Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
POWER Of TRUSTEES
Of STATE UNIVERSITY
CURTA|LED BY HOUSE
CurtaiIment Is Applied to g.
N, and |, C, Places Follow
ing Charge of thrust"
Methods Employed

Following charges by Representa-
| tive Landlord, of Toombs county,
to the effect that the friends, at
| taches and alumni of the board of
trustees of the University of Georgia
were in a political trust that threat
ened to prevent anyone from holding
an important state office without the
approval of the university, the house
of representatives Tuesday after
noon curtailed the power of the trus-
tees to the extent of taking from
them the authority OF name three ex-
ifficio members of the trustees of the
Georgia Normal and Industrial col
lege.
Some of the debate on the meas
ure carried the implication that the
university trustees, as powers in the
alleged political trust" followed
their political inclinations in select
ing trustees or educational branches
subsidiary to the State university.
The bill, a senate measure, was
passed by the overwhelming vote of
112 to 55, after a substitute measure
by Mr.. Pace, of Sumter, requiring
the university trustees to remove ex-
oficio members of branch boards
upon a recommendation of the ma
jority of the board members, was
killed.
The present eX-officio members of
the Georgia Normal & Industrial col
lege board are Judge George f. Go
Der, of Atlanta and Marietta; Byron
Bower, an Atlanta lawyer and Tor
merly a member of the house from
Decatur county, and Hugh Rowe.
editor Of the Athens Banner.
you can talk about your oil trust
and your coal trust and other trusts"
said Mr.. Landlord in discussing the
bill, but the most damnable trust
that has ever been formed in Geor-
gia sthe state university trust. 1t
is getting to the point where man
cannot be elected governor, speaker
of the house or to any important Of
ty trust"
Representative Carswell. of Will
kinson, explaining his vote for the
measure, declared tina the believed
the educational system of the state
not from the campus of the Uni
versity of Georgia"
Opposition to the bill was based
mainly on allegations that it would
JIlpdlE lie university SYSTEM. OCn6rS
advanced the argument that the meas
ure was directed against Judge Gober
and that other eX-officio members of
the board should not be made to suf-
fer because of the opposition to one
man. Opposition to the bill was led
dolph; Covington, of Colquitt: Pace,
of Sumter, and Brown, of Clarke.
The bill now goes to Governor Dor
sey for his approval or disapproval.
Although it is known that he was a
supporter of Judge Gober in the lat
Parks, the president of Georgia Nor
NAL and Industrial college the gen
eral opinion is that he will approve
the bill. For him to disapprove it
would array against him the mem
bers of the legislature who support
ed DR.. Parks in the controversy, as
well as the students, alumni and
friends of the Georgia Normal and
Industrial college.
The passage of this bill by the
house wrote the final chapter of the
complete triumph of the Georgia
controversy with Judge Gober and
the University of Georgia following
generally. When Judge Gober. Editor
Rowe and Mr.. Bower, with the sup
N. and I. c. board, put through
resolution last June to take out of
the hands of the president and fac
ulty of the college the admission of
students, and place it in the hands
of the county boards of education
and 1. C. got ready for war.
Hostilities commenced Immediately
upon the converting of the legisla-
ture. The friends of the college in
troduced bill to place, by law. the
admission of students in the hands
Poo W orc
they thought it belonged This bill
passed very early in the session.