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The problems that confront the state
of Georgia at the present time can not
be solved in a day. Nor are they solvable
through ordinary partisan political meth
ods. To effect a solution, it will be nec
essary that Georgians of every section,
class and shade of political philosophy
co-operate. Manifestly the crisis is more
serious than a temporary suspension of
schools or pension payments, unfortun
ate as such a suspension would be for the
welfare of our people and the reputation
of our state.
It is essential that there be a reorgan
ization of our state government to elim
inate waste and inefficiency. It appears
to be the sentiment of the people, no less
than of the present assembly, that such
reforms must precede any stabilization of
the finances of the state and any enact
ment of new revenue measures to finance
the ‘Program.’
Gov. Rivers has indicated a willingness
to accept the counsel of business men of
the state, and ,pursuant to a resolution
of the state senate, the Georgia Bankers’
association will provide experts to survey
departments in the interest of providing
more efficient and less expensive service.
To this committee the task will be diffi
cult. It is assumed that they will work
within the scope of existing departments,
and that their suggestions will entail only
proposals that can be carried out with
out major changes in policy.
This being so, the natural field of
their investigations and reommendations
must fall somewhat as follows: (1) Rec
ommendations for improving the effici
ency of the revenue department, which,
despite reorganization last year, is still
below the level of maximum efficiency ;
(2) a study of salary scales in the vari
ous departments, to the end that these
be stabilized; it does not make for effi
ciency for the salary of a clerk in one
department, adequately financed, to be
twice that of a clerk performing almost
identical functions in a less favored de
partment; (3) a study of duplication of
effort between departments, so that such
duplications can be eliminated; (4) a
study of the practical effects of existing
administrative methods in enforcing the
seven-month school term; it appears now
that the department of education has in
sufficient authority to see that funds go
for teachers’ salaries; (5) a close scrut
iny of existing purchasing methods, to
determine whether the reform bill passed
by the assembly at this past session will
remedy the situation.
Undoubtedly, the assembly must hold
a special session. The subjects that they
consider fall in the division of long
range plan making and reform of exist
ing agencies. How broad and how far
reaching some of the reforms should be
must be determined by the reports of the
bankers committee and the house econo
my committee. But certain reforms are
essential: (1) complete reorganization of
the budget commission ; (2) establishment
of a revenue policy, so that funds will
be sufficient to meet appropriations: (3)
provision for fiscal aid to the counties;
(4) reorganization of departments where
legislation will be required to eliminate
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duplication of effort and inefficiency;
(5) establishment of a state policy of
adequate assistance to the farmers of
Georgia in marketing their crops.
Important as these reforms appear, and
essential as it is to stabilize state fi
nances at this special session by the en
actment of propei- tax laws, the prob
lem does not stop at that point. There
are many secondary phases, such as the
reorganization of the department of law.
the expansion of the authority of the de
partment of audits, the provision for sep
arate appropriations for old-age assist
ance and aid to dependent children, so
that the children will get a share of the
benefits, and the formulation of a defi
nite and progressive policy upon home
stead exemption. All this the assembly
can accomplish in the session.
That will leave for consideration later
two vital problems, and the solons would
do well to create some authority to study
these and report to the 1941 assembly
upon them : provision for eliminating the
vicious ‘allocation’ system; provisions for
reorganizing the penal system of the
state, including a consideration of the
possible advantages of an expanded pa
role system and modifications of some
existing penal statutes.
This constitutes a broad program of
endeavor, and will necessitate hard work
by the members of the legislature and,
probably, a rather long special session,
but the results of such progressive legis
lation would be reflected in the rapid so
cial and economic progress of our state.
IN MEMORY OF MRS. JOSIE
BURGESS. *
Two months have passed, dear one.
Since God calleed you Home
To be with Him and the angels
Around the snow white throne.
No one knows of the sadness.
Only those who have lost can tell
Os the grief that is come in silence
For the one we loved so well.
Seems so sad and lonely,
As the long hours pass away ;
But we long to meet you. dear one,
Up in Heaven some sweet day.
All is dark in our home,
Lonely are our hearts today.
For the one we loved so dearly
Has forever passed qway.
She is gone but not forgotten.
Never will her memory fade;
Sweetest thoughts will ever linger
’Round the grave where she is laid
We loved you ; yes, we loved you,
But Jesus loved you more,
And He has sweetly called you
To yonder shining shore.
The golden gates were open,
A gentle voice said, Come,
Ami with farewell's unspoken,
You calmly entered Home.
