Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-31

The TERRIBLE RURDEN OF TAXATION
r AM attaching a letter for the readers of
! ! the Country Home column that l hope
- will give us light on our duty and re-
spOnsibility to our day and generation.
The writer was born in Georgia, but is
now a resident of Tennessee. He allowed
me to offer the letter to The Tri-Weekly
Journal. He alludes to the propriety of cut
ting off the little children of six years, which
l have already noticed, from the grammar
school grades, and I am here to say it is
the very right thing to do. Young children
should be kept at home with their mothers
until they are old enough to be taught, and
these mothers teach them all they recite
at school. 1t is supreme folly to crowd pub
lie schools with infants when the need is so
great for those who are older.
In this connection also allow me to say
high school pupils should be segregated into
different buildings and the big girls should
have a house to themselves, anyhow. The
wretched scandals that are reported where
young men and women under sixteen are
counting, smoking and even drinking, should
be prevented.
Young children can herd together and are
more prone to fight each other than anything
else. The sex question in high schools has
shown the necessity sfor a change They
will not study when their minds are bent on
counting and marrying
The letter follows:
Our Enormous Taxation
A great many people are prone to COM
plain about many evil things and say that
such things ought not to exist, but they
rarely ever suggest a remedy We believe in
having a remedy for every i'll or evil known
to man.
: If 1 was going to preach in this day and
time I would not always go on the inside of
a church where the religious people assemble
together, but I would go out the streets
where most of the people are, so that I
would have a congregation, andjin that way
be like Christ, who said, 81 came not to call
the righteous, but sinners to repentance"
1t seems that the whole fabric of our edu-
cational social and religious life needs a
drastic reformation
Mrs FELTON,, of Cartersville Ga, the only
woman United States senator that we have
ever had, speaks of the enormous burdens of
taxation placed on the people of Georgia to
sustain the schools and colleges throughout
the state. To remedy this great burden of
taxation I would say she suggests that we
cut out the first and second grades from the
public schools Why? Because the parents
of the children in these grades do the teach
ing, if their children learn anything, and be-
sides it would be better for the child to stay
at home with its parents and develop phys
ically; so as to be better prepared for study
when he enters school at eight years of age;
and besides he ought to get acquainted with
his parents during those tender years of Ills
life for the chances are that after he enters
school he will know very little of his par
ents and his parents know very little OF him
SO give him good chance while he is six or
seven years of age to have that good pa
rental training much needed in this day
and time for the good of the child. Let him
have a good religious training given by the
parent, never to be forgotten in the years
to come.