,
President of Wesleyan Fsmal* College.
Wesleyan College, Macon, Qa„ July
13.—Our readers who have never en
joyed the privilege of seeing this old
mother of colleges, can get a fairly
correct Idea of the main building
and Roberts Hall by looking at the
cuts of the same In this issue.
The original building of 1837-8 Is In
corporated In the present main build
ing, which Is a very large and graceful
structure—live stories high and sup
plied with a large electrical elevator.
All the buildings are so connected that
the young ladles can go from the re
motest corner of one end of them to
the remotest corner of tho other end
without going from under cover, and
can thus avoid the discomfort and risk
of bad weather.
The new auditorium In the chapel Is
very beautiful and commodious, hav
ing a capacity of about 1,200. The
acoustics are excellent.
Musicals a Featurs.
The musicals and other entertain
ments given by the young ladles and
teachers are largely attended and much
enjoyed, room sometimes being taxed
to the utmost.
The enrollment last school year was
474, a number being turned away for
want of room, and yet reservations to
this date are largely In excess of last
year at the corresponding date.
Notwithstanding recent enlargements
and Improvements, the college Is still
unable to meet the demands upon It
for board and Instruction.
While material Improvement* have
been great. President Guerry and all
the professors, teachers and officials
have been diligently building the old
college up In all other respects.
Cr-ricula Are Raised.
The curricula have been' raised and
extended, additional professors and
teachers employed and the standard
of teaching ability much elevated from
year to year.
All arc made proud and happy by
each succeeding student body, the
young ladles, as a rule, being very su
perior in all respects.
FERVENT APPROVAL.
I am but a very humble citizen of
Atlanta, have been taking your paper
alnce you atarted It, and have been
generally pleased with the conduct of
It—always In,accord with It; know
your editor personally; have always
done what I could In my humble way
to help you. But I don't know when
In my life I have been so deeply touch
ed as I was In your bold stand, noble
and uplifting sentiments and words,
and, as It naturally appears, self-sac
rificing stand you took on the great
Issue of the day. And the only thing I
regret Is . that I can not do more to
help and cheer you than these few
empty words, but they come from one,
ever so humbla though he may be, who
will remember alwaya to do what he
can for your great paper by word nnd
deed. I believe your action Is sincere
and for the great good of the poor of
this city, who need all the protection
they can get, and I know that the One
who said, "Inasmuch as you have done
It unto one of the least of these, ye
have done It unto me," will not allow
you to suffer In the end. And I pre
dict that The Georgian la to be the
paper of the city and state ere long,
nnd I pray for you and your paper,
and shall try to help answer my pray
ers by doing what I can to help you.
Truly yours,
J. W. STEPHENS.
Atlanta, Go.
A FARMER’FIeNTIMENT8.
I am a little farmer down here In
Georgia. I want to congratulate The
Georgian for the position which you
have taken for the welfare of the
state. I am glad that we have one
newspaper In Atlanta that will stand
firm In the matter of prohibition. There
are many Innocent peopld In the state
of Georgia that have to suffer on ac
count of the liquor dealer. I want to
say that I believe that the good old
state of Georgia can live without the
whisky dollar. Tho whisky dealer
doesn't have to suffer what the poor
women and children do, so let us get
rid of the whisky and use that dollar
on some other line. I hope that we
have a legislature that won’t be bought,
and that It will stand firm on all
matters pertaining to the welfare of
the people. I am yours very truly,
DANIEL TUCKER.
Ocllla, Go.
POINTED ObIIrVATION8.
I am not writing to thank or flatter
you for doing your duty toward Geor
gia and her people In the cause of pro
hibition, Sometimes a man's pocket
points out his duty to him, as In the
case of those delegations that are be
ing sent from the large cities to fight
against prohibition. In that cas.e the
hireling Is expected tp muke an effort
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On September 18 the seventy-first
annual session will begin, probably
with another overflow of pupils.
President Guerry has u number of
times said: "If we had ample room
and equipment, we could in a few years
have an enrollment of a thousand pu
pils. We could not only secure many
more pupils from the South, but many
more also from the North. We can
not Invite the latter because we are
every year practically turning our own
children from our doors.”
