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LIBRARIES OFFERED TO
ALL GEORGIA COUNTIES.
Hoke Smith Outlii.es Plan For
Betterment of Rural Schools—
Favors Constitutional Amend¬
ment.
A constitutional amendment
opening the way for the improve¬
ment of the rural schools of Geor¬
gia is attracting considerable at¬
tention throughout the state.
Hon. Hoke Smith, who is a mem¬
ber of the Atlanta board of edu¬
cation, has deeply interested him¬
self in the movement. He has
evolved a plan by which he thinks
the rural schools may be vastly
improved. To a Journal reporter
Mr. Smith gave his ideas, which
will be found interesting.
"There is no more important
question for consideration by the
people of Georgia than the im¬
provement of our rural schools,”
said he. ‘‘No system of public
schools has been made a sub¬
stantial success in any state of
the union except where the
schools are supported in part by
local taxation. The municipal
public schools in the state all de¬
pend in patt upon local taxation
for the funds necessary to con¬
duct them.
‘‘The legislature has submitted
to the voters of the state a con¬
stitutional amendment by which
in any county or in any school
district the voters will have the
privilege of levying a local tax to
supplement the state tax to im¬
prove the schools of the county
or the school district. The pas¬
sage of this amendment to the
constitution does not levy a tax;
it simply gives the privilege to
the people in any county or school
district to add an additional sum
of money to the amount which
the bounty or school district re¬
ceives from the state, and to
spend this money in improving
their schools. Under the pro¬
posed amendment to the conoti
tution it will require the favor¬
able vote of two-thirds of all the
voters who vote at the election,
whether it be a county election
or a school district election, be*
fore the tax can be levied. It is
not proposed to lessen the appro¬
priations for school purposes
made by the state, it is simply
proposed to give the people of
localities if two-thirds of the vo¬
ters so desire, the privilege of
adding to their part of the funds
appropriated by the state to make
their schools equal to the best.
A plan suggested.
‘‘I urge the adoption of this
amendment to the constitution as
absolutely necessary for the bet¬
terment of our rural schools.
‘‘In connection with the school
work of the state an effort is be¬
ing made to induce the ladies to
organize to take an active part
for the schools. Mrs. Hill, of
Athens, Ga., the wife of the chan¬
cellor of the State university,
has betn designated as state
chairman. The ladies of every
county in the state are expected
to make a county organization,
with a county chairman, and with
separate organizations in school
districts. They will be requested
to especially look after the
grounds around the school houses
and the condition of the school
buildings. Mrs. Hill will send
them literature with reference
to their work on application..
"One of the most important
things the ladies could do for the
rural schools would be to procure
for them circulating libraries.
This can be accomplished with
no great outlay of money, and I
suggest the following plan.
BOOKS AKECHEAP.*
‘‘If there is a public library at
the county seat make this public
library the central office for the
county library. If there is not a
public library at the county seat
make the county school superin¬
tendent’s office the central office
for the library. Purchase books
in sets containing about fifty vol¬
umes. A set of well selected
books can be purchased at from
825 to §80, consisting of fifty vol¬
umes, inclosed in a case with a
lid and lock ready to be moved
from school to school, the case
making a very neat bookcase for
use while the library is located at
a particular school.
“Starting even with one case
of books the county superinten¬
dents can place them first at one
school and then at another letting
the case travel ai-ound through
the schools of the county. The
teacher of the school should act
as librarian while the books are
at a particular school, and the
books should circulate among the
patrons of the school. When the
schools are closed the books
should be brought back to the
central office and circulated from
it. Five hundred dollars would
buy about twenty cases, and by
moving the cases from school to
school the entire library of over
one thousand volumes could he
brought within the reach of the
children and the people generally
in the county. For every addi¬
tional 825 raised a new set of
books,,would be put into circuit!*
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‘‘Prof. Merritt, the stat^ school
will gladly co-op¬
erate with the ladies of the coun¬
ties of the state and aid them in
the selection and purchase of
cases of books.
a generous offer.
