Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-17
SERIOUS CRISIS IN
STATE FINANCES IS
FACED BY DORSEY
Governor Still Undecided on
Extra Session Call in Ef-
fort to Avert Threatened
Disaster

Well posted men in the state
house and legislature believe the
| financial crisis faced by number OF
state institutions and departments
will render an extraordinary session
Of the legislature absolutely neces-
sary.
But the general impression is that
Governor Dorsey will not call the
session until after the Democratic
state primary to be held September
8, in which primary he is candi-
date for the Unite Estates senate. II
he decides to call one at all.
The financial situation Of the Uni
versity of Georgia, the Georgia Tech
the State Normal College, the Geor-
gia Normal & Industrial College,
the district agricultural schools. the
State College Of Agriculture. and va
rious departments of the state, is not
calculated to get any better while
the governor is conducting his cam
paign for the senate.
On the contrary, the situation OF
most of them, especially the educa-
LlOndl luSL1IUIAOHS1 IS Nc1ASNANNNO ~
get a great deal worse. The edu-
cational institutions are in need of
additional funds to pay additional
salaries to teachers who have been
offered increased pay to go else
where. Their decision as to whether
to accept these offers, it is under
stood, depends upon whether their
present salaries will be increased.
If they are obliged to wait upon
an extraordinary session of the leg
islature which may or may not be
called after the September primary,
and wait again until the legislature
acts favorably at the extra session
in the event 1t is called, their offers
now pending will be withdrawn, as
the college terms open in September.
Colleges Hard Hit
Hence it is likely that the teach
ers in question will go ahead and
accept the offers made to them, and
their departure will leave num-
Der of educational institutions badly
in the lurch. The University of
Georgia and the Georgia Tech have
been especially hard hit in the loss
of professors. The big universities
of the east, with ample finances, are
going out for teachers at any price.
The manufacturers employing tech
nically trained men are picking them
off the faculties of educational insti-
buttons all over the country.
1t was for the purpose of consid-
ering the crisis caused by the legis-
lature's failure to pass deficiency
appropriations that the board of
trustees Of Georgia Tech held a
meeting yesterday. They remained
in session about five hous and de-
cided their need is so imperative they
would undertake to borrow 100000.
Techs bill was lost IN the legisla-
ture, like most of the others. Cover
nor Dorsey attended the meeting as
an ex-officio member Of the board.
It is understood he indicated his dis
inclination to call an extra session of
the legislature at the present time.
versity of Georgia will meet this
week to consider their crisis. The
university needs about $4,000 addi-
t1onal for maintenance, $4,000 to
put in repair number of houses
donated to the university for dormi-
tory purposes, $4,000 to protect the
houses with fire insurance and vari-
Gus other minor appropriations.
Nearly every educational institu-
ton of the state, majority of the
elyomosenary institutions, and sew
larly hard hit by the death of the
appropriation bills in the logger-head
of cross purposes between the house
and senate on the closing night of
the session: There have been few
times in the history of the state
when masterful leadership was so
conspicuous by its absence