Doing Great Work.
Wesleyan Is earning to the limit of
Its capacity with Its very low rates.
Wo can pay Interest and for repairs,
and even for small Improvements, but
we can not build great structures out
of the Income and the small donations
that slowly come In.
We have only a nominal endowment,
and our contributions to education are
very liberal.
Strange Indeed Is It that under such
circumstances the rich friends of thla
glorious old Institution, that la an hon
or to Georgia and the South, do not
pay it out of debt and endow It and
enable it to meet the great and grow->
Ing demands upon It from the South,
to say nothing of the East, North and
West.
to earn his pay, no matter whether he
Is right or wrong. But where a man
acts for the good his acts may bring
to his stute and her people, then he
acts from patriotism and duty, nnd
does not look for a money considera
tion. Though no person Is Immune to
public applnuse, or condemnation, and
when he sacrifices a money considera
tion for duty or patriotism, public ap
plause ought not to be grudgingly or
stlntlngly given.
I note my old friend and army com
rade, Judge Twiggs, Is marching In
the ranks of the Philistines, from Sa-
upon the development of tho state's
secondary schools. Therefore, the
friends of the colleges, public and prl-
vate, can not afford to cut themselves
off from the secondary schools and tho
efforts being made to Improve them.
At present only one out of BOO of our
population ever matriculates In a col
lege, The great golf lies between the
elementary school and the colleges.
Our constitution puts an embargo on
brains, on the ambitious youth
longs to rise.
It consigns our common schools to
mediocre teachers and officials, shuts
the door of the college to all but the
favored few, and cuts off the supply ol
skilled leaders in every Industry, pro
fession and condition In life.
A Thirty Years Ineubu,.
For thirty years we have been labor
Ing under the Incubus of this onnstltu
tlonal restriction, and though millions
have been spent, we are still at the
bottom In Ignorance.
Florida has a ^lte schrml population
of 103,000, Georgia has 366,000. Yet
Florida, with her Mate aMed high
schools In every county, has 17,000 pu
-ii. m her high schools. On the same
basis of population and opportunity
o“ rgla should have 60,000 high school
time for this legislature to grant the
people an opportunity to Mend It.
»4nn Murphy Candler and Hon. John
have introduced a bill In the
submlttlngiho recognition of the
.ho teachers, business men and
*** and «5^p1" w a STEWART.
Athens, Gs- Jul »' 22 - ,
vannah, and the gist of the Judge's
argument against prohibition Is that It
does not prohibit. Bah, Judge! neither
do our laws against crime prohibit
crime, nnd yet we dare not rub out the
law. Draw a line of consistency, Judge,
and toe the mark like you did during
the war, and fight for Georgia, her peo
pie, morality, sobriety and good gov'
ernment, nnd throw the protection of
your strong arms around the women
and children of Georgia. What Is the
Interest of a few large cities compared
to the good of the whole state and her
people. Liquor as a beverage Is the
greatest curse on earth, and It la griev
ous to see a giant Intellect trying to
fasten an unmitigated curse on a con
fiding people. Bow the country In bar-
rooms, and the crop will be drunkards.
The big city, red-nosed delegations are
a fair representation of a drowning
man catching at a straw.
J. B. HOWARD.
Morristown, Ga.
prohibitionTn THE AIR.
Prohibition la In the air—
You can feel It and hear it everywhere.
Brother Broughton and Seaborn Wright
Are surely going to win the fight.
The saloon men nnd the blenders, too,
Don't want to see the hill go through;
They can filibuster wtth all their might,
But they can’t filibuster Seaborn
Wright.
Whisky, rum and beer have got to _
The liquor men have got no show;
They can filibuster and raise a cry.
But Just the same the state goes dry.
F. TAYLOR.
Atlanta, Go.
RESPECT 0F0PPONENT8.
You have won the love and confi
dence of every good cttlsen In Geor
gia, and the respect of those that are
Averse, In taking the firm stand for
prohibition In the face of grave oppo
sition and financial Interest. In this
act you have the sanction of high
heaven. May you and The Georgian
ever live to carry the morals of old
Georgia continually on to victory.
Yours truly.
