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1 TRADED TEACHERS ss IN RURAL SCHOOLS E, cers ? few i Prof. Gunter Writes First of Se- poslti' ries of Articles on Country 8Ch?o1 securt School Problems. ticuia Know NEED OF CONSOLIDATION, and t one w ing O One-Teacher School SulferN Most Rcarci in hack of Well Prepared ^ Teachers. quent Columbia Special to Charleston For News and Courier, Sept. 19.?Prof, and s Leuco Gunter, state supervisor of well c rural schools, haa prepared the fol- school lowing article on "The Need of sectio Teachers," as the first of a series of still e articles on "Country School Prob- ties, u lems." From his grasp of the situa- funds tion Mr. Gunter can speak with these knowledge and what he has to say lengtli should prove of great value. In his school article Mr. Gunter says: of the One of the greatest needs of coun- these try schools today is teachers of schol- count! arshlp and training that will enable than 1 them to meet the problems of the rural school. For many years our uut school officers have been concerned aaiarj largely with securing satisfactory reauZ( equipment and a school term of suf- onero flcient length to do successful work. The providing of these is yet a prob- st, lem in a great many places, but we hare reached the time when in a few systetl counties of the state the chief con- HOive(] cern of the county superintendent of or education Is the securing of efficient rej| class roof Instruction. One county jr superintendent was heard to remark flie , the past session that the problem ih (ijfncu bis county was to secure teachers teach( who knew the work and were able j,rohlc to do the work, that where schools ,,roe were efficient he experienced no ditll- stU(jv eulty in influencing the people either verv i to vote taxes to Increase the school ,,( term or the teachers' salaries, or to tntoti<l vote bonds for providing the righl kind of physicial accommodations. -irranj RURAL GRADED SCHOOLS. <hool The rapid growth of the rural perfor graded school in the past few years board has made the securing of capable *ity 01 teachers for country schools more Wh necessary. Under the Influence of the arrant rural graded school law 40fl rural school graded schools were in operation the struct - past year. For the most part these day. htc consonaaten sonools In new and toaotic ' rommodlous buildings. The school half c officers In the communities where ?f Rtn such schools are organized usuallv amoui have a vision of the school as the so- on the clal center. Where these houses have 'he been erected and the schools have hcatlo been started. If the right kind of prln- terns of pal for the school Is not secured one * the people have a sense of failure In more their effort to provide for the educa- f t'onal needs of the community. Not F'ur only are prlclnpaln needed for these counti schools, but assistants with a vision have 1 of rural school work are In great de- v'ded mand. most In addition to these 400 rural onc graded schools there were last year officer over 1,600 one-teacher schools. ?f G(li These, of course, are distinctly rural PG(' w schools and present the most difficult these problems of school administration. very 1 Many of these one-teacher schools visitat ought to be consolidated into the actual rural gradea school. Many others j 'cache of these are necessary !n their com- hind < munities and need to be properly surPr' housed and equipped. These schools where more than any other suffer for a lack ass'sti of teachers who are prepared in forded scholarship and In spirit to do rural Th? school work. rests r ASSISTING TRUSTEES. teach* _ no si One of the greatest tasks before huildl some of the county super.ntendents wj,om and all of the county rural school su- rrin ^ pervisors the present summer v. as ,v or(j Whenever You Need a General Tonic S< h?? Take drove's e8t P The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless of ev chill Tonic is equally valuable as a I General Tonic because it contains the n,. n. ?wll knMn ?nni/> lAlTfMTVM I u .. ? ??