Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-14
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON,

college gets from the university covers the
enormous sum of $816,S16.16.
All this 81 offered as farm education. and
today there is taxation so. heavy that hum
dreds of farms being sold for taxes
tens OF thousand acres lying idle, without
cultivation, and an exodus of nearly one
Hundred thousand farm laborers from the
state of Georgia in 1929.
If Bishop Gambler will glance over what
is called Agricultural education he will see
it is completely oyerdone as to its failure
and almost rolling in most extravagant APP
preparations to educate farmers! At the
pace it is going we will be Obliged to con-
fscate the farms and what the land means
to the people who worked hard to get or
own them, to carry on this remarkable eX-
position of farm education.
This college of agriculture demanded and
drew out eighty thousand dollars from the
state treasury in 1922, according to the
Parks report. 1t received in fees a frac-
ton under $4,000. 1t received from fed
eral bounty a fraction under 100000. From
other funds, $4,000, in round numbers.
From state Smth-Lever extension, $780,
600. From state additional extension, $751;
ESQ. From federal Smth-Lever extension
nearly $240,00O
And the total college enrolment was sos!
All this is agricultural education, so
called! l wish our good bishop would ask
for the report made by Comptroller Gem
eral Wright for the year 1921, and read
over the amounts drawn by the State Col
lege of Agriculture during that year. If
this learned divine will procure
copy of another report ordered by the Leg
islature of 1922, concerning the cost of this
State College of Agriculture, along with
the cost to the taxpayers of the department
of agriculture, he Will agree with some Of
the rest of us that sharp and thrifty peo-
pie are riding the farmer-idea almost to
death. That's the fhorse they ride in on"
and the spawned poor beast is nearly dead
from the cruelty of its riders When will
the farming classes get their eyes opened to
the enormity of such wel-planned foraging
on the strong box of the state? 1t costs
the state over sixty-eight thousand dollars
to officer the federal and state extension
funds, so-called. The county agents, So
called, soak up nearly $4,000 in salaries.
The president has $4,000 salary. His pri-
vate office, his salary included, costs the
state somewhere around twelve thousand
per annum-clerk and librarian; and where
the so-called college and the department OF
agriculture do team work it requires more
than $4,000 for salaries.
The School of Technology in 1922 cost
the poor taxpayers nearly 100000. CThis
is another school for the poor farmer
class.)
The State Normal school at Athens to-
tailed over one hundred and ten thousand
dollars to teach farmers kids{ While the
state pays nearly five millions for common
schools, the expense for state colleges is
more than two and half millions. Georgia
has more than dozen independent colleges.
And Georgia has nearly 100000 illiterates!
The state is spending tax money on our
youns children in lavish and profligate style
who would be far better off in their homes
until they are seven, or possibly eight, years
old, and the schools are going wild
athletics, and the poor Reubens of our
country are not getting anything in COM
parison with what they are forced to pay in
taxes. My space is filled This is a small
reply to the question.