The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-12-05

owns in the Georgia Normal and In
dustrial College. The original build
ing, like a mother hen, is surrounded
by its offspring, the name of each tel
ing its story-Terrell Hall. Atkinson
Hall, Parks HaIl,-until there was
no longer room on the campus, and
tract of land was purchased 'front.'
ing the college property, across the
street. Here was room for the cree
ton of a new building-the best in
vestment of $4,000 Georgia ever
made-and also room for recreation
and athletic park, which will be until
lied later. This new hall represents
the perfection of a college dormitory.
The rooms were designed for two
girls each, but because of the de-
mands on the college have three each
now. Every room has direct connec-
ton with semi-private bath, and it
ntted with every convenience. They
are modern and homelike-the best
of homes.
Board costs little more in this
hail." said President Parks.
How much does it cost here?" we
asked.
Sixty cents a day, room and
board" was the reply.
Think of that, We sufferers from the
high cost of living! We wish Presi-
dent Parks could show us how it is
done.
Adjoining the new hall is the resi-
dence of President Parks. This was
the State Governors mansion when
Milledgeville was Georgia's capital.
1t was built in 1888 but the material
was so good, the walls so solid, the
workmanship so thorough that it is
in much better state of preservation
today than the governors mansion in
Atlanta. With its stone colonnades,
its broad halls, winding stairways,
circular ball room, rotunda and gall
lery, it brings wildly to the magma
ton Georgia's statesmen of the olden
days and their stately danes. Pres.
Parks has keen appreciation of
Georgia's historical associations, and
cars for the building and it's fixtures
as zealously as his own.
The principle business of the Geor-
gia Normal and Industrial is to train
young women for work in the school
room. Not for long will Superinten-
dent Britain and the County Super
intendents under his jurisdiction have
cause for complaint fthe lack of
school teachers, for with this insti-
tuition with over one thousand in the
course of training, the need must be
met soon. And the training is inten-
sive and thorough, so much so that
we cannot describe it in detail.
But this school does not train teach
ers alone. 1t has courses in mil
linery. dress making, and in all the
branches of Domestic Economy. Girls
here can learn the trades that are
now paying the highest wages for
trained help. But better than all,
the school is training girls for house
keepers, and home makers. It's courses
in Domestic Science embrace real do
nestle work and practical. applied
science. The equipment is of the best
and the instruction and training
thorough. To watch class at work
makes one hungry.
To look at more than one thous-
and girls, when we try to think of the
mighty possibilities that are before
our eyes, the imagination staggers.
Here are the heads of one thousand
Georgia homes; the wives and moth
ers of one thousand Georgia families
OF day close at hand; the teachers
in more than half thousand schools.
who will have under their direction
and care twenty-five thousand Geor-
eia children-then we begin to rea-
lie. in part only, the immense pos
sibilities in review and the tremen-
dous responsibility resting on Presi-
dent Parks and his assistants. These
womanly characters are at the ripe
period of their formation-the most
impressive period. On them will de-
pend the happiness of a thousand
homes; the destinities of twenty-five
times thousand school children of
tomorrow.
We realized that when we looked
on this field of flowers, we also look
ed on the moulders of Georgia's fu-
ture. And then, approaching Presi-
dent Parks tremendous task, we en-
We'd him not at all.-Tifton Gazette.
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