Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-03-01

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impeachment proceedings or to
proceed with the trial as they
saw fit. The Senate has agreed
with Butler that the impeach-
ment be dismissed as he had re-
signed, etc.
ALT. Stone got the floor the
other day, and explained the
necessity of a six-mill levy for
1918 and 1919 and an issuance of
three million bonds. The House
passed the bill, making a six-mill
levy for the two years. but failed
to pass the bill to authorize the
bond issue.
Bilbo was in the House all the
time-an interested spectator
and | hear he says he will veto
the bill authorizing the Six-mill
levy; that he is satisfied that if
we had a siX-mill levy, the peo-
pie will vote to repeal the tax
commission, which he thinks is
the most constructive legislation
of his administration. But |
don't see how we are to pay our
debts and get enough money to
pay current expenses unless both
of these measures are passed.
Our efficient auditor, Robert
Wilson, has signed a statement
showing that our current ex.
penses for the past ten years
have exceeded our income by
about five million dollars, and it
is high time to stop this, and we
will have to increase our appro-
priation for all the eleemosynary
institutions, as provisions are so
much higher.
| append a clipping from the
Clarion.Ledger, criticising the
contemplated school law, and if
this is correct, of course it ought
not to pass:
The Education Commission after two
years of seriRus and sober study. has
filed its recommendation for q revision
of the School Law, with the Legisla-
ture. 1t is remarkable document.
The authorship is hidden under the gen.
eral term of "School Code Com
mission"
Here are some of the recommends
tions as furnished this paper:
First: You can't be School Com
missioner in any county of Mississippi
unless you have been first approved by
the State Department of Education.
lSee Section 13, Chapter 8. of the
Report). We have a distinct i'm
preston that the Democrats of Mad
ison, Marion, Pontotoc and Washing
ton would enjoy coming to jackson
seeking the permission of the State
Department of Education to serve as a
member of the County School Board.
Second: You can't be County Su-
perintendenr of Education in Mississ-
ippi unless the State Department of
Education sets its rubber stamp of ap-
proval upon you. (See paragraph X,
Section rs, Chapter U. And it is
further provided that the State De-
partment having set its stamp of ap-
proval upon the County Superintendent
thereafter the County Superintendent
is required to attend any and all politi-
cal pow-wows convened by the Kaiser
like State Department or forfeit Ten
Dollars of his salary and this deduction
is made regardless of whether mileage
is provided or not.
Third: You can't build school house
in Mississippi without the permission
of the State Department of Education.
(See paragraph F, Section 81, Chapter
y. While the Legislature is investi-
eating plans and specifications provided
by expensive architects for some of the
State buildings recently erected, it
might be advisable to investigate this
provision of the School Code by which |
the Democrats of Benton, Adams, Han
cock and Lauderdole are denied the
right to build a little red school house
until the autocrats of Education shall
have approved the plan.
Fourth: You can't teach arithmetic |
in Mississippi under this school law un-
til the Won Hindenburg of Mississippi
shall have 80 authorized. |
(See paragraph N, Section 54, Chapter
y:
President Wilson is all wrong insofar
as Mississippi is concerned, verify, veri-
ly educationally speaking Mississippi
should be made safe not for Democracy
but for Autocracy.
Goodbye,
RIC RI1D