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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1919)
A Crisis in Education. The great men and women of America in past generations began their careers in a suprising num ber of cases as teachers in the public schools. School-teaching was a stepping-stone to what was supposed to be higher things. The “smart” farmer’s boy “kept” school in the winter and worked on the farm in summer; or he used the less exhausting work of teach ing as a means of keeping in touch with books, carrying on his stu dies, and paying board and tuition at high school, academy or col lege. The public schools did for their teachers a work secondary in importance only to that which they did for their pupils. This, of course, was a situation which had its drawbacks. Long ago the idea came to be accepted that tecching is a profession and ought to be taken up as a life work. The “profession of teach ing” had to be given permanency. The weakness of American schools, especially rural schools, has largely been found in the fact that we have put this idea into practice. Teaching is still a step ping stone* to something else, a stop gap in life, an episode. There fore it is seldom well done. There fore it is not, especially in the country, a vocation which holds men. Therefore it is a business in which people by thousands re main only becuse they are left be hind in the struggle. Think over that last sentence, and settle for yourself as to its truth. If it is true, is it not a dreadful thought that we so order our affairs as to make sure that our most precious materials, our children, shall be molded by our weakest and unskillful work men ? The situation sketched above is as it was five years ago, and to a great extent is now. But this is a changed world; and our schools will be better in future or worse. A writer in a popular magazine tells of what an agent of a school book-publishing firm says as to the kind of schoolbooks which will be demanded by the schools of America for —how long? “Ten or fifteen,: ears!” He goek on to say: “We are not in the slightest doubt as to what kind of text books we want for the near fu ture. We want the most elemen tary treatises that can be written. We want A-B-C books. Books that pre-suppose a minimum of intelligence on the part of the teachers. Books that will teach themselves. In short, fool-proof books. And we want this kind of textbook because we realize that with present prices and present salaries we are going to have to deal with just that type of teacher for the next ten or fifteen years.” If this forecast be true we are going backward. If it be true we shall go back of the point w'here teaching was an episode in the life of the bright girl and the smart boy. We shall go back into a Dark Age in American education in which only the dullards will teach even as temporary thing. The farmers of the United States have the fate of their own schools largely in their own hands. If A Traveling Man’s Experience. You may learn something from the following by W. H. Ireland, a traveling salesman of Louisville. Ky. ‘‘ln the summer of 188>S 1 had a severe attack of cholera morbus. I gave the hotel porter fifty cents and told him to buy me a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic and Diorrhea Remedy and to take no substitute, I took a double dose of it according to the directions and went to sleep. At five o’clock the next morning I was called by my order and took a lit in for my next stopping place, a v eil man.” For sale by Horton Drug Co. Education a Necessity. Education is a great thing and most necessary thing for fhe ad vancement of humanity, but it is after all, nothing more than a tool. Some men have inborn ability which makes them to do great things even with little knowledge. But the usefulness of a tool depends entirely upon the man who uses it. Even the best of tools are useless, and may even be dangerous in the hands of those who do not know how to use them. —Albany Herald. There is no happier or more cozy picture of home life than the little family group gathered about the evening lamp, while some member of it reads aloud. These evening readings can be made educational and develop in many ways, which the eager feminine mind, eager for improvement will easily devise. A Great Remedy. The merits of Chamberlain’s Colie and Diarrhoea Remedy are well known and appreciated, bnt there is occasionally a man who had no acquaintance with them and should read the following by F. H. Dear, a hotel man at Dupuy er, Mont. “Four years ago I used Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy with such wonderful re sults that 1 have since recommen ded it to my friends.” For sale by Horton Drug Co. they allow their schools to deteri orate they will have sold their souls —and not only theirs, but their children’s for immunity from school tax. We should get rid of the false notion that a teach er should be a cheap man or a cheap boy or girl or woman. 