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TheGood,the Bad, the Otherwise
And a Few Laconics By l. a. l.
A PREMIUM ON ILLITERACY IN
GEORGIA.
FRONT page news-story in
the Atlanta Constitution
drew attention to the fact
that hundreds of children in
0
Atlanta will hot be able to attend
the public schools there this year,
because of the poverty of their par
ents, which will prevent the children
from being supplied with books and
suitable clothing.
If this is true of Atlanta —the
richest city in the South, what must
be the conditions in the country dis
tricts?
Georgia’s badge of shame is the
percentage of i.iiterateacy, which
places her at the head of the South
ern States.
The Legislature which has just
closed, has done absolutely nothing
to better the conditions for the rank
and file which elected those members
of “that august body," and in this
way it has kept up the average of
donothingness which has marked so
many previous sessions of the Legis
lature.
If it would do any good, one would
feel inclined to class the great body
of Georgia farmers as goats.
Ruminative, caring little for the
future, browsing contentedly in the
fields his father browsed before him,
by his lack of interest and his refus
ing to demand what he has long been
entitled to, he sees his children de
prived of the one thing needed to
start them in life, able to compete
with the sons and the daughters of
the rich.
