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The SnmmerYille News
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Summerville, Ga., May 20, 1909.
The awakening interest in bet
ti r fanning has brought about
a discussion on the subject of hav
ing county commissioners of ag
riculture, and a bill probaldy
riculture, and a bill creating this
office will probably be introduc
ed at the next meeting qf the
legislature.
Over SI2,(XX),(XX) goes out of
Georgia every year for corn and
oats to western markets. This
certainly should open the eyes
o f our Georgia farmers. This is
not necessary and a large portion
of this money could be kept at
home if our farmers would give
more attention to these valuable
ct reals.
The total number of immigrants
into the country since 182(1, the
year of earliest record, exceeds
26,(KK),000. In 19(10. the date oi
the last census, the total number
of persons of foreign birth liv
ing in the country was 10,460,000
which was 13.7 per cent of the
population, while in 1890 they
formed 14.8 per cent.
The committee appointed by
Gov. Smith to look into the ad
visabiHty of extending the Wes
tern & Atlantic railroad from
Atlanta to the sea, is in session
in Atlanta this week. W hatever
report the committee makes will
be made to Gov. Smith, who will
iiieorporatec it in his mecssage to
the general assembly at its .lune
cession and some definite action
may be looked for in the near
future.
AN APPEAL
Do you know, that, by the last
census, out of four cities in the
United States where the highest
percentage of children of native
white stock are being allowed to
grow up illiterate, two are Geor
gia cities!
Judged by the illiteracy in cit
ies, Georgia stands next to the
lowest, state in the union?
Taking all the white and negro
children in Georgia from ten to
fourteen, one out of every five
is unable to read and write?
Georgia's children of this age
have 34 times as high a propor
tion of illiteracy as the children
< f Mmwßehusetts and 67 times as
great, a proportion as the ehil
dion of Nebraska?
Every year over ten thousand
voting people pass beyond the
school age in Georgia, totally il
literate and beyond the reach of
future legislation on this subject I
Twelve per cent, ot all the
white men of voting age in Geor
gia have been allowed to grow uj
illiterate?
Do you realize that an over
whelmning majority of the states
in the union require school at
tendance by law ?
Os the 10,000 most eminent mei
in America, not one is an illiter
ate, but. one out of every 42 is
a college graduate?
The illiterates of the United
States furnish two and one-half
times as many criminals as an
equal number of those who can
nad and write?
In view of these facts, will
yiu not help us to get a compul
sory education law for Georgia?
-Federation of Women’s Clubs
in Georgia.
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WILL ENLARGE PLANT.
Directors Decide to Double Ca
pacity of the Summerville
Cotton Mills.
At a meeting of the directors
of the Summerville Cotton Mills,
held here last Thursday, it was
decided to sell one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars of addi
tional stock to he expended in
the enlargement of the plant.
This movement was started sev
eral weeks ago and a meeting of
the directors was called for fur
ther discussion and consideration
of the plans.
It was decided to issue stock
dividends to the amount of thir
ty thousand dollars to the pres
ent stockholders of the mill and
sell one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars of new stock.
It is proposed to spend SBO,-
000 of this amount for buildings
and new machinery and use the
remaining $40,000 as working cap
ital.
This will practically double the
capacity of the mill. The pres
ent output is between four and
five thousand pounds of doth dai
1,. With the added capacity the
daily output will be increased
to nine thousand pounds.
It is believed that a large part
of the stock will be taken by the
present owners of the mill. The
remainder will he offered to out
side investors.
These plans will have to he
passed upon by the stockhold
ers. but it is understood that
practically all of them are in fa
vor of enlarging the mill.
New School Building
The trustees and patrons of
the Summerville school had a
very enthusiastic meeting Friday
afternoon. Speeches were made
by several of our pifldic spirit
ed citizens, who all agree that
there is an imperative demand
for a larger school building. The
building now occupied by the
school is a good brick house,
nicely furnished on the inside, bu
it is not large enough, and is not
located in the proper place.
We need a building which will
be asceessible. to both the eliil
of the town and those of the cot
ton mill, as well.
It is proposed to raise the fund,
for building a new sehool house
by the issuance of bonds, but be
fore this can be done the char
ter of the town will have to be
amended or a new one adopted.
A bill will be introduced at the
approaching session of the legis
lature asking for a new charter.
A committee, consisting of the
five lawyers of the town, was
appointed to draft a suitable
ter.
