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Perry Public High School
Fall Term Commences Sept., 4th, 1922.
Prof. J. M. Gooden, Mercer University, Supt.
Miss Ethel Hall, Bessie Tift, Prin.
Miss Marion Turner, Wesleyan, English.
Miss Ruby Couch, Wesleyan, 7th Grade.
Miss Mattie Lou Moates, G. N. & I. C., 6th Grade.
Miss Martha Riley, State Normal, 5th Grade.
Miss Pearl Edwards, G. N. & I. C., 3 and 4 Grades.
Miss Mary Lou Greene, G. N. & I. C. 2nd Grade,
Miss Annie Righton Miller, G. N. I. C., 1st Grade.
Miss Cinderella Cooper, Music.
Mrs. P. H. Skellie, Expression.
Fall Term Incidental Fees, High School, $4.00.
Fall Term Incidental Fees, Grammer School, $2.25
All pupils expected to report the first day and then
not absent themselves except for sickness.
Board of Education, Perry, Ga.
! W. Bloodworth, Chmn,, S. P. Crowell,
J. P. Cooper, H. L. Wasden/
F. M. Greene, H. P. Houser, S'ec’y-
I Pay CASH for Any Ford: Old or New.
J. W. LEE
PHONE 702
I 552 Secon St. Macon, Ga.
A. Peirry
Commissioner
A BIG
NEED OF
FERRY HIGH SCHOOL
The work of Railroad Commissioner
James A. Perry who has announced for
re-election, has been constructive and
of general interest and advantage to
all the people. His activity in provid
ing better facilities for the movement
of farm products, has resulted in great
savings jjf/i the agricultural interests.
Milling in transit privileges on grain;
-canning and refining privileges on
syrup and molasses; application of the
10 per cent rate reduction on velvet
beans and cowpeas, effective last Janu
ary, are all results of his personal ef
fort, and have worked a saving of
countless thousands to the people.
Commissioner Perry wrote and in
troduced the resolution eliminating the
base point system in Georgia, which,
when it goes into effect very shortly,
will relieve 2,100 shipping points from
a handicap due to preferential
rates heretofore enjoyed by some 35
large shipping centers. All points will
be put on equal footing.
Georgians are today paying deven
million dollars less per year for
all utility service, including railroads,
than the same service cost them
twelve months ago.
Commissioner Perry is the only
"•mber of the Georgia commission
r elected president of the National
'delation of R. R. Commissioners.
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Secondary Education in the
Urated States has passed through
two distinct stages and is now
passing; through the third: the
Latin (grammar School(1500-1700)
Academy (1750-1840); Public
High School' (1821). The Latin
Grammar School was transplanted
from Europe a product of the
Ranuaissance. It was selective and
more or less aristocratic in its
purposes; it. trained tho leaders
those entering the . professions of
ministery, law, medicine, teach
ing. The common people shared
none of its training. Instruction
in Latin and Greek constituted
tho large part its curriculum.
As the Latin Grammar School be
came more and more remote fnom
tho needs of practical life, and as
democratic ideas and new pooito-
tnic needs began to take form a
demand for a new typo of school
arose. The outcome was I he
establishment of the Academy.
While it commonly taught Latin,
and the college-preparatory course^
formed its backbone, it also pro
vided instruction in subjects of
immediate practical value.
Still this type of school did not
long meet the increasing demo-
enatic needs of our country; and
as a result, our present Public
High Schools came into existence
in Boston, 1821. Originally the
practical aim dominated it; but
later this practical aim became
subordinated,to tho college pre
paratory aim which has dominated
tho high schools until recently.
In the last few years a strong
tendency has developed among
most high school administrators
to formulate aims and organize
Bourses of study in the high schools
for tho large numbers of students
who do not except to go to college
And in many sections, schools with
varied curricaula and enriched
courses of study have been estab
lished, In fact, most of our high
schools are attempting, in a way,
to train for life as well as for
college.
However, there are several vital
defects of the greater number of
our schools, especially the smaller
pnes. They do not prevent elimi
nation provide for individual
differences, and take care of those
who do not expect to go to college.
Too many students drop out in
tho earlier grades of our high
schools. This fact is alarmingly
true in The Perry High School.
Taking our schools as a whole,
only about one-third who enter
high school remain to graduate,
and about oun-third of those who
graduato enter college.
