The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-08-26
Georgia Techs Difficulties.

Georgia Techs Difficulties.
The board of trustees of the Geor-
gia School of Technology has an
nounced that henceforth Georgia stu
dents will be assessed 500 each for
| tuition.
The board declares there was no
other way out of the financial diff
culties that the State institution
sibility for its action upon the Shout
ders of the Georgia Legislature,
which not only refused to increase
the appropriation for the school, but
actually reduced the amount which
will go to the school by 10 per cent.
The new tuition schedule will af-
feet approximately 1000 Georgia
students, it is estimated, while an
| increase in fee to $175 for non-res-
idents will affect large number of
others.
The injustice of increasing the tu-
ition fee at State institution is APP
parent, when it is known that there
are hundreds of students now in their
senior and junior years who are at
| tracted to such institutions because
of free tuition. Those who are work
| ing their way through college will
find it particularly hard to raise the
needed fee, and many may be forced
to lose year or two, if not their de-
grees.
During the "a years of it's opera
ton, each county in Georgia has been
permitted to send fifteen boys annu-
ally to the State school. The obli-
CATION to see these boys through is
now thrown back upon the various
counties.
That the action of the Georgia leg
| islature was shortsighted, there is no
gainsaying. Undoubtedly, the States
| finances are not in as good condition
as they might be, but it is the poor
est kind of economy which shuts the
door to youths who are anxious to
get an education.
The Georgia legislature has writ
ten it into the record that education
is luxury and this is year to dis
pense with luxuries. What Georgia
needs is a school for legislators
Nashville Tennessean.
Any young man on earth who
wants to get an education and is real
ly in earnest and determined to get it
will find no obstacle that he cannot
overcome The boy or the girl who
is waiting for donation will have
no use for a technical education or
any other that is fostered by po-
litical organization. The State of
Georgia needs no defence. With taxes
mounting and agriculture in a state
OF coma, the State Administration of
Georgia is simply trying to collect
sufficient revenue for the necessary
running expenses of the State and
not for those things which are of
doubtful economic value.
Georgia is no doubt giving a little
attention to State credit, "a much
more commendable attitude than is
to be observed in the Tennessee State
Administration, which is forced to
issue seven percent bonds below par
at the rate of one hundred to six
hundred thousand dollars at frequent
intervals.
At the rate Tennessee is going it
won't be long until our bonds will
be selling for fifty cents on the dol
lar.
The Harding family seem to be up
against it. Warren G. was dumped
into the big presidential chair where
he is almost lost. A cousin of the
name of Harding, hailing from Chi
cago, tried to buy the moon on
credit and cut up several other di-
dos. Now the daddy of the Hardings,
an octogenarian, has run away with
young bride and brought down up
on himself the wrath of all the Hard