J. R. BOOTH.
Dewy Rose, Go.
18 NOT HESITATING.
"Tmth crushed to earth will rise
again." We praise Ood for the stand
you ars taking In behalf of prohibi
tion. May It be a tidal wave over
America! And why our legislature
seems to be hesitating on thla matter,
when they well know that If left to a
direct vote of the people It would he
another Hoke Smith landslide. May
you live long to bless the world. Yours
for Ood and right. <
E. R. COWART.
Towns. Oa.
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tlon by direct legislation all meet with
my hearty approval. Your answer to
the liquor men's argument completely
demolishes their theory. Every pro
hibitionist in Georgia should take and
read your noble paper. I shall not
only take, read and pay for It, but I
shall take great pleasure in using my
Influence for It.
There are various reasons why the
Christian people should take The
Georgian In preference to other dallies:
1. It Is not a Sunday paper.
2. It keeps all Impure advertisements
out of Its columns.
3. It exposes the Indecent advertise
ments of other dallies.
4. It takes a bold stand for prohi
bition.
Christian people of Georgia, let the
Impure liquor-soaked 8unday dallies
alone and take The Georgian—a paper
that gives good news and will not cor
rupt the minds of your children when
they read It. God bless The Georgian.
Yours faithfully,
JOHN E. BARNARD,
Pastor First Baptist Church,
Cartersville, Ga.
A FINE INDORSEMENT.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Since you hare come out so plainly
for prohibition, I am more hopeful of
•tate-wtde prohibition than. ever.
NEARING SEVENTIETH YEAR.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
I have Just heard read Mrs. Sam P.
Jones' letter, which was published In
The Georgian of Saturday, 13th Inst.
I am nearing my seventieth year and
never before have I seen a letter like
that published In a great dally like The
Atlanta Georgian. No doubt but that
letters like this one have been sent Ih
to the great papers by many good
women like Mrs. Jones, but never be
fore In history (as far as I know) have
we had a paper like The Atlanta
Georgian.
I am aware of the fact that we must
not worship Idols, but the pralae that
I will ever give The Atlanta Georgian
In my feeble life, I must think will
help It up to where no other newspa
per con reach It, without first throw
ing off that cloak of rottenness that
they are now wearing. Give us a pa
per that the dear mothers of this land
will heartily Indorse, and will not mind
for their boys to read all of the mat
ter In It.
I know that Mrs. Jones has voiced
the sentiment of every true and genu
ine woman, and has opened tho eyes
of many thnt had never thought of It
In thla light. The truth la what .Mrs.
Jones says cannot be told In a thou
sand years, and the newspapers that
contlnuo to wear that coat above
spoken of will not be long realising
that It must contain many startling
truths that they had never thought of.
Oh! Just give us in the rising gener
ations thousands of women like Mrs.
Sam P. Jones, and then wo who have
only a few more years to work In,
will feel like we have accomplished
something. As Mrs. JoneH has felled
tho first tree In the forest, let us all. In
one accord, sharpen our tools and clear
away all of those trees that are not
bringing forth good fruit.
Yours In the cause,
MARY G. VICKERS.
Hahlro, Ga.
WANTS TO STAND WITH U8.
Since comparing the editorials of
the Atlanta papers on the Hardman-
Covlngton prohibition bill now pending
before tho legislature, my verdict Is In
favor of The Georgian and News. I
admire your brave, manly stand. Hav
ing unsheathed the sword and bearded
the lion In his den, you stand out con
spicuously the friend of the noble
young manhood and good women and
youth of the state of Georgia. Pleuse
record my name to your list of sub
scribers, through your Macon office.
Success to The Georgian and News!
W. C. ANDREW.
Macon, Ga.
LIKES 0UR~PRINCIPLE8.
I admire your devotion to the prin
clplet of prohibition and have this day-
ordered The Atlanta Journal to atop Its
visits to my home. I have been taking
The Journal for twenty years, but can
not continue it with such a policy as it
advocates. Pleose do not stop The
Georgian If my renewal should slip my
notlco. From this time on I shall apeak
for The Georgian. Fraternally.
W. J. BARTON,
Pastor of the Baptist Church.
