The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-18
WARES SCHOOL CAMPAIGN.
ter strongly Urging Adoption of
the school Tax Law.

the school Tax Law.
Waycross, Ga, Jan. 17.-Hon. Lem.
Johnson is in receipt of a letter from
State School Commissioner Glenn in
which he says that the local tax for
schools in Ware county is one Of the
wisest measures ever enacted to Sc
cure the progress of our people. I'll
the people vote the tax he says, the
school system established under the
bill will become a monument to your
sagacity and patriotism that will out
last any monument of brass or mar
BILE that could be erected to comment
crate your usefulness.
THE 21st of February will be, there
fore, epoch-making day for Ware
county. The people will say, through
the ballot box on that day, whether
the county shall go forward or back
ward for the next twenty-five years.
If free school for all the people win
the day, the county will double In
population and wealth during the next
ten years. Ware county will then be-
come in your section what Bibb county
is in Middle Georgia. The free school
system of Bibb county has increased
the value of farm land during the last
twenty-five years more than 300 per
taken from the tax books that cannot
be rubbed out. There is nothing on
Gods footstool in this day, and time
that will attract population
and increase wealth like a
good free school system. Peo-
pie everywhere recognize now that
ideas are worth more than acres. Yea
more, acres without ideas are worth
nothing. Intelligence is the only thing
that can create values.
when the savage roamed South
Georgia that whole section was not
Worth in value what the city of Way
cross is worth to-day. The savage
paid no taxes. In proportion as men
get away from barbarism, the world
over. the tax levy for school has in
creased, but the value of property so
taxed has increased by the hundred
folds. Whatever may be said about
tax levies for other purposes, it is
fact that no sane man will dispute that
a tax levy for schools always adds ire
mendously to the market value of the
property so taxed. Take the public
school system with it's brilliant super
intendent and able corps of teachers
out OF Waycross, and the bats and the
owls would soon be the only tenants
of two-t Thirds of your houses. If you
could not restore the system when
once gone, property values would
melt off your tax books in a single
night; If the schools have done so
much for Waycross, what may they
not do for the whole county"
In concluding his letter Mr.. Glenn
said. Il shall endeavor to spend a
week in your county, between now and
the 21st of February. l have the prom
Use of several of our ablest public
speakers who will aid us in this cam.
paign."
Mr.. j r. Bennett, one of the lead
ing farmers of the Elsie district of
Ware county and father of II. Il. Ben
nett. Ware county school commissioner.
has recently invented a hay press that
is proving TO be a remarkable success.
With this simple machine, three men
and one mule can pack one hundred
bales of hay per day with all ease.
The home mission society of Trinity
Methodist Church has made con-
tract for this year with Mrs. Georgia
Jones, to devote her time to mission
work In the city. This is her second
year in that capacity and she is ac-
complishing a great deal of good
Mr.. Riley Anderson of Charlton
county lost his place by fire Wednes-
day night. Every building on the place
was destroyed. No one was living there
at the time and there seems to be lit
tie doubt that the fire was of incen-
diary origin. There was no insurance
on the property and no clue to the
guilty party.