Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-17
Atlanta NEEDS More
Schools and Better
Schools
While the Cys Finance Committee is Considering the of
the Various Municipal Departments it Must Not Forget the
Immediate Demands of Our Educational System
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The of the new South marveling at record
Ct Of which Atlanta and her sister cities justly
proud asking today in that progress the ma
teral has not too wholly overshadowed the ideal.
Has the scraper and the railroad trade mart foo
great place IN our houghts Has the great which
robbed thousand and sweatshops their helpless vic
TINS which turned the dread spots of of great cities into
Fairgrounds for the children of which the
ideal that led Rockefeller give of his millions to
science in its battle disease which moved Carnegie to be-
spread the nation with the thoughts of the worlds master minds
has that movement found ukewarm?
The question should give every the South
pause Especially should be pondeed by every whom
has been officially ntrsted share shaping of its desti
MES.
The problem home with particular aptness to Atlanta
at this time the who apporton its millions in revenue
meet to consider the ctys needs Will they consider school
though be without vote who urge it's caus 90
important as a street gradngY
Will they consider the play ground to take from the street
and the automobile its Victims and keep youth of At
anta happy minded and happy hearted momentou as more
Will they weigh the pleas city splendid mothers Of
ITS educators and It's doctors and all its ceares thinkers and
take to heart the needs of those who build even
what it is? ~
Or will the finance committee of city council Law these r
gS aside as the enreates of impractical deas with the u
spoken thought, Oh those wait? That has been done
before NUS ~ ~
Among the urgent needs of the educational system of At
anta there have been pointed English commercial
gh school building to take the place of the that
shames the city which schools for b
eighth and the ninth wards and to replace the dapdaed
Davis Sfeet building; anneXes to the nman Park
ana 0rahu Fak schools to eliminate unhealthy easements
srucon rOomS the Improvement of yards that an
esore but an actual peril and the purchase of lights
for audtorums to turn them into ceners and gve the %
It's full value for money expended
Let the committee consider these suggestions carefully Let
1t remember that all the greatness city achieve EMMY
4eeu without happy intelligent children properly prepared
take up tomorrow stupendous tasks
The work of the finance committee is hard Tho cit-,
hnancS are involved Impractical business methods and worn
out charter providing an antique system municipal govern
ment responsible for the difficult position the committee in
1T IS the duty of every citizen protest against the growth
OF Atlanta beng suned by this manged old charter-whch has
become nothing more than stumbling block municipal eff
cheney and cloak for the schemes of petty politicians The
committee OF one hundred appointed result the charter
mass meeting to visit council Monday and ask the
passage OF the Humphrey resolution which opens the way for
a sensible, upto-dae charter. wy
BY adopting the resolution council put itself on record
heart. , 0 " INV WV
Schools Streets parks and all improvements will never
meet puOlIc requirements under the present system