It is proposed to raise the funds
School building that the county
would be proud of, at a cost ot
seme twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
It is believed that the general
assembly to convene next month,
will enact a huv making educa
tion in this great commonwealth
compulsory and we must have
here a model high sehool build
ing to meet, the imperative de
mands of children crowding in
ti. our schools. Concessions must
be made and absolutely nothing
done to hinder tin 1 speedy erec
tion of this building.
Other county seats are erecting
new school buildings, and Sum
merville must not lag behind.
Everybody is likely to have kidney
and bladder tronbie. In iact nearly
everbody ha» some trouble of this
kind. That is the reason why you so
often have paius in the hack and
grion, scald.ng sensation, urinary dis
orders, etc.—that’s your kidneys.
The best tiling to do is to got some of
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills
right away. Take them for a few
days or a week or so and you will feel
all right. In this way, too, you will
ward of? dangerous and possibly
serious ailments. They are perfectly
harmless, and are not only antiseptic,
but ally pain quickly by their healing
properties. Send your name to E. C.
I DeWitt A Co., Chicago, for a free
trial box. They are sold by all drug
gists.
According to a statistical ab
stract of the United States issu
ed by the bureau of statistics of
| the Department of Commerce and
i I abor. about one-third of the
eighty-eight million population of
the United States, including Alas
ka live in the thirteen original
states; another third live in the
states created from the territory
ceded to the Union by the origi
inal states, and the remaining
third on the area added by pur
chase or annexation.
EARLY RISERS
The famous little pills.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1909.
EDUCATION IN GEORGIA
‘An ignorant people not only
is, but always must be, a poor
people. These who are destitute
of sagacity and providence must,
of course, Be lacking in comfort
and competence. Rich climatee,
facilities of commerce, and even
stores of gob! can not confer prof
purity upon an uneducated peo
ple They cannot create wealth,
and whatever riches are showeree
upon them will surely run to
waste Within the last four cen
turis the people of Spain have
possessed as much silver and gold
as all the other nations of Europe
combined; but poor indeed is that
nation whose people today have
less wealth than Spain.”
The resources of the South, her
climate,e soils, minerals, and tim
bers, her present and prospective
wealth, as recently set forth by
Mr. Edmonds, are almost incon
ceivable. Yet these resources are
useless in the hands of an un
trained people. Moreover, if we
do not educate our own people to
develop these resources, the
ed intelligence of other sections
will come over and possess our
land; while we shall be, as Dr.
Dabney has said, ‘‘merely hewers
of wood and drawers of water.”
The iron ore supplies of the.
South equal the total known ore
supplies of Europe and the Lake
Superior regions combined; but
the United States Steel Corpora
tion has grasped this vast wealth,
and for the most part it is held
by alien hands. The known eoal
areas of the South exceed by
more than 50 per eent the total
coal areas of all Europe. If the
coal of Kentucky, to say nothing
of Tennessee, Alabama, Texas,
Arkansas, and Indian Territory,
were capitalized at ten cents a
ton, it would pay the national
debts of Great Brittain, France,
and the United Status. But these
vast properties are also largely
owned by alien corporations.
In our southern streams there
is at leaset a million and a half
horsepower that is available, but
still undeveloped. If this vast
energy were rented at S2O a year
for each horsepower, it would
bring in an annual rent of $30,-
(XX),000. Moree than a half millioi
horsepower is being developed
in the Appalachian region, at
a cost of $50,000,000; but this
capital is nearly all furnished by
foreign corporations.
Our annual cotton crop puts
into circulation in the South sev
en hundred million dollars—one
dred million dollars more than
the output of all the gold and
silver mines of the world! The
world is dependent upon the
South for three-fourths of all
the raw cotton consumed; yet
we are using in Southern mills
one-fifth of our cotton crop.
The South then, has resources
that will enable her to create
more wealth than the total
wealth of the United States to
day,—resources that could easi
ly support a population even
greater than that of our entire
country. "What dazzling possibil
ities! But can they be. realized
by states that show the highest
ratios of illiteracy? Ignorance
and wealth are incompatible. Ig.-
norance has always, everywhere
meant poverty. Jefferson was
right when he said that an ignor
ant people was never yet a
W'dthy people.
