Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-26

conformity with the law if it is to be
continued. Hence, | recommend that
your honorable bodies enact such leg
islation upon this subject as your wis
dom suggests.
District Agricultural and Mechanical
Schools
The district agricultural and me-
chanical schools having been taken into
the university system of the state, !
respectfully suggest that the co-opera-
tive relationship between the state
university, through the state college
of agriculture, and the above district
schools be made closer than they have
heretofore been. To this end | sug-
gest that the board of trustees of the
state college of agriculture appoint at
least one member from its board Of
: trustees to be an eX-officio member OF
the board of trustees of the district
agricultural and mechanical school in
J his congressional district, whereby
each of said district schools will have
thereon one trustee of the state col
lege of agriculture. Such member
should be required to attend the an
nual commencement exercises of the
district school to which he is assigned
and should have full privilege and au-
thority to act with the board of trus-
tees of the district school at that and
= all other meetings Of the said district
: school, and should make to the trus-
tees of the state college of agricul-
. ture, after said commencement exer-
cises, a full report of the conditions,
progress, ETC., of the said district
agricultural and mechanical schools.
State University.
While you are appropriating money
and enacting laws for the more eff
: cient and extended cultivation of the
: soil of our state, hold ever in mind
that the cultivation which will bring
the greatest crops and choicest fruit
is the cultivation of the minds of her
youth. Hence, l urge you to build up
as rapidly as Georgia's resources will
admit the state university which our
forefathers created and which, with
: its branch colleges and other high ed
} ucational institutions, can develop the
mental powers of our young people
of both sexes for keeping this great
state abreast of her most ambitious
rivals.
School of Technology, Etc.
= 1t is impossible to measure the
= value to the state of the school of
technology. The high standard which
7 it's graduates hold is finding its reflex
' in the technical development of the
: commonwealth from the mountains to
5 the seaboard. The modern demands
2 for education of this character in the
= architectural and mechanical develop
ment of our people are so imperative
that we cannot afford to let this great
! institution of learning lost aught of
/ the high gr&de of efficiency now char
5 acterizing it.
| 1t is undoubtedly true that this
t school has lost several of its leading
! instructors by reason of the made
quate compensation they received. l
= therefore, urge you to appropriate the
Y sum of ten thousand dollars as an ad-
= dition to the annual maintenance funG
r of the said school, making same imme-
S diately available.
t also recommend the addition of
= $500 each to the annual mainte-
: nance funds of the Georgia Normal
school and the Georgia Normal and In.
dustrial school.
Payment of School Teachers.
5 In my annual message to your pre-.
2 decessors last year l stated that the
! condition of the treasury had permit
= ted the payment of but 10 per cent OF
: the amount due for expenses of the
e common schools. l regret to report
t that, the appropriations having in.
E creased in greater proportion than the
states income, il has been impossible
3 to pay any amount as yet of the COM
i mon school appropriation for this
year.
During the past three months we
l have made inquiry into the question
| of the payment of teachers, that is
E we have sought to get the truth OF
= conditions as they are.
/ The result of the investigation
= proves that the evil has not been ex.
aggerated by those who have decried
: it.
v Briefly, we found that approximate
= ly one-third of all the teachers in the
: public schools of the state in 1915
: were forced to wait from two to
: twelve months for their pay, or, in
/, lieu of waiting, had to discount their
= claims at from to rs per cent.
Therefore, urge upon you the ne
t cessity for taking such steps as will
5 enable the executive office to make
: prompt monthly payments as due on
/ the appropriation to the public
{ schools.
Economy in Appropriations.
! While there has been a gratifying
t increase in the taxable valuations of
the property in the state, yet the de-
mands for expenses to maintain
1 schools and other educational institu-
, tons and the civil list require more
: than the present income of the state
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