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THE GEORGIAN'S NEWS BRIEFS
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STATE SCHOOL BOARD SELECTS NEW TEXTBOOKS
After a three day's’ deadlock on
geographies fuia arithmetics, the
State Board of Education late Thurs
day afternoon agreed upon & list of
books for use In common schools of
Georgia for five years, with the ri^ht
reserved to the State to cancel all
contracts upon giving the publishing
houses concerned twelve months’ no
tice.
The commission divided exactly in
half on the two Questions at issue,
the Governor. Professor Woofter and
Superintendent Brittain holding out
for no changes in geographies and
arithmetics at this time, while Messrs
Stead. Moon and Glenn insisted upon
a change.
The Governor and his follower**
based their stand upon the recom
mendations of the various subcom
mittees and uniform reports of county
superintendents as to the satisfactory
status of these books now and fur
ther insisted that it would be unwise
to disturb existing conditions to any
great extent, pending a legislative in
vestigation now on with respect to
the school book situation
The dissenting members of the
board, however, held out stubbornly
against that view of the matter, and
eventually won a compromise by suc
ceeding in displacing one arithmetic
List Shows Many Changes.
An inspection of the list agreed
upon will show many changes, and
the first list of high school books ever
adopted in the State, but there are
no radical changes.
The board says that by certain re
adjustments it has succeeded in ef
fecting a saving to the people :n the
aggregate
Representatives of forty-odd pub
lishing houses, who have been in At
lanta for several weeks at work on
this contract problem, were present
In the Capitol when the awards were
made. They expressed satisfaction.
The question of the State publish
ing ti.s own text-books, which is now-
being investigated by a legislative
committee, will come up when the
General Assembly meets next sum
mer. It is sure to be one of the live
and thoroughly interesting questions
before that body.
The complete list of books apodted
follows:
GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRADES.
Recommended by State Schooi Board
Commission:
Georgia School Pencil Tablet (Mon-
tag Brothers) $ 05
Georgia Common School Composi
tion and Examination Tablet
< Mon tag Brothers)
C4 i
Thomas Blanks for Written
Spell- 1
Inc <'lan ton A Webb
Adopted by State School Book Corn-
mission:
Spellers.
He
-
Ex-
tail
charge. 1
Branson s First Book B 1-
Johnson Publishing *'o. 5
Sw inton s Word Book
12
S 06
(American Book Co.)
11
05
READERS.
Basal.
Re
Ex-
• arge
Practical Readers Ameri-
can Book Co.):
1 Timer i
16
S 08
First Reader
IS
OS
Second Reader . .
2»«
0
Third Reader
Graded Literature Readers
27
3
(Charles E. Merrill Go.'
Fourth Bock
40
20;
Fifth Book
40
:o
Supplerr entary.
Child Classics. Primer
< Bobbs-Merriil Co *
15
VT
American School Rea dens
• Macmillan Co.):
E'irst Reader .
24
12
Second Reader
2*
4
Third Reader
Farm Life Series «Stver-
Burdett Co.)
32
e
Book IV
J5
Book V.
Selections from the River-
35
side Literature Series
Houghton-Mifflin Go.).
for S>xth Grade Reading
.18
.19
For Seventh Grade reding
.-s
1 ?
Second Reader (board).
.11
Supplementary.
Howe Primer (Charles
Scribner s Sons >
Graded Classics -B F
IT
OS
Johnson & Go), First
Reader <cloth)
.0
.10
First Reader vbnard*
15
0T
Second Reader (clot Id
2T
13
Second Reder (board) .
22
11
Thirl Reader (cloth).
22
6
Third Reader (board)
28
■ 4 i
Studies tn Reding bj S.r-
son & Martin «Univer
sity Publishing Co *.
Fourth Reder, or Book 1
35
V 17
Fifth Reader, or Book I]
45
23
Advanced Reader
28
Supplements ry.
Riverside Readers, via Edition
(Houghton-Mifflin Cod
Primer
U,
IS
First Reader
30
15
Second Reader
:ls
.IS
Third Reader
40
20
Fourth Reader
45
23
Fifth Reader . ,
4u
23
Sixth Reader
45
23
Seventh Reader
45
23
GRAMMAR
Re-
Ex-
taJ.
change
Sand ford Brown-Smith Ian-
guage Series tD C. Heath
A Co.)
Book I S 33 SIT
Book II 43 21
HISTORY.
BaaaE)
Re- Kx-
tail charge
Beginner's History of Our
Country t Southern Pub
lishing Companj » $ 40 S 20
Brooks Histor> of Georgia
(Atkinson. Mentzer & Co.) 55 27
Evans’ Essential Facts of
History (Benjamin H. Sar
born At Co.) TO
Supplementary. y
Evans First lessons In Geor
gia History • American
Book Company) 54 27
PHYSIOLOGY.
BasaE)
Re- Ex-
tail change
Ritchie s Primer of Hygiene
and Sanitation Work! Book
Company) $ 50 S 25
Supplementary.
