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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 [ II GIF II STOLEN GAR Schoolboy and Girl Companion Live in Style While Money Lasts—Land in Jai 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 5 Gives Quickest and Surest Cure For Ail Sore Feet The following is absolutely the • surest and quickest cure known to ( science for all foot ailments: Dis- > solve two tablespoonfuls of Calocide compound in a basin of warm wa- » ter Soak the feet in .this for full fif teen minutes, gen tly rubbing thej sore parts.’’ The effect is really w o n d e rful. All soreness goes in stantly; the feet feel so good you could sing for joy. Corns and cal- 1 louses can be _ ■ peeled right off. It ; gives immediate relief for sore bun ions. sweaty, smelly and aching feet. I A twenty-five cent box of calocide ) is said -Hi be sufficient to cure the £ worst feet, ft works through the c pores and removes the cause of the j trouble. Don’t waste time on uncer tain remedies. Any druggist has. cal- ( ocide compound in stock or he can < get it in a few hours from his whole- < } sale house Tt is not a patent med- \ ) icine, but is an ethical preparation 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 day. 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