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BETTER RURAL SCHOOLS
As some of our critics think us extreme in our efforts for better
rural schools and betterment of rural conditions generally we reprint
a part of an article from the pen of Prof. Holliday in the American
Review of Reviews, telling about the great strides that are being
made along these lines in other states and a careful reading of this
short survey will convince anyone that the steps we are advocating
will be only a start toward what is needed to bring our county up
in line with the more progressive sections of this great country.
The Savannah Press of recent date quotes profusely from this
article and states:
“The article is by Dr. Carl Holliday, professor of English, Uni
versity of Montana, but is in no wise sectional. It is very profuse
ly illustrated and gives a clear idea of what is being done in many
states for the education of the children in the country. The schools
it tells of are practical schools where all the teaching is not dong from
books. '
It dwells at some length upon the use of the country school house
as a common meeting place and shows how valuable they can bemade
in this way. There are in different states different plans for inter
(~s\ting and instructing the children in the country districts. Mon
tana has very advanced ideas upon this line and so have Virginia,
California, New York and other commonwealths. There are schools
gardens and school banks, training on agricultural lines, lessons up
on the fighting of extravagance, the upbuilding of thrift, the proper
method of raising vegetables and flowers and many other things it
is well for boys and girls to know.
“Says Prof. Holliday:
“‘Space will not permit explanation of the many other practical
efforts to make life profitable and interesting for every country and
town child ;—how, for erzample, in North Carolina and Montana the
teacher has set the students to collecting the couuty legends and
history, interviewing the oldtimers, and thus storing up a heritage
of worthy pride; how in all rural communities of Florida a careful
physical examination oi every child by agents of the state board of
health is now required; how the rural-school warm lunch, with its
well-balanced ration, has spread its savory odors from the one-room
prairie school in Nebraska, where it was first cooked, to every state
in the Union; how white children on the Flathead Indian Reserva-
Yion in Montana study arithmetic by feeding and weighing pigs; how
in some counties of the same state a house and ten acres are being
provided free for the rural principal so that he may be more content
c¢d and permanent; how in rural New York, Ohio, Montana, and
Washington the children are taught to sing, not by some cracked
voiced pedagogue, but by means of phonograph records of the best
voices in the world; how in East Chicago, Indiana, and Williams
‘burg, Va., the rural child is being promoted on the basis of his doing
his best, and not on the heartless grading system; how the Rural
Life Association of Montana has gained such influence that it has
induced the governor to start the custom of setting aside one day
known as Rural Life Day for the study of country conditions; how
at Lewiston, in the same state, the schoolboys built four of the build
ings in such a manner that the structures are the pride of the com
munity ; how—but what's the use? We are only started, as Kipling
would say, “All that 1s another story.”
““The old fogies may snarl and declare that the children had
better be learning how to cipher and spell; the dilettante may com
plain that we are worshipping materialisnr; the classicist may wail
that the inspiration of Greek and Latin is lost forever; but the fact
remains that the present generation of rural children is reaching cit
izenship with more knowledge and appreciation of its responsibilities
and powers, and with more zeal for social welfare and brotherhood
than we or our fathers ever dreame of.””
“Chatham county has never even touched its possibilities for
cducating the children in the country schools. A progressive step
has been taken in the Eighth district where the pupils for the past
three months have been carried to one school in an automobile. The
scope of study must be greatly enlarged and there must Be many
things done here and in other parts of the county before the country
school system ig anything like up-to-date.” ‘
Like Chatham county Ben Hill is much in need of better facili
ties and the bill advocated for this county for “beétter schools” is des
tined to lay the foundation for greater opportunities for our country
children.
THE RIGHT KIND OF PREPAREDNESS
Albany Herald: ’
About three hundred farmers and merchants gathered in Al
bany yesterday 'to hear the report of Messrs, A, P. Vason and John
H. Mock on their recent visit to the boll weevil sections of Alabam:
and Mississippi, which states they visited as representatives of the
\lbany Chamber of Commerce,
Those who heard the addresses of Mr., Vason and Mr. Mock now
have a comprehensive idea of what thé boll weevil means—the cer
tainty of its coming to the Albany district and the only methods that
an be successfully employed in profitable farming under boll weevil
onditions. They understand how the communitics invaded by the
pest solved the problems imposed by its coming, but not until many
counties had suftered serious financial disaster. Profiting by the!
xperience of Alabama and Mississippi, Georgia farmers will have
ittle difficulty in avoiding the mistakes and misfortunes that have
been expertenced by sections farther west over which the boll weevil
as spread its pestiferous tribe. |
\WW note with peculiar gratificzton that Mr. Vason and Mr. Mock |
vill hold additional meetings in Dougherty and, it desired, othe |
ountics of this section. They will talk to white and colored l‘QU'l‘;‘mE
crs, merchants and landowners, wherever an audience is to be had of |
hose who are mast vitally concerned an should be chiefly intere .\‘h\';;:
1t will be a highly important campaign of education, and its effects |
will be i"xl"'l‘\‘;;k'h.lilg'. é (
THE LEADER ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, WEDNESDAY. JULY 3. 19i6.