-r ~ ?vm?v |/* v/|A.i iicam BfCIUIli and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives Tivk b oat Malaria, Rnriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. SO cents. io^k to DOINGS OF THE V/ f PtA AT / I tAtT RNlMeO X Al cp I Hi vVAUT.' IT TSOK MB t ( |A( \A U?HC TIMB it/7 iVfc j V U'oT IT wiitpecT -AT 7 THE HAN CASTE It NEWS ir assistance to local boards of mining the duties or a country school es in securing the right sort of Uizes the weight of this problem pal or teacher, or both, for the in addition to these problems, with school. Of my own personal which every other teacher must deai ledge some of these school offl- to a greater or less extent, the counipent weeks in trying to fill a rV school teacher In this day of proracancles. Applicants for the >ress is expected to be a community cms were planttful, but these worker. The teacher must be a close I officers knew that a failure to itudent of school work and the needs ) the right person at this par- ">f the school, and in addition to that, r time would be disastrous. country teacher must study how Ing the type of person wanted ? enable the school to contribute to >elng unwilling to recommend he social needs of the community, ho did not seem capable of fill- This requires tact and resourcefulle position, because of the less as much so as do the ordinary ty of well prepared people for school activities. It is manifest, Ind of work, these officers fre- 'herefore, that whatever the nature ly spent weeks seeking in vain, of the problems with which the all these years low salaries acher in an organized school syshort school terms have made 'em must deal, they are small as lualified applicants for country compared with those con fronting the I positions scarce. In many teacher of a country school. ns of the state this condition ? xists. but In many other coun- HHIP STOPPED EIGHT TIMES. inder the assistance of the state and the special taxes which American Steamer Held Up by funds have encouraged, the British and Germans, i of the term of the country New York, Sept. 15.?The AmeriI compares favorably with that can steamer Portland arrived here ) town school, and in many of today from Swedish and British ports counties the salary of the after having been held up by eight ry teacher is oftentimes larger war vessels on her eastward and the salary of the town teacher, westward trips. The freighter sailed ONEROUS WORK. from San Francisco several months where short terms and low a*? w,th a oarK? of bar,ey' beans and es are not an obstacle, teachers dr,ed fruits consigned to Stockholm e that country school work Is and a Brltish consular cerus. There is at the beginning Uftcate Pr?v?dl"? a8a'"3t intori school year the adjustment of ,erence* ate couree of study to the needs ?n June 14 the Portland was held 8 school. In the town school UP b? a British cruiser, taken to as problems of this nature are Kirkwall, and four days later disl either by the superintendent charged a part of her cargo at the principal, and the teacher Blyth. She then started for Stockleved entirely of this burden. ho,m but was be,d UP twice by Oeri the one-tenchpr country school man submarines, which took part of teacher alone must solve this the cargo. From Stockholm, tho lty, and In the two and three- Portland sailed for .England and was ;r rural graded schools this hc,d U.P b>' two more German sub'm is less only to a slight de- marines. After leaving Gravesend In the matter of the course of three British destroyers held up the in country schools the teacher l>ortla,u' before she was clear of the argely must perform the duties ' ar znne? school board and of the superlent in a city or town system. Saving Mineral Waste, en the course of study has been Up fill quite recent times the loss ;ed in most of our country ?f ''u at the Welsh mines has been s tho teacher very largely must nrarl>' >cn Per cent of the total amount ni the duties of the school oMhe metal mined. Now In the use .... i r . . . . of electrical apparatus, the loss has and of the superintendent in a , . , . . r*x.i been lowered to one per cent. This is r own system. a ^ajr >amp|e ?f jj,e reform now goen the course of study has been jug on in all mining operations. Orea ?ed in most of our country once thrown away are now used, and s the teachers mnst give in- old dumps are being worked at a ion in the entire course every profit sometimes not much less than In rural graded schools the was Iradt? b>' ,he oriS'md owners of >r must give instruction In a tbe n,ioe- Tb<> 8ilv<T nA"e? ot At" o if tica wore worked by slave labor*more . .. ui iuu enure course ti,an twenty -five centuries ago and <ly. This demands an immense were thought exhausted, but in recent it of daily home preparations times the ancient waste has been run 1 part of the teacher, even when through modern piocesses and made acher possesses the best quali- to uay. ns. In the larger school systeacher*! frequently have only .