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GOVERNOR SLATON
ISSUES STATEMENT
STATE SHOULD NOT ONLY TEACH
HONESTY, BUT SET EXAMPLE,
SAYS GOVERNOR.
HE AGREES WITH HART
Says Character of Children Must Be
Put Above the Attainment of
Knowledge.
—Atlanta.
That honesty is the first lesson
which a state should teach her chil
dren and that she canont teach this
lesson successfully without first ob
serving it herself, is the text of a state
ment which Gov. John M. Slaton has
given out.
The text of the statement is as fol
lows:
"Judge John C. Hart, former attor
ney general, was a member of the
state board of education. When the
choice of text books came before that
body. Judge Hart said that he had
only one suggestion to make as to
the books, which was that ‘the children
"Thou shalt no lie;” thee hildren in
-"Thou shalt not lie;” thee hildren in
the second year should be taught
"Thou shalt not steal;” in the third
year they should be required to re
view the lessons of the two preceding
years.'
“Liberally interpreted this means
that the character of the children was
to be put above the attainment of
knowledge.
"I agree with the spirit of this state
ment of the distinguished ex-attorney
general in that the primary responsi
bility is upon the state to set an ex
ample to its citizens of faithful ful
fillment of obligation and compliance
with its contracts. It would be bet
ter for the children of Georgia to
learn this lesson and be ignorant,
rather than to learn all of the con
tents of the books without it.
“It is incredible that the legisla
ture will instruct the governor to sign
warrants for money which has not
been provided.
“When Georgia comes to sell her
bonds she must, like every business
man, make a statement, and it will
not appear well if she admits that
she has appropriated in excess of her
revenue and is continuing to do so,
and that she has declined to make
provision for meeting her obligations.
“The appropriate legislative commit
tee have favorably reported bills for
an inheritance tax, for an increased
occupation tax of corporations and
for the equalization of taxes, both on
visible property and on Invisible prop
erty in the shape of bonds, notes and
accounts.
“Those who fear that tax reform
will augment their tax burdens should
bear in mind that it will augment
those only of the people who are bear
ing less than their share, and will in
' evitably tend to lighten the burdens
of those —who constitute the bulk of
our citizenship—who have been deal
ing fairly with the state.
"The reform will aim first at plac
ing on the tax books the large amount
of property not returned. The bulk
of such property comes within the
classification known as invisible.
"There may be excuse for the citizen
who pays taxes on his realty at a too
low valuation; in his favor it can be
said that the property in question
bears some of the burden. There is
no excuse for the citizen who refuses
to return property of an invisible na
ture, which enjoys, as much as does
farm lands and city lots, the protec
tion of government; in his case the
property bears nope of the burden.
“The people of Georgia are essential
ly a good people, who favor the limit
of expenditures to income, and where
they desire money to be expended
they are willing to pay it —each citi
zen assuming his proportionate bur
den.
“The legislators are good men repre
senting Georgia constituency and they
will meet the responsibility in away
that will especially renew confidence
in the virtue and efficiency of repre
sentative government.
"They, I am sure, Will set a stand
ard of moral rectitude tor the state,
and will be liberal in making ap
propriations as strict adherence to that
standard will permit.
“JOHN M. SLATON, Governor.”
No “Dies Non” for Him.
“I ain’t no Latin scholar, and I don’t
know what you mean by a dies non,
but if it means we don’t git no pay fer
that day, I'm agin it!” So went on
record one frank South Georgia mem
ber of the legislature when the ques
tion came UP of what to do about the
day the legislators spent in Augusta.
That most of the members agree with
him in sentiment if not in grammar
seems evidenced by the fact that the
legislature has not declared a dies
non in a number of years past. Some
times the dies non has been declared
■early in the session.
Education in Georgia.
Official figures from the report of
the United States commissioner of ed
ucation, dealing with educational con
ditions in Georgia were made public
showing the enrollment for the year
ending in 1912 of all the colleges and
higher educational institutions attend
ed by young men and women in this
state. The report shows that this
spring there were enrolled in the 12
principal institutions of this character
in Georgia 4,150 students, divided as
follows
University of Georgia 654
Georgia School of Technology... .689
Brenau College 454
Andrew Female College 143
Agnes Scott College 184
Bessie Tift College ; . 358
LaGrange College 194
Southern Female College ...112
Mercer University 358
Wesleyan College 445
Emory College 259
Shorter College 300
As a university, the University of
Georgia had the largest attendance and
among girls' colleges Brenau stood eas
ily first. Further figures, giving sim
ilar statistics for Virginia, Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, North
Carolina and South Carolina and oth
er Southern states, show that Brenau
gives Georgia the lead in the. entire
South for attendance on women's col
leges.
