Evening star., 1938-06-20
ATEACHERS TOUR
COUNTRY BY BUS
Georgians Combine Study
and Sightseeing on
J 5,0OO-MiIe Trip.

A summer session on wheels brought
81 Georgia school teachers to WASH
ington over the week end on one of the
early laps Of q 5,00o-mile jaunt through
the east.
Making themselves at home i'm
mediately at the Washington Tourist
Camp. the kitchen brigade went to
work preparing dinner, and the teach
ers took time out to launder q few
clothes before embarking on q brief
but intensive sightseeing tour Of the
city.
The tour Is sponsored by Piedmont
College, Demarest. Ga, which gives
the travellers college credits for the
expedition.
The teachers prepare their own
meals (under the direction of .
dietician). wash their own clothes-in
fact. do everything possible to stay
within their budget of $1.60 day.
Will Visit Baltimore.
The first Of two buses was scheduled
to leave at noon today after the teach
ers had eaten q hearty breakfast met
cost 8 cents) and had visited the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
Taking notes on economic, social and
political conditions as they 60 along,
the teachers will next visit Baltimore.
Annapolis and New York. stopping in
the last named city for three days to
attend the National Education Asso-
citation Conference. Then they will 60
on to Boston, Quebec. Montreal. De-
troit and back through the Middle
West to Georgia.
Total cost of the five-week trip will
be $50 per person. $40 OF which will 60
to Piedmont College for tuition.
William Jennings Andrews Of Toe
Goa, Ga, is director of the first OF five
buses touring various parts Of the
country. His group Of ~ is followed
by another busfull Of teachers under
the guidance Of T. F. Watson. The
other buses, each containing ~, are
going West.
The ysuperintendents OF schools in
Georgia and the president Of the COL
lege decided the summer students could
learn more from tour than from
textbooks" Mr.. Andrews, who Is super
intendent Of schools in Stephens
County and president Of the Georgia
Education Association. explained.
Live on Little.
In addition to what they take in
about industrial centers, the life Of
sharecroppers and the agricultural
conditions Of the country, tho teachers
are learning how to live well on very
little a day.
The secretary Of one busload exhib-
tied her carefully annotated budget Of
a days expenses. They included tele-
phone. 5 cents: matches. cents; /;
groceries. 1892 tseveral days supply !:
can opener, 10 cents; ice. 5 cents: ice
pick. cents; dish towels. 20 cents
gasoline and oil, S6.34: lodging, $3.50,
and sales tax. cent. OF course, that
was early in the tour and some Of
those expenses won't be repeated.
Their dinner last night cost $2s7
for 81 people. And here's what they
ate: Potatoes and peas. roast beef
stewed tomatoes. coleslaw, bread,
sliced pineapples and peaches and iced
tea.
Their vehicle is the regulation school
bus equipped with radio and kitchen
kit. Laundry u frequently strung
along the top and lends . honey
touch. Two Of the seven men teachers
In the crowd sleep on cots set up in
the bus
Proposed on Spot.
The teachers, most of whom are
not much older than college students
nearly lost one Of their number some
where in North Carolina. The owner
of a tourist camp took q fancy to her
and proposed on the spot. He sx-
planned he had been married twice
but thought she was the girl he had
always. been looking for.
I'VE didn't have room for another
person. and We didn't want to leave
any one behind" one Of the girls
laughed, $50 we had to break up the
romance"
Before they get home, the school
teachers will have full notebooks and
q raft Of experiences-someo OF which
they will pass on to the school chill
dren of Georgia.