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COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
Compulsory education does not sound musical to all ears.
To a free people the idea of compulsion is not relished.
Of course the strict meaning of compulsory education is applied only
to such parents as do not see the importance of educating their chil¬
dren and so keep them at work or play to the neglect of their minds.
Such parents should be comoelled to place their children under
such educational advantages as are in reach however provided.
The children have a right to some things in this life and in no sense
has the parent the right to deny it.
Possibly a better way of expressing the idea of compulsory education
would be to call it protective education since it is a protection of
the child against the cruel indifference of parents who otherwise
would deprive their offspring of mental training altogether.
It is also protection against the opposing forces of life ever at
hand to challenge the progress of the weak. s!
Protective education is the true idea embodied in the compulsory ed
ucation bill before the Georqia law-makers.
There is no getting around the fact that Georgia's present educa¬
tional system is insufficient to meet the wants of a great state holding
as it does a high standard of citizenship.
Through sympathy and in mercy Georgia has placed in reach of every
child opportunities for an elementary education but after years of ex¬
perience it is discovered that there are in Georgia today 11,198 children
over 10 years of age who have never attended any school and 9,393
white children over 10 years of age who can neither read nor write.
This is argument sufficient in favor of a protective educational law.
It is evident from the figures that if the children of some parents
get the benefits of the provisions of the state for educational purposes,
there will have to be a law forcing attendance.
Comoulsory education is a forward movement the world over and it
is not to be expected that Georgia will recede from the position she
has taken on the subject.
Whether now or later, Georgia is sure to have a law of compulsory
education.
From an economical point of view the bill is a fine expression of
the broadest patriotism.
We commend Representative Littleton and Senator Morris for their
leadership in the fight for its passage.
The people are waking up to the fact that those who think deeply
are entitled to the respect of a hearing.
Georgia’s citizens are listening today as never before, preparing for
the greatest forward movement of her history along lines looking toward
ai abiding weal.
The saloon is gone and must never return,, good roads are sure
to come, a better educational system is a certainty and so the sky
grows brighter with hope.
THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE
The Board of Education of Newton County has given out a state¬
ment setting forth the status and needs of school work in the county.
The statement should be read carefully by every man, woman and
child capable of reading in the county.
It rings with the purest patriotism and stirs the soul like a bugle
blast.
We have read it more than twice for the purity of its spirit and its
thrill.
Certainly the Board of Education it awake to the highest needs of
the generation they serve.
It is true that we are a free people and have the right to think
for ourselves on all matters, but we trust that the people of Newton
will follow the Board who have thought out a better way for us and give
them what they ask for in the way of sympathy and local taxation for
the betterment of the schools In the county.
These men stand for the paramount issue and should be seconded
by a large majority vote as per request of the Board.
There are many things we need or think we need,but nothing of a
temporal nature is before the people of Newton of equal importance
with the cause of education.
Our Board is not extravagant In asking for twenty cents on the hun¬
dred dollars for improvement of schools.
Don’t let the good roads movement clash Aith the good school
movement.
There is something better than dollars to accrue from improved ed
cational conditions in Newton County.
m - us better schools,
Better buildings,
Better teachers,
Better pay,
And better roads and we will have the better day.
The following from the statement o' the Board puts the standard
■.where it justly belongs:
DIVIDENDS
The Dividends that we assure you
■will ensue cannot be estimated in dol
lars and cents like lands and mules
and cotton: nor weighed nor handled
nor figured into per cents.and tabula
ted into columns. We present toyou as
the possible output of your improv
ed educational plant—manly boys and
woiuaniy girD—young people im
■fcued with high ideals, with trust in
i God and reliance in self. Young peo
pie who will bring happiness to your
homes and joy to your hearts—who
will build up your communities—who
will advance your county in all good
things,
Newton county’s children are in
deed Newton county’s jewels. Noth
ing you can endow them with is too
good for them. God bless them every
one!
EDUCATION A MORAL ISSUE
Education does not fall into, the
class with other issues of only a
commercial or political value.
When suffering taxation for the
education of the children of our state
and county we should not regard
it as a burden serving merely as an
offset for so much pleasure, profit or
convenience as in the case of bonds
for city lights and water.
We can get along without that con¬
venience.
The children of the county are dear¬
er to us than our property or our
conveniences and we intuitively re¬
cognize the moral obligation to
train them for the best uses in life.