Woods Hutchinson Health
Series. Georgia Edith i.
Houghton M *Tiin Co ):
Book 11 *2 31
AGRICULTURE.
lte- Kx-
tail. change
Humikuii s Agriculture. Re
vised by I >e Loach < Culti
vator Company) . . . . $ .65 * .25
WRITING.
Re- Kx-
tail. change
Berry Writing Books (R IE
Berry A Co.) $ .05
CIVICS.
Re- Kx-
tail. change
Peterman s Civil Government
(American Book Co.):
t’loth $ f»4
Board 44
GEOGRAPHIES.
He- Ex-
tail change.
Fv\e's Elementary Geography
(Ginn A- Co.) . . $ .40 5 .20
Five’s Higher Geography
• Gin? & Co.) 88 44
ARITHMETICS.
Re- Rx-
tail. charge
Wentworth's New Elementa
ry (Ginn A Co.) t .25 $ .12
Milne's Progressive. Book 11
( American Book Company):
Cloth 26 18
Board 32 .16
Note Thirty-two pages additional to
be added to Milne under the approval of
the State superintendent.
HIGH SCHOOLS.
First Year.
Re- Ex-
tail. change.
P a n f o r <3 -Brown-Smith's
Grammar (IX C. Heath) S .63 8 31
Curry's Laterary Readings
Kur-i M Na d A Co. >
Mims a Paynes Southern
Prose and Poetij • Scrib
ner)
Sand* ‘h A- Bacon's Speller
■ 1 * c Heath A Co i
Marsh s Elementary Algr-
hra iS r ibner)
Dure’Es Advanced Arithme
tic (Charles K Merrill)..
Botsford’s Ancient History
i Macmillan» ...
Dryer s l*hys;ca! ami Com
mercial G e a g r a p h v
(American Book Co. > .
Warren's Flemeuts cf Agii
culture • Macmillan).
Bennett's 1 ait in Grammar
1 ■ Vtyn & Bacon»
Pearson Essential* of
Lai tin for Beginners
1 < American Book Co.).
Fraser Squair s Shorter
French Course (I>. C.
Heath A Co *
. Weasel beef's Elementary
(Jerni.ui Grammar iD C.
[ Heath * Co *
Hills & Ford's Span is
Gran mar - D C. H«.. h A.
3
6?
d
«C
Second Y«
Me
kl\ a- F
ic • N< w
Mat-mu
rgn-*o
Rh
the Second, Third and
Fourth Grades iM.i* nil
lan) ....
West's Modern His tort
• Allyn & Bacon »
Bailey & Co email's First
Course .n Biology > Mac
millan) . ,
Williams £ Rogers' !"i
Lessons in Bookkeeping
Au e: .can Bcn.k Co. >
Third Year.
M,
History of Vug
lish Literature «B F
Johnson Publish g > "<> • $'
Coman & Kendal, s Short
History of En gland
(Macmillan)
Gorton's Physics •!* Apple
- i
Fourth Year.
d
51
; Ha Heck's History of
I American 1 .:t* t a .re
i (American Book Co. * $1
Wells' Trigonometry «l» C
i Heath & Go).
Cousins & Hil's \mer:. an
History and Civics iP. C.
j Heath & Co ) 1
! Hessler & Smith's Chera-
j istry (Benj. H. Sanborn) 1
Nichols & Rogers' Goin-
I mereial Law > American
I Book Co.) ....
What Travelers See on the Canal Voyage
By WILLIAM H0STER
x 'C THAT will the world trav-
V/V' eler see who makes the
journey from Colon to
Balboa through the Panama Ca
nal?
Approaching - the old city of
Colon, formerly AspinwaJl. from
the Atlantic end, the ship will
enter Limon Bay, passing Toro
Point, somewhere behind which,
in a grove of magnificent cocoa-
nut palms, are hidden the fortifi
cations which guard the Atlantic
entrance to the “ditch.” On the
left are the red roofs of Colon.
‘’Finding the Lake.”
The line of the canal is easily
picked up through the buoys
which mark the channel. Under
Its own steam the ship will pro
ceed slowly southward, passing
in transit^he new American town
of Cristobal, built by the Canal
Commission, and so on into the
canal itself, 1,000 feet wide,
across a six-mile stretch of low
land—the only unattractive coun
try traversed throughout the en
tire 48 miles of waterway.
Already, however, the tourist
will have noticed looming up
straight ahead the gray walls of
the first flight of locks at Gatun.
Through those marvels of me
chanical skill and construction, by
successive stages the ship will be
lifted up the three flights of locks,
a distance of 85 feet, and, finally,
the upper level having been at
tained, will be floated out upon
the broad surface of Gatun Lake.
A tourist being shown about the
canal recently said to Colonel
Goethals:
“How fortunate you were in
finding this lake here.”
It was a remark illustrative of
the popular ignorance of the
work which has been done here.
A few years ago a broad, popu
lous valley stretched away from
the point where the locks begin.
There were half a dozen busy lit
tle communities between the two
hills where the lake now rests.