Slaton Addresses Editors.
The address of Gov. John M. Slaton
to the Weekly Press Association, de
claring that the honor and honesty
of the state were involved in its fail
ure to pay the school teachers, has
proven to be seed sown in fertile
ground.
From “Tybee to Rabun Gap," as the
saying goes, such a demand has gone
up from the sanctums of Georgia’s
country newspaper editors as has
never been heard before, demanding
that before it adjourn the legislature
make provision to pay the school
teachers without further delay and to
pay them when their pay falls due'in
the future.
Seldom is such a’ unanimity of
sentiment aroused on any subject in
Georgia. Leading weeklies and semi
weeklies have called upon the repre
sentatives of their counties in the leg
islature to work for some remedy.
"Whatever else you do, pay the teach
ers,” is the burden of their demand.
In his speech. Governor Slaton said
to the weekly editors, “To you do
I appeal, more powerful by far than
the warriors of ancient days, to lend
your aid."
A glance over the editorial columns
of the Georgia papers shows how mag
nificently they have responded.
Methods Are to Blame.
The middle men and methods of
marketing crops are to blame for the
small profits made by farmers on such
crops as watermelons, is declared by
B. F Yoakum in an interesting dis
cussion of the subject in its relation
to Georgia and other melon-growing
states. Mr Yoakum says that It costs
seven billions of dollars to distribute
six billions of dollars' worth of farm
products every year, but he declares
that the railroads and carriers are
not to blame. The railroads and the
farmers get less out of it than anybody
else, Mr. Yoakum declares. He noted
instances to show that the farmer who
thinks he is being "robbed by the rail
roads” has simply failed to analyze
the situation.
The thing that puts the terrible
the melon and the man who eats it is
not the small freight charges, but the
Immense profit the middle men make.
Remarkable Administration.
With less than two weeks remain
ing before the close of the present
session of the legislature, it begins
to appear that the opening of the
Slaton administration will be remark
able most of all for the intelligent and
careful way in which the general ap
propriations bill has been handled.
At every point, so far as was hu
manly possible the appropriations
have been made with a direct relation
to the amount of money which they
state can count on to meet them.
This is the first time in many years
that the appropriations have been so
handled. Usually it is a question of
every interest getting the biggest ap
propriation it can squeeze out of the
legislature and then trusting to luck
to meet the big total sum.
Bit by Pet Rabbit.
Miss Reta Bieck, a beautiful Atlanta
society girl, was attacked and severe
ly bitten by a molly-cotton-tail rabbit,
while playing with the little bunny
on the lawn of her Peachtree home
a day or two ago.
The rabbit had been given her the
day before by a friend for a pet. It
was one of the common -white variety
with pink eyes, as pretty and harm
less looking a little creature as ever
hopped from one blade of grass to
another on a flower-decked lawn.
On the afternoon in question Miss
Bieck stooped to pick up the rabbit,
which was playing at her feet. No
sooner had she taken it in her arms
than it sanks its teeth in her wrist
and began to claw and scratch vi
ciously with its hind legs. She scream
ed and attempted to shake it loose,
but before she could succeed it had
lacerated her arm severely.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
PROCEEDINGS OF
THE LEGISLATURE
VITAL STATISTICS BILL
CONSIDERED.
A measure which has received the
indorsement of the Atlanta chamber of
commerce as well as the state medi
cal association, that will come up for
final action before the committee on
hygiene and sanitation of the house,
is the vital statistics bill of Represen
tative Allen of Jackson.
Some opposition has developed to
the bill in the committee chiefly be
cause there is a difference of opinion
as to whether the appointment of the
state statistician should be with the
governor or with the state board of
health.
Representative Ellis of Tift at the
hearing protested that the main pur
pose of the measure was to give one
man a job. This was of course stren
uously denied by the advocates of the
bill.
. FOR FINAL ACTION.
The house bill to establish a home
for wayward girls in Georgia is sched
uled to come up for final action. It
is now in the hands of a special sub
committee appointed by the appropri
ations committee to ascertain the
minimum amount of money necessary
to establish and maintain such an In
stitution.
This committee is composed of Rep
resentatives William H. Griffin of
Lowndes, A. B. Greene of Houston and
S. E. Berry of Whitfield. These gentle
men are engaged now in correlating
the necessary facts which they will
report to the general appropriations
committee on Tuesday.
SCHOOL BILL ENDORSED.
