Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-10
JERRY MUGVAN Isl VICTORY SCORED BY
|GREETED ROYALLYG. \. |. c. WHEN
ION RETURN HOME VOTE WAS TAKEN


Normal & Industrial College of Mil
ledgeville, which has been striving I'M
successfully for two years to secure a
third of the Smith-Leyer fund and a
third of the states off-setting fund,
won an unexpected victory in the
house of representatives yesterday af-
ternoon when that body by vote of
104 to 25 passed an amendment to
the general appropriation bill directing
the trustees of the University of Geor'
gia to turn over to the college 100000
of the Smith-Lever fund to be used in
home economics extension work.
In it's efforts above-named, the Geor-
gia Normal & Industrial College has
been opposed all along by the Univers-
ity of Georgia trustees on the ground
that it would be ILLEGAL for the college
to expend any portion of the fund,
owing to the terms of the Smith-Lever
act of congress. The fund is now ex-
pended entirely through the State Col
lege of Agriculture at Athens, and
is used for home economics and farm
demonstration work The agricultural
college and the Georgia Normal &
Industrial College are both branches
o. the University of Georgia.
Failing two years ago to secure a
third of the fund, which it proposed to
use for home economics extension
work, the Georgia Normal & Industrial
College came back this year and re-
newed it's efforts, and again it was
opposed by the trustees of the Univer-
sity of GeorEia, and again the trustees
succeeded in "blufing" the college into
giving up the fight. The directors OF
the G.. n. l. C. had decided to accept a
straight increase of $4,000 in the col
lege's appropriation for support and
maintenance as a compromise, and an
amendment to the general appropria-
ton bill, providing for this increase,
was introduced in the house of repre-
sentatives yesterday afternoon.
Altogether unexpected by anyone.
Representative Seaborn Wright OF
Floyd county introduced a substitute
amendment directing the University of
Georgia trustees to turn over 10000
OF the Smith-Lever fund to the Geor-
gia Normal & Industrial College, and
by a vote of 104 to 25 the substitute
was adopted, leaving the supporters of
the University trustees perfectly
breathless and the supporters of the
college perfectly jubilant.
The supporters of the University
trustees, who are bent upon continu
ance of the present expenditure of all
the Smith-Lever fund, and all the
states off-setting fund, through the
State College of Agriculture, contend
that the action of the house will de-
prive the state of it's share of the
Smith-Lever fund, because of the
terms of the Smith-LeYer act of con-
gress; but the supporters of Georgia
Normal & Industrial College contend
that they have as many lawyers on
their side as the University trustees
have, and they are willing to take
their chances on the legality Of the
diversion of the fund.
The Georgia Normal & Industrial
College is perhaps the most remark
able educational institution in the
state. In few years it has built up
ar attendance of 1000 girls and turns
away an equal number for whom it
can provide no Accommodations. Its
work has attracted attention through
out the country. The legislators love
it because above all it is an institution
where simon pure democracy is in
stilled into the minds of young women
an institution where the daughters
of the rich and fashionable associate
on terms of absolute equality with
daughters of the humble and the poor,
knowing no distinctions of wealth or
social caste, and recognizing only the
standard of merit and character. For
this reason the legislators love the
college, and for this reason they never
fail to take its side when the issue
GENES before them.