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JTTCARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN'. ATLANTA. GA., SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1913.
7 A
Governor Declares Bond Issue
Will Bring Counties of State
From Financial Mire.
FOUR CHILDREN IDEAL FAMILY
Atlanta Women Decide Mother Can Raise
7 hat Number With Justice to Everybody
PJVK attractive children of Mrs. Joseph Raine, seated about their mother. They are Dorothy
*■ and Edna, standing, while the children seated, reading from left to right, are Mery, Jo
seph. Jr., and Catherine.
An urgent appeal for the Immediate
issue of $],0ou,000 in bonds for the
payment of school teachers’ salaries
will be inatK by Governor Brown
when the Legislature convenes next
month.
The appeal will be based on the
startling fact that the counties of the
State arc being forced to borrow $2.-
000,000 annually with which to pay
their teachers.
An investigation reveals further the
fact that many teachers are compelled
to wait from four months to a year
for their pay. while a number are be
ing forced to discount their scrip pay
at a 10 to 25 per cent loss.
Thinks Bond Issue Is Solution.
The State has been behind on
teachers’ salaries for several years,
and each parsing twelvemonth finds
the State going deeper into the finan
cial mire. That a million-dollar bond
issue would eradicate this condition
and put the State on a sound finan
cial basis in this regard is the belief
of Governor Brown.
On money borrowed by the various
counties 8 per cent interest is being
paid. A few of the counties have ob
tained loans at 6 and 7 per cent. On
the $2 000,000 being borrowed annually
by the counties while awaiting remit
tances from the State Treasurer, more
than $75,000 i.« being paid in interest.
A million-dollar bond Issue by the
State could be obtained at 4 per cent,
reducing tho interest to $40,000 a year.
This would make a net saving of
more than $60,000 annually, while a
sinking fund could be established
looking toward the elimination of the
principal.
Slow payment of salaries has been
an issue with the school teachers of
the State for many years. Each year
the Georgia Educational Association
has complained bitterly.
Governor Brown long ago realized
the seriousness of the situation and
has made efforts to better conditions.
His recommendation for a $600,000
bond issue was turned down by the
Legislature, but he will make another
attempt this year, believing the Leg
islator? will grant the issue when they
are informed of the real conditions.
Ulm Prepares Report.
A complete and detailed report of
conditions has been made by the Gov
ernor’s executive secretary, Hardy
Ulm. Several months have been re
quired in the assembling of the in
formation. The report is interesting
and exhaustive, and follows, in part:
Out of 139 county systems re
porting, the superintendents of
79 state that their teachers were
paid promptly—that is. within 10
to 30 days after the close of each
school month. Twenty-eight coun
ties paid part promptly and 32
made no prompt payments.
Fifty-four counties report either
entire or part payments in
"script," or that heir teachers
discounted their claims by other
means. Some counties allowed
reasonable interest on the
"scrip." Cobb, for Instance, al
lowed 7 per cent and made all
payments in such way. The
teachers discounted the paper at
1 per cent. This made the mon*;-
cost 8 per cent. The board paid
out $881.40 in interest as the pa
per was taken up, to which should
be added the $150 or more lost by
the teachers.
Taking everything Into consid
eration, I would estimate that the
outside capital used in financing
the operation of the common
schools during 1912 amounted to
$2,000,000.
And that the cost of this capi
tal was at least $75,000.
How Fund Is Raised.
This condition, I think, is not
entirely due to the State’s delays
in making remittances. More than
one-half of the money spent on
the common schools, according to
the estimate of the State Super
intendent (this includes high
schools), is raised by local taxa
tion or other means. If the
State made its remittances with
exact promptness as they become
due. some boards would have to
obtain loans to cover delayed re
ceipts from other sources, and
for improvements and unexpected
contingencies.
However. the conclusion is
forced upon me that if the State
were able to make prompt
monthly remittances, the necessi
ty for borrowing would be re
duced to a minimum.
Teachers who nave to discount
non-interest-bearing paper do so
at a loss of from 8 to 25 per cent,
and in one county the superin
tendent reports they were unable
in 1912 to discount claims at any
rate.
It is interesting to trace through
\i:eye ieports the many evidences
of the benefits of local taxation.
Wherever such is levied, better
salaries are r».iid, payments are
made more ’promptly and loans
apparently are more easily ob
tained and at a lower rale of in
terest than otherwise prevails.
MARC KL.AW BACK: WELL.
NEW YORK, May 31.—Marc Kiaw,
head, of the theatrical producing firm
of Kiaw * Erlanger, arrived home from
Europe to-day completely recovered
from his recent illness.
