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> t * 1 111 \COUNTRY SCH( (By Lueco Gunter, State Supervisor .... of Rural Schools.) Having seen something of the qualifications necessary to success in the country school work, let us consider what are the actual conditions in the State with reference to the training or teachers ana tneir locanon in me schools. In the latest report of the State superintendent of education 2.556 teachers were classified as to training. Of this number 1,017 were graduates of colleges; 412 attended college but did not graduate; 542 completed a high school course. Out of the 2,556 teachers, therefore, there ware 585 with only a common school education. There were lust year in the schools of the State 4,780 teachers. If the figures with reference to the training of teachers remained in the same proportion in the counties reported, there were the past year more than 1,000 teachers in the State with less than a high school education. SALARY OK TEACHERS. There are no figures available with reference to the salaries paid town oml rmiiilrv (pafliprs 5n thp State. It is known, however, that as a rule the monthly salaries In town schools have exceeded the monthly alaries of country teachers. The a vera pee session of the town schools for the State last year was 10b nays: chile the average for the country schools was 120 days. The teacher? ;.re usually paid only for the time employed. It is easy, therefore, to see that the superior Inducements which the town can offer secure for the towns best teaching talent. These figures are hardly necessary, however, as it is a matter of common knowledge among the school workers in the State that the college graduates and teachers generally of the best training and experience are secured for the town schools and the larger consolidated country schools. These 1,000 teachers with only a common schol education, therefore, are fnr tho n? not no rt loco t Ail I n orvtin try schools, and the greater number of them in one-teacher country scholos. As has been pointed out, this type of school Is in need of a teacher with thorough training and nn unusual amount of resourcefulness more than in any other type of school. If the large number of one-teacher school in South Carolina could secure teachers of the best scholarship and training, the oneteacher schood problem in this State would not continue very long. Under the leadership of the teachers these schools would be consolidated where possible and where impossible many of the present mistakes made in the one-teacher schools would be avoided It is unfortunately true that the possesion of a college diploma does not always argue preparedness to teach. Most of the recruits to the teaching profession each year, even tlinu^h thov nnooooo * V% V?D.. v*v/ pvoovoo i lie OVllUlUISlIip, must learn by their own experience the best methods of teaching and school management. If these recruits after they have been developed into successful teachers remain in the profession there might be some hope of securing trained teachers for our schools. But, unfortunately, from the best available figures it is found that the average teaching life of a teacher in the State is not more than four years. HIT OR MISS METHOD. In the city and larger town school systems under the supervision of the superintendents and principals these recruits each year would sooner be developed into efficient teachers, bul in country schools where theio is always an absence of close supervision the scholos must get along wit a the bit or miss method of the inexperienced teacher. Method* of t- tching. as method* ol loing everything else, have undergone * change in recent years. School exparte vfcave great'./ reduced the tlm< rrceeaarv to ftach a child to rear by employing ? -Iter methods of in structfon. #n our country school! there are hundreds of honest, hard nr working teachers, but lacking ii ''A* scholarship and a knowledge ol [''modern school methods they are do fas little less than occupying th< time of the pupils at school. As hai been suggested, the country schooli re the chief sufferers from this kln< af teaching. The question is: Is there any wa; by which the trained teachers can b aacnred for rur country schools? I they are to be secured it is my con v1e*1on that some provision for train lag teachers -will have to be mad' farther than has been provided. I wf*t hardly be possible for all of th amorous colleges of the State t< 1 ] )0L PROBLEMS J iiii?ii(i)Ki)Kiiitii:i>iiiii;iiiiiiaci)icijii?i.i , supply the schools with college graJ-, 1 uates. There were in the senior c.tss of all the colleges whose graduates ere entitled to teach without State examination 794 students the past session. Hardly more than one-third 1 r?i' these will enter up^n the work of < hing, Decidedly more than liaiti of the women may do so, but only a . small per cent, of the men. If a third of these graduates should enter upon ! .! e work of to.