The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-06-27


are at standstill and the public
school teachers are paid small pit
tances and are even compelled to wait
for several months to get what they
have earned in the service of the
state.
| trust that this legislature will
adopt some method by which this can
all be changed. The outgoing execu-
tive has suggested a method which |
trust you will carefully consider. 1t
appears to be feasible.
If it needs more money the state is
able to furnish it if you will provide
the means for the same. If the state
should ever go to protest | would
rather this should occur from an eff.
! fort TO educate, its children than from
any other cause on earth.
The University And Its Branches
For some thirty years l have been
serving on the board of trustees OF
I the university. For the same time |
have been chairman of the local board
governing the Georgia School of Tech
nology.
Of the units which compose this
splendid system, the Georgia School
CT Technology, which began operation
i'll 1888, has already become the pride
Located in tie capital city, il had an
attendance during the current year of
some Loco students coming from ell
/ the walks of life and all earnestly
! seeking to secure the training neces
| sary to fit them for work in the great
Industrial departments of the state
The Georgia Normal and Industrial
( school at Milledgeville, following on
the plan of the Psychological school,
! opened for girls in the year 1895.
| Nearly 1000 girls have graduated
from its halls since that time and
since the year 1897 it has denied ad-
mission to about 1000 girls for lack
of room to take them in
The North Georgia Agricultural and
Mechanical college at Dahlonega is
doing great work for the mountain
boys and girls and deserves the sup
| port and commentator of the legis-
lature. DR.. Glenn, who manages this
! school, has probably been more mod
| est in his demands on the legisla-
| ture than any other head of a Geor.
| gia institution in the last thirty years
/ With an enrolment of 255 during the
last year the school is looking out
| for broader scope and is greatly
in need OF help from the state to
cover the field that lies before it.
The State Normal school at Athens,
| where five hundred young people make
their annual pilgrimage to learn to
become teachers in the public schools
Of the state, Is an indispensable link
in the chain of our great institutions,
binding the public schools and acad.
elnies to the, colleges and universe
ties.
The State Agricultural college at
! Athens, under DR.. Andrew M. Soule,
is assuming commanding position
in the educational field of the state,
meeting a want that no other school
| can supply and absolutely carrying
! the college to the doors of our farm
N t1nfi
! state.
The Medical school at Augusta is an
integral part of the university. It's
J operation under the present auspices
is quite recent, but it is starting out
under the most favorable circum-
stances of any medical school prob
ably in the South The city of Au-
gusta has come to it's help, equipped
two great hospitals and is giving it
a prominence that will cause it to
work out a wide destiny in the flu
ture. +. nj
The youngest of the sisterhood, the
| Valdosta Normal and Industrial
school, opened during the last two
years, is asking for patronage in that
great empire, south of the middle line
Of The state. It's work has just be-
gun, but the field stretches out before
1t and promises abundant harvest.
the eleven district agricultural
schools constitute an intermediate link
between the public schools and the
university and contribute to the stu,
| dent body of the other state institu-
tions, more especially the Georgia
School of Technology and the State
Agricultural college at Athens
This constitutes the university sys-
TEN and its branches for the white
people
There is located at Savannah the
Georgia State Industrial College for
Colored Youth which is also q branch
of the university.
In this institution is provided a |
course of training adapted to the
wants of the colored people, both men
and women.
Farming, cooking, washing, farm
| mechanics and many other related
branches are taught to the colored
youths with the idea of fitting them
| for the sphere in which their work
lies within the state The school re-
ceives an appropriation from the state
ana also shares to some extent in
the funds provided by the United
/ States government for the mechani-
| cal colleges Of the nation.
Need More Money
All these state schools of the uni
verslty system are in need of money
for development; some for research /,
piio NhtSIlSloh tc6CulDS, BOIIlC lOF
dormitories to shelter the students.
| and some for buildings to house equip,
ment donated to them.
There is constant cry going I'D
from the authorities in charge Of them
for help. The state system cannot !
stand still. These schools must either
go forward or go backward. They
should receive your most earnest
countenance and support in so far ,
as the state of the treasury will per
nit.
/ 1t is a matter of great regret that
| we cannot meet all of their demands.
/ The most we can do is to encourage
with small additions, if, in your wis |
dom, you should see fit to take this /
course.
No state can be truly great unless
! its people are educated Ignorance Is
! the parent Of vice and of crime.
Our Prohibition Laws
During the campaign for governor l
told the people Of the state that IL
elected intended to try to enforce ali
the laws Of the state, and among 9th -,
ers, mentioned the laws prohibiting
the sale of intoxicants in the state.
| may be little oldfashioned in my
notions, but believe that the laws Of |
the state are enacted to ba obeyed |
| Otherwise the state would soon ac-