Fv ages ami ages our state Iris
had regions of aluminum clay mor
valuable than gold. It lay here
unnoticed until the eye of a
Yankee spied it out and the purse
of an alien bought it up. We
shall never posess this land until
the children of the south are giv
en the same opportunity for edu
cation that- is offered the chil
dren of the North and West.
The brain of Georgia boys is
valued at $2.43 a year in the com
men schools g! the state. The
averagenppr- priation for commor
seh'.<4 education in the United
States is sl9 a year for each child
and in some stakes it is as much
as $36 a year. We can never
hope to develop our veins of ma
terial wealth until we develop the
wealth that lies in the veins of
our Georgia boys and girls.
The average pay of the common
school teacher in Georgia is $27
a month —less than $l5O a year;
while a Georgia convict is worth
to his lessee S6OO a year. We
can never hope to realize our
dreams of wealth and prosperity
so long as we are content to pay
the teacher $2.43 to instruct a
Georgia child for five months
while at the same time we pay
the sheriff sls to for a
Georgia felon one nth. Oui
birthright will go f r a ■ -ss of
pottage unless we va our teach
ers more highly than we do our
penitentiary convicts
The increase of expend turei
for the common schools in Geor
gia is only 32 per cent more than
it was five years ago, while the
increase in Louisana is 127 per
eent. The increase value of the
public school property in Georgia
during the past five years is <
ly 46 per cent., while that oi
North Carolina is 138 per cent
The increase in local funds rais
ed for school purposes in Geor
gia is 159 per cent while in North
Carolina it is 2,714 per cent.
We see from these facts that our
state, the Empire state of the
South, is far behind other South
ern states in the valuation she
places upon education. Some
politicians flatter the people and
try to make them feel satisfied
with their present condition, bui
all thinking Southerners know
that our common schools are a
disgrace. In 1880 there were in
our state more than 28,000 white
illiterate voters; in 1890 more thai
30,000; in 1900. more than 32,000.-
In 1900 more tlian 11 per cent,
of all our white inhabitants, were
illiterates. More than one-half
of all the illiterates voters of the
United States live in the South,
and if Thomas Jefferson were liv
ing he w’ould again cry out with
emphasis, ‘‘Preach a crusade
against ignorance!”
The savings banks in Connect
icut allow’ no man to deposit more
than $1,00; yet the Connecticut
savings banks alone have on de
posit enough money to buy out
the entire state of Georgia. 1
In 1906 there was one patent
issued to every 1,000 inhabitants
in Massachusetts; while during
the same year there was one pat
ent issued to every 9,000 people
in Georgia. In Massachusetts this
was due to her excellent educa
tional system; in Georgia it was
due to our inferior advantages.
The brains and fingers of Georgia
children are just as nimble as
the brains and fingers of the Mas
sachusetts children; but they nee
a chance. Shall wo give it to
them? Instead of $2,000,000 an
nual appropriation for the com
mon school, we need $4,000,000.
Instead of sehool houses that cost
on an average $289, we need
buildings that cost at least S6OO.
Instead of paying our public
sehool teachers $27 a month, we
should pay them at least $75.
Why will a brave and noblee peo
ple tolerate such conditions as
exist in the schools of Georgia.
God has a purpose in every
soul that he sends into the world.
The poorest, most helpless child
is something more than a few cell
of matter or a few ounces of ener
gy; he is a ‘‘plan of God,” a pari
of the divine plan of creation;
and, as such, he deserves to be
trained for his work. The fun
damental argument for education
is, that every child has the right
to a chance in life because God
made him, and made him for a
purpose in the universe.
(We need opportunities in the
rural districts of Georgia,—op
portunities that will train our
boys and girls to think independ
ently and prepare themselves for
efficient service. As Gladstone
once said, ‘‘You can not fight
against the future. The better
ment as mankind depends on how
you train the children,” Sooner
or later the world must recognize
that truth, and it is high time for
the Empire State of the South to
realize her condition and make
her school system equal to that oi
any other state of the Union.
A system of public education
is a pyramid having as its foun
dation primary schools, followed
by grammar schools, high schools
colleges, technical schools, and
normal schools,—all leading to
the university as the apex. We
need, not two but several nor
mal schools in order to train
teachers who may go forth to
build up our rural schools.
We need here in Georgia an
educational system which will
raise our boys and girls to higher
planes of efficiency; which will
give them richer development and
clearer expression; which will
enable them to become a grand
orchestra of many instruments,
each sounding its own clear note,
each lending its melody to com
plete the harmony of God. No
individual tone should be want
ing. no single discord should mar
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keeps the baby growing.
