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Here©s Georgia! LIBRARIES - the Digital Library of Georgia

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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA<br />

Wesleyan, <strong>the</strong> oldest in <strong>the</strong> world for young women. Shorter<br />

College at Rome, and Brenau at Gainesville, and a half dozezn<br />

o<strong>the</strong>rs in different parts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State attract pupils not only from<br />

<strong>Georgia</strong> but from all over <strong>the</strong> land.<br />

<strong>Georgia</strong> lost <strong>the</strong> greater part <strong>of</strong> her wealth during <strong>the</strong> Civil War,<br />

and naturally had her greatest poverty and illiteracy during <strong>the</strong><br />

dark years <strong>of</strong> reconstruction following this period. In spite <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> fact that <strong>the</strong> white people have had to provide educational<br />

facilities for <strong>the</strong> negro as well as for <strong>the</strong>ir own race, <strong>the</strong>y have<br />

shouldered <strong>the</strong> burden with determination, and few, if any, states<br />

in <strong>the</strong> Union have a greater decrease in illiteracy or sounder<br />

educational progress since 1870.<br />

<strong>Georgia</strong>'s moral and business influence is unanimously behind<br />

<strong>the</strong> stringent laws that went into effect May i, 1916, prohibiting<br />

<strong>the</strong> manufacture or sale <strong>of</strong> zvines, or spirituous or malt liquors,<br />

within <strong>the</strong> boundaries <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> State. Its lawmakers and law en<br />

forcers, backed by <strong>the</strong> solid concensus <strong>of</strong> public opinion, are de<br />

termined to free <strong>the</strong> State entirely from <strong>the</strong> incubus <strong>of</strong> intemper<br />

ance. <strong>Georgia</strong>ns are essentially a church-going people, clean<br />

lived, moral, and law-abiding.<br />

GRADED SCHOOL, QUITMAN, BROOKS-COUNTY

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