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The Barrow Times Published Every Thursday A. LAMAR, Editor SUBSUMPTION RATES One Copy Six Months 75 One Copy One Year #1.50 All Communications Must Be Signed By the Writer 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? o— Resolutions indorsing the league of nations were unanimously adopted last Saturday by the Southern Congress which was in ses sion in Atlanta. o 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. The Winder Dry Goods Store BEACON ™~™SHOES Huck Finn never wanted to wear f u “store clothes” but Tom Sawyer said he couldn’t be a pirate and belong; to the gang, unless he did. Poor Huck— /firfpNggft those were the days of stiff, unwieldy garments, that seemed to be designed to make the boy wearer as comfortable as possible—he never had J| [gjl ll | i a chance to wear one of these comfort-giving, JUIUfIU shape-retaining, splendidly modeled WOOLY BOY gfejj Suits and Pants Clothes that accentuate the manliness of the boy— that are his true companions thru all sorts of rough play—that stubbornly resists wear. n Suits as low as $6.50 others to The Winder Dry Goods Store Your Chance— To Buy Imitation Oli ver Plows and Points CHEAP— k • Goober Plows $6.50 Points 30c A. C. Plows 7.00 Points 35c B. C. Plows 9.00 Points 45c 10 Plows 10.00 Points 45c 13 Plows 11.00 Points 50c Also a complete line of the Genuine Oliver Plows and Repairs at right prices SMITH HARDWARE CO.