The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-22
AID FOR FARMER
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 derstood to be among the plans of Rob ert c. Ogden, president of the Confer ence for Education in the South, at an early date to organize a party composer principally of the state superintendents or education-the men who have direction Of state systems and those more or less intimately associated with them-and to take them on an excursion trip to the University of Wisconsin.
 This project was not publicly announced at the recent session of the conference, though MT Ogden talked freely of it with a number those prominent in the gath ering
 The University of Wisconsin is viewed as a model of educational institutions of it's kind It has been constructed with view of the higher education of the farm- CT and producer as well as that of the
 eity boy and he who wishes to lead pro- fessional life.
 Some three or four years ago George Foster Peabody, a former Georgian, now wealthy resident of New York and a well-known educational philanthropist, took at his own expense a party of prom inent Georgians to the University of Wis., consin for the purpose of showing them what had been done there and what could likewise be done in this state.
 The party which went with MT. Peabody included trustees of the state university, members of the legislature and others prominent in the states educational af- fairs, and the results of the trip are al- ready strikingly apparent in the estab- lishment in Georgia of a state college of agriculture, to the founding of which the state gave s10oo0O and to the mainte- nance of which it has since given sub stantial sums
 MT Ogden is familiar with that trip and its results It is said to be his belief that another inspection trip of the same sort with a somewhat different party can be made to the decided advantage of educa- tional progress in the south. But he wants the lesson brought home to all the states as was the case with Georgia.
 So far as can be learned he proposes to take the state superintendents of educa7 tion in all the southern states and, prob ably also, the heads of state universities to see what has been accomplished through higher education, rightly directed, in Wisconsin.
 It is not known just when the visit will be made. probably not for some time, but the proposal is an interesting one and the plan is considered to be directly in line of substantial achievement
 Changes In Legal Practice.
 The recent seizure of the household goods of Judge W. B. Sheppard of ths United States court for the Northern dis trict of Florida, while he was temporari- ly resident of Atlanta, under justice in nf who professed to have a olalm against him for damages for alleged injuries be- cause he was struck by the judges auto mobile. has resulted in an agitation which bids fair to bring about legislation re- sulting in further limiting the powers and practices of justice courts.
 Lawyers generally do not think 1t would do to take away from the justice courts the power of attachment because there are undoubtedly cases in which quick process Is often necessary to prevent per- sons who would swindle if they got the opportunity from taking their property and person beyond the reach of the legal authorities of the state.
 But they all admit that there must be some restraint thrown around the justice courts to prevent occurrences on the or der of that involving United States Judge Sheppard.
 As a result attorneys are suggesting various methods of bringing about this result. One thing which encourages the attache hement process is the straw bond which the plaintiff Is usually permitted to give by the justice. which of course does not protect the interests of the defendant in attachment. It is pro- posed for one thing to make the re- quirement concerning plaintiffs bond more rigid.
 There are several other amendments to the attachment laws which were pro- posed in the legislature last summer, at | the instance of the Georgia Bar asso- citation, but the extended debate on the | convict question prevented their con- sideration.
 It will be recalled that as the result of Georgia's loose attachment laws the | bank deposits of the Southern Railway company, amounting sometimes to l million dollars, were withdrawn from | the state for a period of almost 1 year. Although a large portion of | these deposits has been returned. the | law has not yet been amended so as to afford sufficient protection to the de- | fendant.
 There are many individual instances l in which harm Is done which never come to public notice. There are in- 1 stances where bailiffs have ruthlessly | levied on homesteaded property, a man. | fest violation of the law, but those without money to pay attorneys fees cannot fight even this sort of an unlawful proceeding.
 | In order to guard against cases of | this sort the Atlanta bar association I now has under consideration the mat 1 ter of employing a special attorney to | look after the interests of those who are unable to employ counsel in just 1 such instances as this
 Since the subject came up an in-
 stance has come to light through the
 indictment of a bailif for attempted | criminal assault, of an attempt to levy
 on a widows furniture which was ex
 empted by homestead, and such cases
 are said to be quite frequent. Another proposed law which will be | submitted to the legislature for con sideration this summer is one providing | for a system of reports from the crim-
 inal courts of the state, to be made to | the attorney general or some other state official, where the information | may be tabulated and systematized. | Representative Walter McElreath of
 Fulton will submit such bill, with re- gard to which he has talked to num- | Der of members of the legislature and | finds them generally favorable to 1t. 1 Alabama has such a law as this, and 1 information regarding it's working and | the results from 1t have already been | ohfafnad Georgia has no allch fhi m q