Senator Perry’s bill providing that
public school teachers be paid month
ly, next to the eleemosynary institu
tions and the state house officers, has
been indorsed by the senate appropri
ations committee. The bill provides
no special fund for the teachers, but
it puts them on the same basis as the
faculties of the University of Georgia,
Georgia Tech and the Normal .and in
dustrial School. Senator Tyson intro
| diiced a bill authorizing county school
board to borrow sufficient funds to
: maintain their schools.
MANY BILLS DISCUSSED.
Automobilists are going to be called
on to pay part of the increased school
appropriations, if measures now pend
lug In both branches of the assembly
are passed. There is one special bill
creating a special tax that would be
used for improving roads, but there
are several other measures slightly
increasing the present taxation on
automobiles by the action of which
the extra money would go into the
general treasury.
One of the propositions that Is be
ing most discussed is to raise the
licenes tax from $2 to $5 and make it
good not for permanent ownership
but for one year only. There is
another bill that would increase the
tax to $3 instead of $5. Even though
the house and senate both pass fa
vorably on the recommendation that
the governor be empowered to borrow
$500,000 to pay the school teachers,
the question is only put off, and
some means will have to be devised
either by this or by the succeeding
.egislature by which the money can
be raised regularly and in time to
meet the payments.
A thing that has cut off one pos
sible new source of revenue is the ac
tion of the committees in killing all
bills favoring a special tax on soft
drinks.
BARROW COUNTY DEFEATED.
With the defeat of the Barorw coun
ty proposition in the senate, most of
the new county advocates abandoned
the fight for the yea?. They took their
defeat in good nature for the most
part and will return to renew the fight
next year, when they hope to meet
with better luck.
Everybody admired the game fight
that was put up by the Barrow coun
ty people. Several senators who vot
ed against the bill said that it pained
them to do so as their sentiments were
strong for the little county which had
put up such a fight under such odds
for so long a time.
Several of the senators have said
that one of the main reasons for their
negative vote was that they disapprov
ed of the new county fights being pre
cipitated at this session of the general
assembly when so many measures of
general interests were pending.
Now the legislature will get down to
hard work and the remainder of the
sesion ought to be fruitful in meas
ures that will redound to the good of
the state-at-large. The house com
mittee on constitutional amendments
has completed all the new county
hearings that w'ere set, but one, and
it is doubtful whether the senate com
mittee will be asked to give any more
hearings this year.
EXPERIMENT STATION MAY BE
MOVED.
The talk and gossip of several years
of moving the state experiment sta
tion to the university at Athens took
definite form for the first time when
a measure in the house by Messrs.
Booker and Greene of Wilkes county.
This measure provides for the abol
ishment of the Georgia experiment sta
tion in Spalding county and establish
ment of an agricultural experiment
station at the state college of agri
culture and mechanics at Athens.
The plan to take the experiment sta
tion to Athens will make it an Integral
part of the agricultural and mechani
cal college, but at the same time the
experiment station is not to lose its
identity. It is to carry on the same
work under the new plan as under the
present, only working in closer co
operation with the officers and stu
dents of the agricultural and mechani
cal college, and using as far as prac
ticable the latter institution’s labora
tories and lands.
The bill calls for no appropriation
from the state, but provides that the
federal appropriation of $30,000 shall
be transferred with the station.
GRADE CROSSING BILL.
The house committee on railroads
has about finished shaping up the
grade crossing bill to be reported this
year. The subcommittee has decided
to report a substitute for the Cheney
bill, which in most respects follows
the original bill.
The measures empowers the rail
road commission to order grade cross
ings to be modified or abolished where
it feels that the public safety is en
dangered thereby. The commission is
also authorized to prorate the expense
among the counties through which
the aailroad passes and the railroads.
Another feature provides that coun
ty authorities co-operate with the
railroads in laying out public roads
so as to make crossings only where
necessary.
BACON CANNOT COME.
Senator A. O. Bacon will not be able
to accept the invitation of the Geor
gia -legislature to address a joint ses
sion of the house and senate.
In a letter addressed to the commit
tee appointed to extend him this invi
tation he states that his duties are
too urgent in Washington to permit
him to leave, and expressed his deep
regret, over the case.
This letter, which was addressed to
the joint committee* from the house
and from the senate, expresses his
pleasure at the invitation and his
thanks through the general assembly
to the people of the state for the honor
which has been conferred in electing
him to a fourth consecutive term in
the senate of the United States.
He enclosed a letter which he had
received from Senator Kern, in which
the Democratic leader wrote Senator
Bacon that it was of the highest im
portance that he remain in Washing
ton. both on account of the small ma
jority of the Democrats, and on ac
count of the strainer relations of the
United States with certain foreign
governments.
