The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-26
MUCH OPPOSITION
 ID SALARY RAISES City Officials of Atlanta Object to Councils Action INCREASE NOT WANTED Plan of City Council to Increase Sal aries of Several Officials Meets
 With Protest From Those
 Affected
INCREASE NOT WANTED

angry undercurrent of sentiment-fore- boding sentiment-has been set in motion as the result of two separate actions of the council in raising the salaries of. prac- tically all the leading city officials.
 The public has begun talking about it and in such a tone that some of the coun- cilmen are beginning to think they have not done just the proper thing.
 At it's regular meeting Monday the council increased the salaries of the more prominent city officials anywhere from $500 to 5000 year. The salary of Re- corder Broyles, for instance, was hiked from $3000 to $3600. The salary of the city engineer who will have new and en- larged position as chief of public construc- ton after January 1, was put up from sSOo0 to $400o. Others were increased in similar proportion.
 The salaries of the mayor and the city attorney were allowed to go over until the adjourned meeting on Thursday be- cause of the fact that they come in a different class. These salaries are fixed by the city charter, and in order to change them the charter must be amended.
 But little thing like that did not stop the council. At the adjourned meeting ii passed resolutions providing for amend ments to the city charter increasing the mayors salary from $3ooo to s45oo and the city attorneys from s3oo0 to s4ooo the increases to become effective January l, 1912.
 This was done against considerable op- position mainly on the ground that 1t IS wrong in principle to increase an ofi- ciars salary during his term of office.
 From the talk now prevalent 1t is not at all unlikely that hue and cry will be raised against the enactment or these amendments to the charter when the mat ter Is before the legislature.
 Indeed, the principals themselves, those most directly affected by councils ac- tion, have been among the first to speah out publicly against it.
 City Attorney James L. Hayson is most emphatic on the subject, declaring that the councils action is wrong in principle and that so far as he is concerned he does not want the charter amended for the purpose of increasing his salary. and he thinks the council should immediately proceed to undo it's action in the matter Mayor-elect Courtland s. Vim feels he same way about the matter, he says, and whatever may be his views as to what the mayors salary ought to be, he is of the opinion that the council has gone at it in the wrong way. He says he is temphatically opposed to any action look ing to the increase of an officials salary during his term of office. He says if any proposition like that should come before him while he is mayor he would promptly veto 1t.
 | With the more prominent officials talk ing this view of the matter. and with pub lie sentiment putting its stamp of disap- lroval on the salary increases, the other officials who have had their salaries boosted are wondering where they are going to be left when it is all over. The main difference between the public have expressed themselves is that while the former Is opposed to any salary in- creases at all, the latter really think sal aries ought to be higher, but that the increase should not be made during the term for which a man is elected. Agricultural Education The state department of agriculture points with pride to the fact that agri- cultural education and agitation in Geor- gia are already having splendid effect, which is noted in the returns coming to that office relative both to specific in- stances and to general crop yields. It is comparatively an easy matter, oi course, to find specific instances of in creased yield, resulting from special care and attention. improved methods and proper use of fertilizers. But 1t is the general yield that really tells the import. ant story of achievement
 The agricultural department gave ou statement day or two ago relativ, to Georgia's production of grain and cot ton in 1910 as compared with the preced ing year. While the figures in bales ant bushels were gratifying and interesting 1t was the result per acre for whicf the agricultural analyst sought.
 Georgia's corn yield for 1910 showed al increase of four-tenths of a bushel pei acre over 1909, while the wheat yielt showed three-tenths of a bushel increase These figures appear small, but consid ering that the corn acreage Is more thar | 450O.00o acres, 1t will be seen that tht increased yield from the land, and no from additional acreage planted is more than 1,350,000 bushels. Similar showing was made in the case of wheat and other grain products.
 | If the same rate of increase can bs kept up a few years will put Georgia way up in the list of states in the mat
 ter of yield per acre. and it is that fea ture to which agricultural agitation and education is now lending itself. | In this connection the recent sugges | ton of Governor-elect Hoke Smith witl reference to bureau of agricultural in formation, becomes of special interest
 Mr. Smith based his suggestion largel,
 upon the recent achievement of Joe Stone
 tho 13-year-old Jackson county boy, wht
 won the prize for the largest yield O.
 corn per acre, making over 1o2 bushels | It is MT. Smiths idea that in cases O
 this kind every step in the process em ployed should be set down in detail il
 proper shape for distribution among tn,
 farmers of the state in order that the,
 may pattern their efforts along simila | lines.
 Mr. Smiths proposal aims at bringinl
 up the general average yield per acre b. l using everv nosaibIe means to this end