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The Barrow Times
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Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice under Act of Congress March 3, 1K79
The death losses of the war among all the nations engaged are esti
mated by General March to be 7,354,000. This means only men killed
in action or died of wounds. In the face of these facts how can any
one oppose a league of nations?
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Resolutions indorsing the league of nations were unanimously
adopted last Saturday by the Southern Congress which was in ses
sion in Atlanta.
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Our minds become so circumscribed by our convictions of tradition
and precedent that we will not allow ourselves to see that convictions
are worth little if they impede progress and betterment for humanity,
and that tradition and precedent should he relegated to the past when
new conditions demand it. Don’t get the idea in your head that your
convictions are infallible, that tradition and precedent were never
shattered and anew tradition and precedent inaugurated to meet new
conditions and exigencies.
SCHOOL SYSTEM LACKING.
With all the advantages of normal training for teachers there is
something radically lacking in the present system of teaching, if the
object of sending children to school is to lay a thorough foundation
for future development after the school shall have been finished.
We are not criticising particular schools or teachers, but the system
in general and the results accomplished.
There seems to be a lack of thoroughness upon which to build a real
foundation, enabling boys and girls to grasp and comprehend a grade
before being advanced to another grade. Hence most of them who
advance to the seventh and eighth grades have only a very limited
understanding of what they have been taught, and many of them
would be better off were they put back again in the third and fourth
grades.
We are not placing the blame wholly on the teachers and the pres
ent system of educating children, but we do afiinn that, the boy or
girl of years ago, who had an intelligent and conscientious teacher,
one fully enthused with teaching, attained to greater thoroughness
and had a clearer conception of what had been taught than under
present conditions.
There was not that rush to advance a pupil from one grade to a
higher one before the pupil knew much about the one leaving. Under
the present system of teaching they are hurried and strained beyond
their capacity, acquiring, as a rule, a half knowledge of the grades
as they journey along and have a very limited vocabulary of real
practical, good common sense education.
In our boyhood days we knew a teacher who could give a boy or
girl in one month a more thourough and practical knowledge of gram
mar, than is given in most schools of today in two years. He did this
by hard ami judicious work and interesting his pupils in this partic
ular study of talking correctly.
A boy or girl after a few days of his tutelage would never again
say I “taken” a ride yesterday, l have “et” enough for this time, I
“done” it because 1 was mad, between you and “I” there is a great
gulf, I “seen” him fall overboard, I written” him on the subject, etc.
It might be claimed by teachers that these gross errors should be
learned at home without ever going to school. This is true if all
children had parents who knew how to speak correctly and did their
duty by their children, but unfortunately many parents had no oppor
tunities along this line and one of the provinces of teachers is to teach
these things to their pupils by drilling them intelligently and inter
esting them in how to speak correctly.
We once knew a teacher who could give a boy or girl of ordinary
intelligence, and who could add, subtract, multiply and divide, a bet
ter knowledge of every-day practical arithmetic in two or three weeks
than most boys ami girls acquire now in two or three years. lit* knew
how to interest them in this particular study, loved his work and
never tired of imparting it to his pupils.
It is deplorable to see so many boys and girls remain in school for
ten or twelve years with so little accomplished to fit them for the
atern and practical side of life.
Something is wrong with the system, or with the teachers, or with
the parents. It certainly needs remedying if it can be done.
There are too many incompetent, inexperienced teachers who do not
know how to teach, do not intend it as a life profession, are lacking
in the requirements of real teachers and are therefore failures.
PREACHER FALLS FROM GRACE.
The doctrine of a League of Nations is close akin to the good and
broad command “Go into ALL the world and preach the gospel to
every creature.”
One is to save souls in every land and clime, the other to save lives
and protect the rights of all peoples by a leaguing of the nations, so
that one or more autocratic nations cannot bring on destructive wars
and destroy weaker nations. Both are the basic principles of the
lowly Nazarene as lie taught while on earth and commanded all
preachers and professed followers of llis to continue to do after lie
had ascended to His Father.
l)r. Len G. Broughton is antagonizing the teaching of the Christ
when he opposes the league of nations.
If he believes that a unity of nations is only possible with the re
turn of the Redeemer, as he affirmed in his sermon last Sunday in
Atlanta, may we not with equal propriety claim that the conversion
of the world is only possible with the return of the Redeemer? And
yet He commanded that His teachers and His followers were not to
stop, but continue to broaden their sympathies, their love for Him.
for humanity the world over.
The league of nations will be preaching the gospel of peace and ot
justice and thus help carry out the command of the Saviour to go
into all the world.
It is a difficult matter to comprehend how any one can oppose a
league of nation-., and especially a preacher, unless it is an ideal too
high for such minds to fully grasp.
The Times fears Dr. Broughton has fallen from grace when he op
poses a league of nations, but the final perseverenee of the saints may
enable him to sec his error and get right.
EETHLEHEM LOCALS.
Miss Kathleen Moon, of Hoseh
ton, spent last week-end with her
grandpa rt nts, Mr. and Mrs. Wiley.
Esuire Perry Breedlove and
wife, of Gratis, with their two
bright sons, of the A. & M. College,
Monroe, visited Dr. and Mrs. R. P.
Adams Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Harris, of
Campton, were here last week.
Mrs. Carter returned to her home
in Winder Sunday, after a week’s
stay with her sister, Mrs. G. L.
Lankford.
The many friends of Mr. Rob
Moore, a former and highly re
spected Bethlehem boy, are glad
to learn of his success as cartoonist
for The States, one of N'ew Or
leans’ leading newspapers. Na
turally talented, Mr. Moore has
studied drawing at home for some
time, and by ardent praetiee, has
won for himself an enviable repu
tation in this profession.
Little Durham and Mary Col
lins have been seriously sick, but
are better now.
Mr. Fred Scott, of Athens, ac
companied his daughter, Jewell
over here last week to enter her in
school.
Mr. and Mrs. Weyman Ridge
way announce the birth of a son.
Mrs. M. J. Perry, of Winder,
was a recent, visitor to her sister,
Mrs. Julia Kilgore, near here.
A Sunbeam Band was organized
at the Baptist church last Sunday.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: President, Rosa
Mae Thomas; vice-president, Mat
tie Lou Hinesley; secretary and
treasurer, John Adams, leaders,
Miss Myrtle Wiley and Mrs. Em
ory Harris.
SOUTHEASTERN CHRIS
TIAN COLLEGER.
Mr. T. (). Slaughter and fain*
ly spent tin* week-end at tin*
school. They have gone to
Athens for a week.
Those who went home or
elsewhere for th week-end
have returned. Miss Janie Har
digree visited her brother near
Bogart, Mr. Willard Needham,
of Ellen wood, Miss Mod eft Hale
of Stilt hum, Miss Dorris Jones,
wore at home this week-end.
The preachers have returned
from their week-end appoint
ments. j
Social Circle Athletic Club
played our boys a very interest
ing game of basket ball on the
L’Tfh of .February. They left
our grounds winners by three
points. We wore victors over
them on their grounds, and it
is eomfoting to think of the
is comforting to think of the
a very interesting one and the
crowd present was full of
“pep.”
Some feet are harder to
fit than others —
Your two feet may be
mates, but even so,
No two pairs of feet are
exactly alike, any more than
two faces.
We bear that in mind
when we are fitting shoes.
Regardless of the last, or
shape, or style, or price, the
shoes we sell you have to
fit your feet. Or we do not
want to sell them to you.
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