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Bartow Rural High School Section!
A WORD AS
TO THIS ISSUE
We hope you have read carefully the
last two issues of the Bartow Rural
High School Section.
We have tried to show you what the
people of the county have in this
plant. We have tried to set forth the
needs of this Bartow County’s Rural
High School. We have tried to appeal
to your patriotism and from the many
favorable comments we have received
we feel that we have succeeded in part
in our efforts.
We have only begun our task for
we are determined to keep the claims
of the school before you until you
have responded in a most generous
way to the appeal of thg managing
beard made through the various com
mittees working with them.
Watch each week for what we bring
to you from people who know. Watch
the subscription grow and be sure you
do not forget to give the committee a
very liberal donation.
Be assured that whatever you give
will be used by the managing board
to make better the opportunities for
the boys and girls of Bartow county.
'W. H. LUMPKIN, ' *'■
O. T. PEEPLES,
HENRY MILAM,
MISS LILLIAN GREENE,
Publicity Committee.
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aim and purpose
OF THE SCHOOL.
The Bartow Rural High School was
the first school of its kind organized
•in the state. It has now been in opera
tion for two years and has met with
some measure of success. It has be
gun its third year with much better
prospects. It is now organized on a
strong basis and is determined to do
good work.
It has taken .as its motto, "Service.”
Service to the individual, service to
the community, service to the county
arid service to the State and Nation .is
the aim of the school.
It is also the aim of this school to
interpret, magnify, yea glorify Coun
try life. Her faculty will lend every
energy to the study of rural life prob
lems and shall faithfully do what it
can to aid in the solution of the great
problems that confront the country
today.
As the country home is the greatest
asset of the country, and as it Is the
Mecca around which all our develop
ment centers, we shall devote such
time as is best to home making and
home life.
The entire work of the school is in
tensely practical, developing a com
mon sense use of the knowledge
gained from the class room study.
The purpose behind the establish
ment of this school was to have a
place in Bartow county where our
own boys and girls could he educated
at small cost. It is an accepted fact
that the school of the past does not
dc for present day conditions. This
school shall attempt to Interpret life
through the school. Our country life
is breaking down because our country
institutions do not meet our present
day- needs, do not solve our present
day problems. The school must mod
ernize its instruction, it must fill its
rightful place in the development of
our country.
This or any other school only has
the right to exist because it gives back
to the community, county or state bet
ter citizens. Then to make better citi
zens is our chief concern. To be a
good citizen a man must be a financial
asset and not a ward of the state. He
must be strong in body, mind and
character and above all things he
cmst have a high conception of the
responsibility of citizenship. He must
have the veil lifted and allowed to
catch a glimpse into the future and
see where the present trend of affairs
is leading.
AH' this and more we hope to be
able to do for those committed to our
care. As our name signifies we shall
endeavor to make Rural Life more at
tractive and show to those who come
to the institution how to live profitably
and happily in the country.
One big motive back of the school is
tu give to the teachers and prospec
tive teachers a place where they can
Set flrst band information about our
riiral life and institutions and where
can get some assistance in the
solving of their problems.
its aim and purpose is noble, its op
portunity is great, its future is bright
1 it may have the unqualified support
o the people. The need is apparent.
r ' n Bartow county afford to let such
"ii opportunity for service to herself
and state go by?
follow thls example.
w hen the managing board planned
’ 1 inaugurate this campaign to put
tbe school on its feet financially the
faculty and students pledged them
selves to raise SIOO.OO.
We feel that with this spirit mani
fested on the part of teacher and
indents, the people of the county can
not fail to be saturated with the same
spirit and go and do likewise.
The teachers#-and students are en
thused over their school and they eon
aiently exiiect the splendid citizen
ship to follow their public spirited ex
ample.
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STATEMENT FROM THE
SUPERINTENDENT.
I suppose it is very generally known
that when J leave the office of county
superintendent of schools January Ist
that 1 will take full charge of the Bar
tow Rural High School.
I want to say that it will be my pur
pose to give to this institution my
best efforts. I realize the very great
responsibility that must rest upon me
but at the same time 1 recognize the
very great opportunity that lies out
before me.
Those who know me best know that
my heart’s desire is to be of real ser
vice to our boys and girls. We shall
put forth our best endeavor to make
ft l the people of Bartow county a
place where they can fit their children
for their life work at home at an ex
tremely low cost.
We shall endeavor to make the
work thorough and practical. The hoys
and girls living in the dormitory will
have the best Influence possible
thrown around them; they live in in
timate contact with the teachers who
we know to be of the highest type.
Our faculty is not only competent and
efficient but they have the spirit of
the teacher and.are willing to spend
and be spent in the service of ihe
children.
If the people of the county will rea
lize that we are giving to them an op
portunity that no ether people in
Georgia has, they certainly will give
us not only of their means but will
send us their boys and girls and thus
help us to build for Bartow county an
institution that will render invaluable
service to all the people of the county.