-*.! <ng, they would only supply the need for additional teachers in our State the coming session. Las', year the number of teacli. rs in tlie State increased by 221;, the year before by 205. If we are to1 secure teachers of scholarship for our country schools within a reasonable period, we shall have to look to some other source than our colleges. FROM HIGH SCHOOLS. The only other source from which we may hope to secure teachers of training is the high school. The colleges will do their part in providing prepared teachers for the high schools work of the State. With the right kind of encouragement and support we might reasonably exect to secure teachers for the elementary school from our high schools. No one can teach what ho does not know. Every teacher niieht tn Vtietv mere trior, what he attempts to teach. It ought to be so in South Carolina that every teacher would be required to have at least a high school preparation in scholarship before being permitted to teach. W'tli the growth in number and efficiency of the high schools in the past few years these scliolos can furnish the elementary schools with teachers, if the right kind of elTort is made. Numerous other States have laced his same problem in recent years ..nd many of these States have begun a solution of the problem. The States hat have made the most conspicious success in this direction are Minnela, Nebraska, Indiana and Ohio. Ohio lias succeeded so well that wi??. next year that State will be able to nt'orce a regulation requiring at least one year's professional training for every country teacher in the State. IN OTHER STATES. Is it not time that we in South i Carolina were realizing the neces-j slty of training teachers for our rapidly growing schools, and that we were profiting by the experience of1 other States. There are numbers of hi eh schools in Snntii c.? ..?it ? ! uir rj. r b? > By Clara Moorman. i pl . Have I yearned and suffered and ' > called in vain? 1 "What is your own you cannot lose."! Sang the rones out in the rain. ' o) ? I E - I. the lover of life, have miBsed the ei l light! | gi f "The light is above, about and s< within you," si i tang the dtars of the misty night. ei I ! r Though I search the light it is night ? 1 and I die. h "They cannot die?the children of al y light t* L c tang the hills to the far blue sky. e< f ' tl - 1 suffer and out of my pain I cry! c< "There is not that can harm the . e Snirit of Mfe." C t tang the winds in the storm clouds w e high. di o ?NAUTILUS. A . . v'- : : / w- ... wwwui v muuiiti prepared to do the work, if the proper encouragement and support were giv n. Could not the State department pf education select ten schools to give teacher-training courses? Would '' not he a good investment on the part of the State to make an appropriation of $1,000 to each of these schools with which to employ an expert to give a course in teacher training each of these schools? This expert could be selected by the State iepartment of education, the county superintendent of education and the | 'oral board of trustees acting Jointy. This would secure in the expert a person with local interest in the community and a helper to the county superintendent of education in ; building a country school system. j The State at present is spending a vastly larger sum than this in grant- j 'ng scholarships in the State presumably to secure prepared teachers for; ' 'he schools. A large number of the scholarship beneficiaries never teach' in the State at all. If all taught in the State for a number of years, the number of them would not be su*lcient to supply the increase in the , State's teaching force each year The . sum of $10,000 invested next year in s teacher training courses in ten high ; schools would yield, in my opinion, larger returns to the State in teaching 1 ' talent than a like sum invested in ! any other way. r(, i tuiv ' ic rHE LANCASTER NEWS, i *? + + <%> +? + + ? <%*$ <$ it V T II II if* ii ivn tt tt ft ii Y| Is wa I Drugs, tf TT TT || and our fov TT it n i H rerni < % < or probably - f' | Mti/ X X YY and meet u ?3>i? the manage f> I a. 11 IoamL. Aite the pharma Ex and give yc is I TT A > I Evei XX >v except the, T Y*j these men 1 for years. TY s m:. ii if in ft ft TI ! YV < rhe I'nlverHality of Human Valor. j ce There is one thing whlrh the Eu- ol tpean war should help ub in Amer- w( a to learn. It should bring us to a w< 3tter understanding, a juster ap- th reciation, a fairer estimate of the ta copies of the European countries. J tl< In the supreme test of the ordeals vi ' blood and horror througn which j urope Is passing there is one thing h< itabllshed to which all of us, re- th irdless of our srmpathles, can sub- Aj :ribe: AU