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BEWARE OF PASSION
A month ago, we spoke with
scorn of the war of the “Dutch.”
We called them ' “Vandals,”
“Brutes,” and “Beasts,” and
“Heathen Huns” and such. We
despised the very name of war;
we shuddered at the word! And
blasphemies upon the “Dutch,”
on every side were heard.” Those
kings in Europe made this fuss,
and THEY ought to fight it out!
Instead of killing millions, there
should be a bout.” And so the
people of this land abhorred the
thought of war and a nation with
the lust of it—it simply made
them sore.
But today they see OUR sol
diers marching down the tho
roughfare, and the sight, it makes
them tingle from their toe nails
to their hair. And they talks of
patriotism, and of “Love of Coun
try” too; and the Ilust for
“fight,” it thrills éhem, and their
blood, it springs Snew. And they
wish to fight; it thrills them, and
they’re riled up, through and
through! .
Now the love of country is all
right—and Patriotism’s fine; and
indeed, it is a noble thing to pro
tect the border line. But when
you see the soldiers, through the
crowded city wend—it isn’t love
of country that stands your hair
on end! It's the Brute that
dwells within you—and (to be a
trifle blunt)—it’s the THING that
makes the wolf snarl when he’s
on his bloody hunt! It’s the spirit
of the caveman—the rabid lust for
Fight—it’s the spirit that devel
oped, when the only Right was
Might.
So now, if “Little Mexico” will
not retract its stand, let our arm
ies shoulder muskets, and protect
our native land! But let it be in
sorrow that we have to go to fight
—llet it not be exultation at a
chance to show our Might. Let
the wish to serve his country, ev
ery single soldier thrill, but keep
down that awful passion—the
wanton lust to kill!
—JESSE F. GELDEPRA writing
in the Oklahoma (.y News,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
ASSESSMENT UPON SHARE
-1 HOLDERS |
A
" Treasury Derartment ‘
No. 8966. |
Office of the Comptroller of the‘
Currency.
Washington, D. C, June &, 1916.
In the matter of the Ben Hilß
Vational Bank, Fitzgcralj, Ga.
To All Whom It May Concern:
Whereas, Upon a proper ac
counting by the Receiver hereto
fore appointed to collect the as
sets of the Ben Hill National
Bank, of Fitzgerald, Ga., and up
on a valuation of the uncollected
assets remaining in his hands, it
appears to quy satisfaction that in
order to pay the debts of such as
sociation it 1s necessary to enforce
the individual liability of the
stockholders therefor to the ex
tent hereinafter mentioned, as
prescribed by Sections 3151 and
5234 of the Revised statutes of the'
United States: Section 1, ¢ 156,
Act of June 30, 1876, and Section
23 of the Act approved December
23, 1913, known as the Federal
Reserve Act.
Now, Therefore, by virtue of
the authority vested in me by law,
I do hereby make an assessmentl
and requisition upon the share
holders of the said Ben Hill Nat—'
ional Bank of Fitzgerald, Ga., for
Ilirty Thousand Dollars, to be
paid by them ratably, of of be
fore the Tenth Day of July, 1916;
and I hereby make demand upon'
cach and every one of them for
One Hundred Dollars upon each
and every share of the capital
stock of sdid association held 01“
owned By them' respectively, at
the time of its failure:; and I here
by direct Christopher L. Wil
liams, the Receiver heretofore ap
pointed to take all necessary pro
ceedings, by suit or otherwise, to
enforce to that extent the said in
dividual luiability of the said
sharcholders.
Inwitness whereof, T have here
unto set my hand and caused my |
seal of office to be affixed to these
presents as at the City of Wash
ington, in the District of Colum-
fbia.} this Eighth Day of June, A.
}D. 1916,
(Seal) T. P. KANE.
’Acting Comptroller of the Cur
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OLD COFFEE FAMILIES
GATHER FOR REUNION
Meeks and Moore Families Have
Great Feast
Douglas, Ga., July 4.—At the
Charles Meeks old home place,
two miles east of Nichols, which
was settled over a hundred years
ago, was held today a reunion of
the Mecks and Moore families in
celebration of the two-large fam
ilies which have been famous in
Coffee county for the past hund
red years.
Some 1,500 of the descendants
of these families were gathered to
pay tribute to their family name.
Barbecue and a basket dinner
were spread to all who attended.
Judge James I. Sumemrall, of
Waycross, made the reunion
speech of the occasion, gave a his
tory of the two families and the
usefulness wrought by them dur
ing the past century and outlined
their fields of opportunity for the
future. He stressed the impor
tance of educating the young men
and women,
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Earliana Beauty Globe Stone
Extra fine plants. Eight
weeks old tin# fruit, bud
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Nancy Hall, Triumph, %mch
and Yellow Yam sweet/Pota
to Plants: 500 $1.25; 1000
$2.00, postage paid. We
fill orders ‘‘daily” in April.
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EVERGREEN, ALA.