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• the best schools will never
• Ue the evil of illiteracy until
an effective attendance law
erv stale. To be effective the
mist be compels >rv, with suffi-
peiialty to cause it to lie obey-
yiiis has been the experience of
t otlier states and countries,
n' may not expect a different
here. The sooner we profit
fj r example the better,
present Austria, France, Eng-
Scotland, Hungary, Italy, Nor-
Sweden, Denmark, tlie Swiss
L „, s , the German States, British
ibia, New Zealand, Prince Ed-
Island, Tasmania, Qtieens-
South Australia, the
nets of Canada, and
, two of the United States
compulsory attendance Jaws,
i a few minor exceptions these
require attendance six, seven,
r |,t years, from twelve weeks to
months annually. In ail the
t in which such laws have bten
ctd longer than twenty-five or
v years the percentage ot illiter-
ias been reduced to a minimum.
■ states and countries contain a
lauon of more than two hundred
fiity niillion people, the freest
most progressive in this woild
jre than eighty per-cent of all
leople we call enlightened and
rcssiye. Of the . twirty-two
rlcan states having such a law
two—Kentucky and West Vir-
—me southern states. But
t Inis been found good for all
great states and countries will
inhly not prove otherwise for us;
it is noted with pleasure that
leiitiuient in favor of such a law
iveloping rapidly in all parts ot
south.
ie following seems to be a fair
mary of the argument for com-
ory scliool attendance:
Universal education is essential
le material, intellectual and mor-
lfare ot the state. Illiteracy
hurden and constant menace to
iu morals and civil liberty, and
ileus the very existence of the
The state provides schools at
io expense, collecting money for
' support by law, and by force
leeNsury. It therefore has a right
iforce attendance, that its money
not tie wasted and that its tu
ns may be protected.
Individual welfare depends on
general welfare. Having taken
money of one man to ednoate the
Iren of-another, the state must
eet that man and. his'children
the oppression and dangers ot
ate neighbors ami fellow-citi
Such a law cannot be a garden to was m the decades immediately-sue*
those.who would educate their child- ceedmg the ravages of war. Building
ren without it. As laws against materia) is abundant In every state,
stealing are not burdensome to bon- and our uu*n have strong arm to tell
est men, so a reasonably compulsory trees, prepare lumber' and make
law cannot be burdensome to pa- brick. We sl.o .Id begin at once to
rents who desire to deal honestly build decent and comfortable school
a id justly with tlieif children, houses in every school district, and
5. riie experience of other states to equip them with the needful f..rn-
and countries has demonstrated that iture and apparatus. These school
such laws may be made effective, houses are the homes of our children
and that they need not work any all the days they attend school, and
hardship on individual citizens. j we should see to it that they are
Teachers, school' officers, and all made worthy,
leaders ot thought ill the south mustj The great problem ffeforo us is.to
begin and continue to cultivate sen- j get a good ten mouth’s school in
timent on this subject, until j st laws' every town, village and rural
are on the statute books and are community, to comfortalilv house
PLANT SYSTEM.
Florida and Cuba.
Double Daily Passenger Service.
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Montgomery, Troy, Ozark, Dothan, Elba, Baiobri<Jg«,
Thomasvillt*, Valdosta, W'avcross,
SAVANNAH, CHARLESTON, BRUNSWICK, JACKSONVILLE]
properly enforced.
THE (OlVIRV M HOOI..
these schools in permanent buildings
properly equipped, and to put in
them efficient teachers, scholarly,
Of the seven million children 0 f j uultured, wel1 gained, and mature
sbhool age in these states more than in hfe ttnd «l'»'acter. In every school
six million live in sparsely settled : l * u ' rti m ” 81 be at least a small colleo-
districts and in towns of less than t ’ 011 books suitable for the child-
2,000 inhabitants. Hence the rural j rtV8 rea,li "K> and the courses of
school is of first importance and 8lufl y m " 8t b « 80 broadened as to
receive first consideration. We can
never be an educated people until
we have good rural schools and the
tlie country children attend them
bring them into harmony with the
best schools iu all the most progres
si-ve countries of the world. With
in reach of every boy nnd girl there
At present the average length of be a good high school w
ell
the annual term of these schools is , e< l"’PP ,id with ltbiarics and labora-
Bomething less than one hundred j tone8 for ,eiUihin 8 eleraCiitory Oliera-
days. The average number of days i8tr >’» P h y siu8 > physiology, and biol-
of schooling for each child of school ( °%Y' these schools should provide
age-is less than for^y. The aver- 00 " r8e8 of «"«ly of thrL ‘° or fol "‘
ages for the entire country are j •' ei " 8 luu month’s each. 1 hey
fully 50 per cent more than these, 8 hould be the center ^of a larger edu-
and those of the more favored sec
tions more than 100 per cent better.
