The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-07
GEORGIA WILL PAY
 PENSIONS THIS WEEK
Georgia. School Teachers Get
 Paid Very Early
JOHNSON IS APPOINTED
Nothing About State Capital Is Talked About Much as Agricultural Train Which Will Start To-
 morrow Over State

| pretty we'll settled now that the state pensions to Confederate veterans will be , paid about the middle of this week. The present outlook is that Governor Brown will draw his warrant for the total amount of the pension money about Wednesday, and the checks for the va rous counties will be sent out to the ordinaries thereof immediately following. There Is just about enough money in the treasury now to pay the s1,114,5oo, which is the approximate total Of the state pension fund, but if the warrant iad been drawn yesterday it would have completely exhausted thes treasury, and 1t would never do to let the state go broke even for a day or two.
 I By Tuesday considerable amount n tax remittances will have been received, and there will be nothing further in the way.
 So the veterans all over Georgia may pretty safely count on haviag their pen sion money in hand by the latter part of the week.
 When Governor Brown paid the Georgia school teachers an additional $700,0o0 about the middle of January, he had paid out up to that date a total of 90 per cent of the school fund at the earliest period ever known in the history of the state
 Usually 1t is pretty well along in the spring or toward the summer before that much of the school fund for the preced- pg year has been paid, and as a rule also. a considerable amount of it is car ried over into the fall.
 It has never been the case heretofore that the county school superintendents have sent in their accounts as early as this. but according to capitol gossip, H. l.. Britain, the new state school commits sioner, is out for record, and he went after the county superintendents, with a view of getting in their accounts ahead of the usual time. He succeeded.
 The appointment of Col. J. Lindsey Johnson of Rome this week by Governor Brown as trustee for the state universi- ty from the Eleventh Congressional dis trict, in place of Col B. B. Hamilton, de- ceased, calls to mind the appointment . little more than year ago of prison commissioner to succeed the late Chair man J. g. Turner of that body.
 Colonel Johnson was an applicant for
 hat appointment, as were several others Of the governors warmest friends. He had also been one of the strongest sup rorters the governor had in the north- ern section of the state. Personally, ana through the Rome Tribune, of which he is editor, he fought for him day and night
 Colonel Johnson specially wanted to be prison commissioner. All the possible arguments were brought to bear in his behalf. He wanted that position with all his soul. So did R. E. Davidson Of Greene and others.
 Well, the governor thought long time and then he appointed G. R. Hutchens of Cedartown.
 Around the state department of agri- culture there. is nothing talked but ag- ricultural train, though the continued warmth of the weather bids fair to eclipse that as a topic of conversation and interest, if there does not come a change pretty soon.
 This train of seven care which leaves Athens Tuesday morning, will be in charge of pr. A. M. Soule, dean of the State College of Agriculture, Commis- s'oner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson and State Entomologist E. Lee Worsham. There will be other experts and lecturers on board, so that 1t will be possible to deal with and discuss every possible problem of agriculture that may present ltse6 during the trip over the state.
 The train will carry an Armour cattle car loaded with specimens of cattle and I roultry a flat car for exhibition work: a farm machinery car; another car con taining a fertilizer exhibit; a car de voted to cotton, dairying and farm build ing, in addition to which there will be a day coach and a Pullman which will fur nsh the living quarters of those who travel aboard.
 The train will be out 47 days, will visit IA counties and make approximately 140 stops of two to- two and one-half hours duration, which is considerably longer than the stops mad4 by the agricultural train of 190S In fact this years plans are ih every way more extensive than were those of two years ago. Many more points will be covered and many more subjects will be dealt with in practical manner. In fact it is proposed to do three or four times the amount of work this year, as was done then.
 More interest has been aroused in this train than in any agricultural stunt that has been pulled off in Georgia since the founding of the district agricultural schools. Since the programme and itin- erary for the train were mapped out there have been demands for 1t from many points which were not included be- cause of lack of time and opportunity. It has been managed so that some of these points can be included, while others will have to be content this time with gathering at the nearest point it touches l --p.--