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PAGE 2. THE FUTURE CITIZEN. The Future Citizen A PAPER WITH A PURPOSE/' Printed by Th« reformatory Boy* Doing the Beet They Can. Published Promptly as Often ss Possible An echo of the State’s effort to give every boy a chance in life. Published Every Saturday Afternoon. GEORGIA STATE REFORMATORY JOSEPH E. LOVVORN Superintendent. Entered at the Milledgeville, Georgia, Post Office as Mail Matter of the Second Class. SUBSCRIPTION: $1.00 IN ADVANCE HARRY J. WALLACE—-Foreman JOHN D. INGRAM Compositor MARCUS E. CROW Compositor CECIL A. DUTTON Apprentice Saturday, March 25, 1916. THE EARTH. We think of our globe as a very solid affair and it would make many shudder il they realized the fact that what we call the «o!id earth is merely a very thin crust floating on a sea of molten rocks and metals vastly hotter than any fiery furnace. That the earth’s crust does in fact behave is exactly as scum would have to behave is deducted by an Austrian scientist named Wege ner. Each continent floats about as a cake of ice floats in the water. Anything that makes it heavier immerses it deeper. For instance, he figures that a deposit of ice only eight feet thick would make a section of land sink as much as three feet. That sinkings and ris ings and lateral diplacements are actually taking place he undertakes to p r ove by sientific figures. He cites the reputed fact that measure ments of the ocean cables show that the continent of North America is about 300 feet further from Europe now than it was 25 years ago. Probably such figures would need confirmation before being fully ac cepted, but there is every warrant for the conception that the earth we live on is more like a sheet of c QUESTION BOX J Answers to last week's questions. (1) Has the government quit making silver dollars? If so, why? (1) The making of silver dollars has been temporarily suspended because the public prefers paper money on account of its being lighter in weight and more con veniently handled. In times of panic gold and silver money is in greater demand than paper money, and Ungle Sam has a great supply of metallic money in reserve for such ocasiotis. Indeed every dollar in silver certificates must have a dollar in silver deposited in 1 he treasury to give it value. Some of this silver is in the form of coins and some of it is in bullion, ready to be coined. The government prefers to keep its silver in the form of bullion because it is more easily kept and stored, and because it saves the expense of coining. BE TRUE. Men have ever loved the man with the clear eye and the straight tongue, the man whe never hedged and never equivocated, who never fawned or flattered, and who never could be taught to lie. Amid the unstable crowd, such a man is con spicuous by his unswerving loyalty to his ideals, and this steadiness o f his onward course resembles that of the planets, Such a man some times fails in finesse, he sometimes fails to hold his friends, and he sometimes gains a crown of thorns and possibly a cross ; bur the crown cannot dishonor and the cross can not terrify him. When God made man he put iron into him, and this man but reveals to others what God (Continued on page 7, Column 3) said to “wax. ” (3) Which is considered the higher course in a college, the normal or the academic? (2) What causes the phases of the moon? (2) The moon turns once on its axis while going once around the earth. The lunar day is therefore equal to 29^ of our days and the same side of the moon is always turned toward the earth. As it revolves about the earth it exhibits “phases,” which depend on the extent of the illuminated portions that observers on the earth are able to see. Full moon occurs when the moon is exactly opposite the sun with the earth between ; last quar ter occurs when one-half of the illuminated surface, that is, one quarter of the moon’s surface, is seen; new moon occurs* when the moon is between the earth and the sun and first quarter occurs when only one-half of the illuminated portion is again visible. From full moon to new moon, the moon decreases in size and is said to “wane”; during the other half of its course it increases in size and is ice floating in water than it is like a solid body, and that the earth’s crust is very much thinner in com parison than the skin of an apple. (3) A normal course is under stood to be a standard or model course designed to prepare teachers for their work. An academic coure is one offering work in classical, literary or general fields as dis tinguished lrom technical or pro fessional. Usually the latter re quires more time for completion, is broader in its scope and leads to a higher degree. Obviously the re lative value and importance of the two courses will depend on the courses themselves as out lined by the authorities of the colleges offer ing them, on the rank of the col leges, etc. A normal course in one college may therefore be much “higher” and much more valuable than an academic course itl another, and vice versa. QUESTIONS FOR NEXT WEEK. (1) What restrictions were con tained in the early laws of Georgia, and what was the effect? (2) What forms of government existed in the colonies prior to the Revolution ? (3) Where and when was the first printing press in America? —The Pathfinder. The first permanent newspaper? ?W Is The Time For All Good Men to Come to The Aid of The Future Citizen—A Hint, Etc