Ocllla, Ga.
we have such n bold and fearless ad
vocate on the firing line an The Geor
gian. You are making friends by the
thousands by your bold stand for pro
hibition.
With a prayer that Ood will crown
your efforts with abundant success, I
remain yours to serve,
J. W. STEPHENSON,
Secretary nnd Deacon Salem Church.
Barwlck, Ga.
wishes unsuccess.
I wish to thank you for the bold fight
you have been making against wrong
without regard to the station of th*
offending parties. Hoping you may
continue to battle for the right and
meet with great success, I beg to re
mains, yours, R. H. MARTIN.
Hartwell, Ga.
GRATIFYING WORDS.
Enclosed fined 31.26 for the dear old
Georgian. Send It to me aa long as
this lasts and then I will send more.
My husband and I are prohlbltlonlets,
soul and body. God bless the dear
old Georgian for the stand she has
taken. I have been a subscriber to
the Semi-Weekly Journal previous to
this, but will have the paper discon
tinued. Wishing you much good luck.
1 beg to remain, Yours for prohibition.
MRS. J. A. MINTER.
Thomosvlllc, Go.
HAS DONE US A 8ERVICE.
In order to do what 1 could for The
Georgian,*1 published your announce
ment today In Llthonla Service. Also
wrote some words to help The Geor
gian among my readers.
God bless you In your great work
for prohibition. Yours sincerely.
I. G. WALKER.
Llthonla, Go.
RIGHT SORT OF 8UPP0RT.
Enclosed find $4.60 for your paper.
This Is on account of the stand you
have taken for prohibition. I have been
reading the Atlanta Journal for the last
five years hut Intend to take your paper
Instead from now on. I own the con
trolling Interest In the Fitzgerald
Leader here, and 1 am thinking seri
ously of printing enough of our papers
to furnish one to each member of the
house and take them to Atlanta and
distribute them among the members.
I Intend to can\\s the town around
here, and especially the patron* of our
bank, and try to get you a good list of
subscribers here.
Wishing you all the success possible
In your prohibition fight, and assuring
you that if we can do anything for you
at this end of the line we stand ready
to do so at any tlmo.
Yours very truly,
J. H. HARRIS,
Cashier Citizens' Bank.
Fltsgerald, Ga.
TOWN OF ITS
PLANNED BY UNION
How the Work Began
and How it Pros
pered.
A model town, with a big factory for the
manufacture of farming Implements, will
bo built by the Georgia dlrliton of the
Farmera' Union about 10 tpUes from At
lanta, if plaun now being made are carried
to a successful termination.
The bualueaa ngenta of the union hare
already necured a part of thla land, and
have options on the balance of the 300 acre*
necessary. The locntlon la at the Junc
tion of the Atlanta, Birmingham and At
lantic nnd the Atlanta nnd West Point
roads, and It la considered a model place for
■uch an enterprise.
Already the members of the Farmera*
Union In Georgia own the stock of the
Carmichael Implement Company, at Fair-
burn. and it Is this plant that will he moved
to tho new locntlon. Although nothing has
been anld about it, the plant at Falrburn
has been owned by union farmers for some
time, all of the $50,000 worth of stock be
ing dlatrlbutcd among members all over
the state.
Slnpe they became owner*, the output of
the factory ha* been greatly lncrenaed, and
It I* now found necensary to enlarge the
plant and tnqve It to a more convenient
location. Tho company makea plows, har
row* and other farming Implement*, and
all of It* product 1* taken by member* of
the union at factory price* with no profit
to the middleman.
Arouml the factory will be built model
home* for tho employee* and other* Inter
ested in the Fanners' Union, and it Is ex-
pected thnt a thriving and prosperous city
will be the result.
A HEART- TO-HEART
TALK ABOUT YOUR
SUBSCRIBES FOR HIS 80N.
A lew days ago my little son, Thomas
Muse, agsfi eleven, received a copy of
The Georgian, the first great dally in
the state to espouse tho cause of pro
hibition. Enclosed find check for $4.60,
the subscription price, to place him
permanently on your list. I am Im
pressed that one of the highest duties
I owe to him Is to arrange tor right
views upon all questions to occupy his
mind. May The Georgian prosper be
cause of this step It has taken. Yours
truly, DAN W. HAMMACK.
