Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24

a farm woman should know, and this Sew
enth District Agricultural school, the biggest
and best of them, has only 278 enrolled, and
Berry school has 500 to be educated this
year, and the Berry school specializes on
what poor boys and girls can do, and they
do farm work needed on farms, and the
state has bill to pay.
The Americas Agricultural college enrolled
176 and graduated fifteen and absorbed
nearly $4,000 to conduct an agricultural
college Granite Hill school, in the Tenth
district, enrolled 125 and drew out nearly
$1,000 to graduate eighteen. Send for the
Parks report and see for yourself! The peo-
pie who live in Walton, near to the big ag-
rcultural college in Athens (Which soaks up
for its big self nearly million of tax mon
ey) bad 234 pupils and graduated Al, and
they could have gone to the big place as Well
as the little one and anybody ask why
didn't they send to the big one, which en-
rolled only sos, and omit this little one,
which soaked up nearly $4,000 per annum
to keep the little one on the states payroll,
and with no need for it? After | read over
these items in Superintendent Parks report
I can't for the life of me understand why
the legislators who set a-gOtng the enormous.
ly expensive farm colleges did not consider
the colleges that, were close by several OF
these locations and exert a little common
sense and common good judgment in this
location business in 1906.
This is no joking matter, dear Country
Home readers. The Berry school educates
more boys ana girls In one year IMAM Cn0
State Agricultural school at Athens educates
in two years. 1t educates more poor boys
and girls in one year than six of these ag.
ricultural colleges enrolls, by their own re-
ports, and the entire number, LIS, is less
than the Berry school enrolls in two years.
The twelve district agricultural schools
soaked up in 1922 and 1928, $180,000 tax
payers money; $22,28O federal tax money.
and $10,470 in fees, making total of
$212,760.
Entire number of pupils enrolled, 1,17S.
How many dropped out is not recorded.
The North Georgia Agricultural college
enrolled 1873. Expense to taxpayers, $40,-
! 900.
The Bowden Industrial college, $4,000.
with At total college enrolment (very
smalD.
The archaeological school for poor boys.
nearly 100000.
| The State Agricultural college, at Athens,
the granddaddy of the agricultural colleges
| Ito educate farmer boys how to pillow and to
SOW and to reap and to now, with
| pense bill to the state of 97,823,97, en-
rolled sos.
All these colleges are established to teach
agriculture, except the Tech and with the
! big agricultural college soaking up tax mon
! ey at the rate of nearly $4,000 per pupil, we
( are in position to ask why so great salaries
and why such few pupils?
I am inclined to imagine, is this the mill
! stone on our necks that will sink our ship
! of state?
The agricultural colleges-the twelve
| should be sold to the various counties at
auction Some might make use of the build
! ingS to house manufacturing plants, and the
state might lease them at so much per an
mum, but to call them colleges is farce-I
might say a tragedy. They are like Che
wooden ships of the shipping board costing
more than they come to, and sadly in the
way of the taxpayers.