TEN RULES FOR
RAISING CHILDREN
Rules given by Atlanta society
mothers and club-women for the
proper upbringing of children:
Teach them obedience, honesty
and truthfulness.
Start out to govern them from
the time they begin to breathe.
Train them to think and do
things for themselves.
Make them know that punctual
ity is one of the big things in life.
Let them feel congeniality in the
home.
Make them respectful to every
body, even the servants.
Do not deceive them or tell them
one thing and do another.
Do not let them see you pretend
friendship toward a person and talk
about him behind his back.
Study their natures separately,
Alfonso Blamed for
Miss Ferrer's Death
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PHILADELPHIA, May 31. Lloyd
Williams. 17, of Chicago, a student in
Phillips-Exeter School, who eloped
from Boston with 17-year-old Edythe
Mae Howe, daughter of a railroad of
ficial of Boston, and who was ar
rested with her in Lewiston, Pa., in
a motor car belonging to Mrs. Helen
Clayton Haverford, was brought back
to this city early to-day. The girl
was taken back to Boston by her par
ents to-day.
“Two yeans ago I met Miss Howe
at a football game and saw her often
after that,” said Williams. “Three
weeks ago when I was on a vacation
we decided to elope. We went to New
York and lived in a fine apartment.
We paid $5 a day for the room. The
money went fast, and May 26 1 told
Edythe we were broke and advised
her to go home and let me start to
walk to Chicago.
“ '1 started with you,’ she said, 'and
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Training in Teaching Young Ones
to Think for Themselves Is
Considered Important.
By MIGNON HALL.
“How many children is the
modern woman capable of rear
ing with full justice to herself and
to them? What is the fundamen
tal thing she should teach them?”
These two questions I asked a num
ber of Atlanta matrons who have
children of their own. Without hes
itation, the majority responded:
“Four is the ideal family, and
the first thing to teach them is
obedience.”
They said that every couple should
have as many children as they were
really able to support, take proper
care of and educate—if not with a
regular college course, then in a prac
tical way. More than they could sup
port was not justice to the parents,
and it certainly was not justice to the
children.
Average families of to-day were too
one-sided in their largeness and
; smallness, they said. The poor man
| who could not afford it had too many
: hildren, and-the rich man too few.
While the children of the rich might
; be fully developed, well educated and
well trained, those of the poor par
ents wete too often brought up in ig
norance and many times with poor
constitutions. They in turn brought
into the world children as weak and
ignorant as themselves, and this tend
ed to keep the race down instead of
uplifting it.
These are the number of children
the following Atlanta women consider
that the average woman can bring
up properly:
Mrs. Joseph Raine 5
Mrs. Helen Plane . 3 or 4
Mrs. Dalton Mitchell 3 or 4
Mrs. C'aude Buchanan 3or4
Mrs. Mary McLendon 3 or 4
Mrs. Williams McCarthy .. 3 to 7
Mrs. John A. Perdue 4 to 8
Mrs. Walker Dunson 5
Mrs. Raine Likes Five.
“Naturally the ideal family to me
is five, simply because I have five,"
was Mrs. Raine's comment in a moth
erly little way. “But. speaking im
personally, I consider three children
is about the right number for the
average woman. If she takes proper
care of those and gives them her own
personal attention, she will have her
hands full. If she is capable of sup
porting and rearing more, though, she |
should have more. For children are j
the crown of a woman's happiness,
and if she has them, she is fortunate,
indeed.”
Most important of all for children
Mrs. Raine considered a good educa
tion and training for a definite lift
work.
“I have four girls and one boy,’’
she told me, “and l intend making
them capable of supporting them
selves. For one never knows how the
wheel of fortune is going to turn.”
It was her effort to train them to
their own ideas and to thinking things
out for themselves. She considered
congeniality in the household a great
thing, and thought children should be
much with their parents.
“Little folks can't, be expected to
grow up as they should without their
fathers and mothers take the trouble
to train them.’’ was her idea. “And
the father's responsibility is just as
great as the mother’s.”
Means of Support Necessary.
Mrs. Helen Plane said: “I am op
posed to large families where there
are no means to support them. In
fact, I almost believe in a law against
too many children being brought
promiscously into the world to face
the squalor and ignorance. It only
means, for the most part, wasted lives
that know much misery and very lit
tle happiness to compensate. My ideal
family would be. say, three children—
one girl and two boys, with the girl
the oldest. That would make her a
sort of adviser to the boys, and her
influence would mean much to them."
Mrs. Plane had reared in all seven
children, only one of which was her
own—the others being orpfians. Little
people could be taught good habits
and right principles from babyhood
if parents began with them in the
cradle, she said. A child very soon
learned to know whether he controlled
the household or not, and if he did,
he always took advantage of the fact
with the same enthusiasm he did in
.later life.
