The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-06-08
Urges the Passage of
Mr.. YeOnlanS' Bill

Editor Dawson News: ''Where +bo..
NO vision the people perish. My peonIa oIS 10
destroyed for lack of knowledge. ola r Ere
lament. He that knoweth to do GOOD tes
dOeth it not to him it is sin.'-New TaSto
ment God, speaking with true reyerenoa
cannot inspire an ignorant man. and bo1
never made of one pillar in His tcmnIo ~
Moses, the lawgiver of the ages, spent An
years in the best schools of the most -
lightened people of his day, land was Lear
ed in all the knowledge of the Egyptianas :,
Afterwards he took postgraduate course
of 40 years in indian before God conIG
speak to him from the burning bush. Isaiah
who prophesied for all times, before no.
could view God high and lifted up snr
rounded by seraphim and cherubim, " must
learn the history of his own people and thu
of all contemporaneous nations how elCo
could he show the ambition of Persia. who's
Cyrus was to deliver Israel.
Paul, who made Christianity a world 70
ligion showed the laws fulfllment as we'll
as the ceremonial fruitings to be accomplish
ed in Joseph and Mary's son, who was verify
the ancient of the days, the wonderfnI
counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting
Father, the Prince of Peace, whose reign
should be from everlasting to everlasting
the Christ of the new law, whose rule was
love thy neighbour" must first study the
law in the school of the priest, must know
the Pharisee's religion, must study interna-
tional law under Gamaliel, and read the
poets not only of his own but of Other
nations, before he could mount up to the
third heaven and see and hear things not
permitted for men to see and hear" But
Pharaoh's daughter was only obeying tha
maternal instinct present in all good wo
men when she rescued Moses. Amos was
only exercising the wise thought of the de-
VOut Hebrew when educating Isaiah Paul's
father was only fitting his son for lawyer
he being born in free Roman city and hay
ing access to the courts of the empire when
he gave of his means to give him the best
education his times afforded
And Georgia should profit by the things
that are past and wake up to her duty to
give all her children the right to which they
are entitled, that of being skilled in the life
for which they are best fitted.
Yeomans, of Terrell, will present to the
next legislature bill establishing schools
for the derelict children of this state, and
there are more than those who go through
the childrens courts who would profit by
going to these. 1t is the most important
movement made in some time. The mem
bers of the Legislature should go to Mil
ledgeville, see what Lovvorn has accomplish
ed with his meager facilities at the reform
atory, and pass Yeomans' bill, and add to
that the power by county school commits
sioners to send incorriglble children of re-
spectacle parentage there, assessing the cost
of their detention and education against the
parents of such children, for they and not
the state should be made to bear the cost of
these neglected ones. And then with a state
auditor and enlarged powers given to the
state assessors to employ tax rate experts
who should go over the tax digests of the
counties, abolishing county boards of asses
sors, the money would be forthcoming to es-
tablish our state in the front rank as to cit
izenship in the next generation and to lower
taxes Immediately on conscientious men who
want to abide their oaths and return their
property at it's right value but are deferred
by the man whose property decreases mar
velousIy in value as he starts for the asses
sors office
And then this legislature can name itself
the assembly that knew to do good and did
it, ANDREW P. RIVFS.