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ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART?
What are you doing to beser the rural school conditions? Are
you satistied, isolated as you are living, to continue to keep your
boys and girls in the same limited sphere that in the past has been
yours? Times have changed and are still changing, the morrow
aemands greater efficiency for the same task than the yesterday
did. There is a general demand all over the South for better oppor
tunities for the country boy and girl and Ben Hill county has heard
the call and should respond. The one teacher school has long
been proven a failure ;sometime it happens that some exceptionally
bright boy or girl does do well despite these handicaps, but the
vast majority of the children are not getting what is their due. The
Progressive Farmer puts the case before its readers in a recent is
sue as follows:
“A three-teacher school within reach of every child.”
That was the slogan of our Educational Edition last year,
and we should like for it to be the most emphatic idea in this
edition, .
We simply must not be content to have our country
boys and girls get a poorer quality of education than town
boys and girls get, and it is manifestly impossible to get a
good qaulity of education in a one-teacher school. A bright
boy or girl may do well in spite of such handicaps, but that
is about the best that can be said. Even if the teacher were
a genius, which we are afraid is not commonly the case, it
would be impossible for him or her to give good results in
a one-room, one-teacher school where all ages and all grades
must be taught together. One man without help might as
well try to run three plows.
All educational leaders recognize that the three-teacher
school is the minimum for efficiency. You may have as
many more teachers as conditions justify, but this is the
smallest number you can afford to have for effective work.
At.any rate, whatever the methods necessary to accomplish
the result, we should not rest until the South can proudly
boast that its farm boys and girls have as good advantages
‘as its town boys and girls. And in order to accomplish this
result we must keep up an unending crusade for a three
teacher school within reach of every child.
Now, why can’t you in the isolated school districts combine
and ‘make for better results for your children at no greater cost to
-you than under the present inefficient system. Representative Wal
ker has the best rural school in South Georgia within sight of his
‘house, and he should be willing to pass such legislation which would
enable YOU to have at least as good a school for your children. It
is within the reach of the country people in Ben Hill to have the best
schools and system in the state if you will demand it of your Rep
resentative.
THE HIGH COST OF RUNNING A NEWSPAPER
Yrom ‘the Tifton Gazette.
Just a little over a year ago the metal used for casting such a line
of types as you are now reading costBcents a pound. The Gazette
office .unpacked a lot today invoiced at 17 1-2 cents.
Newspaper is $2O a ton higher than it was in May, 1915. A blue
ink used in job printing, which cost $3 a pound, less 25 per cent, one
year ago, is now $4 a pound net.
And these are only samples. This prosperity we are having
im war-time is certainly expensive to the printers. And so far no
newspapers except a few of the weeklies that were top cheap to be
gin with, have raised their prices, either for subscription or advertis
ing. The difference comes out of their profits—and many of them
awere nat making money before the war began.
Next to fighting for your country, patriotism is best ex
pressed by developing its resources and improving the condition of
its people. Good schools and good roads are essential features of a
«wountry peopled by a patriotic citizenship.
We are publishing a notice of local legislation in this issue for
the purpose of changing the system of public instruction in Ben Hill
county. If you are in favor of better schools for the rural districts,
write Wesley R. Walker an urge him to pass the bill. There is no
other way and it's up to you to help.
We have to tip our hat to these Maconites, men, women and
«ehildren. They are the most neighborly city folks we have ever en
countered and deserve anything they may ask for, from the Governor
to the State capital, and as far as we can help them with the latter, we
.assure them our support.
\
- ‘When a man will drive a hundred miles and more to a good roads
medting, leave hi business, pay his own expénses, his home folks
should build him a monument. There are a lot of just such good
tellows along the Central Route wlio have attended every call for
the Highway and to whom the success of this movement is largely
due. for PRI e e o
THE LEBADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 23 1916.
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1 Buick Truck.
1 5-passenger Pullman.
1 4-passenger Pullman Road
ster.
3 Thomas G. Hudson, candidate
ior Congress, is among the visi-'
tors to the Auto Show. Mr. Hud
son is by nature an optimist and
claims that it's all over but the
counting.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Postell, of
Macen, were among the early ar
rivals for the Auto Show. Mr.
Postell is sales manager for the
S. S. Parmelee Co., who handle
the Cole cars in Georgia.
0. E. Housér, rcprcscn‘ting the
)I-ludson car, wit% headquarters in
Atlanta, arrived with his Super 6
via the Central Route, to show
what his cars can do.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hamlin, of
Macon, are visitors to the Auto
Show. Mr. Hamlin is assisting
the Ben Hill Company to demon
lstratc the virtues of the “Bell”
{car during the Auto Show.
