The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-12
Uafortunate Birth.
Editor The Advertiser:


 What will the Legislature do for the children of Alabama who are of uns fortunate birth? Take a child born fn the dives of growing city. or some has the State no interest in these de- there are little girls born and reared sin and vice What right has vile mother to drag her shild of shame light has ieckerous father to drivs sons and de ughtars into cr.me and har- lotry? There are many children today parents pare who 'Hs are io morally n incompetent to be the guardians of the future citi- zenry ot the State.
 ny There s,s rSsi saSsa 6s sSs way t1 recover fortunate children from these unworthy persons and commit them to societies or persons. by proper course that they may have necessary care and training to fit them for the l tture. What can the State. promise itself from d child that is allowed to remain in the cus- has lost all sense of mothers virtue ana daily lives in lust and shame?
 What SaT ean be the Rrso,t to the State of debauched and licentious father who rseks in rottenness and libertin- ism? What Is to be the future of of all the vicious and corrupting con duet of parenthood7 Is 1t best that prostitutes and whoremongering pimps shall continue to rear and brand for society tribe of moral idiots, social sores and political conspirators to m feet a larger circle of the States eiti. zenship with the '.criminal microbe"' every day? These children ought to be taken away from all such persons by the proper authority of the law. No such provision now exists. It can be operation. The. very enactment of such a statute will insure q reform in some lives and honaes. May we not men in the Legislature of Alabama the child that has everything. even his Respectfully.
 5. K. Wasson,
 First M. F; Church, South, Tasca-
 loosa, Ala. Feb 9. 1907.
 Public Schools Will Not be Hurt. To The Advertiser:
 I notice that the committee on An proprlatiens has made favorable reg port on gsanting $o,000 additional ap- propriation to each of the normal schools of the State, as recommended
 This reIninds one that during the last state canvass a prominent candi- date for the lower house from one l of the wealthiest counties in the State, and in which normal school is lo- cated, on being interrogated as to how he stood in regard to an additional ap- 1 propriation for this school, stated that | he was out and out opposed to it. He i further said that this school was not | in need of an additional appropriation l and that he had informed the prinei- 1 pal that he would not support a bill ] in the Legislature for this purpose. He 1 further stated that he wanted the conn mon schools to get the benefit of what 1 ever additional appropriation was forth. l coming for educational purposes, and ! that he would work to this end if elected. This gentleman resides in the 1 town where this normal school is To- 1 cated. He IS intelligent and a close | observer of public events, and being on | the ground must know whereof he ] speaks He Is now serving his county | in the lower house and is one of the most prominent and useful members of that body He has introduced and had passed at the present session two of ! the most popular measures coming be- | fore the Legislature.
 Nov, Mir. Editor. Alabama is work ing. hard to improve her educational nish the bans upon which to build our improved educational superstrueture every principe of reason and justice seems to dictate that these schools should receive every dollar that can be spared to help them along. A large majority of the children of the State will never get beyond the common 1 SCHOOLS III SuuCttloAs dHN for this reason, if for no other, those schools should have every facility pos, sible. and should be taught nine months in every year and by the best teachers obtainable.
 [ res ectfu,ly submit that 1t Is ar injustice to the common schools to take money away from them and appropri' ate it where 1t is not needed.
 (There hrs arisen in Alabama very unjust and i'll founded prejudice agains
 the Normal Schools. They are thu
 places where teachers are prepared tC
 teach, and If the schools are to be kep
 Lp oroperly there must be continuini
 crop of tachers. We print the abov'
 as one of the evidences of the exist
 ence of prejudice. for there Is no bet
 ter word for !t The schools will sool
 have nearly $1.500.000 at their com
 noand and certainly the. great State Q
 Alabama can afford to spend snal
 sum in the way of supnort of institu
 tions which are to furnish the teacher
 for present and future years--Edito
 Advertiser !