Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-03-06

come a national bank, for w
rarely ever have a failure of
national bank. and Auditor Smitl
has gotten up some startling
bank figures, as follows:
This data shows that from
January 1, 1908, fifty-two stat,
chartered banks in Mississippi
have failed. The aggregate cap
ital of these banks was SAP, 1853,
$50, while the deposits affected
amounted to $7.010, AS.
During the two months Of 1911
there have been fourteen NOR
bank failures, with an aggregate
capital involved of 1862. 22O, anc
a deposit account of 81, ,627. 400
which more than maintains the
monthly average.
This gives a total of sixty-si1
banks which have failed or gone
into liquidation during the ,siz
years and two months, with a to.
tai capital this Led of So, 976, 18(
and total.e, " Sits of So, 637, ,845. y
In view of the above, don't
think any one would deny the
fact that we cannot have toe
stringent a bank law and | under
stand that Senator John Sharp
Williams has introduced an
amendm ut he national bank.
ing law lg this guarantee
feature. becomes a law,
we will cease to have money
panics.
Prof. Deister, who was recent
ly dismissed from the University
by the trustees, has published a
very abusive pamphlet about An
drew Kincannon and claims that
a son Of a Mr.. Crook, who was
appointed to look after the books
of of the University. and a son
of Senator Anderson, who was
chairman of the Legislative Com
mittee, had both been given
"self-help" positions in the Uni
versity. Senator Anderson as
sured the committee that this is
untrue; that Mr.. Crooks s son was
paying his own way, and Ander-
sons oldest boy was only seven
years of age and had, never been
within forty miles OF the Univer-
sity.. This statement of Senator
Anderson was heard with close
atten ion and was vigorously ap-
plauded by the Senators and, on
motion of Senator McLaurin, it
was ordered placed on the jour
nal. So l suppose we can well
adopt the old Latin maxim, "fal-
sus in unum, fdlsuS in omnibuS,'
as to the entire report.
In my opinion, a good bill was
introduced in the House the other
day, requiring all teachers to be
examined in the branches they
were expected to teach and Prof.
Bailey, Superintendent of Jack
son City Schools. was allowed to
come before the House and ex-
plain the bill. He did this in a
splendid manner and although he
was showered with questions all
over the House, he never got rat
tied for a minute and made a
very convincing speech and, had
The vote been taken then, | am
satisfied it would have passed,
out we failed to get a vote at
that time and when brought up
next day, it was defeated. This
dill simply required that if a per-
son wanted to teach the primary
branches, they were examined
)nly ia those branches; if they
wished to teach in the grammar
school, only examined on gram
mar school branches, and if they
lspired to teach in the high
school and agricultural school,
hey were only examined on
hose branches, and this seemed
alright to me.
We had up fine bill introduc-
ng a Bureau of Markets in con-
lection with the A. & M. College
md it was stated that the Feder-
Il government would add as much
o this fund as we appropriated.
This Bureau was supposed to get
markets for all kinds of produce
hat the farmers might raise, but
learly all the farmers were op-
)osed to it; said the farmers
:ould sell all they raised, and it
vas voted down. Prof. Morrison
# the A. & NJ. College has done
his in a small way, in providing
market for all the eggs raised
N the Oktibbeha farms, getting,
believe, an average price of 30c
)er dozen all the year round, by
correspondence with the best ho-
els. The defeat of this measure
ed Tom Brame to say that the
'armers killed nearly all the bills