Coleman, Go.
M’MICHAEL MAY
OPPOSE ADAMSON
E. H. McMIchoel for congress In the
Fourth In opposition to Congressman
Charles Adamson.
That I* the latest rumor of trouble
for Incumbents In congress from Geor
gia. Representative McMIchoel hne
represented Marlon county for a num
ber of years In the legislature, and Is
known to be a live wire.
If he gets Into the ring the Fourth
will have doings, because Judge Adain-
eon Is a mixer proper.
Vlolsted Pur* Drug Act
Special to The Georgian.
Gainesville. Go., July 24.—J. Ernest
P, Davis was this morning convicted In
Hall superior court of violating the re.
cently enacted Georgia pharmacy law,
or pure drugs act. This Is the first
conviction under this law In this coun
ty.
Held Up by Footpads.
Hpeclnl to The Georgian.
Greenville, 8, C., July 24.—Jos Callo
way, of the American Spinning Com
pany’s village, was held up at the rail
road crossing near the outskirts of the
village, hit in the head with a missile
of some sort, and his condition Is said
to be critical.
Special to The Georgian.
t'ordele, Oa., July 24.—Charlie Tukes,
alias Charlie Brown, the negro who
was put on trial for his life In the au
pcrlor court one week ago, haa been re-
arraigned and tried far the murder of
Frank Kelley, another negro, on the
farm of C. C. Greer, last April. Judge
Whipple sentenced Brown to be hanged
August 27.
ARE MAKING FRIENDS
BY THE THOUSANDS.
Please allow me In behalf of Salem
Baptist church. 300 strong, to assure
you that you have our full Indorsement
on the position you have token on the
prohibition question. We have been
Inceeeamly at work for the cause of
temperance In our community for the
Your publisher's statement, your edl- past five years, and praying for state
torial and your reasons for prohlbl- prohibition, nnd Ood bo praised that
gfneer Edward M. Rice, of the Savan
nah, Augusta and Northern railway,
has returned from an Inspection trip
liver the Brinson railway. It Is gen
erally supposed that negotiations are
being talked of to the effect that tho
Knvannah, Augusta and Northern rail
way will absorb the Brineon railway,
and that line will furnish the first
twenty-five miles nut of Savannah.
Quits Csntral Road.
Special to The Georgias.
Columbus, Ga, July 24.—L. A. Camp?
for th* past fourteen yeare traveling
and local passenger agent of the Cen
tral of Georgia railroad here, and a
prominent member of the city council,
will vacate hie position with the Csn
tral on August 1 next. Mr. Camp has
received notice to this effect, but bis
successor 4* zmi yat known.
At this season of the year there are
thousands of fathers and mothers ask
ing one another the question, "What
shall we do with the boy 7” Sometimes
they spend sleepless nights trying to
decide upon the best school for the lad.
They read catalogues and they study
school advertisements. They agree that
the boy must be educated, but the
question that pussies and perplexes Is,
"Where shall we send him?"
There are many excellent schools In
Georgia, and many of them are doing
work that Is worthy of all praise.
Which Is the best school In the state, 1
do not know; but let me tell you about
one school that I do know. I know
It because I am associated with It. I
am giving my heart and my life to It.
I am trying to moke It the cleanest and
the most attractive place In the state
for young men. It Is located In the
mountains of North Georgia. It Is al
most surrounded by the peaks of the
Bluo Ridge. Every boy at some tlmo in
the formative years of his life ought to
spend a while In the mountains. The
silent majesty of the peaks appeals to
what Is big In a boy. They appeal to
what Is manly and noble and strong
and true, nnd they help powerfully to
develop what Is good. Nobody ha* yet
defined the Influence of the mountains
In the formation of a great career; but
I am sure of this, that a young life
finds something In the "everlasting
hills” that ft finds nowhere else.
