Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-30
ADJUSTMENT Of
ALL COUNTY AGENTS
To Be CONTESTED

The appropriations committee or
the house commenced work Thurs
day afternoon on the general appro-
priation bill for 1922 and tentatively
applied a reduction of per cent to
the appropriations for educational
institutions.
There was heated debate as to
whether a cut of 5 per cent would
bring the appropriations within the
revenue of 1922. A fraction of the
committee led by Representative
Quincy of Coffee insisted on applying
a reduction of 20 per cent. Repre-
sentative DuBose of Clarke, chairman
of the committee, was firmly of the
opinion that a reduction of per cent
would be sufficient to bring appro-
priations within revenue.
Governor Hardwick estimates that
the revenue of the state for 1922 will
less than the scale of appropriations
on which the state is operating for
1921. Chairman DuBose expressed
the belief, to the committee, that the
revenue in 1922 would go higher than
Governor Hardwick's estimate. He
thought it would go to $9,O00,0OO.
After applying a reduction of S
per cent to practically all education
al institutions, and tentatively strik-
ing from the appropriation bill the
existing appropriation of $4,000
for farm extension work conducted
through the State College of Agri-
culture by a combination of state
and federal funds, the committee
came to the question of the common
school appropriation.
A state law, passed by the legisla-
ture in 1919, requires one-half of the
total revenue of the state from all
sources to be appropriated to the
common schools. The appropriations
committee was up against this law.
The present appropriation to the
common schools, for 1921, is $4,500,-
O0O.' If the states revenue for 1922
figures $8,500,000, as Governor Hard
wick estimates, then the common
schools would get s4,25O,000, and this
was the figure tentatively written
into the bill by the committee.
To Fight Farm Gut
An effort will be made at the next
meeting of the committee to put
back the appropriation of s13o,000
for extension work through the
State College of Agriculture. Chair
man DuBose is strongly opposed 20
the abolition of this work, which he
considers of the highest practical
value to farmers throughout the
state. This is the appropriation
which pays, the salaries of farm dem
onstration agents and home econo-
les agents. The state puts up $4,000
and the federal government puts up
100000. The fight in the committee,
on Thursday afternoon, was on the
question whether the county agents
are doing necessary work.
Reductions tentatively made in ap-
preparations to educational institu-
lions on the per cent basis were as
follows:
University of Georgia, from ss5.-
Georgia Tech, from $125, 900 to s119,-
600; State College of Agriculture, for
general maintenance, from 100000 to
$85,500; North Georgia Agricultural
College at Dahlonega, from $4,000 to
1000; Georgia Normal and Indus
trial College at Milledgeville, from
100000 to $4,000; extension work
at this college, from s12,5o0 to $12,-
600.
Institutions whose appropriations
were not reduced by the committee
were as follows:
District agricultural schools, twelve
in number, $4,000 each: Academy for
the Blind at Macon. $4,000; School
for the Deaf at Cave Springs, $780,
O00 Training School for Boys at
Milledgeville, $4,000; Training for
Girls at Atlanta, increased from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Would Hurt Tech
DR.. K. G. Matheson, president of
Georgia Tech. gave out statement
declaring an appropriation of $119,-
900, as tentatively fixed by the COM
mittee, swould cut in half the work
of that school. He pointed out that
Georgia Techs maintenance this
year is costing upwards of .S225,oOO::
Of that amount the state furnished
$125,000 and the balance was raised
by public subscription. DR.. Matheson
said Georgia Tech was not willing to
ask the public for maintenance, al
though it's campaign for building
fund to enlarge the school would go
right along.
Chancellor David c. Barrow, of the
University of Georgia, said that in
stitution would BE seriously embar-
raised by a reduction of it's appro-
priation from $4,000 to $4,000. He
was concerned still more about the
committees tentative action abolish
ing farm extension work at the State
College of Agriculture. He consid-
cred this a blow at the farmers of
the state, who, as he said, are al
ready in a bad condition.