We confidently expect to succeed
with this undertaking because we will
have the unqualified support of the
of the county.
HENRY MILAM.
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Mr. J. W. Kennedy, a member of
the County- Board of Education,
writes:
‘•As a member of the Board of Edu
cation I was more than glad to ac
cept, for the county, the very gener
ous gift of the people of Euharlee of
their school property as well as an
other house and lot and additional
Imul. All they ask of the county in re
turn is to operate a good High School
adapted to the needs of the rural
schools for the Entire County, they
agreeing to help in its support. There
is not another community in the county
that has ever approximated this gen
erosity. I believe the people of the
county will show their appreciation
by supporting and patronizing this, the
county’s institution.
“I have been intimately connected
with the affairs of the school since
the hoard took charge. Yes, we have
made some mistakes but they have
been remedied and every effort will
be made to prevent their reoccurence.
‘ The school this year is very good
indeed. I have a girl in the ninth grade
and I am very much pleased with her
progress.
‘‘As a member of the managing
board and a citizen of the county I
am anxious to see the people of the
county support this work and co-oper
ate with us in our efforts to give to
the people of the county a good Rural
High School.”
Mr. Geo. D. Goddard, State Super
visor., says in a letter:
“It is a matter of deep concern to
tlie educational world, that the most
recent direction given to educational
thought is the County High School.
The gulf which has been giving our
children so much trouble in the
course of study has been the absence
oi the High School. Our boys and girls
have not been able to prepare proper
ly for the college course. This has
forced the colleges for many years to
bridge over the gulf and subtend a
preparatory department to meet the
needs of the applicants.
“The objection to this is not that
the colleges failed to do a splendid
work in that direction, but that this
method of meeting the needs of the
people was inadequate in scope, and
that it removed the children from
their homes and their counties from
one to three years too early. Further
it costs too much for the average pat
rons to avail themselves and their
children of the needed privilege.
Children need more home training
and home influence than they now get.
and the county Tarining School is
making It possible for th homes to do
THfc BARTOW TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 7, 1916.
$6,500 Needed.
The Bartow Rural High School must be properly sup
ported.
This is a Bartow County Institution. It is the first
County High School in Georgia. It must be the best.
We, the managing Board, appointed by the County
Board of Education to conduct the affairs of the Bartow
Rural High School and manage the campaign, will
spend the money being asked for in the following
manner:
To Pay for the Farm $3000.00
Finish Dormitories and
Repair School Building 1000.00
Stock and equipment for Farm 500.00
With the remaining 2,000.00
Water and lights will be installed; school equip
ment supplied and much needed farm machinery
A. B. CUNYUS
J. W. KENNEDY
N. C. ANDERSON
F. W. DENT
W. D. McGOWAN
M. L. JOHNSON
W. H. LUMPKIN
Managing Board.
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BARTOW RURAL HIGH SCHOOL
more of this training which primarily
rests upon them from the moral point
of view.
‘ The County Training School is
soon to find its establishment in every
county of every state of the Union. It
is essential to the establishing ami
maintaining of the proper standards
for teachers as well a.s for pupils. The
plant of the county training school,
or high school, is often used for the
Summer Institute for teachers of the
county. This has been the case in
Bartow county for several years.
‘‘The whole Educational System is
being redirected to meet the commer
cial and industrial problems of the
times, and at the same time the at
tempt is being made to sustain the
spirit and culture of the course.
‘•The High School established in the
county for the training of rural chil
dren is tbe most potent factor in giv-
ing this redirection in the educational
system. The County High School es
tablished in the rural districts, well
equipped with trained teachers and
shops for industrial work, is the school
of the future for the people. Such a
s-chool having country surroundings
and having the support of the whole
l>eople, has the following advantages:
“L It will cost less to give the High
School training;
"2. It will reach the farmer and
his family;
"8. More fundamental work will be
done in such a school;
”4. Rural life and its interests will
be fostered;
“5. It will tend to re-establish pros
perous country farms, country homes,
country schools and count: j churches,
“6. It will send more of our country
children to college;
"7. The lives of the country people
and the farming classes will lie made
more valuable to themselves and to
the county, state and nation.;
‘•8. It will give to the country boy
and girl his and her birthright—‘a
square deal, and will tuise the unit
of value of the individual life oi each
end every one.
“Such a school as has been treated
is to be found in Bartow county, Geor
gia, at Euharlee. This is one of the
first of its class in Georgia to be
founded upon the principle of econom
ic rehabilitation of the country life.*'
Miss Kate E. Hicks, principal of the
State Normal Elementary Training
School, who has assisted in the Sum
mer Courses at Euharlee, says of the
school:
“As it has been my privilege to
work in the Summer Normal at the
Bartow County High School at Euhar
lee for the past two summers, and al-
sc. to visit the teachers in their class
rooms during the school term in Bar
tow county, I feel that I have had an
unusually good opportunity for study
ing the educational needs of Bartow
county.
