The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-12-10
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for school purposes that belonged to
the Catholics. Hickory Hill reared
and paved up the earth and came near
putting Reese over State School Su-
perintendent Britain in the primary.
But after the primary was over Brit
tain went to work. His investigations
have netted some sure enough changes
and they are going to net some more
that are going to be felt in Georgia.
When Watson howled about the use
of those two Savannah buildings, GER
! tain other people joined in the Wat
son chorus, among them some OF the
pretty strong religious forces,-all an
ti-Catholic along with Watson. Now
see what the bowling is going to net
the Baptists and the Methodsts who
by the way as a whole were not howl
ing but we're trying to bring up the
much needed support of education in
the state.
Sparks Collegiate Institute, Pierce
Collegiate Institute, Warthen College
and South Georgia College are all
Methodist secondary schools that en-
| Joy their portion of the state fund
which applies to those children enti-
tied to it. The state money is used in
helping to maintain these schools in
the grammar school departments. We
need not mention the Baptists schools.
Baptists know them They are in the
same plight. These great denomina-
tons made strong schools where they
could take their own denominational
support and the state fund to which
the children in the schools were emit
lied and combine the strength so as
to maintain an able well paid faculty.
The state funds are to be withdrawn
, low. The state attorney general has
said the state cannot help pay for the
schooling of a child when such child
GETS it's training in one of these
schools. He has advised that schools
conducted in church buildings cannot
lraw state funds and hereafter no
school of the kind can have the help
If the state.
The Methodists are trying to adjust
themselves to the new condition. The
3aptists are trying to adjust them
selves also. The whole state is being
Effected, and what is going to be
lone?
We know. Britain is going to track
he law with that school fund. He has
leen burned once. You will not get
lin again He permitted this joint
'ducaton work of state and religious
denomination as did his predecessor
pefore him. Watson rose up and light
ID the fires of bigotry and intolerance
md came near beating him with the
;orriest sort of candidate. No, you
will not find Britain mapping again.
Hot heads and bigots did not figure
hat this would back fire. But it did
nd we are much afraid it has done
ncalculable harm. There will likely |
We no more education under the joint |
Import of the state and religious de-
domination as it has been done here
ofore in Georgia The church build |
ng cannot be used for schools. The
chool building cannot be used for a
Sunday school meeting or religious
altering of any sort.
All right, now let our church funds
20 on to China and Japan and be used
o educate these races of men, while
he little ones at home who have here |
ofore been enjoying the use of this
money in respectable sort of school
establishment, go without. Let those
Who shout when Hickory Hill says
shout help mend this breach. Let us
,rovide school taxes everywhere to
iupply the money which the churches
rave heretofore used to maintain good
chools and, in spite of the bigot, still
have dependable training for the sake
of our civilization.
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