Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-06
THE COUNTRY HOME
rs. w. H. FELTON,

to carry on other public schools and col
leges so called. We have a school of agri-
future in Athens which calls for the fol-
lowing amounts to teach boys how to farm
in this year, 1928
All the buildings are erected and paid
for by taxation. There were enrolled as
college pupils (teaching them to FARM S06
college students The taxpayers had to pay
$50, 000-largely consumed in salaries. The
Federal government contributed an immense
sum, Of which Georgia had to pay similar
equivalens-all amounting to a fraction un-
der six hundred thousand dollars
The University-devoted to free education
Of Georgia youth--drew a lump sum of
$165,000, including the farm colleges quota
of $4,000, and together these two colleges
collected from the State and Federal gov
eminent in cold cash-eight hundred and
sixteen thousand eight hundred and sixteen
dollars and sixteen cents, this year-up to
April, 1928.
You ask me how many were taught in
those two colleges ESQ called free tuition
with outside fees of considerably more than
100000 with college enrolment of 1,093?
I answer from the record-six hundred and
forty college enrollment-all paid by State.
Divide the total sum-nearly million
by the college enrolment in the University
and the State college. and then count the
money drawn out by taxation from both
State and Federal government, for each Of
the college graduates and you will see what
it costs the state to pay for education in
free colleges. Let me remind you that there
is another college of agriculture at Madison
Morgan county, which had only 100 pupils
of all sizes and ages-and which graduated
(listen, please!) just eight by their own
showing in April, 1923.
Again. there is another college Of agri-
culture in Monroe, Walton county, adjOin-
ing the county containing the big college at
Athens. How many did Monroe county
graduate? (listen, please!), forty-one
These two drew from the State treasury,
$50, 900; from Federal treasury, $4,000; to-
tai, $4,000.
Add this amount to the expense at Athens
college-and both are inside of thirty miles
from Athens-and you see what Agriculture
colleges, so called, doing for the tax
payers of Georgian the matter of appro-
priations
Within radius OF thirty miles (maybe
1ess) we are teaching boys to farm-in
three great, so-called Agricultural colleges
and also remember there Is still another col
lege in Athens called State Normal school
which drew $4,000, also deficiency appro-
priation of $4,000. Examine State School
Commissioners report and see for yourself.)
Add on another State Agricultural college at
Dahlonega, and you will see that college
which obtained over $4,000, at the, last
drawing from the treasurer. And we see,
what everybody can see that that college en-
rollment in that part Of the state had only
1873 names, with small preparatory school
dCCdCu0u, COSt Inc Taxpayers ulOIS %AdH CWO
hundred and fifteen dollars per scholar in
1923. Examine another college at Clarks-
vile to teach farming. Compare the Berry
school near Rome, with any one of them
with six hundred and twenty-five pupils en-
rolled in 1928, where the boys are daily
taught practical agriculture and everyday
methods in carpertering and metal repair
ing-which does not cost the state one cent,
and you can see what everybody ought to
see. who is in the least interested in their
own business Of tax paying. There is great
cry and little wool" The State of Georgia
is full of Agricultural colleges-and I find
three besides the twelve colleges, one in
each Congressional district-and the big
Athens Agricultural college, and all rolling
in money'-drawn out by state taxation,
and yet there are comparatively but few in
attendance compared to the Berry school,
which is success as an agricultural school,
and popular with the patrons of the school.
The report of State School Commissioner
M M. Parks is mine of information. 1t is
the only one Of its kind which will recall and
tell the taxpayers where the flood of school
money goes. 1t is worth perusal.