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THE GEORGIAN'S NEWS BRIEFS 11 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 4 Let ns show too bow. We a*-* exi*T* fenced Distillers and we will show you howto make your owe Whiskey. Liquors and Cordials at koir.e, aaony over 60% of the Uquer Deae»t prttei w ith ZANOLConcentrated Ex:iacts. Very simple and easy. No di«Uiling, no boiling, no trouble. Strictly legal and legitimate anywhere. Com pile* with C. 8. Govern me it Regulation? “Zanol” 19 a concentration of the same Ingredients as I? u**ec by liquor dealers. Guaranteed by us under the U. S. Pure Food Law?, by 8erial No. 22116-A. 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