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EDUCATION PLEASE.
Better Education for Georgia Movement
By RALPH L. RAMSEY, Director.
Actual Facts:
The G. E. A. convention in Atlanta on
March 23. 24 and 25 seemed to crystal
ize the thought of the school people of
the state along certain lines. Most of the
discussion heard during these three days
centered around the financial crisis which
is now facing the public school system.
The actual facts confronting the school
people of the state are these:
1. A state school law, passed in 1937,
provides for the support of a seven
months’ school term. This was based
upon carefully worked-out scale of sal
aries for teachers, beginning at S4O and
running up to SBO a month, based on
professional standing. As a result of this
law, a great many teachers have raised
their certificates during the past two
years and now, without question, the
state public school system is manned by
the most efficient and well-tarined body
of teachers in its history.
2. Notwithstanding this fact, we have
come to the school year 1938-39 with the
treasury diminished and with the teach
ers unpaid for at least half of the seven
month term. During the days when the
legislature was in session, the question
paramount in the minds of the people
was whether or not sufficient money
would be provided to keep the schools
open. Prior to the close of the session,
both houses passed a resolution pledging
that sufficient funds would be raised to
keep the schools open and pay the teach
ers in full. Acting on this pledge, school
superintendents and local boards were
advised not to close their schools, and in
some instance where schaols already had
closed they were reopened. Near the close
of the last week of the assembly it be
cam apparent that this pledge would not
be carried out and that the 1939 session
of the legislature would close with the
state owing the school teachers of Geor
gia a sum equal to $5,200,000. A survey
of the county school systems on March
16 indicated that of the 159 counties in
the state, at least 107 of them were fac
ing one of these three situations:
COUNTY SCHOOL STANDINGS.
1. The schools of certain systems had
closed, due to lack of funds, and also with
teachers’ salaries unpaid for from two
to three and one-half months, or
2. Schools of other counties were eith
er closing as of that date or would close
within the next week or ten days with
teachers’ salaries unpaid for from two
to three and one-half months, or
3. The schools were planning to run
on, either on the promise of the teachers
that they would teach without pay, or
that through public subscription or ar
rangements made by local authorities the
schools would continue to remain open
until the end of the term with the teach
ers on reduced pay.
It was such a situation as this that
faced the 5,000 or more teachers and
their superintendents when they came to
the convention. The suggestions as to the
remedy for the situation were multiplied ;
and almost as varied as they were mul
tiplied. Certainly, there was the feeling
on the part of everyone that if there was
any possible way that could be found to
keep the schools open we owed it to the
children of the state to do this.
TEACHERS BEAR THE BURDEN.
Attention was called to the fact that
this is not the first time the Georgia
schools have faced a crisis. This is not
the first time teachers have gone unpaid
for a period of months. This is not the
first time teachers have been called upon
to show their devotion and loyalty to
their profession and have been urged to
teach whether there was much prospect
of their being paid or not. Under such
conditions, there were many who felt i
that the time had come when those in
authority should take a very positive at
titude toward the needs in this immediate
situation. The question is asked, “How
much longer or how many more times
will the teachers of Georgia be called
upon to bear the burden and responsibil
ity of keeping schools open without pay?
How many more times in the future,
when the state fails to find the revenue
for the operation of schools will the'
teachers be reminded of their high call
ing and be urged through utter devotion
to this profession to carry on regardless
of whether or not their salaries are
paid?” One can not evade the question !
Where is the justice of such a situation?
May we not remind the people of this
state that the children of Georgia belong
to the people of Georgia? Teachers do
not need now’ any defense with reference
to devotion and loyalty to their profes
sion. They have proved this over and
over again.
LEGISLATOR AND TEACHER.
Bpt, listen! We have no record of any
other department of state government
asking the employes in that department
to go W’ithout their salaries. If there are
any who have gone over two weeks with- I
out a pay-day it has not been brought to
our attention. This is not so in the case
of the teachers. They have already gone,
thousands of them, for three and one-half I
months, without a pay-day. May we not
respectfully call your attention to the
fact that when a teacher is paid in full
the salary is a moderate sum. The third
highest-paid teacher in the state gets I
S7O a month, or $490 a year, for seven
months’ w’ork; a legislator comes to At
lanta to attend a session of the general
assembly and stays seventy dafs. For this
time the state pas him $7 a da. $4-0 for
the session, a sum exactly equal to what
the state promises to pay a teacher for
seven months. In addition to this, the
legislator yets mileaye from and to his
home, and when the session ends, draws
every dime of both mileaye and per diem.
Where is the justice, w’here is the fair
ness, when will the people of Georgia
wake up to the inconsistency of a teach
er teaching seven months for $490 and
being paid for only half of that and no
promise of the future. We respectfuly call
to the attention of members of the legis-
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THE largest colored photographic
montage ever attempted forms
the background of the exhibit of the
Canadian National Railways in the
Canada Building at the New York
World’s Fair. More than fifty feet
long and with an average height of
fourteen feet, the montage has a
photographic surface of approx
imately seven hundred square feet.
