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Education, Please!
"BETTER EDUCATION FOR GEOR
GIA MOVEMENT”
(By Ralph L. Ramsey, Director)
THE AGE OF SPECIALIZATION
One of the characteristics of our civ
ilization has been introduced into human
activity. In medicine, this has meant the
gradual vanishing of the “horse-and
buggy” doctor. In all fields, men have
concentrated on a few particular tasks,
and it has been found that more can be
learned in this fashion in spite of minor
weaknesses in the method. It is well to
rhapsodize over the old-fashioned doctor,
but both types of physicians are needed.
Too, the old-fashioned doctor learned by
experience. It’s a fine way to make a
doctor and an even better way to dispose
of the patient. The medical profession
early realized these dangers. With its
present high standards, and by giving
super-training along certain lines, we
have sewed hearts, grafted parts of the
eyes, lifted faces, re-built legs, ad infini
tum. But the eye expert isn’t a face-lift
er. The heart specialist doesn't speak
with authority on the subject of cripples.
We give weight to a person's ideas only
when he is an expert in his own field.
Heywood Broun, the widely syndicat
ed columnist, writes a great deal. He can
be forgiven for an occasional lapse, but
this past week he forsook his usual at
tack on problems national and interna
tional and talked about personality. His
contention was that a person is born with
whatever personality he is going to have
the rest of his life and that there's noth
ing that he can do about it. This state
ment is absolutely untrue, and because
all the findings of education have shown
otherwise, it would be wrong to allow
such a statement to stand.
The truth is that personality changes
from year to year and from day to day.
It is changed by sickness or regained
health, by tragedy or joy, engendered fear
and understanding courage, by religion
and irreligion. by success or failure, and
by lack of knowlede or education. It is
evident that Mr. Broun, living in New
York where the only growing things are
in zoos and where his only friends are
old and settled, has had little opportuni
ty to make a Study of the human per
sonality.
Propaganda or Human Errors.
Several weeks ago we devoted a col
umn to analyzing proaganda. In the bad
connotation of the word, we think of this
as deliberate distortion of the truth. In
the above instance, we do not have prop
aganda. yet it is often more deadly in its
effect. We refer to the danger of men in
high positions who speak with so-called
authority on subjects outside of their
own fields. When an authority in elec
tricity. such as Thomas A. Edison, makes
a prediction in the field of politics, he is
no more likely to be right than the read
er of this column. Ford’s opinion in the
world of business is fine. In the field of
art. literature, or religion it may be in
teresting. but can not he weighty. Hey
wood Broun in the field of journalism is
an expert. When it comes to the psychol
ogy of personality, he is talking out of
turn.
A Lesson In Thinking.
The man who is trying to educate him
self must be on guard against the false
ideas presented by well-meaning men, such
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•* destined for television, was done for the first
time when Olsen and Johnson, stars of the famous
Broadway hit, ‘‘Hellzapoppin’,” casted for their forth
co; ting show, "Streets of Paris,” at the Philco tele
vision studios in Philadelphia.
In the upper illustration Ole Olsen, comedian ,and
l>u er. is pointing out some of the pleasing quali
-3i j i.ons of the candidates, while Chic Johnson, his
as previously mentioned. In other words,
we must listen to the men “who know
what they’re talking about.'' The farmer
knows more about farm problems than
the business man. The business man
knows more about the running of a store
than a doctor. The doctor knows more
about the human body than the preacher.
The preacher knows more about the re
ligious life of an individual than the
teacher. The teacher knows more about
school problems and child-training than
the banker. Let us get all our informa
tion from genuine authorities, or not at
all. It is better to be a comparatively
ignorant man and act on what you know
to be true than to pay too much atten
tion to “big men” when they talk about
things with which they have had no ex
perience.
Specialists and Government.
That brings us back to the ever-grow
ing problem of local and state govern
ment. Is any store-keeper a fit person to
run for the office of sheriff? Is any law
yer the best person to run for governor
or senator. Should a farmer, be he ever
so prosperous and intelligent, run for the
office of ordinary. Should a person be
placed in a welfare position merely be
cause he is out of a job? The obvious an
swer is ’No” with a capital ‘N.. Although
the answer is NO. there seems to be lit
tle that the voter can do about this sit
uation in Georgia. Ofir crying need is for
a system by which only those that are
trained for any given governmental po
sition would be qualified to hold offices
which need specialized training. If such
a system can not be found, we should
then develop a method of training such
public servants after their election to of
fice. In the ideal state, a conscientious
citizen would not offer - himself for office
unless he were trained to do the partic
ular job. This puts the emphasis on
youth. They must work for this needed
social change, because those already in
office will not readily submit to change.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1939
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Georgia's magnificently conceived but
too theoretically planned ’Program’ has
run head-on into a prosaic but intensely
realistic obstacle- —an unbalanced budget.
Disaster is ineluctable whenever idealis
tic concepts have an inadequate admix
ture of practicability, and grave conse
quinces. verging upon disaster, have over
taken vital services of the state to its
citizens because of our inadequate and
inept planning.