We may do without many things
to the loss of much pleasure and
profit but the question of educat¬
ing our children strikes into the
center of conscience and forces the
conviction that it is DUTY.
The compulsory education law
would apply to sueh parents and
guardians as cannot feel the stir¬
rings of conscience and are dead to
duty.
We trust that the strong hand of
the law will snatch the unfortunate
children of the state from the
darkness of illiteracy.
The compulsory law would be just
and right.
It is as democratic and constitu¬
tional to force attendance upon the
schools as it is to force taxation
to support them.
Both are right.
FRANK L. STANTON.
The Constitution of July 18 present¬
ed a new photograph of Frank L.
Stanton, which the thousands or Mr.
Stanton’s friends will look upon with
pleasure.
The man who sings daily for 20
years without a minor note in his
songs is certain to make his way
into the hearts of the people.
The Constitution has nothing better
in it than Frank Stanton’s poems.
It is doubtful if the great daily has
a correspondent who contributes
more substantially to the well-being
of the people than Stanton.
Out of all the confusion and medley
of political and social jargon appear¬
ing from day to day in the Consti¬
tution this unique singer’s notes can
De heard dispelling clouds and cares.
After all, as Lanier sang:
“The world needs heart, ’tis tired
of head.”
We do not know what are the emo¬
tions of the poets’ soul, whether joy¬
ous or otherwise, but it is certain
that Frank Stanton will not allow
others to indulge the blues or grow
melancholy over the disappointments
of life.
Stanton is a determined enemy of
down heartedness.
Here is life’s real power—a bright
and hopeful spirit.
He who cheers onward the soldier
on the battle field is the real con
queror.
The sonnets, rhymes, jingles and
poems of Stanton appearing daily in
the Constitution have a real com¬
mercial value and the man ot busi¬
ness would profit by reading them
before going to his work every mom
ing.
A cheerful spirit and a strong
heart are the business man’s best
assets.
Stanton’s sunshine will kelp to
keep the mold out of life when days
are dark.
The poem under Mr. Stanton’s pic¬
ture on the Old Time Religion is a
vivid expression of a disgusted soul
grown tired of file boastings of ene
inies of the old .time religion.
We are not surprised to hear this
utterance from the Constitution’s
poet.
How can one who sings of hope
doubt the only truths that inspire
it?
The modern doubter does not in¬
spire to harmonies and among them
there is not one who sings of good
cheer and hope.
We are under obligations to the tire¬
less singer of the Constitution for
bis many uplifting strains that have
fallen like balm upon our overstrain
spirits.
Especially do we of the “old time
religion” appreciate the poem pub
lished in the Constitution of the 18th
notiA ithstanding it is an expression
of the negro spirit and dialect.
We would rather have the “nigger"
religion with a “hallehiia” (a it than
a certain mod.~n type which finds
its best expression in siieacs.
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THE LOGIC OF THE TIMES.
The open eye must see the con¬
nection of great nation building
events.
The prohibition movement at first
thought to be only a spasm of short
duration is recognized now even by
its enemies to be an expression of
the deepest wants of human nature.
It is inhuman to sell intoxicating li¬
quors as well as beastly to drink
them. This the whiskey dealers are
beginning to see as their campaign¬
ing tactics indicate.
Prohibition is a product of the
times. The people have GROWN UP
TO IT and will never degenerate as
long as civilization advances.
This does not mean that the whis¬
key power is destroyed. We are fa¬
miliar with the fine arts of the
whiskey men to keep alive their busi¬
ness and overcome the prohibition
forces that are gathering like the
tide controlled by heaven, not earth.
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The logic of the times is beau¬
tifully visible in the opportunities pre¬
sented for the upbuilding of the peo¬
ple so urgently offered to the public
today—Good Roads.Better schools and
better church facilities throughout
the country.
Do you pot see the logic of the
times?
What would be more effectual in
keeping the saloon doors closed
than good roads—good school houses
and better education with increased
religious facilities?
Let us remember when we are dis¬
cussing roads and taxation for edu¬
cation that we are striking with
deadly blows, the monster of destruc¬
tion—the saloon. As soon as one
evil is disposed of and reformation is
declared, time rolls another before us
which makes the former permanent.
No time to sleep for those who
love progress and are willing to
pay the price for it.
Prohibition, good roads and better
educational system go hand in l^nd
connected by the logic of time.
Stop and think!
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