Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-10
THE sTATE NEEDS REVISED METHODS
BY MRS. W

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II cultural colleges received on warrants
from the executive office in 1928 the
sum of $22,295. Divide by twelve and you
get the amount received by each to run
the cOlege-$1S ,5S0-twO years. Only to
pay teachers and support.
There were only three hundred and two
graduated from the round dozen. Divide
by 302 and each graduate cost the taxpay-
ers over 500. These colleges are planted
in sections where expensive schools and col
leges abundant. For instance there is
a district agricultural college in Walton
county, also another in Morgan county
Every pupil that attended the Morgan
county college could as easily have attended
the Walton college and vice versa The
counties join broadside and the two col
Ieges are less than thirty miles apart The
Walton pupils and the Morgan pupils could
as easily have attended the State Collage
OF Agriculture at Athens, which had for it's
college enrolment, in 1928 only three hun
dred and six Athens is less than thirtv
miles distant from Monroe and Madison
why were these district colleges thus bunch
gu with the big school in Athens?
At Dahlonega is another Agricultural col
lege with an appropriation of $4,000 At
Gainesville another, with only twenty-four
graduates. Dahlonega had only 1873 en-
rolled IN the college. Why couldn't one or
tne other consolidated and thus save the
expensive maintenance for one college?
agriculture at Athens there is the State
Normal school in the same city. 1t con-
sumed in 1922 $4,000, with deficiency
appropriation of $4,000. Add these two
amounts and you see this school, within
thirty miles OF Monroe and Madison cost
the taxpayers $l12, $50 In addition there
Is the state university, also at Athens 1t
mad large state appropriation, also a fed
eral appropriation. Counting the three col
Ieges, supported by the state in the city of
Athens, and the two district agricultural
colleges in Walton and Morgan consumed
besides nearly $4,000. In addition. there
Is the Lucy Cobb college, and now. nrav
tell me, why the legislatures which planted
these agricultural schools, did not trv TO
serve the pupils who lived farther away in
the Fltth and Eighth congressional dis
'llcIS: Inc buildings were expensive but
are already paid for, and the people of
Georgia are inquiring as to where all this
money went and who got the lions share?
The Seventh District Agricultural college
at Powder Springs, and the Fourth Dis
trlct Agricultural college, at CarroIlton are
punched in the same way. The Seventh
uStrlct runs to the Tennessee line and vet
the agricultural college for the Seventh
district is only few miles from Atlanta.
me Carrollton college is in easy reach of
AIantas multftudinous universities as we'll
as the Tech college. where people send
their children of choice
Inc Fourth congressional district takes
IN Columbus and Carrollton in the ex-
treme northwest, and near by are Atlanta's
big colleges and universities What an
oversight it was! Carroll county has also
three tour-year high schools; Carroll coun-
~ mas also one three-year high school: also
SIX tWo-year high schools, supported by the
state. COBB county has, beside the dis
trict agricultural college three four-vear
one three-year and three two-year high
:chooIS IN the county. Why didn't the leg
ISidtufe scatter agricultural colleges north
anu South II 1t was expected to get pupils
from all the thirteen counties?
Look in the Parks report of what has
been lately expended in Carroll county for
high schools. The new building cost $780,
600, the laboratory $1,000 and $500 for
new library If the people needed that
hlgh school in Carrollton they were ac-
qualnted with the inefficiency of the agri-
cultural college in the same town.
Still, Carroll county must have a SPLEEN
did high school at Villa Rica, costing the
taxpayers the sum of $4,000. The dis
trict agricultural college should have been
amply sufficient for one town as 1t is
claimed, shouldn't it? Why this urgent
need for a 100000 school in speaking dis
lance of the college?
Bullock county has the First District
has four-year high school and ten other
high schools in the county. Coffee county
has the Eleventh District Agricultural col
lege and has four other high schools.
Gainesville, in Habersham county, has
the Ninth District Agricultural college and
six other high schools.
Hancock has the Tenth District Agricul-
tural college and four high schools.
Lamar county at GAINESVILLE, has Cor
don institute, also the Sixth District Agri-
cultural college, also four other high
schools. Bessie Tiff is in county adjoining,