FAY SOLONS "SCRIPT,”
For the expressed purpose of "call
ing the hands” of the lower house of
the legislature on the question of the
payment of the state’s school teach
ers, Mr. McMichael of Marion, intro
duced a resolution in the house, the
effect of which, is passed, would be to
allow the state treasury department to
pay the members of the house in
“script,” payable at the end of six
months without interest, while the
cash shall be paid over to the teachers
for their back salaries.
TAX BILLS COME NEXT.
Next in order after the general ap
propriations bill which is now making
its way through the house, will be the
general tax bill, which will be taken
up by the ways and means committee.
Chairman Akin said that he would
ask to have the general tax bill made
a special order as soon as the ap
propriations bill is out of the way. He
will ask for a special order for the
Lipscomb tax reform bill next. The
rules committee has already been ask
ed to report the inheritance tax bill
as a special order, and it will come
next.
GEORGIA TO EXHIBIT.
The state of Georgia will not only
have a very worthy exhibit at the
Panama exposition, but also a perma
nent exhibit at the state museum in
the capitol that any state jnight well
envy, if the bill introduced in the
house by Mr. Mynrck of Chatham,
survives the storms of the appropria
tion committee and the two houses.
This bill calls for an appropriation
of SIO,OOO to collect and establish the
exhibit at San Francisco. The exhibit
will contain an extensive collection of
minerals, precious stones, woods, ag
ricultural products, etc., which shall
be made a permanent exhibit at the
state capitol after the exposition.
Not all women are as bad as they
paint themselves.
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Uelhing, softena tb« gums, reduces
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Even the miser is willing to share
his good opinion of himself with oth
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DOES YOlin HEAD ACHEt
Try Hick*’ CAPUDINE. It’s liquid —pleas
ant to take—effects immediate—good to prevent
Sick Headaches and Nervous Headaches also.
Your money back If not satisfied. 10c., 26c. and
60c. at medicine stores. Adv.
No Need to Travel.
Summer Boarder —Don’t you ever
come to see the sights of the city?
Farmer Medders—Oh, no; we see
’em every summer.
No. SIX-SIXTY-SIX
This is a prescription prepared es
pecially for Malaria or Chills and
Fever. Five or six doses will break
any case, and if taken then as a tonic
the fever will not return. 25c. —Adv.
Where It Made a Stir.
“That speech did not make as much
of an impression as you expected.”
“No,” replied the candid orator.
“The only real stir It created was the
rattle of the typewriter while it was
being dictated.”
Dead Man’s Address.
Yeast —The Eskimo gives his doc
tor a fee as soon as he comes. If the
patient recovers, it is kept; if not, it
is returned.
Crimsonbeak —But how does the
doctor know where to send it if it is
returned?
Loyal to His “Granny.”
The grandfather of a boy of six or
seven years is a man of a great deal
of prominence in the world of letters
and affairs. A lady calling at the
home of this gentleman was being en
tertained for a few minutes by the
little grandson and the caller said:
“You ought to be very proud of
your grandfather. You know that he
is a great man.”
“Huh!”«aid the boy. “If you think
that my grandfather is a great man
you just ought to know my grand
mother!’’—Woman’s Home Compan
ion.
HOW TO TREAT PIMPLES AND
BLACKHEADS
For pimples and blackheads the fol
lowing is a most effective and eco
nomical treatment: Gently smear the
affected parts with Cuticura Oint
ment, on the end of the finger, but
do not rub. Wash off the Cuticura
Ointment in five minutes with Cuti
cura Soap and hot water and continue
bathing for some minutes. This treat
ment is best on rising and retiring.
At other times use Cuticura Soap
freely for the toilet and bath, to as
sist in preventing inflammation, irri
tation and clogging of the pores, the
common cause of pimples, blackheads,
redness and roughness, yellow, oily,
mothy and. other unwholesome condi
tions of the skin.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.” —Adv.
Hennery’s Love Token.
A young colored woman, tall and
slender, was standing at the northeast
corner of Washington and Illinois
street when two women acquaintances
stopped and addressed her.
“My. my, ’Liza, who done black yo’
poo’ eye dat-a-way?”
“Who done black my eye?” said the
tall, slim one. "You want to know
who done black my eye? My Hen
nery done black my eye, dat’s who!”
“I wouldn’t let any man black my
eye,” said one of the acquaint
ances.
“Ah, yo‘ don’ know my Hennery.
Dis black eye jes’ shows how he
loves me, an’ dat’s de kinder man I
likes.” —Indianapolis News.
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