the nations involved have w :ood the test of manhood, courage, ndurance. Xpert from all other Is- hi lee involved In this titanic struggle, w e must stand with bared and bowed w eads before the heroism displayed 01 like by Teuton, Britain, Oaul, Russ, ra atin and Serb. Thi war has prov- n< 1 that an almost universal trait of n< le human animal la an Indomitable m >urage. tt For years self-constituted author 1- hi es have been clamoring tnat tho ol hite race was degenerating, decs- tt pnt, lacking vitality, fibre. Here in R merica we have been prone to so- M " * ' - - 1 OCTOBER 19, 1915. V A^4 V^4 4^4 V^k 4^4 4^4 4^4 A^4 A^4 A^A 4^4 i^r ^r + + T^T ^rT^f ~^r TMI dwa\ STOI iting for you with and a line Toilet Articles Cigarette ntain is fairlv "fi77in tlAVIAHA lO iUU AJ A AAMiAAA you'll have to have c ips You h r you know only one c you to come 1 e Attendi s and chat with us. Yc ir, formerly with the n, the mill physician a icist; all of whom will tend the ( >u a feeling of good < the youngest drug sto growiug by leaj rything Is * n <1 fKof ia f V? 9Ci v iwuy cliiu uiai ao in lave been giving the Here to serve you. Iway I Lancaster's New pt the verdict as applicable to the reap der people of /Europe while we sovt ere flattering ourselves that we thel ere a superior race, untouched by Hub is mythical decade&ce which had clad Inted or permeated the elder na- Tur ans. Can we longed hold any such of C ew? G In a great French play the dying ago ?ro thua addresses Death: "What Is whc iat you say! That it is useless to |D ^ jht. It Is much nobler to fight I v ben you know you cannot win." | Is there a man or woman with red ood whose eyes do not glisten. mer hose heart did not beat faster, fer? hose pulses did not throb, when he gue > she read of the fight the Belgians ade, the fight they knew they could thf| ?t win? Is there one of us who does Dt thrill at the recitation of the 4,011 i . . shu aiTciuui ibiu 01 ioq uermins, ti te deathless story of how the French ?*UI Tim ufled back the Invader at the fates ' Paris, of the mafnlflcent stand of T~~ te ill-armed and lU-dlscHpined rh# nsslan army, of the tiny bat tnvtn- >r? pas, of the Serbian's mafnlflcent ??? (4 . V . ' v*' ' r nr. RE i a warm welcc of new , Candies, C s, Etc. g" with the fine dri luring the fair. r wr inow >? us. In any case to see us ng The 1 >u will find W ain F ! Lancaster Pharm nd Dr.[Thomas Fun Glad Han :heer and happine re in the city, but is >s and bounds. Brand N e same good old set ! people of this co )rag I Drug Store tonse to the appeal of their aged < 'reign when a mighty foe had laid r land in ruins, of Italian and tl i \ ?ian battling to death on snow P t Alpine peaks, of the despised d k laughing at death in the ravines A Jallipoli? I 'J r ut of this welter of blood and1 ? ny one thing stands sure. Men ? > have died thus have not lived 0 | a rain. B Pe who have indulged in petty, I i dish ignorant criticisms of other e i beeause they spring from a llf- a >nt race and spoke an alien ton- t moat stand abashed today. * abed and yet glad, too, clad that c Indomitable aplrit of oar clrtlixa- ? i may wander Into strange sad " ddering paths but can nsrer be ( shed or impaired.?Florence r les. 11 ?! i e CM Safes, Other hssdn Wast Cms e wot it ?? ( , * mtttft?( kow t cared by the aeedeilnl, old reliable Dr m tr't /tntlaeptlc Healing OH. relieve* I i tad Mia*- tl '.fee mm tha* Me. Ma Side1 4, A A AAA AAA 4^ ^^rVVVVVVVvV i ^ ^ ig I ,me il II " igars, a V Tf u inks that Z% XX All we want %% Fair | Yt ji a j ri. VJl py lacy; Dr. ^.1 derburk, Yf Yy fZ d || Tf 88. This %Z 5 it 4 r ?f eu; ii vice that mmunity || Co. I <$ ?$ J . 4^4 A^A A^A A^A A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A. A^A. A^A The Ant's Nostrils. In a recent Issue of the Journal of k_ DWIUJaULI . A j A . lib ruimuci|>iuu Acauemy 01 sciences, lias A. M. Fields, author of several apers on the life and habits of ants, escribes her Investigations into the unction of the antennae. In her earler paper she sought to show that tha anctlon of the antennae is olfactory, nd she now declares that the rartus segments perceive partlcalar dors. The segment at the tip, for sample, warns an ant that be Is approaching a colony other than **hla own. igala, the next segment below passives the odor that marks one eat 0)007 as inimical to other# of the ame species. Another segment set fee o gt/de the ant when ho me was# ound by enabling him to pick sp Mm cent ke left on the ground during Ma atward journey. Still a mother saf oent enables e worker ant to rseag lie the whereabouts of lh? queea ssf isr sndsvslopsd progeny. Dot la re pect to'the travels of tha ant, eur eaders will remember the paper la he Companion In which ths great 'rench naturalist, Psbrs, describes tha xperimenta that lad him to belleva hat the ant guldee himself by sight lone.