'Bid up the teachers’ salaries. Make teaching worth while. As it is now many a hoy can quit high fchool and earn more money than the school board pays his teacher. He can say : “I am making more money without an education than you are w’ith one.” One boy said that to his teacher, and said it truly. These things ought not to be so. It is unthinkable that any great body of the American peo ple shall allow it to be so. —The Country Gentleman. ll Wards Off Croup Never put a croupy child to bed with out giving a dose of Foley’s HgneyTar Mothers know it stops croup because it cuts the thick choking mucus, clears the throat of phlegm, stops the hoarse metallic cough, eases difficult breathing, gives quiet sleep. it Mrs. T. Neureuer, Eau Claire, Wis., writes: ‘Foley’s Honey and Tar completely cured my boy of a severe attack of croup.” f< Mrs. Chas. Reitz, Allen’s Mills, Pa., writes:— "I have used Foley’s Honey and Tar for the past eleven years, and would not be without it. It has saved me many a doctor’s bill for cold* and croup.” Tr.e McDonough Drug 30. Land Sale. By virtue of an agreement be tween the undersigned, who are the heirs at law of VV. P. Wood ward, late of Henry county, Ga.. deceased, and each of whom is of lawful age, Will be sold before the court house door in the city of McDon ough, Ga., on the Ist Tuesday in September, 1919, at 10 o’clock a.m., the following land belonging to said estate of W. P. Woodward, deceased, 75 acres land in Tnssa haw district, known as the ‘‘home place” of W. P. Woodward, deceas ed, and also 50 acres in said district known as part of ‘‘J. T. Lauey place.” Good and sufficent titles will be made to purchasers of said land by the heirs of said estate. This August Bth, 1919. Mrs. E. H. Woodward, W. G. Woodward, John T. Woodward, Mrs. Gertrude Rivers, P. W. Woodward. Miss M. L. Woodward. HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH GEORGIA. Stick to Your Vocation. We earnestly entreat every young man after he has chosen his vocation to stick to it. Don’t leave it because hard blows are struck, or disagreeable work per formed. Those who have worked their way up to wealth and use fulness, do not belong to the shift less and unstable class, but may be reckoned among such as took off their coats, rolled up their sleeves, conquered their prejudice against labor, and manfully bore the heat and burden of the day. Whether upon the old farm where our fathers toiled diligently, striv ing to bring the soil to productive ness; in the machine shop or fac tory, or the thousand other busi ness places that ipvite toil and skill, let the motto be, persever ance and industry.—Ex. Show Your Friendship. If you have friends don’t be afraid to express your friendship; don’t he afraid to tell them that you admire or love them. If you love anybody, why not say so ? If you enjoy one’s company, why not sav so? It costs nothing! It may mean everything to your friend and friendship. A lady was asked how she managed to get along so well with disagree able people. “It is very simple, she replied; “all I do is to try to make the most of their good qualities and pay no attention to their disagreeable ones.” No bet ter formula by which to win and hoid friends can be found. You'll Do Better at Home. At this season of the year, suff erers from hay fever and asthma who can afford to travel are seek ing relief at health resorts. Some find it, others do not. Hay fever and asthma victims compelled to remain at home will find relief in Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound. This standard family medicine al lays inflammation, soothes and heals raw and painful bronchial tubes and helps to overcome diffi culty in breathing, making sound, refreshing sleep possible. Good for cough.'-, colds, etc. McDonough Drug Co. , Eome today! You’re going to call Lucky Strikes **•***.. lpl*r’' r Because »*' .. Lucky btnke ciga- A ***&&s■vcites give ycu the good, wholesome W\ flavor of toasted Burley tobacco. Children Cry tor Fletcher’s CASTOR IA The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per u sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good ” are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children —Experience against Experiment. „ What Is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea —The Mother’s Friend* GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS 111 Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, Administrator’s Sale. B.v virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary of said county, granted at the August term, 19191 Will be sold before the court house door of said county, on the first Tuesday in September next, within the legal hours of sale, the follow ing land of the estate of S. M. Coker, deceased, the land hereto, fore assigned as a dower to the widow, and the dower having ex pired : 36 acres more or less in McDonough district, said county, and being part of lots Nos. 17(1 and 176, hounded as follows: On the North by lands of W. E. Alexan der. South by lands of Mrs. L. C. Tarpley, East bv lands of W. E. Alexander and West by lands of formerly Payne estate. H. S. COKER. Administrator. FARM LOANS On improved farm lands, long time, low rate of in terest. Write or apply to LOAN and TITLE CO. 501-502 4th National Rank Building, ATLANTA, GA. BROWN & BROWN Attorneys at Law McDonough, Ga. Call or write us for farm loans*