"It seems to me that the ideals and
purposes of the Bartow Rural High
School will meet the needs of the
county as no other one institution
could do.
“The one needful tiling in this in
stitution as I see, is money. You have
[the fine spirit, high ideals, broad pur
l poses, progressive conceptions of the
mission of the school ami everything
necessary for a fine school except the
necessary money. These 'high ideals !
and purposes were evident to me, j
both among the faculty at Euharlee
and among the teachers of the county,
but the oi thing lacking is the where
with necessary for the execution of
these ideals and pur;>oses.
"When the boys and girls of the
county schools complete the seventh
grade, they are ready to leave home
for a school which will give them
broader ideals—which will make them
love their homes more and own coun
ty more, which will make them more
efficient home makers and more ef
ficient citizens. Your own Bartow
Rural High School is proposing to
meet this need, but its greatest handi
cap is a lack of the necessary funds.
“You will be benefitting, not only
your own county by supporting this
school, but you will also be furnishing
a model for every county high school
in the state, and will also serve the
higher institutions of learning by fur
nishing the better prepared students,
thereby enabling -chem to turn out
more efficient graduates.
“I know of no better educational in
vestment than the Bartow Rural High
School. What you put into this school
will go right into the schools, the
homes and the lives of the people of
your county and your state.”
“OPPORTUNITY”
"Knowledge Is Power."
Please help our boys and girls of
Bartow county to develop their men
tal strength and gain knowledge that
will set them to thinking for them
selves.
Your County School Board very
much desires our Assets, (boys and
girls) to be put on an equal footing
with others; that they are soon to
face; so our own wall succeed in what
ever they undertake.
When our Bartow Rural High
School committee calls upon you for
a subscription, give them your money
payable to suit cur needs and youvaolf.
Thi. m: ney will be handled through
o it';:.liar authorized channel.
Yours for service,
A. B. CI’NY US,
Member of County Board of Education.
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From rim University Items, publish*
at he University of Georgia:
“T.re County Rurai High School.”
"Among the important advance? be
ing made in the development of rural
education in Georgia the County
Rural School may be stressed as
worthy of special emphasis. Such a
school will sooner or later he in ev
ery o tmty. Such schools have suc
ceeded wkh remarkable results in
other states. They have contributed
to the substantial education of the
children of the community in which
the scl'.o 1 is located and they have
added larger practice objects of ag
ricultural education in such a way a?
to correlate the school with the horn
and farm. One of the examples of thi.
sort of school in Georgia at present is
the Bartow Rural High School at Eu
harlee, Ga„ under the direction of Mr.
Menry Milam. This school with a
good building, an available farm ad
joining it, with a good faculty and
good management give every evidence
of great success, and it is hoped that
the Bartow Rural High School may
have the support that it may need.”
Horace W. Howard says:
“I take this opportunity to say to
you that in my opinion the work
which you are so vigorously prosecut
ing at the Bartow Rural High School
Is much needed, and the ones who are
managing it deserve strong commend
ations in their efforts.
“I feel sure Bartow county and her
citizens should give you strong moral
and financial backing in this good
cause, for certainly you are seeking to
PIVE DOLLARS DOW
One Dollar per week will put this range in y
home. We believe it to be a good value.
‘The firm that appreciates your business. ’ ’
C3. IV I. JACKSON & SOIN
Gilbert Cash
Grocery Cos.
” “ ——
A. D. GILBERT, Prop.
Formerly STANFORD BROS
Highest Prices Paid for
Country Produce j
West Main St. Cartersvilie, Gel
:t*:se the leve: oi the county.
'•Wishing you every success in J
endeavor, 1 beg to remain with
sonal regards.” ■
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THE BOOSTERS.
It Couldn’t Be Done.
Somebody said that it couldn’t be JL
But be with a chuckle replied:
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but,
would be one
Who wouldn’t say so 'till he triej
So he buckled right in, with a tracl
a grin
On his face. If he worried, he hii
He started to sing as he tackled
thing
That couldn’t he done —and he dfl
Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll rw
do that —
At least no one ever has done It
But he took off his coat and he i
off his hat, 1
And the first thing we knew he'd >
gun it, I
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a
Without, any doubting or quidcPj
He started to sing as he tackled!
thing a
That couldn’t be done —and he di
There are thousands who’ll tell yci
cannot l>e done, ]
There are thousands who prop]
failure;
There are thousands to point ou
you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail I
But just buckle in with a hit of a a
Then take off your coat and go t !
•fust start in to sing as you tackle.;
thing :'il
That “cannot be done”—-and
■ do it.
—Edgar A. Guej
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What did you say? Are you a Ba
or? Read the above. Then do 1
; you think you should.