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Xhe Houston Home Journal, Perry, Ga., Thurs., Mar. 19, 1959
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Published weekly at Perry, Georgia
COOPER ETHERIDGE and BYRON MAXWELL
Editors and Publishers
Entered as Second Class Matter
at Post Office at Perry, Georgia,
under Act of March 3, 1879.
Official Organ—Houston County and City of Perry
Subscriptions $3.00 per year in state
$3.50 out of state $1.75 for six months
All subscriptions payable in advance
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
BY BERNICE McCULLAR
COMMUNICATION: C. D. Bow
en, writing in the Saturday Review
said, “I once attended a meeting
of historians. They had met to dis
cuss what they called ‘ways to bet
ter historiography’. Translated,
this meant ‘how to write more in
teresting history books’.”
HUMOR AMONG TEACHERS: I
was up at Dallas, Georgia, at a
teacher’s banquet the other night,
and guess what they used for place
cards? Cartoons about teachers! I
also heard of a Paulding county
teacher who had been absent that
week for the first time since nine
teen twenty-three!
CHILD’S CHOICE: Once when
Calvin Coolidge was President, a
little school girl who had a sore
thumb bandaged up went with her
ambassador-father to Washington
to meet all the bigwigs. Coolidge
was glum, never smiled, and rare
ly spoke. The ambassador was sur
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prised when his little daughter
said, after the visit, “Mr. Coolidge
was the one I liked best of all.”
He asked her why. “Because,” said
the child, “he was the only one
who asked me about my finger.”
DO YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT
COMMENCEMENT? If your town
has the creative imagination and
sparkle to think up a different
commencement that varies from
the tired old run-of-the-mill spea
ker-salutory-valedictory-delivery of
diplomas commencement, I hope 1
you will write me about it. My'
address is just State Department
of Education, Atlanta.
THEY COME IN DROVES: The
nation has a million MORE chil
dren in school now than it had this
time last year. We now have 24,-
340,919 in elementary school and
10,300,708 in high school. We
spend an average of $340 per child
on them. (Alabama is the lowest
with $164, and New York the high-
est with $535. Georgia spends r;
$205.) The nation’s average salary :
for teachers is $4775. Georgia’s av- !
erage is $3625. States, altogether, i
average paying 39.7 per cent of (
the school bill, with local districts i
paying 56.8 per cent and federal
government paying 3.5 per cent.
In Georgia, the state pays 72 per
cent of the school bill.
A THING TO REMEMBER:
Most of the misery and despair in
this world conies from the frustra
tion of the universal desire to be
accepted.
NEW MEMBER OF THE
BOARD: By the time you read
i this, there will probably be a new
member on the State Board of
Education, to succeed George P.
Whitman Jr., who resigned after
11 years’ service. The new mem
ber, who will have to come from
the sth Congressional district
(Rockdale, Fulton, or DeKalb)
will be elected by secret ballot of
the Board members for the unex
pired term (to January, 1962).
They will undoubtedly consult the
wishes of the Governor in their
choice. But the law says that’s the
way a vacancy is filled, by secret
ballot of the remaining members.
THERE’S MONEY IN EDUCA
TION The four years of high
school are worth $45,000 in cold
cash. That’s how much more a
high school graduate can earn, us
ually, than one who stops school
in the 7th grade. Government
studies show that a 7th grade
finisher can expect to make sllO,-
000 in his lifetime, a high school
graduate $155,000, and a college
graduate $260,000. (We need to
tell that to our 40,000 in Georgia
who drop out of school every year,
for one reason or another.) Has
your PTA ever made a study of
how-many-and-why drop out of
YOUR school every year, and whe
ther you could help keep them in?
TEST YOURSELF, PAPA! Oldj
Man Nicholas Murray Butler, late)
president of Columbia, said these
five things were the marks of an 1
educated man: 1. he properly uses
his native language, 2. he has good,
manners, 3. he has the power and!
habit of thinking, 4. he grows in l
mind as well as in body, and 5. he!
is efficient. How about you?
DEFINITION: A teacher is
somebody who spends all day with
somebody else’s children, and still
has enough strength left to go to
the PTA.
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HOW SAFE IS YOUR SCHOOL?
jlf you are a superintendent, or
' board member, be sure to read
I
-your copy of the American School
Board Journal for March. It has
some very fine information on
school safety, says our Dr. Allen
€. Smith, director of administra
tion and finance.
HONOR FOR THE BOSS Dr.
Claude Purcell, state superinten
dent of schools, has been asked by
the National Education Associa
tion to be chairman of the NEA’s
National Conference on Safety Ed
ucation, which will be held Octo
ber 4-7 at the University in Law
rence, Kansas. Dr. Purcell not on
ly handled all the applications for
Georgia’s new school buildings,
but he also directed Georgia’s
school transportation program
when he first came to the State
Department of Education. He
helped work out the national uni
form bus patterns, and knows the
safety program for school children
from A to Z. For ten years, he was
a county school superintendent
himself, the youngest ever elected
in Habersham County.
MISGUIDED MOPPET: Boy pick
ed Benet’s John Brown’s Body out
of the library because he thought
it was a murder tale!
THESE NEW HEADQUAR
TERS There are two handsome
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children is carried on. One is the
new home of the Georgia Educa
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hill from us and from the State
Capitol at 197 Central Ave., SW.
The other is the brand-new PTA
headquarters down by the Heart
of Atlanta Motel. 1 hope you will
make a note to visit them both
when you come to Atlanta.
NEW LOOK FOR APRIL—This
year April is Teaching Career
Month—and some month had bet
ter be, too! There will be an 8
per cent turn over in teaching
fields this year. That means that
a hundred thousand men and wo
men will leave the classrooms. We
need young teachers getting ready
to take the places of those who go.
Besides needing replacements for
these 100,000, we also need 65,000
in America to relieve overcrowded
schools and lake care of the ex
ploding enrollments of children.
But here’s something to think
about; just good salaries will not
attract them. They also want to
know how teachers are treated in
your community. Well, go on. An
swer that. How ARE they treated
in your community?
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