Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-25

posed of trained educators. We might
Well Mace in the rural school service 20
superyisors, assigned to school districts,
whose duty it should be to help the rural
school teachers at county Institutes and
in the school rooms.
The rura! school must have wider
scope of practical work, and more Vlgor
in book work.
ORR RURAL. TEACHERS MUST BE
PAID FOR THEIR SERVICES, AND
THEY MUST BE PAID PROMPTLY.
am gratified to tell you that In 1908
the salaries of the rural school teachers
were paid practically as fast as the ser
vice was rendered by them. This was
accomplished in part by the fact that
pensions were not then paid In advance
but were paid quarterly.
Last year before the close of the year
money was in the treasury to pay every
liability to a rural school teacher and we
began the year with a surplus of about
g 900. 600 with which to pay the expenses
of the present year.
-->s- ~,--nlrls. however, although IL mas
been increased $4,000 since L began my
service as governor of Georgia, Is still
not sufficient with the increasing appro-
priations to meet during the months Oh
July. August and September the salaries
of the teachers as they become due.
CLAIMS OF TEACHERS.
Various suggestions have been made by
which the treasury of the state may be
financed so as to meet these teachers
claims prior to the collection OF our regu-
lar taxes which begin to come into the
treasury during the months of November
and December.
Let me contribute another very simple
remedy. since 'ho quarterly payment OF
pensions has been abandoned.
We do not force the payment OF our
yearly taxes before the 10th of December.
This practice has been due to the fact
that our money crop has been largely cot
ton and the late fall and early winter
have been regarded as debt-paying pc
RODS.
would not change the law on this
subject so far as II applies to the great
body of our taxes. but we have class
of taxes paid by railroad companies and
public service companies which are col
Iected by the comptroller general There
Is no reason why the paymnet Of these
taxes should be delayed until the very
last of the year. II we would amend our
constitution and provide that these
TAXES rOT ECTED BY THE COMP
TROILER GENERAL SE1OOl1D DE
PAID NOT LATER THAN THE 10TH
OF JUNE, THIS WOULD PUT INTO
THE TREASURY ABOUT 100000 YEAR
IY OF ADDITIONAL CASH AT THAT
TIME, and by any intelligent manage
ment every liability of the state could
be paid from January to January so soon
as IL natures.
Such a change as to the time of the
payment of taxes by railroad companies
and the public service companies would
be no hardship. They should be glad to
make this contribution toward the edu-
cational work of the state and toward
financing the business OF the state.
They receive from the legislature and
from the people privileges which the or
binary citizen does not enjoy. SOME
STATES PUT ALMOST THE ENTIRE
BURDEN OF TAXATION FOR THE
SUPPORT OF THE STATE UPON
THIS CLASS OF CORPORATIONS.
WE TAX THEM NO MORE THAN
WE TAX ANYBODY ELSE, AND IT
WOULD BE BUT A SMALL CoNTRI-
BUTTON FROM THEM TO REQUIRE
THAT THEY PAY THEIR TAXES IN
THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR.
1 believe this is the simplest and easiest
way to make sure the payment to all
teachers of their salaries as fast as they
are earned.