Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-31

THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

nances of modern municipality.
The big hotel was built just outside
Of Philadelphia. They built thou
sands of miles of paving, water
mains, gas mains, strwer mains. They
built moving picture houses, hos
pitfalls and all the necessities Of mu-
nicipal life.
They constructed and operated
fuel oil stations all over the world.
They organized shipping agencies all
over the world. The accounts are
SO scattered it is impossible to form
any conclusion as to financial situa-
ton. For instance: A gentleman
who felt he owed the shipping board
| 100000, and who wanted to settle,
came to Washington to make set
tlement. They searched in 210
places, and instead Of the man owing
! them 100000, they owed him $780,
900. This is one example out of
/ thousands. They seemed to make
freaks-their managing agents.
They took hairdressers out of hair
dressing parlors and made them
fleet corporation, as purchasing
dSGIllS W puy SIll1IO SCIl SOCo LII IlAO
use of the crews. In some cases be-
fore they would land in a port they
would dump everything into the sea
SO they might buy another outfit
where they landed. This $3,500,000,-
900 wrung out of the pockets of the
taxpayers of this country was spent
in such ways. The property thus
owned was found in 200 different
places scattered all over the world.
At Hog island there were $4,000 diff
ferent characters of property COM
prising millions. The inventory COW
cred 1900 typewriter sheets. En-
gagged in the count were 800 emer-
gency fleet employees, $500 checkers
and typwriters, and they got out
these figures, allowing for extern
sions, in two months.
It was as rotten as it could be,
when this congress took hold of it
You cannot give the useless ships
away. They have about 800 ships
in James river, three-fourths steel
and the balance wood. In July, 1921.
there were 275 Of these ships tied up.
There were $50 employees to take
care of them at an annual cost of
$226,656. "a congressman rose to
say that if the government needed
breakwater it might be well to fill
them with stone and sink them"
"Those ships" said the chairman
"had never been used, were never fit
for use and there is no prospect for
selling them. -. :" Try to bring it to
yourselves that you have over $500.
100000 law suits filed against you
all the way from Hawaii to tbs
Philippine islands, in the courts o.
admiralty, in the civil courts, in the
u. S. courts, and you are constantly
being faced with the biggest lawyer
in the u. S. and drawing salaries
of hundreds of thousands of dollar
a year to serve their clients.
Much has been said about til
Government Housing corporation
and the continuance of these govern
ment hotels. There are 1900 girls
down there in Washington now II
one of these hotels"
Said the chairman there are nov
1894 civil service employees in tn
District of Columbia. The excoriatiol
of what is known abroad as 18th.
Fine Arts commission" was thor
ough and complete. 1t is too long
to copy here for our country home
readers, but it is interesting. All of
these statements have been printed
and any person who wishes to ex-
anime for himself or herself can pos
sibly procure a copy from their
congressman. The Vocational Train.
ing school expenses are gone into
deliberately. At this time there are
$4,000 trainees, as the pupils are
called. The increase in number is SO
rapid that the number is expected
to reach in 1922 more than a hun
dred thousand. The average cost per
pupil to the government is $142 per
month. These $4,000 are supposed t.
be taught and supported in abans
doned military camps as rule. The
Report is not pleased with the sys-
tenn nor the results, as they have
been obtained by investigation.
In my opinion the better way
would be for each state t pay at.
tention to their own ex-service men
in already provided schools, col
leges and universities. Georgia has
many teaching places and it seems
reasonable that they could be well
provided with fundamental educa-
ton with far less expense to the
SSieAdl SoNSIIllleuI. we .uI1uerSLdnG
these vocational schools are for
white and colored ex-service men,
and only for the disabled Of that
class of soldiers.
One hundred and forty-two dol
lars per month for a ten-months'
session means 81 ,420 per traineeA
All these things are going on, and
I have had the time and opportunity
to collect a few Of the data for the
readers Of the Tri-Weekly Journal.