The North Oeorgla Agricultural Col
lege Is located In the very heart of the
hills. It Is 22 miles from a railroad and
yet Is only six hours' ride from Atlan
ta. The climate the year through Is the
most delightful nnd healthful. The av
erage gain of about 200 boys lost year
was 20 pounds to the boy. When a
boy's body Is healthy and vigorous, he
can do twice as much work as when he
is languid and feeble. A strong body
can not be developed In a depressing
climate. If your boy needs to be built
up physically, this may be the very
place you are looking for.
Every boy who comes here must
work. I believe that every boy from
the beginning of his educational career
should he trained In the atmosphere of
hard, exacting, honest toll. I know no
kind of training for the development of
the human bruin equul to that which
reaches every muscle In the human
body. We are finding out In recent
years that gray matter exists elsewhere
In the body besides In the brain. So
we have hero athletic exercises that re
quire hard work, military exercises that
require hard work, exercises In the
mining and agricultural departments
that require hard work, all of our busi
ness and academic courses require hard
work.
One other thing we wish to stress In
this institution. We require every boy
who comes here to be obedient and re
spectful to those who are placed In au
thorlty over him. No boy can slay here
who Is not obedient. The discipline
here Is military from start to finish.
The men who have attended this Insti
tution. from Its foundation In 1872, now
testify to u man that their training In
promptness. In attention to duty, w hen
under orders here, has been the secret
of their success In life. The young
people who get this training do not
expect to be soldiers, but they do ex
pect to be efficient and resourceful In
after life.
All of our students here live In dor
mitories In charge of military officers
and members of the faculty. Our boys
cut their own wood, make their own
fires, make their beds and keep their
rooms In order. A boy's entire conduct
here Is subject to dally Inspection, and
he must give an account of himself
every hour of the day.
Now then. If you think a place like
this will suit your boy. we will be glad
to have him. We do not take boy*
under 14 year* of age. If you would
like to place your boy where he can
have plain living and high thinking,
where he must work hard and be obe
dient to rightful authority, where he
will have dolly exercises thst will de
velop his body os well os his mind and
heart, and where everything Is planned
to result In the good conduct of the
boy, this Is the very place you art
looking for. O. R. GLENN,
Prohibition comes to Georgia as the crys«
talllsed sentiment of a large majority of Its
people. This does sot mess only thst ths
good women are opposed to the traffic—for
they have worked nnd prayed for It through
the centurles-but thst the complete wiping
out of the traffic In Georgia la the wish of
sn overwhelming majority of tho enfran
chised.
The history of the prohlbtton movement
In Georgia goes back many years. First,
through the local option law, the saloon
retreated from county to county, until 125
out of 149 counties today stand free of ths
traffic In a legalized form.
Surely but certainly the prohibition forces
have waged their battles from county to
county. Defeat has been rare, within re
cent month! Terrell has wiped out four
dlspeniarlea; Lowndes sounded the death
knell of the saloon; Bartow lifted up her
voice In no uncertain tonea to maka definite
her objection to the sale of Intoxicants.
NARROWED TO CITIES.
So the flsht has been going forward until
the sale of liquor la today confined practi
cally to the larger cities—Atlanta, Colum
bus, Mscou, Savsnnsb, Augusta and Al
bany—with dlspensarloa In a number of
counties. And as this wave rolled onward
the prohibition forces gained strength and
power, and strong hearts that had hoped
nnd worked and prewar through the long
■oars glowed with the downing hope of
Georgia aa a prohlbtton state from moun,
tain to sea.
So ths fires slumbered, apparently, for
years, until the rtota here brought on the
‘•onfiagratton thnt Ut tha campfires of pro
hibition from Tybee to Rabun Gap. v
A few months ago a local prohlhtlon fight
seemed Inevitable In Atlanta. Under tha
stress of that time passion ran high Cool
heads realised that to bring on a heated
local prohibition fight then would not ba
wlae, because the nerves of the people were
events’ ■ tre,clle<, ** ut w *th recentterribln
Under the cooler Judgment of level heads,
the prohibition fight was deferred. But In
the wlregrasa. In the middle section and In
the mountains tha people were apparently
moved by the same psychic Influences. To
tal and binding prohibition for Georgia
became the watchword In tens of thou-
•and* of home*, and tho sentiment spread
and crew from a distant muttering to a
mighty concerted cry for eradication of the
saloon and the liquor traffic from the stale.
