Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-02-25
McCrory Challenges
Griner to Debate the
School Book Question
Ellaville, Ga. Feb. 90, 1926.
7 .eader Enterprise and Press.

The Leader Enterprise anc PresS.
Let me thank you for your kind
editorial and please allow me space to
answer few of Mr.. Griner's state
ments in regard to my bill and my
self.
It does not make any difference
who I am and who Griner is. | saw
an article in which he was praislng
his unselfish devotion to the interest
of the school children of Georgia and
| lust looked up his record. He says
he does not know whether ne voted
for or against the bill. His memory
seems to be treacherous. Does he re-
member how he voted on any meas
ure? He says the bill was defeated
by the House He is mistaken. If he
would read the bill he should have
learned that it created no new de-
partment and it would not have cost
the TAXPAYERS one cent. The State
Board Of Education was named to act
and that too without any additional
remuneration Let us see what state
publication has accomplished for the
LAWYERS of Georgia. When the Su-
prcme Court was organized, the Re-
porter was given the copyright to the
Report in consideration that he fur
nish two copies free to each county.
Until 1880 this was the law and every
lawyer in Georgia was compelled to
paw $500 per volume for each re-
port. Ask any old lawyer or write to
Col. j. f. d. Shipp at Americas, Ga,
and he will verify this statement. In
1880 this law was repealed and the
Clerk Of the Supreme Court was re-
uuired to have the reports printed by
competitive bids and sold to the law
yers at actual cost of production.
Now let Mr.. Griner tell you just what
happened if he knows. will tell you.
Look on the Fly Leaf of the Georgia
Reports sc and 81 and you will see.
Both volumes are about the same size
and covered with sheep, and the
Seth Georgia Report cost the lawyers
500 and the 9th Georgia Report
cost the lawyers S1.00 each and to-
day each lawyer in Georgia saves the
difference, and today the printing OF
these Reports are let to the lowest
bidder and sold at cost of production,
and last year these Reports were
printed in Missouri and sent to the
lawyers here as the contract was let
to a firm in that state, they being
the lowest bidders. Griner can have
all the fun he wishes as to my appear
ance, but this is not the question. |
have a Primer printed in Ontario,
Canada (that is produced as my bill
provided), that cost each child IN
Canada four cents while in Georgia
each child is compelled to pay AZ
cents for their primer. If better
primer than the one in use can not be
produced under my bill for IL cents
I will never mention school books
again.
Griner asks why | do not try and
reduce freight rates. Is it possible
that Griner does not know that we
have a Commission that prescribes
both passenger and freight rates. The
railroads have nothing to do with the
fixing of rates and Griner should
know it if he does not. | have moth
ing personal in the matter but to keep
the record straight. We have one mil
lion school children and | claim that
the bill if passed and put into opera
ton would save our children over one
million dollars each year. Let's see.
We have 100000 children in the first
grade. Just one primer under the
Book Trust rule as now obtains cost
Georgia children one hundred and
five thousand dollars. Under the On
tario plan of competitive bids the
same number of primers can be pur-
chased at ten thousand dollars. Some