The burden on the public is identical,
whether the cost is borne in taxation, in
private contribution or in interruption
of services. The budget of the common
schools, for example, has been unbalanc
ed because Georgia went into moral
bankruptcy on its appropriation to pay
teachers' salaries. But the budget was
balanced realistically enough; the teach
ers paid the state deficit by serving with
out salary, or the children, in other in
stances, paid it by losing a part of their
school term, or the merchants and board
ing house keepers paid it because the
teachers could not meet their obligations
when the state refused to meet its pay
roll.
Some thousands of insane are being
sent lack to their home from the state
sanitarium, because money is not avail
able to provide for their upkeep. In in
stances they will become charges upon
i relatives or friends. In other cases they
will receive assistance from the counties.
In many cases they will be lodged in jail.
In any event, somebody will pay the bill,
and because of the human equation in
volved, it will be a bigger bill than other
wise.
The old-age pensioners, the dependent
children, the blind and the crippled, who
were promised so much when Georgia
created its department of public welfare,
are being left to shift for themselves.
Our highway system, upon which Geor
gia has expanded an immense sum in the
past twenty years, is faced with deterio
ration because departmental funds are
being tied up in the general fiscal crisis.
One class of our citizens profit, hut
these are not human citizens. The ma
larial mosquito, creeping out of his
swampy hiding places, rejoices that our
unbalanced budg el t has effectually
strangled health work in Georgia.
Perhaps the word ’Program' has been
overworked. Ambitious politicians are
beginning to wish they had never em
ployed it. To the public, at last, there is
a new fascination in the word Budget
and its alliterative adjective ‘Balanced.’
Georgia's next slogan must be ’Balance
the Budget.’
A real parable lies in that word ’Bal
ance.’ One of its meanings is compromise.
’Balance Georgia’s Budget’ can become
a reality when we compromise between
the groups that believe that the state has
only rudimentary functions of service to
its citizens, and the groups that believe
that the state must carry out vague ideal
istic objectives regardless of the cost to
the taxpayors. There is a middle ground
between these extremes, and the thought
ful and patriotic citizens of Georgia must
find it and make it a meeting place.
Unquestionably the time has passed
when Georgians will agree to any more
‘temporary measures.’ designed not to
correct the real evils of inadequate state
partner, operates the electrically-controlled television
camera. ■<
Lower right shows Johnson burlesquing a love
scene over television with Olsen performing at the
television camera.
In the lower left photo, Olsen and Johnson (seated)
are casting their show from the images on the
television receiver, while Sayre M. Ramsdell, vice
president, Philco Radio & Television Corp., offers
advice on television requirements.
financing but intended to give politicians
a means of escaping their responsibilities.
There is a definite insistence on the part
of citizens of the state that the budget
balancing l>e something more than mere
expediency, be somewhat wiser than the
mere imposition of some emergency tax
with the shadow of another emergency
tax just around the corner of the next
campaign.
It is obvious now that the general as
sembly of Georgia will convene in emer-
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gency session later this summer. They
will have before them the report of the
house economy committee, which should
give them some idea as to what can be
saved in each department. They will have
before them the cost-sheet of .two full
years of operation under the legislation
hat. created the new service agencies of
the state.
From those figures they can evolve a
system of state finance and of improved
and economical administration that can
save Georgia from a chronic repetition
of these crises.
They will pass such legislation —if the
citizens of Georgia make it clear to their
representatives that they want the prob
lem solved on a long-range and intelligent
basis.
Don’t Forget June 30.
ATLANTA, June 6 (GPS).—Have you
got. your 1939-40 driver’s license yet?
Well, don’t forget June 30 is the last
day for renewing your present one.
Some 100.000 drivers’ licenses already
have been mailed to Georgia motorists.
More than 700,000 application blanks
have been distributed in central locations
throughout the state. They are available
at one central location in every com
munity, at. service stations, enforcement
agency offices and at all state patrol ’
headquarters. Fee: -1 for one year or ?2
for two; twice the previous cost.
DEBT AND DEFICIT.
On May 24, the public debt of the
United States was .$40,240,436,509. On
the same day, receipts for the fiscal year
stood at $.5,006,000,000. as compared
with $5,430,000,000 for the correspond
ing period a year previous. Expenditures
totaled $8,175,000,000 as compared with
$6,671,000,000 last year. The deficit,
with a little more than a month to run,
was $3,169,000,000.
During the last six months of 1938.
when scheduled domestic air lines flew
76,645,712 passenger miles, to a passen
ger fatality, only four passengers met
their death in fatal accidents on domestic
lines.
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INCOME.
Income payments to individuals in the
first four months of 1939, were at the
annual rate of $65,600,000,000 or 2 per
cent, better than the corresponding peri
od of last. year. For the first four months,
the figure amounted to $21,561,000,000.
It includes wages, salaries, dividends
interest, entrepreneurial income and re
lief payments.
LIQUOR TAXES.
Federal, state and municipal taxes on
the alcoholic beverage industry in 1938
totaled $947,277,086, according to the
Distilled Spirits Institute, Inc.
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Attorney-at-*Law
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