In one southern state the average
length of term of all tlie schools, in
cluding city graded school', is less
than seventy days; the average at
tendance of children ot school age is
less than twenty-five days. Only
three hundred ami fifty days of
schooling to prepare the children of
a people for life and citizenship in a
great democratic republic! This
must c^t continue.
For all these six million children
there are probably not mrtre than
four hundred good public high schools
| or less than one for every fifteen
thousand children. In a time when
a good high school education is as
necessary to the average man and
woman on the farm, in the shop,
in the home as was tlie ability to
read and write a generation ago,
this is nut sufficient.
national life and culture m the com
muuilies in which they are situated,
—the colleges of the people
A DEEP MVHTH.tV.
Children have rights as well as
nu, and the state must protect
n iu their rights. Chief among
- is tlie right to such education
ill enable them t<> live useful
happy lives and become nilelli-
a self-supporting citizens. Tin
ktance of this right anil the m-
itv of its being recognized in
S'- as competition becomes nutri
'*> the use of machinery more
mon, the demand for intelligent
a greater, government more deni
tie, religious liberty more per
i and the obligation ot the iedi
a! to himself, his family, his
‘try and the world more complex
binding. Especially must h, bt
led in those states in which
‘gin. of suffrage depeuds on e<l
ienal qualification.
S cb a law cannot interfere
any right of parents; no pa-
has a right to make a slave ol
'■'ild or to rob it of the oppor-
y of gaining aa elementary ed
|,jn - Parents who would com
- is crime against their children
id be restrained and punished
It is a mvsters wny women endure
Backache, Headache, , Nervousness.
Sleeplessness, Melaucholy, Fainting and
Dizzy Spells, when thousands have
proved that Electric Hitters will quickly
cure such ' troubles. I suf
fered for years with kidney troubles,
writes Mrs. Phebe Uherley. of Pater-
sou la.., "and a lame back pained me
so 1 could not dress myself, but Electric
Hitters win lly cured me. and, although
73 j ears old. I now am able to do all
my house work.” It overcomes Consti
pation. improves 'Appetite, gives per-
fee ■ health. (July 50c at li, L. Hicks
drug store.
A OEOK4.IAS OIK* l\ NEW YORK.
A special to tlie Savannah News
from Boston s^ys:
Charles H. North, until a few
vears ago a power among Eastern
Comparatively few of these rural J filianc j e r*, but of late forced to lie-
schools have any libraries or any
books except a few text books used
by the children. Having been given
the power to read, the children
should be taught what to read and
caused to cultivate the habit of read
ing good books. But this cannot be
done when the children have no ac
cess to books either at' school or at
home.
Some of these schools are taught
by most excellent teachers—men and
women of good culture and noble
purpose; but some of them arc
taught by young men and women
whose education was finish
ed in the first and second year of a
county academy, and still more by
teachers who have never had any
schooling except that furnished by
liese same public schools. Most of
these young men and women do not
expect to teach any longer than may
be necessary to make a few dollars
to einfble them to get a start in some
other business. Tiie average school
.ife of these teachers is not more
than three years of one hundred
days each. In this day, when all
the world recognizes the necessity of
thorough scholarship and special pro
fessional preparation tor' teach.ng,
we should not be content to continue
thus io play with our edacalional ln-
ttrests and the welfare ot o..r cliild-
Most of these schools are taught
in cheap, uncomfortable houses, with
no adequate equipment, and with lit
tie pretense’to beauty or sanitation.
The south is no longer poor as it
come a fruit peddler to support him
self and family, died suddenly in tl e
L street bath-house.
North had never given up hope of
winning back the 'millions which he
once possessed, it being a habit after
a hard dfty’s work with ins push-cart
to pour over Iris books, which showed
balances due him from various busi
ness concerns amoiin'irg to hundreds
of thousands of dollars which he
never could collect.
North was sixty-iiine'years old. He
lost bis fortune hi an effort to fight
t ie Bevf Trust. He was born in
Thomas*ilie, Ga, but came north
when a lad and learned the pack'iig
lmsiries. He made a big fortune in
tlie North Pecking and Provision
Company, founded in 1889. He lived
with bis wife and eight children ill a
magnificent home on Prospect Hill,
where they eiileitained royally.
The Swifts of clucago v finally got
control of much of the North Com
pany stock, and North was eventu
ally retired, having lost nearly his
all. What remained disappeared in
a Nova Scotia coal-mining venture.
Then be became a peddler, in 1893
he was put in jail for debt, and none
of Ins former *'riends came forward
with bail. During his days of affiu
ence he gave large stuns to i/harity.
North went to the L street baths
to day to get relief from the heat,
and it is believed the cold water af
fected lus heart’
Cotton future are like some other
sorts of futures—mighty uiutriain
on nil tlirougli
trains, ami to..
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ESTABLISHED 1881$.
THE ST-A.Pt
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West Broughton St., BainbridgcqGa
Estaliliahed by a borne boy.
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