Then the canal diggers came
along, built a dam across from
hill to hill, and by slow stages
this magnificent lake took shape.
Off to the left from where the
ship emerged from the final lock
for a mile and a half stands the
famous Gatun Dam, w'hicfa it was
said was an impossible engineer
ing feat, and which rests so nat
urally in the scheme of things
now that it has to be pointed out
before any one realizes that it Is
a dam and that this lake, which
extends down across the Isthmus
for a distance of about 30 miles,
is entirely the work of man.
During the transit through the
locks the ship has been towed by
little electric engines at either
side of the lock chamber. Rut
now, as the last lock is passed,
theise shackles are thrown off. and
under her own steam again the
ship begins the passage of Gatun
l^ake, one of the most picturesque
rides on the globe.
River and ocean together have
mingled here to make this bridge
of water across the continental
divide. With the dam built, the
problem of the raging Chagres
River was solved. Of old, the
charging Chagres had swept and
swirled across the Isthmus, car
rying flood and devastation with
It—rising frequently over twenty
feet overnight—the despair of the
canal diggers. Then Gatun Dam
was devised, the barrier was
erected across the hills, and the
Chagres River came pouring
down over the water sheds to
discover that her devastating
sway was ended at Inst. Har
nessed by the hand of man. the
wilder her rage now. and the
greater th# volume of her torren
tial floods, the better she serves
the purpose of man in keeping the
flow of water in Gatun Lake at
the height necessary to float the
commerce of the world. %
A Scene of Grandeur.
the ship moves gracefully along
under her own steam. Tropical
foliage abounds. Tall cocoanut
palms, banana trees and the
thousand and one varieties of
tropical plants and flowers wave
along the banks. Fire plants ate
In full bloom, a hundred different
colors dazzling the eye. A
glimpse is had now nd then of
orchids of the most delicate
shades clinging to the barren
limbs of trees, but far out of the
reach of man.
Tropical birds of b: ■ - ■ t
plumage float through the i« r
glistening fish at play leap from
the water just ahead of the sh ; p‘s
bow; we get a hasty glimpse of
an alligator catapulting with
electric speed from the bank^.nto
the water. If one is lucky, he w: '
get a flash even of a family cf
monkeys banging by each other s
tai’s off then in the trope al jan
gle. And over all a brilliant sun.
whose rays are tempered oy a soft
breeze, spice-laden and aromatic
Ancon, Panama.
Bo out upon the broad surface
of Gatun Bake the ship steams,
over the sites of towns wiped out
by the rising waters, across the
bed of the old Panama Railroad
southwest, until at length sight
of the Gtotun Locks is lost in a
bend of the channel, and the tour-
let finds himself In a land-locked
basin, steaming alon*’ at a height
of 85 feet above the level of the
sea in the midst of s *rene of
idyllic grandeur.
in the background rise the pur
ple hills of the Cordilleras—low-
lying foothills of the Andes,
which slope down gradually to
ward the shore of the lake. The
most beautiful riira* open out as
By ANDREW COLVIN.
rpHE power to nominate is the
| power to control a public
A official after he is elect
ed. The remedy is to take
the power of nomination from the
political boss, and the only way
that this can be accomplished is
through a genuine direct primary
law.
Experience of States which are
using direct primary laws proves
conclusively that, in order to be
effective, such a law must be
State-wide, mandatory and open.
The convention system of nom
inations for public office is
THEORETICALLY the ideal
method. Delegates chosen from
small units of representation,
representing the sentiment of
their party in that community, if
permitted to meet together and
select, by exchange of views and
without being influenced by mat
ters outside of the convention,
will come more nearly to produc
ing nominations satisfactory to
the rank and file of the political
party which they represent than
any other method which could be
devised. „
The conventions have, however,
for more than a generation past
been dominated and often abso
lutely controlled by the political
leader of the district, and the re
sult has been the nominations by
the district leader.. The senti
ment of the various sections has
had little or nothing to do with
the action of the convention.
This condition has given rise
to the widespread dissatisfaction
with the convention system,
which has resulted in the adop
tion of direct primary laws of one
form or another in 29 States of
the Union, many of them East
ern States.
In all but three of the 29 States
referred to the primary laws axe
Slate-wide: that is. all officers.
including State officers, are nom -
Tinted directly at the primaries,
and all conventions, including the
State convention, arc abolished
State-wide direct primaries
have proved more satisfactory to
the people generally than have
laws which retained the State
convention. The State convention
is used by the politicians and self
ish interests not only to nominate
State officers but to arrange for
tlie distribution of the patn*na.are
of the State offices, and also, quit*
largely, to arrange for local non).-
nations, including nominations for
the State Legislature.
The experience of other State*
has brought to the direct primary
struggle the support generally of
all citizens believing in better
State government who have paid
sufficient attention to the sub
ject to understand the situation
intelligently; on the other hand,
the opposition of the party bosses
has of itself convinced a great
number of people that direct pri
maries would be a good thing for
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