Written by her neice.
MRS. DORA LAWSON.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1939
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LESSON
PAUL PLANTS THE GOSPEL IN
NEW FIELDS.
International Sunday School Lesson for
April 16. 1930.
GOLDEN TENT: “As a wise
masterbuilder I laid a foundation:
and another buildeth thereon” —I
Cor. iii :10.
(Lesson Text: Acts 14:1-7; 19-23.)
Last week we saw how they left Anti
och of Pisidia as a result of the hostility
fostered by the Jews. The missionaries
proceeded to Iconium, where the gospel
message was first given in the local sy
nagogue and both Jews and Greeks ac
cepted. After a long stay, the opposition
became more violent, whereupon the
party moved on to Lystra.
At Lystra, where there seems to have
been no synagogue, Paul was attracted
by a life-time cripple in the audience be
fore him. This man’s spirit had been
touched and his strong faith became ap
parent to Paul, who. in a loud voice,
called upon him to walk. The miracle
was the result of two strong souls meet
ing—one with faith and the other with
vision to recognize the trust and accep
tance in the other. Naturally, the miracle
created considerable comment. .
The natives of Lystra had been brought
up in the superstitious semi-religion of
their day and locality. Their worship
was directed towards placating a varied
host of deities, familiar to most of us
who have read the mythological stories
of the ancients. One of these relate how
Juniter (Zeus) and Mercury (Hermes)
in the guise of mortals visited this very
section. Consequently, confronted by the
miraculous cure of the cripple, the pa
gan crowd promply assured a repetition
of the story, seeing in Barnabas and Paul
the divine pair who had fooled many of
their ancestors.
The inhabitants of Lystra, led by the
priest of Jupiter, promptly attempted to
render to the supposed gods the custo
mary ritualistic worship. Oxen and gar
lands were brought up for the proper
sacrifices to the deities. Sacrifice was not
a strange rite to Jews, either, be it re
membered. hut Paul and Barnabas were
horrified at the prospect of their assump
tion of divine honors. They quickly ex
plained their mortal kinship with those
who would defy them and used the oc
casion to preach about Jesus.
Shortly afterward, there came to Lys
tra the unbelieving Jews from the cities
previously visited, and their bigotry and
intolerance soon fanned their victims into
crusading zeal. The mob which wanted
to worship the missionarieis as gods were
soon turned to critics and foes, and at
tacked the missionary apostles. Paul
seems to have received the most severe
punishment, for he was stoned and left
upon the earth as dead. However, he re
vived, but the next day the missionary
party- went to Derbe.
The stay at Derbe was without out
standing events apparently, and after a
ministry there Paul resisted the tempta
tion to visit he home folks at nearby
Tarsus so that he and Barnabas might
return to Antioch by the various contin
ental cities already- visited. This they
did. building up and cementing the new
body- of believers. Both to the home
church in Antioch (of Syria) Paul and
Barnabas returned and their splendid re
port of the Gospel being preached to the
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Gentiles was made.
A year’s time had been occupied in this
first great missionary journey, and four
een hundred miles had been covered.
Paul had definitely assumed his role as
missionary to the Gentiles, having frank
ly declared to the Jews in Pisdian Anti
ch that it was necessary to speak the
word to them but since they rejected it,
“10, we turn to the Gentiles.” The fact
that Christian missionaries brought the
Christian religion to our European an
cestors and that our nation is today
Christian can be traced directly back to
the beginning of this missionary- enter
prise in the ancient Syrian city of Anti
och. To Paul, more than any- other man,
the spread of the new faith was due.
There are pagan faiths yet alive to
day. but as Robert E. Speer points out:
■'Mohammedanism is spreading in Africa
aid India, but it makes no effort of any
significance to convert America or Eu
rope or Japan. The bounds of Confucian
ism are contracting. Shintoism has with
drawn from the lists as a religion, and
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claims now only the place of a court
ceremonial and a burial rite. Zoroastrian
ism. one of the worthiest of the ancient
religions, has almost vanished in the land
of its origin, and numbers comparatively
few adherents in India. Hinduism is geo
graphically limited, save as a philosophy,
by its principle of caste, and Buddhism
is rejected in Japan by the very men who
might succeed in propagating it else
where.”
On the other hand, Speer declares,
“Christianity is moving out all over the
earth with steadily increasing power,
with ever-multiplying agencus, with ever
enlarging devotion, and with open and
undiscourageable purpose to conquer the
world.”
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