E. W. Van Duzen, of Atlanta,
has a “Pullman” on exhibition at
the Show Rooms.
Dodge Brothers Motor cars are
in full evidence at the Auto Show,
represented by their local distri
butor, Mr. Frederick.
L. L. Griner is kept busy dem
onstrating his National and Dort
cars, for which his firm are local
agents,
Roberts Auto Co. hawe the
Overland line on exhibition at the
Auto Show. .
CADILLAC WELL REP
RESENTED AT SHOW
Claude Nolan, the popular rep
resentative of the Cadillac from
Jacksonville, Fla., has two cars
and a chassis on exhibition at the
Show. Mr. Nolan arrived in the
city via the Central Route and is
delighted with the splendid roads
in Georgia. He will give the
Florida end of the Central Route
some attention when he gets back
home, as he is displeased with the
poor showing the Florida end of
the Dixie Highway. Mr. Noian
is accompanied by Mr. Henry A.
Kroh, of Detroft, a Cadillac ex
pert from the factory, and Mr.
Geo. \W. Benson, of Jackson
ville.
Mr. L. Clayton, the sales man
ager for the Georgia Machine
Co., of Albany, Distributors for
the National, Marion-Handley
and Jeffrey is at the Show with
a fine display of his popular cars.
- E. C. Miller, district manager
for the International Harvester
Co., with headquarters at Way
cross, is on the ground with one
of his company’s fine motor
trucks. Mr. A. J. Ferrell, of
Jacksonville, expert demonstra
tor of the company, is assisting
Mr. Miller showing up the fine
poimts of the car.
Mr. W. H. Little, representing
the Maxwell Motor Car Co., is
meeting the visitors to the Auto
Show with an unusual warm
welcome at the Maxwell booth.
James Stanton Read is repres
enting the Hupmobile at the Au
to Show. His is a classy car and
is receiving considerable atten
tion by the visitors.
Dr. J. C. Luke, of Ocilla, the
pioneer auto salesman of the wire
grass, has the Saxon and Cole 8
on display at the Show.
Mr. L. Phelan, of Atlanta, is a
prominent visitor to the Auto
Show.. Mr. Phelan has the
Chalmers car and is deligifted
with its popularity.
Jake Paulk, of Ocilla, represents
the Oldsmobile at the Auto Show.
COW STICKS HER FOOT
IN HORN; DIES IN FALL
GREENSBORO, June 19.
Though she can’t be said to have
committedd suicide, a cow own
ed by Louis Hurt, a well-known
negro, has slain herself in a pe
culiar manner.
The cow had what is known as
“crumpled” horns. In using a
hind foot to scratch her neck, the
hoof was stuck throug the loop
of a horn, becoming fastened in
the “crump.”
This unbalanced “bossy” and
she fell forward on her neck,
breaking it and thereby estabish
ing the record of a most anusual
accidenw in the bovine family.
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BULLET DROPS FROM
EAR AFTER 13 YEARS
Carries Missile Until It Woks
Out. Is Partly Blind.
Athens, June 19.—Thirteen
years ago, Corey Hill, 55 years
old, was shot by a Madison coun
ty citizen. The ball from a rifle
struck Hill in the ear and pene
trated, it is believed by physicians,
the brain or its lining. The injur
ed man was unconscious for some
time, but rallied and almost re
covered, though the bullet was
never removed from his skull.
Yesterday the ball dropped out
of the ear it had entered. Hill
suffered after the wound with par
tial loss of vision of the left eye
and never recovered ability to fo
cus the eyes, the bal evidently
cutting the fibres enclosing the
cye nerves. He suffered at times
from slight headaches and dizzi
ness.
Lately, the ear became inflam
ed and discharged matter. Then
the bullet, imbedded in the skull
for mare than a dozen years,
worked its way to the orifice of
the ear and tumbled out.
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YES, WE WONDER
Dawson News:
A bunch or farmers wanted bet
ter horses and they paid $2,500 for
an imported stallion and hired an
experienced man at $7O a month
to take care of him. A school
board, composed mostly of these
same farmers, hired an inexperi
enced girl teacher for their school
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QUALITY ONLY - THE BES
at 's3o per month, with twenty
five pupils, as a matter of econo
my. Here you are: Care of one
brute, $7O per month:; care of
twenty-five human beings, $3O a
month. Is the joke on the teach
er or the horse, or the men who
hired both? And yet we wonder -
why boys and girls want .to leave -
the farm.