Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-27
.BAHNsEN MAKES
WARM REPLY To
COLLEGE AGENT

UuLLlUL nOLWD
ATLANTA, Ga. June 27.-In re-
port to the commissioner of aerzeua.
tire bEistling with sensational aIIega
tons, DR. PetereF Bahnsen, state xee-s
erinarian, charges DR.. Andrew n
Soule, president of the State College
Of Agriculture, and others tlsrpush
their agent, L. B. CheAtham, with NJ
tempting to discredit the services nK
the state veterinarian; using the hog
cholera serum plant as a leverage sinh
which to secure greater appropriations
from the general assembly; charging
the farmers of the state unjustfy hfgh
prices for hog cholera serum: fail5ng
to produce serum in quantities sufK-
cient to supply the needs, and with aa-
ing their influence to try to get thes
veterinarian out of office.
The allegations in DR.. Bahnsen's IS re-
port are directed principally at 4 re-
port made by Mr.. Ckeatham to the.
of agriculture. and wEHieA
Commissioner Brown, it is expected.
will transmit to Governor Harris az
once. Mr.. Cheatham is an Accountants
employed by the department of agrE-
culture to audit the several branches az
the department, following the recenk
retirement of Commissioner James ID
Price. Mr.. Cheathams report is salg3
tn make sensational attacks upon Dns
Bahnsen, and to disclose the sensa-
ttifaiii.a matter in regard 10 the manner
in which some Of the other branches
OF the department are alleged to hzve
been conducted.
DIR. SOule's Reply.
In statement issued in Athens, Dx.
Soule said that neither he nor the enE~
lege had investigated Or. Bahnseus,
nor made any attack on him, that Dx..
Bahnsen is under the commissioners al
agriculture, and the investigation had
been made by the department, the
college having nothing to do with IL
The college," he said, has been
TRYING to serve the state, attending III
its own business, and hasn't had time
to be playing cheap politics. Laz~
soule further expressed the opinaon
that the state veterinarian is attempt
ing to place the blame on other should
ers and direct attention away frorm
himself.
In his report, however. DR.. BahnseR
takes the position that Mr. CheathaHz
has been used by Dr. Soule to attack
him, and that Mr. Cheatham, accord
Ing to his own gossip, is agent for DR.
seule. The Bahnsen report is also In
reply to the annual report ,pf Dr
Soule to the board of trustees Of the
State College of Agriculture.
State Serum Plant.
Dr.. Bahnsen states that the depart
nent of agriculture began to expert
nent with cholera serum in l9oS. and
found it successful, but that the price
)f the serum was cents per C. c. az
S15 per pint In view of this situa-
ion, he says, he advocated the esfais-
of a state serum plant where
he serum could be manufactured ans
furnished TO Georgia farmers at COST
which then, as now, ranged het~eeza
80 of a cent, to i cent per {. G.
In 1911, Judge H w Hopkins. OF
Thomas, introduced bill to approprf-
tie $4,000 for the manufacture ans
of cholera serum, bat h@
says that Dr. Roy Harris, of the state
BOARD of health, persuaded tho house
to accept a substitute bils
giving the state board of health Ss.9ee
to distribute the SERUM
Then, by consent of Judge Hopkins,
Dr.. Bahnsen wrote substitute bIIz-
lie points out. and presented It IN tbs
senate committee, and endeavored tn
secure the cooperation of the college
IF agriculture for its passage The
college was afraid of jeopardizing rs
pending appropriations. he said and Ass
and Judge Hopkins fought the matter
out single-handed Largely throusaa
he promise that state serum plant
could manufacture and sell serum AZ
cent or less per c. G, or at apprexi-
mately S. per pint, Dr. Bahnsen eS-
plains, he got the bill through.
Then, he says, much to his surpriss
when the college. in 1912, begsn n@
serum at price Of Il
se1ts per c. C., or $3.50 per pint xEz
charged, at which members Of the zs-
,embly became exceedingly wrusis aE,s