‘‘In any county of the state to
which I have not already sent a
library for use in the schools, if
the ladies of the county will or¬
ganize and undertake the estab¬
lishment of circulating libraries
among the schools of the county,
I will send them at once a case
containing sixty volumes.
“Will not the ladies of Georgia
organize in every county in the
state and undertake this work?”
Atlanta Journal, Sept. 13.
How*s this?
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Take Hall’s Family Pills for consti¬
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The Negro in Pennsylvania.
In the Waynesviile (Pa.) Inde¬
pendent of last week, appeared
the following local item:
‘‘Leslie Howard of Littleton, a
corporal in company D of the
National guard in camp at Hun¬
tington, came near having his
neck stretched by his comrades
in arms last night. While a par¬
ty of soldiers with ladies were in
an ice cream saloon, in steps
Corporal Howard accompanied
by two coal black wenches who
sat. down to a table and ordered
refreshments. The soldiers pres
ant arose as one man and husiled
the party out of the room. While
they were forcing Howard to a
tree with a rope ready for lynch¬
ing, officers interfered and pre¬
vented a tragedy. Howard was
put in the guard house and will
be courtmariialed and dismissed
from service.”
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What One Italian Farmer Has
Done This Year in South
Carolina.
In view of the great need of
the South and of Georgia for new
people to populate and make fer¬
tile the old worn outfields, of this
section, it will prove interesting
reading to noce what one Italian
farmer has done in our neighbor¬
ing state of South Carolina dur¬
ing the present year. This new
immigrant only came to the state
last winter, and he is located near
Conway, S- C. Ilis crop consists
of seven and a half acres of pota¬
toes, from which he will market
from sixty to one hundred bar¬
rels to the acre, that will net him
about three dollars per barrel;
two acres of bell peppers, two
acres of beans, several acres cf
peas and five acres of corn for
forage, all in an old field that has
been running down for one hun¬
dred years and has been regard¬
ed as almost worthless.
What this one successful Ital¬
ian farmer has done Ins first year
in the South can be duplicated
by hundreds and thousands of
similar families all throughout
South. And all this, too, with¬
out interfering one iota with the
great staple cotton crop of t he
South, uhich the Georgia Stale
Agricultural Society seems so
anxious to retain for the present
population that they look with
dread upon new people coming
into the state. The Greater Geor¬
gia Association and the various
chambers of commerce through*
out the state could do no better
service lor Georgia than to en¬
courage a few such immigrants
to locate in Georgia during the
coming duty.—Augusta Herald.
From 148 to 92 Pounds.
One of tlie most remarkable cases of a.
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pneumonia, is that of Mrs. Gertrude E.
Fenner, Marion, Ind., who was entirely
cured by the use of One Minute Cough
Cure. She says, “The coughing and
straining so weakened me that I ran
down in weight from 148 to ‘.ri pounds.
I tried a number of remedies to no avail
until I used One Minute Cough Cure.
Four bottles of this wonderful remedy
cured me entirely of the cough, strength¬
ened my lungs and restored me to my
normal weight, health and strength.”
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What Good Roads Will Do.
Good roads would be essential
in the establishment of a rural
constabulary in southern districts
Without them such a patrol sys¬
tem could not be fully efficient
except at the expense of employ¬
ing more men than would be re¬
quired with them. Good roads
would be a necessary in this as
in the rural free delivery system.
In fact there is no aspect of the
country resident’s life which
good roads do not affect—his go¬
ing to church, sending his chil¬
dren to school, social intercourse,
marketing, being in quick com¬
munication with the sources of
general information, providing
for the better protection of his
family. The list could be added
to almost infinitely.—Quitman
Free Press.
A Power For Good.
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Little Early Risers. W. S. Philpot, of
Albany, Ga., says: ‘‘During a bilious
attack I took one. Small as it was it
did me more good tlian calomel, blue
mass or any other pill I ever took and at
the same time the effect was pleasant.
Little Early Risers are an ideal pill.”
Sold by Lewis Drug Co.
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a man fills his barn with half
cured hay he is quite likely to
burn his barn up, but should he
escape fire he will have a lot of
musty, worthless fodder to feed
next winter.
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