Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-07-14
NEWS AND VIEWS
Prom The
STATE CAPITAL
BY F. r. Birdsall

State Superintendent Bond an
nounces that the attendance upon the
summer normals is proving most graf
flying. Nearly 5000 Mississippi teach
ers are attending these normals, and
educators state that never before in
the history OF Mississippi has there
been such commendable effort on
the part of teachers to improve them
selves professionally.
At the recent meeting OF the state
democratic executive committee in
Jackson, for the first time in the his
tory OF Mississippi a woman sat with
that body, Mrs. Howard Williams, of
Hattiesburg, having been chosen to
succeed M. U. Mounger, resigned. A
resolution was adopted that none but
white democrats who had voted the
presidential ticket in 1920 should be
allowed to participate In the primaries.
No location for the city auditorium,
for which 100000 in bonds were voted
recently by the electors of Jackson,
has been agreed upon. The board OF
supervisors of Kinds county has been
asked to appropriate $4,000 to go into
this auditorium, and provide an armory
which is authorized under the law, and
until this matter is settled, the loca-
ton Of the auditorium site will be de-
ferred.
Visitors state that there is more ac-
tiyity being taken in. the senatorial pri-
maries than heretofore, and the apathy
as tho primary date approaches grows
less and less. The senatorial primary
will take place on August IA, at the
same time primaries for congressman.
judges and chancellors will be held,
as well as that for a supreme court
judge in the southern district. OF the
Stale.
Flag staffs for the old and new capi-
tol grounds will soon be erected, and
s'Old Glory will kiss the breezes of
Mississippi from the seat of govern
lnent again. 1t was found that the To-
cation of flag staffs on the dome OF the
old and new capitols were dangerously
Inaccessible, and that the swaying OF
such flag staffs with large flags dur
ing heavy winds loosened the roofs of
the buildings and caused them to leak.
When the flag poles are erected the
flags will be hoisted and lowered both
morning and afternoon.
1t is reported that the agricultural
high schools, which were given au-
thority by the legislature to become
Junior colleges, are organizing for the
coming session. The agricultural high
school at Raymond, which is the geo.
graphical center of the capital county
Of Mississippi and said to be one of
the foremost in the country, is laying
plans for successful work. These ju-
nior schools become public colleges for
boys and girls which they may attend
without cost of tuition for two years,
and the work done by these junior high
schools will be accepted by all of the
state colleges and the state university
in Mississippi.
The reports at the state highway
commission department are to the eff
feet that the constitutional amend
ment giving the state highway COM
mission control over trunk highways
so that Mississippi may participate in
federal appropriations for road build
ing, continue to grow in popularity. 1t
is important, however, for the men and
women, when they come to vote on
constitutional amendments at the No
vember elections, not to ignore such
amendments, but If they favor them to
rut cross opposite them. Any voter
at that election who fails to vote on a
constitutional amendment effectively
votes against 1t as If she or he voted
in the negative.
The supreme court will recess for
its summer vacation on July 10. Un-
less it hands down an opinion in the
fire insurance cases brought by State
Revenue Agent Stokes. ". Robertson,
wherein Chancellor Stricken penalized
SO companies some $S,000.00O. which
was argued sometime ago, being on ap-
peal, no decision can be expected be-
fore October. when the court recon-
venes. Lawyers state that the chan
cellor followed the law and the testi-
mony and imposed nominal penalties.
1t Is conceded, however, that the only
penalty collectable are those impound-
ed by the revenue agent, and are now