Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-08
COMMERCE BODY
SECRETARIES
VISIT TECH
Pupils Attending Georgia Cham
ber's School Hear Attack on
School Conditions of State.

Twenty secretaries of Georgia
Chambers of Commerce and Boards
Of Trade, here to attend the "secre-
aries school, conducted by the Geor-
sfa Chamber of Commerce, were
guests of President X. C. Mathison.
Of the Georgia School of Technology,
saturday morning on tour of in
speotion of the school. The secre-
tarial instruction was resumed short
~ before noon under the direction of
A. w McKeand, one of the organi-
alton experts here in the interests
OF the State chamber and will con-
niue in session until late Saturday
afternoon. A good portion of Satur-
days session will be devoted to in
struction on the problem of arrang-
ing for the "All-Georgia" dinners and
mass meetings that are to be held
throughout the State on Georgia
Products Day" November 49,
The school is the first of it's kind ever
neld in the State, and is expected to
arouse increased interest In the work
Of commercial organizations through
out Georgia. The instruction given
them by Mr.. McKeand is the fruit
of more than twenty years experience
in organization work, and is intended
TO standardize and systematic the
work of Georgia commercial organi-
cations. so that closer cooperate
and more immediate results. may be
obtained
Urge Cooperation.
Several speeches emphasizing the
need of cooperation throughout the
state were made at Fridays sessions
A.
j. Haden, president of the Georgia
of the Georgia Chamber; Mr.. Nc
Keand w b. Powell. of Columbus.
and DIR. K G. Mathison, president of
Tech
An organization to be known as
he Georgia Commercial Secretaries
Association was effected with W. B.
Royster, Of Griffin as president, and
c. c. Galloway, of Athens, as secre-
tary. The organization will be an
auxiliary body of the State chamber,
and much of it's work will be done
under the direction of that body.
A preliminary feast that gave the
diners an idea of the many good
things in store for them at the ALI
Georgia" dinners was served at the
Ansley Hotel Friday night. when the
20 secretaries and a number of invited
guests sat down to a banquet, of
which every item was a Georgia
product. President c. J. Haden serv-
ed as POSTMASTER, and several
speeches were made, all the speak
ers emphasizing the need of coop
Grafton between the State chamber
and the smaller commercial organi-
cations of the State, and pointing out
the fact that Georgia's resources need
sA&- to be developed to place her in
~ - 80 ------s- OF the States
Attack School Conditions.
The meeting was enlivened by an
attack on public school conditions
throughout Georgia, launched by w.
B. Royster, of Griffin.
4Griffin's school yards are a dis
grace to civiliza tom he declared.
And similar conditions prevail all
over the State There is not a cot
ton field or a peavine patch in the
state that is not better kept than
most of our school yards. We try
TO educate our children in build
ings that are worse than barns"
i Others who spoke were M. L. Brit
lain, State Commissioner of Educa-
ton; Dan G. Hughes, of the State
Department of Agriculture; c. G.
Bradley, of Morgan County: w. G..
Cooper, of Atlanta, and Dr. A. M.
Soule, of Athens, president of the
state College of Agriculture, and e.
Y. Jarnigan, of the Bureau OF AMI
NAL Husbandry.