The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1910-05-06
County School Commissioner
Vote For Geo. Nj. Orr
Communicated.

Communicated.
Regardless of whether Mr.. Bernard
Awtry or Mr. George NJ. Orr wins for
! County School Commissioner in the
/ coming primary, the present incum-
! bent, MIR Awtry, will get to serve out
his full term of four years, and will
not go out of Office until the 9Th of
April, 1912, if Mr.. Orr is elected.
But the vacancy occurring before
the election in 1912, it is necessary to
nominate and elect in the general
election this year.
This office for more than a quarter
of a century has been given to some
one in Marietta Marietta, in fact, is
not entitled to the office, for the rea-
son that the public schools of Marietta
are not under the supervision of the
county school commissioner: they de
rive their money direct from the
State, and it does not come through
the commissioner still the office has
been given to a lawyer in Marietta
for a number of years, and the last
time to newspaper editor in Mari
eta.
The office belongs to some one thor
oughly in touch with the rural schools
Of the county.
Mr.. George NJ. Orr, one of the can
didates, has been teaching in the coun-
try schools for the last twenty years.
He lives in the country at Mars
Hill; has taught school around his
home, where the people know him
best, most of the time-this fact is a
fine endorsement of his character and
standing.
He is thoroughly in touch and in
sympathy with the public schools; he
knows their needs, and has had that
long training that will eminently quail
lfy him for the up-buildng of the coun-
try schools
If he is elected, it win not defeat
the unbrOken custom that if a man
makes good officer, he is entitled
to four years-his opponent will have
had the office for that number of years
before his commission expires.
Mr.. AWtry's business is that of ed
iting a newspaper; Mr. Orr's business
Is that of teaching school
Mr. Awtry having been for a long
time and is now such a strong and
bitter partisan in politics, he has, in
a way, destroyed his usefulness for
the position he occupies as county
school commissioner
Mr. Orr has been conservative. free
from partisan politics, and is in
position to serve the whole people
without friction.
Mr.. AWtry has almost gone into hys-
terlcs fighting some of our public offic-
ers for reelection, when they have
only had the office one term of two
years-he applies a different rule to
himself.
He is now taking the position that
he has only had the office for one
term, and for that reason should be
reelected. Still his term is four
years, and some of the men he has
been figting only had the office two
years.
Mr.. Awtry, in my opinion, made a
very serious mistake when he called
upon the teachers throughout the
county to endorse him for reelection
They are working under him, and they
mad no other alternative but to en-
dorse him, if he demanded it.
Another mistake: he is claiming the
credit for the monthly payment of the
teachers.
All readers of the Marietta Courier
VIII recall that the Courier, under it's
previous ownership, started this fight,
and editorially week after week, they
kept up the fight until it was adopted
by the County Board of Education.
Should not the office in fact go to a
man that is thoroughly in sympathy
with the schools that come under his
supervision?
If that is true, can you find man
better qualified to fill the position
than Mr.. George NJ. Orr of Acworth
Dsuict?-Adv.