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Is This Criticism?
(W. H. Faust.)
Is it just and right for us to give
our children a stone when they cry
for bread or toss them a scorpion
when they need an egg?
We profess to believe in “equal”
rights to all and “special” privileges
t4> none. That is simon-pure, all
wool, and a yard wide, old-fashioned
Jefferson Democracy, but in the ed
ucational systems of today we act
as though we knew nothing whatever
concerning it. Only the few do now
or ever can go to college. Yet we
spend proportionately more on the
“Higher Education” than we do on
Common School Education.
For a long time the educational
leaders occupied a peculiarly secure
place where no word of criticism was |
spoken of them or of their system, j
But the press lias gone forward cor
rying 4 its rays of light into dark
places and enlightening the folks
until they have become emboldened tc
t'hat extent that they are taking cen
ter shots at a system that they feel
is not meeting the demands of the
home.
Someone has said that higher ed
ucation is today a fad. Maybe so,
but any way the college course is
the “dessert” while the high school
course is the “substantial.’ One is 1
sylabub and ice cream 'for the
3 lasses, the other is corn bread, tur
ip greens, milk and pork of every
day life. We can exist without des
sert, but we can not live without the
substantial foods. \\ e need better
foundations and less banjo-work and
trimmings.
, it wouldn’t hurt Georgia one par
ticle to cut off a year from its col-
Jpeges course and put its ecjui\ulent
oaio the treasury.of.our.schools where
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all the children could be benefittcd
by it.
Human nature is differently consti
tuted. Up to date doctors handle
their cases differently. For instance
they give one kind of treatment to
typh.oid fever and another to diabe
tes. They prescribe one thing for
headache arid another for measles an
whoopingcough. But in school work,
the same treatment, the same course
is offered to all. Our old doctors —
blessings upon the old inefficient fos
sils “bled for everything and some
of our present day educators feel
that every boy and girl must take
the same course in school. People
get tired of being bled to death by
irresponsible physicians and they
cut out the lancet. The people are
getting tired of being bled to
death financially, paying $400.00 per
year to keep their children in col
lege and when they come out find
that they know not how to make a
1 living.
It is absurd to send a fellow thru
college to teach him basketball and
footbgll when he could get a working
knowledge of it elsewhere cheaper.
Every child needs a good, common
sense, practical education. It is
hard to get through life without a
thoro common school course. Folks
must know the fundamentals. It is
hard for an eagle to fly with a ton
of coal tied to its body. It is hard
for tiie elect few to soar while the
masses are determined to roll. Then
is not one child in ten wiio has in
the past, does now, or will in the
| next five generations go to college.
! But 95 per cent of our children wouT
! greatly appreciate a practical, help
i ful education.
There is a distinct and vital place
for cur colleges in the educational
system. But in the economy of state
One' Ford is worth a dozen Greek
teachers.
Amidst a tremendously high infant
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mortality, and high prices of food, a
good agriculturalist is worth a half
dozen teachers of astronomy or
Sanskrit. And if the report of our
state school superinttndent is worth
anything it shows us t..ut just now
Georgia faces a c.isis. We must
abolish and crush illiteracy or illit
eracy will crush us in mobs, crime; ,
and sensuality.
Some time ago one of the leading
northern colleges tested a number of
college boys in spelling by giv
ing them 80 words from ordinary
newspaper dispatches. 35 out of the
80 words were spelled incorrectly.
That wasn’t the fault of the college,
but it was the fault of the system.
Gradually the school authorities are
getting their eyes open. Optionary
courses, in colleges, changing curric
ulums, and activity of the press, are
feathers showing that the wind is
rising and blowing towards fields ol
progress. New methods of banking,
transportation, heating, warfare show
us that vocational education is no
mirage of the desert, and that a
new educational era is upon us. For
which the Lord be praised. An ed
ucation that relates thought to life
and life to thought.
Spring.
Spring is looked upon by many as
the most delightful season of the
year, but this cannot be said of the
rheumatic. The cold and damp
weather brings on rheumatic pains
which are anything but pleasant.
They can be relieved, however, by
applying Chamberlain’s Liniment. Ob
tainable everywhere. Advt.
Bethlehem Baptist Church.
Services Sunday at 4 P. M. Preach
ing by the pastor. Subject: “hour
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„ A JUSTIFIABLE THEFT.
We can rea,,il y aPP r em at e the
V feelings of that youngster who
bought a basketful of cakes at the
S Barrow County Bakery the other
day only to have them stolen away
from him by some mischievous boy
who had probably never tasted real-
S/ ly good clean pastry. Had his rnoth-
er been as wise as other knowing
mothers this theft would not have
occurred —for then, he, too, would
have had Barrow County Bakery
cakes and bread.
BARROW COUNTY BAKERY 268 PHONES 64
An |3f tqm THE RED-HEADED
. fc.. tSUorl, groceryman.
Nifty Dozen Club.
A number of the younger set met
last Friday afternoon at the home of
Miss Lila Dell Betts-Stanton nd or
ganized a sewing club which will be
known as the Nifty Dozen club.
The club members are Misses Li
la Dell eßtts-Stanton, Marie Herrin,
| Annette Hamilton, .Maude Henson
j Charlotte McCants, Desnia Elder,
' Essie Mae Maughon, Lois Williams,
Esther Henson, Evelyn Radford, sion
tine Robinson and Violet Wood.
Mrs. Vonderlieth spent Tuesday
in Atlanta. i t
Wimodausis Club.
I.ast Friday afternoon at the borne
home of -Mrs. J. W. Saunders the
members of the Wimodausis club en
joyed a most delightful though in
formal meeting.
Sewing was u ph asant diversion
of the afternoon. The hostess serv
ed a frozen course. Only club mem
bers were present.
Rev. T. C. Buchanan filled the pul
pit of Rev. W. H. Faust at Auburn
Sunday, preaching to a large and
interested audience.
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