“It's a great pity that so many so
ciety people who are able to afford
everything do not have more chil
dren," Mrs. Plane condoned. “As a
general rule, their families are much
loo small.” |
Depends on Woman.
4 Mrs. Dalton Mitchell, who is reg
istrar of one of the city’s U. D. C.
organizations, thought the number of
children the modern woman could
rear depended as much on the woman
as it did on the finances of the family.
“While you will very often see
strong-minded, capable mothers who
could bring up a large number of
children." she said, “you will also
often find others who are so unfitted
to care for babies they should be de
prived of those they have. I think
no woman should have so many chil
dren she is compelled to neglect her
house to attend to them. For in neg
lecting her home she can not give her
children the idea of the proper mode
of living."
The task of rearing children now
was a harder one than when she
brought up her own family. There
were old negro mammies then who
assumed much of the work, but the
servant problem now was almost in
soluble. More demand wasmade on
the mother’s vitality and strength and
she could not do justice to more than
three or four. Three was not a bur
den, but it was all a mother could
manage, with a possible fourth thrown
in for good measure.
“Of course, it seems that no matter
how many children there are the back
broadened to the task; but I really
think it is a crime to bring too many
into the world simply to suffer. The
average poor man’s family is too
large.”
Have Right to Future.
Mrs. Claude Buchanan considered
(hat children had a right to some fu
ture when they were born.
"We want good citizens, rather than
too numerous citizens,”, she said.
“Four is an ideal family, and with
that number a mother will not have to
neglect her own development. I ex
pect that my children shall all be well
trained, and if in later years they
want to take up a profession of some
sort, I shall not oppose it.”
Her rules in child training were
love for one another, obedience, re
spect for older people—and not al
lowing them to discuss others.
“Also, I ujake them considerate of
the servants.” she said. “Besides its
being right, J find it’s a great help in
the general housekeeping.”
Mrs. Mary McLendon, suffragist,
believed it wrong for any woman to
have children if she neglected them—
either from necessity or over the card
tables.
“To me the question is this*,” she
said, “will each child receive the time
and attention it requires?"
Mrs. Williams McCarthy, prominent
in club and U. D. C. circles, thought
large families were happiest if there
wap comfort for all. Children learned
to give and take and be considerate ol
one another when there were several.
They also found happiness together.
One child was a burden to himself—
and not to be considered. She did not
think children should be compelled to
know hardship when they were babies.
Likes Larae Families.
Mrs. John A. Perdue, regent among
the D. A. R.’s:
“Being the mother of eight children,
I naturally think large families are
the best. But with them all. I have
never had to neglect my club, my
church, my home—or them.”
Their rule of living was never a day
30 dark there was not sunshine in
doors. She was the "partner” and
“friend” of her girls, and the “sweet
heart” of her bow Her train in was
to be honest, kind and straightfor
ward—those were the foundation
stones of character.
Mrs. Walker Dunson said:
“Five children seems to me the fam
ily the average woman can properly
rear. I think, however, even with the
poor, there may be more if they can
be given, a good, ordinary education
and the proper training that will
make them good citizens. If they
have the "spark” in them to make
something of themselves. the v wilt
then be able to do it of their own ac
cord The world is full of self-made
men.”
I am going to stick.’ We went as
far as Trenton on a trolley and then
I had just 6 cents left. We walked
into Philadelphia. Our shoes were
worn out and Edythe was so exhaust
ed that I had to actually drag her
along. When we reached Philadelphia
she was so tired that 1 made her sit
on a packing box. I looked up and
saw an automobile.
“1 never ran an automobile, but 1
fooled around and got the thing start
ed.
“When we arrived in the country, I
managed to get the machine stopped.
With niv last nickel I bought a loaf
of bread. We each ate half of it.
“When we reached Lewiston the
machine stopped dead. We had run
out of gasoline.
“Nothing can separate us. 1 in
tend to marry her. I acted like a gen
tleman on the trip. Edythe will sub
stantiate what I am saying.”
When the detective called at the
jail in Lewistown for Williams, Miss
Howe was in the hearing room with
her parents. As the youth passed the
girl he asked her for a kiss. The girl
started toward him and was stopped
by her parentR.
The girl ran past her parents and.
throwing her arms around Williams
neck, kissed him. Then the couple
broke down, and Williams was led
away to the railroad station to come
to this city.
