The National tribune., 1908-09-10

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no teacher is added to the faculty who
has not had both normal training and
actual teaching experience in city grad
ed schools Of equal dignity with those
of Fitzgerald. The teachers are paid
larger salaries than any city of equal
population in south Georgia, and the
regularity with which these salaries are
paid always command the very best tai
ent. The system provides a comprehen-
sive course of study. extending thru IL
grades. A diploma from the High School
admits the owner to the University and
TO all other institutions of higher
learning in the State without
an entrance examination. The High
School has regular commercial
department, in which bookkeeping.
stenography, typewriting and telegrapny
are taught, but the commercial course
is optional with pupils Many of the
young men and young women who have
graduated in this department now hold
| responsible and lucrative positions.
Fitzgerald has the only free textbook
! system in the State of Georgia, all pu-
pills from the primary grade thru to the
! 18th grade being furnished with text
books without charge. The High School
! has a weli-selected library of more than
| 500 volumes, to which valuable addl-
| tions are made every year. Each grade
/ ioOIt Win fIcucIH utSh5,
and is thoroly supplied with maps.
globes, charts and all other school aids.
Old Glory floats over each school build
| ing, and all rooms are provided with
the Stars and Stripes. All pupils are
| taught the flag drill, and go thru with
this drill regularly at the morning OPEN
| ing exercises. The revenue for the main
| tenance of the schools Is derived from
an appropriation of four mills of the
4 9H Vatarpnl fay nf leVie,;
on city property. from the city's pro-
| portion of the State school fund, and
from the tuition paid by pupils who re-
side outside the corporate limits of t.ie
| city
Fitzgerald recently voted $4,000 in
| school bonds for the erection of a High
/ School building. This building, which
is already in course of construction. will
| be an up-to-date brick structure,
| equipped with all modern school appii-
1 ances, furnished with steam heat and
water, and will be ready for occupancy
at the opening of the next school year.
There is also colored public school.
| Fine Health Conditions.
| Northern men, who have lived in
| Fitzgerald from the first, are pro-
| nounced in their favorable opinion OF
the all-around health and climatic con-
ditions The writer talked with scores
of men who said they came on what
| they thought were their "last legs" and
| now they don't know that they were
4 ever sick. DR.. l.. S. Osborne, an Iowa
| man. and now the City Health Officer
| says:
| "On account of the location of Fitz-
gerald, 125 miles from the Atlantic and
| about the same distance from the Gulf,
| in latitude 81 degrees minutes sec
onds north, and longitude SO degrees
NfKR,E ya, dc
4 of 5i2 feet above sea level, we have an
4 almost ideal climate. With the maxi
/ mum of sunny days, the daily sea breeze
4 so modifies the air that We do not have
/ the excessive dry heat of New Mexico
and Arizona nor the moisture of Florida
or Cuba. There is neither the severe
i cold of the Northern Winters nor the
1 high temperature of their Summers We
are not subject to the sudden and ex-
\ treme changes of temperature of the
i Middle and Eastern States. We have
therefore, a climate that is particularly
favorable to healthful conditions espe-
i cially beneficial to diseases of the head
throat and lungs. as well as heart dis
! eases and rheumatism. The water oi
this section is soft. being very free from
i mineral constituents. particularly lime
Il and on that account diseases of the kid
i neys and bladder are materially bene-
fitted il not cured. Those debilitated by
4 age. to whom the rigorous Winters OF
the North are so trying, find in this eli
mate just the conditions needed to pro-
long life. AS one among hundreds OF
others, l would mention my own ease
as sample of what this climate can do
FROM early manhood I have suffered
} from catarrh of head and throat (which
i gradually extended to the bronchi. Until
Il was constant sufferer from chronic
bronchitis and asthma. Nothing but a
change Of climate every two to five
4 years was of any benefit. l had tried
the climate of New York. North Dakota
Missouri and Iowa until the Spring of
Il 1897, when ! was obliged to make an
other change. I made an extended trip
thru Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi,