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The SnmmerYille News Published Every Thursday. BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. O. J. Espy, Editor and Manager Tf.hms or Subscription: One Year SI.OO Six Montha 50c Three Montha 25c Advertising Rates will be Made K nown ob Application. Entered at the Summerville Post Office aa Second Clave Mall Matter. 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. Tutt's Pi Ils This popular remedy never fails to effectually cure Dyspepsia, Constipation, Sick Headache, Biliousness And ALL DISEASES arising from a Torpid Liver and Bad Digestion The natural result is good appetite and solid flesh. Dose small; elegant ly augarcoated and easy to sw allow Take too Substitute. For biliousness. beadache, dyspepsM ska IM. T bather * Uver and Blood Syrup 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 TEETHING Intakes baby nervous and fretful, I and stops gain in weight. I is the best food-medicine for teeth- ■ ing babies. It strengthens the ■ nerves, supplies lime for the teeth. ■ 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. 1 X > ‘ X - i- 1 It I . fWlw.. ■■■■•• yd 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 ', '. ? 'tier of the nerves after exhaustion and it tn- ? whole body, and In my own case has produced , rmanent restoration. It Is also pleasant to the ' 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. 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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 Kidney Remedy as it stimulates the 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 well. Pleasant to take. Sold by all 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.