It is in full color—every piece of
color having been applied by hand—
and it features every transportation
agency in Canada from modern pas
senger planes and huge streamlined
locomotives to the tiny canoes that
are still used prospecting in the far
north of the Dominion. The mon
tage, which is a blending of one pic
ture into another in much the same
fashion as a movie fade-out, curves
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Canada will be displayed continu
ously on the latest type television
screen. s Considerable space in the
lature this awkward, odd. inconsistent,
unfair and unjust thing that they have
done to the teachers of this state.
WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
Therefore, there was some reason for
the teachers attending the G.E.A. con
vention to speak in terms of just and
fair play. There was some reason in set
ting up as a principle that schools should
be expected to run as long as there were
funds for their oferation and no longer.
When the question of closing schools was
brought up the reply was. “We can't
close the schools of Georgia.” It was
stated that if we began closing schools
we would run into all kinds of trouble.
May we not ask. if no one is aole to
close a school, then who is responsible
for opening a school? By whose authori
ty will schools be opened next fall? By
whose authority will teachers contract to
teach for a certain amount of money?
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i By whose authority is a teacher asked to
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term without pay she need not expect to
be elected next year?
We are asking questions, and would
like for somebody to answer.
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ROME. Ga.. April 3. —The Rome B.
I’. O. Elks. No. 694, is co-operating with
the Georgia Elks association and all
Elks lodges in the state of Georgia, by
having a dance on Saturday night, April
8. at the Rome Elks club ballroom. The
admission will be $1 per couple.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend this dance. All proceeds will go for
a fund to build a Georgia Elks home for
crippled children.
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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1939
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exhibit is given to the Dominion’s
new commercial air service, Trans-
Canada Air Lines. Part of this dis
play includes a model of a T C A
passenger plane. It is eight feet long
and has a wing spread of ten feet.
A sense of movement is imparted by
the whirling propellers which are
kept in motion by a tiny, model air-
plane engine, encased in a mefaj
housing inside the plane. The pho
tographs show Miss Phyllis Baker,
the artist, coloring one of the four
teen panels which comprise the
huge photographic montage; a work
man building the model plane and,
the Canada Building at the World’s
Fair. »
. TO CHATTOOGA BAPTISTS
Dr. James W. Merritt will be at the
First Baptist church, Summerville, on
the third Sunday in April at 2:30, to
present denominational matters of im
portance to our association.
The public is invited ; the churches are
urged to be represented, and all pastors
are expected. J. A. SMITH.
11. D. CLUB COUNCIL MEETS.
The council of the Home Demonstra
tion club met April 1 at the courthouse,
with several clubs represented.
Plans were made for the club garden
contest. Also plans were made for a dress
revue to be held in June and a picnic
for the clubs in July.
Rearrangement of the prizes given at
the fair was discussed.
At the close of the business meeting.
Miss Henry served refreshments.
SUMMERVILLE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
(J. G. Kirckhoff, Pastor.)
A Brief Easter Message.
Through Jesus’ resurrection our own is
assured. Death is not’a terminus; it is
a thoroughfare. Life does not finish in
endless night; it goes forward to bright
morning and endless day. What manner
of man ought I then to be? How shall I
plan my life? How shall I built? Boats
that are intended for small waters are
built one way, but boats that are intend
ed for the great ocean travel are built
another way.
Lives that are built for threescore
years and ten are designed one way, but
lives that are designed for eternity are
TAX RECEIVER’S
ROUNDS FOR 1939
I will be at the following places on dates and
days below for the purpose of receiving taxes for
1939. I will be at the office every day except days
mentioned above. I will be glad to stop any place on
my rounds if you will notify me:
TRION—
MARCH 6, MARCH 20, APRIL 3, APRIL 17
MENLO—
MARCH 7, MARCH 21
LYERLY—
MARCH 8, MARCH 22
HOLLAND-
MARCH 28 P. M.
COOK STORE-
MARCH 28 A. M.
DRY CREEK—
APRIL 19, NOON
DIRTSELLER: E. D. Harrison—
MARCH 30—10 A. M.
HAYWOOD—
APRIL 19—10 A. M.
SUBLIGNA: Self Store—
APRIL 12—10 A. M.
P. A. MORGAN STORE—
APRIL 12—1 P. M.
E. E. MARTIN STORE—
APRIL 14—10 A. M.
CHELSEA—
APRIL 14, NOON
On days I am on my rounds, will leave the office
at 9:30 a.m. and be back at 3:30 p.m.
DEMPO DALTON,
TAX RECEIVER
built another way.
Sunday Services:
Sunday school at 9 :45 a.m.; D. L.
McWhorter, superintendent.
Morning worship service at 11 o’clock.
Wayside Sunday school at 2 p.m.
Young People’s league at 6 :30 p.m.
Evening service at 7 :30 o’clock.
LYERLY H. D. CLUB.
The Lyerly Home Demonstration club
• met March 22 at the home of Mrs. D.
W. Copeland. Twenty-five women were
present, including nine new members.
Miss Henry gave a demonstration on
making various articles from sacks. Mrs.
J. W. Hollis had charge of the program.
Refreshments were served by Mrs. Cope
land.