Something should bo done to
remedy these defects How can we
retaiu pupils in the high schools
longer? We should provide for in
dividual differences that is,
recognize the fact that individuals
differ in general intelligence and
aptitudes and give them courses
on this basis; provide practical
courses for those who do not at
tend courses iu domestic science,
manual arts, vocalional agriculture
commercial coursos etc.
Tho Perry High School is badly
defective along tbe lines mention
ed above. We have only one
course that a college-preparatory
course; we have no domestic science
manual.arts in fact, no prevocatio-
nnl courses of any nature. We are
not advocating the overthrow of
the col lege preparatory . course,
but an enrich curriculm and varied
eonrses.
Did you know that inauy of
our present high school branches
are retained on the assumption
that they 'Train the mind”? Mod
ern psychologist have proved the
fallacy of this argumenty. Other
subject which are ot direct practi
cal value offer the same “supposed
mental training.’' In fact only
those things ol simi.lar content, or
that require similar methods of
mental operations, are transferred.
Coming nearer to ihe point, we
need anotner teacher in tho Perry
High School- With another teach
er, other courses could be offered
that would provide for those who
do not go to college, and would
provide for individual differences
among pupils. Thts iu turn would
prevent so much elimination. Why
can’t we add a combined-high*
school'-and-domestic-seieuce teach
er? This would relieve conditions
as they now exist. This would per
mit a more practical course for
those who may or may not attend
college.
1 plead that the Board of Edu
cation, • the Parents-Teachers
Associatson, all patrons and friends
of the school, co-operate and put
this across. Not only iu this but in
everything portaininiug to tho
good of the school, 1 earnestly in
vite the friendly co-operation and
support of all tho people of the
town and surrouuding communities
durjng the approaching school
term Lets Make It The Best Year
In 'The History Of The Perry
High School.
Yours Truly
J. M. Gooden, Supt.
MISS MACON AT BEAUTY CARNIVAL.
Under am pices of tho Macon
Telegraph a Macon young lady has
been seleoted to represent the Cen
tral City ot Georgia at tho beauty
parade to be held at Atlantic City/
N. J.
Judges chose Miss Francos Guru
to represent Miss Macon at tho ba
zar, the most beautiful of tho 25
who attended the contest. MisS
Cytha Ohambeis, also of MacoR,
was chosen alternate.
The exaotfses of thofionod guests-
will be paid by the bazar manage*
ment fiom ‘‘start to finish." From
these beauty guests, the judged
will choose Miss America, adjudg
ed the most beautiful lady in
America.
’ No matter who may win ia the
national oontest, the Telegraph
already has the plaudits of Geor
gia for the splendid time secured
for the representatives.
Railroad Commissioner
JAMES A. PERRY
Offers Experience and Effi
ciency, against Inexperience
and Inefficiency.
Walter R. McDonald Candidate
For Railroad Commission
Walter ft. McDonald, the blind legis
lator from Richmond county, , is a can
didate for the Railroad Commission of
Georgia to succeed Hon. C. Murphy
Candler, who Is not offering for re-
election.
At the age of thirteen, a poor boy
on his father’s small farm in Richmond
County, near Augusta, the youngest of
seven children, he was suddenly strick
en with total blindness. Realizing that
the light of day had been forever
barred from his vision, the young farm
er bpy set out to win an education
and with a determination to serve his
state in spite of his handicap of blind
ness. Having advanced only to the
fourth grade in common school, and
knowing that his family was unable to
.give him an education, he set to work
and, by his own effort, working during
school terms and vacation, earned and
paid for his education, graduating from
the University of Georgia in 1914.
.Since that time he has successfully
practiced law in the City of Augusta,
where he is considered one of the
.ablest of the younger lawyers of that
section. McDonald is now in his early
thirties.
Mr. McDonald is a man whose cheer
fulness is an inspiration to his friends,
of whom there are thousands. As an
^evidence of his popularity and ability
the voters of Richmond County have
:for three successive terms sent him to
the State Legislature over opposition.
Walter R. McDonald.
In the Legislature, he has made an
active, efficient and able member.
Mr. McDonald’s host of friends
throughout the state confidently pre
dict his election, and, , if elected, Geor
gia will have a capable and efficient of
ficer and the people of Georgia will
have, in this Belf-made, blind man, an
honest and true public servant.
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