The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-28
GEoReIA'S SCHOOLS.
THE STATE sUPERINTENDENTs SAYS
THEY MUST BE IMPROVED.

He Has "A scheme for Their Improve
ment-Tt Is 10 Raise an Additional
school Fund I'm Each Countrywide
People. lie Thinks, Favor It-PeO-
pie Going to the Cities for school
Facilities.
Athens. Ca. Aug. Estate School Com
missioner G. r. Glenn was in Athens yes
terday and in an interesting talk with
your correspondent gave out for publica-
ton for the first time a scheme for the
Improvement Of the common school sys-
TEN of Georgia, which ne viii advocate in
his report TO the general assembly in oc-
tobcr.
said Mr.. Glenn: 4 have always thought
that Georgia should have better common
schools. but never in my life had I
proper conception Of that need until It
became my Official duty to travel over the
state and see exactly what was being
done by these schools. The task surely
must have appalled, my predecessors and
certain IL Is that they or anybody else
could never accomplish the highest and
best results with the present approprla-
tion at hand.
4 find there is a steady movement Of
the people from the farms to the cities;
that the farms are not looked after as
they should be; that they are declining in
value and that agriculture in Georgia is
suffering from lack of attention.
Il may be mistaken, but / am firmly con-
WINGED that the prime reason for this
movement TO the cities is the fact that
men realize that in these times education
gives a man more power than anything
al In far ORD Nj aH. Fat~u hac naa
come unwilling for his children to be
brought up where they will have no school
facilities. Hence, the very best element
of farmers is either contemplating leaving
the farms or has already left them. To
check that tendency to congregate the pop
ulation of the state in the cities l believe
the safest and surest way is to provide
better schools for the country districts.
Again, the northern people are emigrat-
ing TO Georgia. The first question they
ask is about the school facilities. know
where tract of land of three thousand
acres was purchased by a colony of immi-
grants on account of the community af-
1ording good school facilities. l also
know where an equally large tract was re-
Jected on account of a lack of school IA
cilities. These people look above all other
things TO the school system of the state.
Il want to see the time come when our
schools Will be run six months consecutive
~ from Nov. l to May !, the season when
the farmer can best spare his children
from the fields. This viii obviate many
OF the difficulties now present. Then, too,
1t will be absolutely necessary to have
better school houses and more of them,
and above all. more money to pay the
teachers.
ITO get good teachers, to have more
school houses,t to have better school houses,
TO pay the teachers better salaries-these
are a few Of the problems that confront
Georgia in an educational way. To all of
these / have a solution which / believe
will be accepted by the people of Geor-
gia. To get good teachers, the State Nor
NAL School should be fostered and pat
ronized. That part of the trouble is al
ready settled if the teachers will only take
advantage of the opportunities offered
them.
''The last three propositions are settled
by the question of money alone. That the
state needs more school houses and better
school houses is evidenced by the fact
that many country schools have to be run
in churches, some in rude cabins and
many in buildings that are unfit for use
in the winter. That the teachers should
be better paid is evidenced by the fact
that the compensation of teachers in the
county schools is not over an average of
so per month.
ITO make Georgia's educational sys-
tenn complete will necessitate the expen-
diture of twice as much money as Is
now expended, and therefore in my re-
port to the general assembly 1 shall rec
ommend the levying of an extra tax
enough to yield 100000, to be added to
the present school fund. l shall advo-
cate that levy being made by each coun-
~ and in that way each county will be
dren.
You smile and suggest that the people
wouldn't submit to this additional tax
of one-fourth of l per cent / am salts
fed they will not object. On the other
hand / believe they will applaud the
movement. l have talked to many on
this line within the past few weeks. and
they agree with me in the proposition
Such a movement will check the tide
flowing from the farms to the city viii
give better educational facilities to the
country and will add value not only 10
the brains, but to the material resources
of the state"
DIR. Charles H. Herty of the TTniversft,,
OF Georgia has gone TO Springfield, Mass.
10 attend the meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science
A Boston artist has Just completed the
work of frescoeing the Lucy Cobb par
Tor at the Cotton States and International
Exposition and ii is said TO be a gen, in
has relief The side walls are done in
soid light olive, with handsome frieze
shaded from the olive into light old rose
The walls are in panels with sky effect
The carpet is to be of solid olive center
with handsome border in figures of olive
ana old rose. The window draperies are TO
pc OF India silk following the same designs
In color. The two doors will be hung with
neaVler draperies in corresponding colors
Inc china painting. the work of the school.
VIII be shown in a handsome mahogany
closet with plate glass front. A cabinet
Tor the display of handsome bric-a-brac a
Iuil parlor suite and handsome pictures
vail complete the furnishings of this ar
tistie room.
An Interesting Relic.
Waycross, Ga, Aug 27-Col. G q
Ihomas of this eitN has in hi. -. -