The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-12
Georgia Is Advancing Rapidly
 In School Matters
ANNUAL FUND .S7,OOO,OOO
Atlanta's Social Leaders Will Present Play During Music Festival. Five Georgia Governors
 to Meet on Stage.

! Jere NJ. Pound will show something like | s1.OOO.0o0 more devoted to the cause of ed ucation in Georgia than has been shown | by any previous report.
 This is due to the fact, not that that much more money is being spent for edu- | cational purposes, but that more educa- l tional institutions which have not here- | tofore been in touch with the state sys- tenn have furnished information and data regarding their work and financial oper- ations to the state school commissioner 1 than has heretofore been the case. Heretofore the annual report of the state school commissioner has shown less than s. 0O,000 spent annually in Georgia in the cause of education, while, 1t is said, the total expenditures in the state will run up to something like 100000. The state itself spent only S2,00o000 last year. and will spend $2, ,250,o00 this year. In addition to this extensive appropriations are made by the larger cities and in many instances by counties. There are also many coun- try school districts where the system or local school taxation has been adopted. But outside of these and entirely sepa- rate and apart from the states eduea- tional system there are numerous educa- tional institutions of a private and semi l private nature which make no reports 10 I the state superintendent Commissioner l Pound has requested reports from many of these simply for the purpose of better ! compiling the educational statistics of the state As a result his next annual report will show something like $40o0.000 spent annually for education with large amounts l still unaccounted for.
 Including the many charitable donations 1t is probable that close to $1,Oo0,000 a ia fr sadf cation alone
 Atlanta's Social Play.
 Social Atlanta is looking forward with no small interest to the presentation of the Ideal Husband" at the Grand opera house, May 8, the week of the big May music festival, which will bring Caruso and others. because the play is to be given by some of Atlanta's most promi- nent social leaders-those with histrionic aspirations and not without some histrion- ic ability.
 Such well-known Atlantans as J. g. B. Thompson, assistant to the president of the Southern railway; Col. Robert J. Lowry. president of the Lowry National bank; Mrs. Lowry, Col. W. L. Peel, presi- dent of the American National bank, and others of like prominence will be seen on the stage as leading characters in this play.
 And not less interesting than the fact of their public appearance on the stage is the purpose for which the Ideal Hus- band'' is to be presented by the Atlanta Players club in which they are members to add the entire proceeds of the pro- 1 duction to the Joel Chandler Harris me morial fund.
 The Players club, composed of Att 1 lantans prominent in social life, has given with marked success two productions this season, Lady Windemeres Fan and The Rivals. The club readily consented to l give third production for the benefit of | the Uncle Remus memorial fund and l for the purpose selected May 8. the day | before the opening of the music festival, l because it is believed thtre will be many l visitors to Atlanta at that time who would enjoy the privilege and oppor- tunity of seeing Atlantas social talent on the stage.
 Mir. Thompson will appear as the Earl of Caversham. Colonel Lowry as Lord Berkslee, Mrs. Lowry as the Duchess of Maulybone and Colonel Peel as Colonel Garfield. Other characters in the cast will be represented as follows: Sir Rob ert Chiffon, Mr. Franklin Mikell; Lord l Goring, Mir Edward Austin; Vicomte de | Naujac, MT P. Thornton Marye; MT. l Montford, MT Frank Ellis; Lady Chil- ton. Mrs John NJ slaton; Lady Basilden. Mrs. Palmer Phelan Clarke; Miss Mabel 1 Chiffon, Mrs. W c. Jarnagin Mrs Chav- erly, Mrs. Edward Dougherty; Mrs | Marshmont, Mrs. R. L. Cooney; Lady Jane Barford. Mrs. Frank Ellis; Phipps, | MT. J. c. Holderness.
 l These selections are from the top of l Atlanta's social ladder and they are now | rehearsing diligently to the end that their | public presentation shall lend color to l their claim of histrionic ability. | The Players club crowded the theatre with It's two other performances. and with so well-known and so popular an object as l the Uncle Remus memorial fund in view
 there is little doubt they will play to
 standing room on this occasion.
 Five Georgia Governors.
 Five Georgia governors, past, present
 and future, will occupy seats on the same
 stage next Monday night and deliver
 speeches at the opening session of the
 anti-tubercuiosis exhibit which is to be
 held in Atlanta during the week.
 They are former Governors w. J. North
 en, Allen D. Candler and Joseph M. Ter
 rell, Gov. Hoke Smith and Gov. -elect
 Joseph M. Brown. It isn't often that five
 Georgia governors get into accord and
 meet on the same platform, but this is a
 subject and occasion upon which they
 can all agree, and there will be no joint
 debate.
 The opening session of the convention
 will be held in the Central Congregationa] 1 church on Carnegie Way, in the base
 ment of which the exhibit is now being
 set up. Ex-Governor Northen is presi.
 dent of the Atlanta Anti-Tuberculosis as.
 sociation, and will preside. A number
 of prominent visitors from other points iI
 the state are expected
 "Who's Who In Georgia" Publishers of the Cyclopedia of Georgia a local Who's Who in Georgia" at SC
 much per, have brought suit against Col Harry Silverman a well-known restau.
 rant man, and a member of forme, governors staff, for payment for the pub
 lication of a biographical sketch will cut in aforesaid cyclopedia. and in which
 Colonel Silvsrrnan alleges non-oonform anoe to specifications. Colonel Silvermar
 won out in the justice court, and tn, publishers have carried their case up tt
 the superior court, where it will be triet 1 shortly.
 i, This case brought to light the fact thai
 the association which got out the work ir four volumes recently won a similar suit against Hon. Fleming c. duBignon a well-known lawyer, formerly of Sayan
 nah, but now resident of Atlanta. l, seems the price was s2S for the first three
 volumes. including brief sketch and smaI
 cut, furnished by the subscriber But b,
 skipping from the first to the fourth vol
 ume and paying s1O0 the subject was tc
 get a full-page illustration, and an ex
 tended reading notice. MT. duBgnon con . l tended that he subscribed upon the un
 derstanding that the entire work was te : be edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans anf
 former Gov. Allen D. Candler, and tha they were to select who should be tho | favored Georgia "notables." As this wa ; not the case he charged that the worl