Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-21
Open Wide the Gates
To the Public Treasure
By WESLEY r. WALKER.


newspapers carried in big headlines
stating that at last the paying of the
Farm Demonstration had been settled
and that the Board of Education had
passed on the matter and would pay
the salary from July on the remain
der of the year, the question is who
wants a Farm Demonstration.
1t has been said in the papers that
the A. B. & C.. r. r. likes Mr.. Owens
and that the Chamber Of Commerce
likes Mr.. Owens, we have all read
these boasts of Mr.. Owens, and Mr..
Newspaper you might say that the
farmers likes Mr. Owens, no one as
far as | can learn dislikes the man
far be it from that idea.
The question is if the railroad,
/ Chamber Of Commerce, and the news
paper want farm demonstration let
lnem go down in their pockets and
| pay one. Farm Demonstrators all
over Georgia are getting one hun
bred dollars a month out of the pub
lie Treasury Of the agricultural de-
partment at Aliens, Ga. under the
direction of DR.. A. NJ. Soule, Presi-
dent of the College of Agriculture,
the money comes out of the appro-
priations made by the Federal gov
eminent to carry on agriculture ex-
tension work in Georgia, the people
are already paying their part of this
salary through this appropriations,
and it has been considered that 500
per month was ample pay for this
work. Tell me how many farmers and
laborers toiling in the sun, day in and
day out getting in at night dusty and !
dirty and tired out from his days lab |
or that is getting 500 per month but /
instead is working for many dollars |
less, and does not have the pleasure |
of going clean and neat every day, I
but the advocates of a Farm Demon
strator in the County are not salts
fled at this salary but wish to extract
from this County another 500 per
month from the common school child
rem, making $2,40000 salary for
demonstration.
If Demonstration Is not willing to
work for 500 a month there is no
Just reason why we should be taxed
on our property to Educate our child
rem and the Board of Education
AXE $4,000 month out of it to
pay farm Demonstration. The Farm
ar has not asked for Demonstration
but they are asking for their child
rem to get the benefit of the tax or,
'epeal the law.
There are plenty of men that want
Jobs where they will not soil either
their hands or clothes where the pay
comes out of the public treasury. If
the Chamber of Commerce wants a
Farm Demonstration one who will or
ganize pig clubs, corn clubs, and
chicken clubs and give premiums let
them have their Secretary to do it he
has plenty of time to call the clubs
together and talk to them, do the
paying and get all the glory.
If the Board of Education wants a
Demonstration to organize pig clubs,
corn clubs, chicken clubs and give
premiums for the same, why not say
to Supt. J. H. Billiard we want you
to organize these clubs and look after
them in as much as we are paying you
the year round and the schools are
now closing and you will be idle for
a while Why have another man on
the pay roll drawing 500 a month
out of funds that ought to go to the
of the County, give the
school teachers more pay and long
err term of school for the children
there are so many dollars and cents
allotted to each child of school age in
the County including the children of
Fitzgerald, the children iii the city
gets the full benefit of every dollar
appropriated, yet some would have
the country children deprived of the .
funds set apart for them by paying
a demonstrators out of it, if you take :,
money from the country kid then !
take money from the town kid. Get ,
busy, get some kind of Demonstration, |
give him 500 a month out of your |
public school funds of the city, open
wide the public treasury and let ano
Their demonstration in to look after
fumes, paints and powders, lipstick
and knee-high dresses, | wonder why
the government has not created de-
partment of this kind so that an APP
preparation from the public treasury
be made to carry on the work.
l am surprised at the statements
made that demonstrator is needed
| to keep the boys on the farm, got
some influence haven't they? Moth
er's love and care vanishes when de-
monstrators appear. Will the people
stand for the funds appropriated to
their children for education be
spent illegally. The school money
is for teaching the children in
! the elementary branches of English
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