The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-24
WILL DEMAND MANY
 APPROPRIATIONS Georgia Legislature Will
 Miss Joe Hill Hall MACON RAPS ATLANTA Rival Georgia City Is Hard After Conventions and State Capitol. Atlanta Cannot Use Its
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 be a flood of appropriation bills introduced when the legislature opens, and from present indications a hard fight will be made to secure the money wanted.
 Although only a few announcements have been made as to the sums wanted from the state, and the institutions want ing them, 1t is apparent that the state school are in need of funds, and will make every effort. through their repre- sentatives to collect
 Representative Carl Vinson. whose suc- cess in previous legislatures in getting through the bills he wanted, has been the talk of the state, was in Atlanta a few days ago and stated that he was coming cooked and primed to demand aid for the state sanitarium at Milledge- vile. He will ask a large sum for the institution, and says he has plenty oz backing to make the battle a royal one. appropriation bills up his sleeve, and in- tends to spring them.
 He will not be alone in his request "Give us what money you have" for the University of Georgia will ask aid for the agricultural college. and Georgia Tech will make an effort to get S10,000 more than her share of last year.
 In the case of the Agricultural college facts will be presented which will show that teachers are beginning to realize they have a money value, and are one and all going where they can get the money. A similar case has been brought to the front in Atlanta, where several teachers on quitting the Boys High scholo, have given it as their reason that while they liked the work, they had to support families and the salaries offered them as teachers were insufficient.
 This plea is made by the Agricultural college. Some. of the best teachers they had have left the institution, because they received immeasurably better offers from other colleges.
 To win success for this school the of- flcals In charge of 1t feel that they must have better financial support from the state Otherwise, they had about as soon close up shop, for they argue 1t will be useless for them to struggle along with poorly paid teachers or to educate teachers, perhaps, only to lose them to other schools. when they are really worth something to the college
 In the case of Georgia Tech, $70,o0o year was given her for the support of the school last season. sS0,000 will be asked this year, but Tech will not ask for any building funds.
 Much of the usual interest that attaches to the legislature, and some of the inter- est that promised to attach to this par ticular one. which will meet on June 2S, may be lacking this year.
 Reports from Macon have been to the effect that Joe Hill Hall has been so serl- ously i'll that he will in all probability be unable to attend this session.
 This will be much regretted by the members of the legislature, not only, of course, in the natural regret that comes because of his illness, but because Joe Hill Hall Is one of the real characters of the legislature and it will not look like the same body and the same hall without him.
 Mir Hall has been known for years as the watchdog of the treasury, and when any members of the legislature got toe close to the till with some pet measure that called for the expenditure of large sum of money he was right on the job and ready to defend that treaury to the last ditch
 Now with MT. Hall down and out by sickness. 1t Is feared the authors of ap- propriation bills will have easy sailing, and the state will contribute more to these causes than would otherwise De the case.
 The other interesting feature that Mir Hall ,,romsed to inject into the leglsla- tive doings was a bill to move the cap jtol from Atlanta 10 Macon. Little has been heard of this movement recently, but with Mir Hall in form. and backed by his friends, this bill would certainly have started something this summer.
 Of course, it may be introduced any way. but 1t will lack in picturesqueness if MT. Hall is not on the floor to tell what beautiful place Macon is and what charms it has to offer.
 Macon may not grab the capitol this year, nor the next year, or in the years to come but she has certainly been busy in gathering in conventions, big, lit tie and indifferent. and incidentally in so doing she handed Atlanta a rap the other day.
 Not content with landing the next gath erng of the men who wear the gray, Macon instructed her delegates to the con vention of the Georgia Funeral Directors to land that meeting for the coming metropolis.
 While the order does not seem to have hoe'i a large one the difficulties were really greater than they seemed, for at some previous meeting 1t had been agreed upon to make Atlanta the permanent con- v. .ntion town. where the members would come each year. bring their wives and daughters. enjoy social outings, and in tie finish transact a little business and then he themselves homeward.
 But Macon had no idea of allowing such g thing as a previous agreement prevent her from landing particularly silent and solemn gathering.
 So as soon as the Macon delegates arrived they went to work, and while At lantans were busiy engaged acting as hostss and extending the hospitality oi the town to the visitors, and showing them where the latchkeN hung out, dele