Anti-Saloon Leagues.
Led by the Georgia and the Atlanta Anti-
Saloon leagues* this movement gathered
force and strength as time mored toward
the annual session of the general a*sembly.
At flr*t, the movement seemed shaped to
ward stringent local option law*, with the
passage of strong antl-Jug laws to keep the
“dry” counties dry.
Up to a short time before the legisla
ture met, that seemed the probable coarse
of the fight. Then tho leaders canght the
inspiration of public sentiment throughout
Georgia, and It was realised that this vii
the time of times to push straight pro
hibition for Georgia, without the referen
dum.
Men who had stood in the trenches and
battled felt the thrill of the mighty awak
ening. Broughton, Upshaw, Solomon,
White. Seab Wright, Covington, Roddenbcr-
ry. Keel, Hardman, Knight, all of that
unnumbered host of fighters, hennl the bat-
nnd buckled on their armor. It
_ ___ pleasure of The Georglnn to first
tell the people of .the state that It was to
be a straight prohibition fight without com
promise or quibbling. And the word went
forth to every coanty in the state, and from
the presage of storm it became the full
fruition or the storm itself.
8enato Won Over.
For years the cry In Georgia has been
that the house would pass reform measures,
but the senate was too conservative, nut
that cry will avail no more in Georgia.
The senate of 1907-1906 stood as granite for
the bill giving. Georgia total prohibition.
On the opening day. Senator L. G. Hard
man, of the Thirty-third, a man of wealth
and force and character. Introduced a bill
that waa calendared as senate bill No. 1,
and la destined to go down to history link
ed with the name of the brave man whoso
brain aided In Its creation. There was no
mistaking the temper of the senate.
Even to the moat partisan and obdnrats
of the opponents It waa clear even before
the bill received committee action that It
would pass that body by overwhelming
majority. And the senate “made good. 1
Wtth the exception of a futile filibuster of
one day, action from introduction, to com
mittee, to passage was swift, inro and
unmistakable.
Battle in the House.
Seaborn Wright, the matchless* W. A.
Covington, the dauntless; Will NeeL' tho
tender and gentle, girded themselves up for
the fray. An Impotent minority blustered
and threatened, but It availed nothing.
Backed by the overwhelming sentiment of
the house, the leaders have stood steadfast
7 r point, yielding nothing.
ardmnn, to Covington, to Neel, to
t, and to all the hosts who stood
y to them, belongs the laurel of
DR. JOS. BROUGHTON
LOSES LITTLE GIRL
The funeral services of Frances Briscoe
Broughton, the infant daughter of Dr. nnd
* - — rho r- M “ *
uiuniinK m ubiucitiiic, v»*., %cro cubuoci-
ed Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at tho
Mrs. Joseph It rough tou, wn
„ —truing i
family residence, 20 B7 North avenue. Tho
interment waa in Westvlew cemetery. The
funeral aervlce* were conducted by Rev.
Leu G. Broughton, an uncle of the little
girl, assisted by Dr. John K. White, Dr. A.
r. Spalding ami Dr. W. L. Walker.
Dr. Joseph Broughton, accompanied by
his wife and bay daughter baa gone to
Gainesville to attend the Chautauqua, at
which Rev. Len G. Broughton was lectur
ing. and to enjoy the mountain air. The
father went out In search of a boarding
te mother and little girl at
BMP the child, without apparent
previous Illness, died.
The body arrived lo Atlanta Tuesday aft
ernoon.
Dahlonegm, Ga.
President.
CHILD LABOR BILL
PASSES THE HOUSE
Montgomery, Ala., July 24.—The
house yesterday passed the child labor
bill, making the minimum age 12 (or
both sexes. A bill to the same effect
was reported favorably In the senate.
The bill Is In line with the views of
Governor Comer, who Is one of tha
largest cotton mill owners in the South.
Inspectors will have the right to put
children out of the mills who seem to
him under age.
POSTMASTER NAMEO
FOR PATTERSON, OA.
Washington, July 26.—C. T. Pr
has been appointed postmaster ol
tenon. Pierce county, Georgia, Tice
J. McR. Griffin, resigned.