Get a small bottle now. All Druggists ■
Beautiful Spanish Dancer
Gives Praise to Pe-ru-na.
NERVOUS prostration is usually the
result of a vocation which requires
* continual strain on the nervous
system.
In such cases it would be wise if a
change of vocation could be made.
But thia is not always possible and a
good tonic becomes a necessity.
Peruna is a tonic that invigorates
Without producing a drug habit.
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Miss Pilar Monter de Praises Peruna as a Tonic*
A letter sent to the Peruna Drug Mfg. Co., from the popular Spanish dancer,
Miss Pilar Monterde, is as follows:
Heatro Principal, City of Mexico, Nov. 3, 1905. '
, Columbus, Ohio, U. S. A. /
led your justly celebrated remedy, “La Peruna,” ,
pleasure of informing you that I consider it the ',
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'tier of the nerves after exhaustion and it tn- ?
whole body, and In my own case has produced ,
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efore, to recommend this remedy to all women 1
ant tonic that they can possibly take,
urs very truly, (Miss) P. Monterde.
the music; for the lives and ser
vices of all our people should be
blended in the grand symphony
of tlie perfect state.
There are those who suppose
that the marvelous energy and
C’»nmon sense of our people are
a guarantee of success in the
battle of life; but common sense
and boundless energy, unless they
are wisely directed, can not hope
to win in these days of modern
achievement. In the strong com
petition of the twentieth century
our people must have knowledge
and skill or they will surely fail.
Then, let us realize that our best
resources are our children, and
that our highest duty is to edu
cate them for the greatest useful
tiou, For the world’s sake,
for the nation’s sake
for her own sake Geor
gia must not, can not, will
not fail to educate her boys and
girls! What shall it profit Geor
gia if she gain the whole world
and lose her own children? Or
what will Georgia give in ex
change for her children? I an
swer: All that Georgia hath will
she give for her children! —W
D. Duvall, in School and Home.
Rev. I. C. Williamson’s Letter.
Rev I. C. Williamson, Huntington,
W. Va., writes: “T M s is to certify
that I used Foley’s Kidney Remedy
for nervous exhaus un and kidney
trouble and am free to say that it will
do all that you claim for it.” Foley’s
Kidney Remedy has restored health
and strengf.th to thousands of weak,
run down people. Contains no harm
ful drugs and is pleasant to take. Sold
by all Druggists.
Mr. B. Mathis of Atlanta spent
Tuesday here with friends.
H. D. M ALLICOAT
Dealer in
Fresh and Cured Meats
Breakfast Bacon,Canvassed Hams, Skinned Hams
Nice Fresh Steaks, Roasts, Stews, Pork Chops
Sausage, Etc.
Soft Drink, Tobaccos, Cigars
; Peruna is not a beverage nor a bitters,
but an honest, straightforward tonic
that Increases the appetite and encour
ages digestion.
There is a great demand for tonics
during the depressing heat of summer,
and especially in countries where hot
weather is very prevalent.
Such a demand is exactly met by
Peruna.
Twelve Months Support
GEORGlA—Chattooga county.
Tcnnie Mclntosh having made
application for twelve months suj
port out of the estate of Thomas
Mclntosh and appraisers duly ap
pointed to set apart the same,
having filed their return, all per
sons concerned are hereby re
quired to show cause before the
court of ordinary of said county
on the first Monday in June,
1909, why said application should
not be granted.
This 3rd day of May, 1909.
J. P. JOHNSTON, Ordinary.
Discharge from Guardianship
GEORGlA—Chattooga county.
F. S. Lee, guardian of Fannie
T. Lee, has applied to me for a
discharge from his guardianship
of Fannie T. Lee. This is there
fore to notify all persons concern
ed to file their objections if any
they have on or before the first
Monday in June next, else he
will be discharged from his guar
dianship as applied for.
This May 3rd, 1909.
J. P. JOHNSTON, Ordinary.
Many weak, nervous women have
been restored to health by Foley’s
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kidneys so they will eliminate the
waste matter from the blood. Im
purities depress the nerves, causing
nervous exhaustion and other ailments.
Commence today and you will soon be
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Druggists.
All parties are warned not to
hire nor harbor Ben Starr, as he
is under contract to work for me
this year.—George Pendley.