The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-22
GAVIN IS SLATED FOR AK.
HEAD OF EXPERIMENT STATION
is PERSONA NON GRATA.
Governing Board Appoints a Com
mittee to Select Successor. What
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Governing Board Appoints a Com
mittee to Select Successor. What
the Trouble Is.
GRIFFIN, Gait is already ap-
parent that the fight on Director
Martin V. Calvin of the state expert
ment station, near Griffin, is going
to result in the selection of his sue
cessor to take charge at the expira-
ton of his present term in the early
summer
At the recent meeting of the gov
erning board of the station commit
tee of three was appointed to select
a successor TO Mr. Calvin This fact
was not stated in the news dispatches
sent out from Griffin regarding the
meeting of the board. 1t is evident,
however, that the board whatever
view it takes of the charges is of the
belief that the success of the station
demands a change and has planned
to make it.
The trouble, it is stated, proceeds
as much from the view taken by the
United States department of agricult-
ure al Washington as from that of
the employees whose charges were fl
ed with and considered by the board
The last report made by the govern
ment inspector who visited the state
was to the effect that it is not at
tanning satisfactory results, or in
cher words, that the management
was incompetent.
Has Right to Direct.
Inasmuch as the federal govern
ment contributes $4,000 year to
the support of the station and the
state gives practically nothing it
must be conceded that the govern
ment has some right TO a small voice
in its management.
Whatever may be charged as to
Director Calvin's management there
is no doubt about the fact that he
has given the station persistent and
faithful service, and his friends all
over the state will regret to see this
issue made
The real trouble seems to be due
to a desire to place in charge of the
station one OF the latter day scien-
tific farmers, the product both of
experience and the agricultural col
lege.
There are those who contend that
the station ought to be nearer self
supporting than it is. At present it
costs 100000 a year-the sum paid
by the government addition to
any income derived from the prod
ucts raised there.
A Matter of Expense.
The contention is that if the sta
ton is for experiments made with a
view to increasing both quality and
yield the proceeds from the sale of
what is grown TO this end should
come nearer meeting the expenses of
the institution. No point has been
made on this in the present instance,
and the criticism, if it amounts to
such, applies with equal force to the
management of the station ever since
it has existed.
Efforts have frequently been made
to remove the station from Spalding
county to Athens in order TO COM
bine it with the State College of Ag-
riculture, but these have been so bit
terly fought by Griffin and the rep
resentatives of counties in that sec
ton that nothing has resulted from
them.
1t is understood, however, that
the matter will come up again at the
next session of the legislature and
that a strong effort will be made to
combine the two institutions at Ath-
ems, where the state has already ac-
CURED a sufficient tract of land TO
| provide for it