Anarchistic Newspapers Declare the
Spanish King Hastened End of
Daughter of Man He Executed.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 31.—Anarchist news
papers to-day made sensational at
tacks on King Alphonso in regard to
the recent death of Paz Ferrer, the 1
young actress-daughter of the Span
ish teacher, whose execution caused
a world-wide stir.
Miss Ferrer’s death, it is asserted,
was directly due to the shock of her
removal from Fontainebleau, where
she was critically ill with tuberculo
sis. She was taken in an automobile
to an adjoining town by orders of the
police, who feared a demonstration on
the occasion of the visit to Fontaine
bleau by King Alfonso.
Miss Ferrer had won distinction in
her profession. She did not share her
father's anarchistic views.
FOR PftSTINSE
Mrs, Junie Candler Garrett’s Ro
mance, ‘Janice,’ Just Published,
Is Old-Fashioned Love Tale.
Big Mexican Loan
Negotiations Halt
Payment of $10,000,000 National Rail
ways Notes Monday Depends
on New Bond Issue.
NEW YORK, May 81.—A hitch has
occurred in the $75,000,000 Mexican
loan being arranged by foreign bank
ers and participated in by J. P. Mor
gan & Company and Kuhn, Loeb &
Company.
It is reported that the hitch is due
to the refusal of the United States to
recognize the Huerta administration.
The trouble attracted attention be
cause the sale of $27,500,000 6 per cent
National Railways of Mexico notes is
dependent on the success of the loan.
The National Railways of Mexico
has $10,000,000 of 4 1-2 per cent notes
maturing Monday and the funds for
taking up the notes were to be taken
out of the proceeds of its new loan.
The Mexican Government controls the
property.
‘Quo Vadis’ in Movie
To Be Seen at Grand
9,000 Feet of Film With Eight Reels
Form Photo Play of
Roman Life.
Atlanta will see the motion pic
ture which is admittedly the most
elaborate and magnificent ever
staged, when the Kleine-Cines spec
tacle, “Quo Vadis.” will be shown in
the Grand Theater.
As a film, “Quo Vadis” requires two
hours and a half for exhibition, being
nearly 9,000 feet in length, and pos
sessing eight reels. The spectacle
was posed in Rome, and the city is
said to be faithfully reproduced.
The orgies of Nerd’s court, the
burning of Rome, the chariot races,
the Christian martyrs being thrown
to the wild beasts, the struggle be
tween Ursus and the savage bull,
the human being burned alive—all
are among the scenes presented.
Chatham County's
Aged Sheriff Dying
Physicians Abandon Hope for the
Recovery of Captain Thom
as F. Screven.
SAVANNAH, GA., May 31.-—Cap
tain Thomas Forman Screven, Sheriff
of Chatham County, is at the point of
death, according to a statement given
out at his home to-day.
Captain Screven, who has beer
Sheriff since 1908, has been ill for
some time. For several days it has
been realized that he was gradually
sinking, and members of the family
were summoned to his bedside. Phy
sicians state there is no chance of re
covery.
Captain Screven is 79 years old. an
alumnus of the University of Georgia
and a Confederate veteran. For 50
years he has been a wealthy planter.
Having reared her two children td
full maturity, having been the patron
saint of her grandchildren for many
years, and now the proud possessor of
three great-grandchildren, Mrs. Juni*
Candler Garrett, 655 Washington
Street, now is devoting her spare time
to the writing of books.
Mrs. Garrett, who iy very modest,
very retiring and very quiet, believed
that every woman should have diver
sion suited to her needs, and for her
the greatest pleasure is that found in
writing. She lives in a romantic world
of her own creation, and has found
solace from many of life’s sorrows in
this way.
“Janice,’ a story of 110 pages, pub
lished by the Broadway Publishing
Company, was issued from the press
last week, bearing Mrs. Garrett’s
name upon the cover. This tale, which
is full of poetic fancy, is an old-fash
ioned love story. Mrs. Garrett has
created a very lovable character in
Janice, the village beauty, and other
typical village character seem to live
in the little book. Beginning with tho
engagement of Janice to a promising
young lawyer in the village, the story
carries one through the unhappy mar
ried life of Janice, giving many scenes
and incidents of real interest. Above
her many trials and disappointments,
due to her husband’s fickle fancy and
his craving for drink, Janice rises su
preme, until, after many years, she
finds in her former sweetheart a man
who is truly worthy of her and in
whose love she learns the fullness of
life.
FLYNN MAY MEET SMITH
IN BOUT AT NEW YORK
NEW YORK. May 31.—Negotia-
tions were opened here to-day for a
ten-round bout in this city next
month between Jim Flynn, the Pueblo
fireman, and Gunboat Smith, w'ho re
turned from the Pacific coast yester
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