Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-10
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. w. Fl FELTON,


Sumter has the Third District Agriculture
al college and also eleven high schools.
Tiff county has the Second District Agri-
cultural college and three high schools.
There are also forty private high schools in
various counties. And there are at least
sixteen universities and denOminatOnal col
eges, paid for by churches and local money,
valued beyond $1,000 900 in property.
Berry school, near Rome, enrolled 600 pu-
pills in 1923 and received not a dollar Of
the taxpayers money claimed and spent for
state education.
Berry school had twice the college en-
rollment of the Soule college at Athens.
which cost the state and federal govern
ment near $600000
Just read over what I have written here
and answer one question: Have we gone
crazy on a machine public school system,
where it requires tWo-thirds of the total
amount to grease the machine" before
the public common schools begin to func-
ton?
An experienced man in the state super
intendents office grayely told me that two
! thirds of the money applied before the
common schools could get their one-third
to carry the schools with the children.
Of course the state needs an auditor.
Let us see the vouchers and the names Of
| those who were supplied with the money
THE EXPOSURE OF AN UNJUST WILL
" HE jury is out-deliberating on a will
made by former citizen of Barlow
county-and feeling sure this will ease
must go to a higher court, if a mistrial
occurs, [ giving the published facts con-
corning the WILL as taken from the known
conditions in the case. The man making
! the VIII had large proprty, and when he
died, and the ordinary read over the terms
OF the will, he refused to probate it. The
home place was left to the widow during
| her lifetime, but four daughters-one a
pf with
The father made a will giving two sons the
entire estate, and later added a codcil
reinstating a third son, and making tie
latter administrator Of the will.
The fathers enmity to his three daughters
was violent and they were not permitted
to come to his home during his later years,
and not a dollar was given, even to the
unmarried daughter who has remained with
her mother during all these years and
who would not only be penniless after
her mothers death, but without a shelter
she could call her own. 1t has been claim
ed by the three sons in defending the will,
that they should hereafter own the property
thus designated, while the daughters claim
that the fathers brain had been affected
by alcoholism during a long terms of years.
and he thus influenced until his mind
was affected and his hostility to his daugh-
ters was unnatural and the effect of dis
ordered brain.
10 MAKE sure IudC MS daughters SnOulQ
never get a dollar, he provided that Mercer
university should inherit the property, if
the died without heirs.
If | am not mistaken, the laws of Geor-
gia do not permit parent to disinherit his
own children (and their children) in such
manner, but the savage determination Of
the sons to that the three get all there
is, according to the will, and that Mercer
university should be the final legatee makes
an issue that is plainly contrary to Justice
and fair dealing
The father does not indicate his belief
that the daughters are not his own off
spring, and it is my private opinion that
these women have a far greater misfortune
in being the children Of a person who is
so unjust a parent. And when we know
, the devastating effect Of alcoholism INDUCED
Continued for long term of years. as
in this case-the law of Georgia should
intervene and divide this property-share
| and share alike-between all the seven
children who were so unfortunate as to have
such an unjust parent.
I will here mention another will which
donated quarter of million dollars, Civ
ing to a second wife the entire property
and leaving nothing to the married daugh-
tiers, and small annuity to a single daugh-
ter until she married. I do not call any
names of either wills, and the only apology
for such will lies in. the belief that the
father had become prejudiced against the
children of his first marriage very I'M
justly.
These things are strange to outsiders and
for myself | believe there is mental aberra-
tion of the mental faculties in every instance
where parents are obsessed against the
women who are the offspring of the will
makers.
|. P. S.-The jury broke the will. The
daughters will inherit.