^at 0 ?'1. to early rade in a class room, rarely Br1tain thnt ,>cter the 0rent. in ,,ls elian two grades. crude way, is to Russia. Tf ever a race SUPERVISING OFFICER. of people found adequate ?xr>r -ssion thermore, these teachers In I In one iterson, that race was the Slavic ry schools for the most part race in their gre at czar A& an acorn lot the supervision that is pro- enfolds an oak. the type of a great in the larger school systems. In f?reRU so f'eter toe Great enfolded of our counties there is onlv ?he R"83,?n Into h m they , , ? , have flowed trom the twilight of time, >unty supervising officer. This . , ,, u . . . and from him tliev have gone out to is the county superintendent (he cnds of fhe oartll And th,R Was ication, and he is so handicap- ono nf his dreams, thnt his country ith office details, if he gives might have ample boundaries."?From details proper attention, that "The World Storm?and Beyond," by ittle time is allowed for school Edwin Davies Schoonmaker ion and no time is allowed for school supervision. Country Complete Letter Writer. *rs feel the isolation in this ^ experienced letter opener c.in of school work, and tt is not 1p,PCt the "nation Personal letter at . .. . . ... | the first glance at !! printed typesing that they seek positions ... . , . ,, ,. . " , . 1 writing; to forestall the usual fat" of they can secure supervising Juch a ,e(ter a nuiadt fpliir. firm tnce when opportunity is af- frankly begins its imitation letter I* r thus: "This is not a typewritten letter. ? burden of school discipline but far better, because it bus taken solely upon the country school nours of experience of expensive ?r. There is no principal and talent to write the information it con* npertntendent in the school M*1"8- impossible in any 'etter dictated ng. or a building near hv to ?*> the snur of the moment." a matter of school discipline . - . s AL'II 0 W ?;r V?z :zz: Malaria or Chills & Fever 1 discipline is one of the great- '^HILLs'A FEVER, roblems in the administration piTe 0r aix doeee will break any caee, and cry school, and a teacher as-: If taken fhen aa a tonic the Ferar will not return. It acta on the Urar better thar* ilnlne That Does Not Affect The Head C*Jomcl *"* doe* 001 ?nP?oractea- v* s of it* tonic end laxative effect. 1.AXA iromo quininh i? better than ordinary If yon do not want your cotton to f and does not cause nervousness nor hp _i_ ?... nil M1,. n ?. . In head. Rememher the full name and De *ln cul' lel 'ne uu M,M *,n 11 ror r the signature of K. W. GKOVK. 25c. you. LN LOONS Now j ? ?. r 'N TKR I I i-VTK. 1 W |3*C^*XX Ai A, OMUtj \ f*"* ATsX VsAVR ME * i-eT*!?3 JUiT C^ftANp/^) V Q*=- MoAJO^ / BKPTEMBER 21, 1915. The Water's F"li?e. Charleston cannot be brought to make the plunge. She opposed most ^ earnestly the displacement of the A bar-room by dispensaries, just as she X / \ now opposes the displacement of V A 21 olind tigers and dispensaries by prohlbition. If she could be induced to X give an honest trial to prohibition, jr we believe she would have no cause cv to regret It. i Let her come into prohibition wa- T ters. She will find the swimming is ^ * good.?Greenville Piedmont. To Vladivostok by Canal. ? Philadelphia. Sept. 15.?The Brit tsh steamship Saint Leonards, the & in some for Arts vessel to clear from this port for ^f form, ai Vladivostok by way of the Panama <?? kine canal, sailed yesterday for the '. , Siberian port. Fifteen locomotives Y 1H1S drill and six thousand tons of steel rails ^ and imprOV comprised the cargo, valued at about V safe and ef $57 5,000. It was sent on the order noted expel the RuvSUn government. in an ~ ' J lions of cas (^remember 1% {ztin:r CtTU ~ n3 I X Beauty i; - ^ X herrte<** Whep i I I ifeu(aD wafr \ At Our ? Drug5toi?/^f ? Mr. Robert II. Norris. No. 1333 Hen- i'+T+T* i +'i^ ry St., North Berkeley, Cal., writes: %. "We have never liad any other medi- T d cine but Peruna in our home since we JT Jm have been married. I suffered with T M W* ?Jk kidney and bladder trouble, but two X JL months treatment with Peruna made me a well and strong man. 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