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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920.
WHY NOT A DOUBLE SESSION DAY?
The superintendent is preparing a questionnaire,
a copy of which is soon to be mailed to the parents
of each child enrolled in the city schools, to determine
just how the majority of the people affected
feel about the adoption of the double session day
m in both the graded and high schools next session.
(Such a daily session is practically universal in I
the Northern, Central and Western States already,
and is being rapidly introduced, into the Southern
States. As we see it the only possible argument I
against the adoption of such a session in the South
lis the climate, which is a bit uncomfortably warm
the first six weeks of the session and prqbably the
last four. But as to that argument, aren't most of
the children in the sun practically all of the afternoon^
when the weather is warm?
Under the new plan, the schools will be in session
from 9 to 12:30 o'lcock. Then there will be
a dinner hour given teacher and pupil from 12 or
12:30 to 1 or 1:30 o'clock. There will then be an
Kg.:''' afternoon sess-ion of the schools from 1 or 1:30 to
4 or 4:30 o'clock. ,
Some advantages of the plan are:
' 1* It will break the daily school session into j
two shorter periods, admitting of more intensive
work when the children are at school and elimi- |
Wj- nating the long stretch between breakfast and din- i
asfr ner of the present arrangement. j
2. It will permit of the introduction of new subfile-:
jects ihlo the curriculum thus giving a more diver- {
fey/. sifie<i Course.
Ej&r s 3. It will permit of more thorough teaching of
the regular subjects now in the curriculum.
4. It will give the teacher an opportunity to do
f; more teaching. At present her time in many cases
is largely taken up simply in hearing lessons. Listen
to what one poor overworked mother has to say I
' \ , of the present system:
"I have four little girls attending your schools. I
am up at five o'clock in the morning to get them'
v off to school and to get myself off to work. It is
' six o'clock in the evening when I reach home again,
pretty well worn out, and after we have had dinner
and have tidied up the house a bit, it is eight
o'clock. Then, tired as I am, I ait down and teach
& the little girls the lessons your teachers will hear
them say over on the following day. Now, if it is
all the same to you, it would be a great help and
favor to me if you will have your teachers teach the
lessons during the day, and then all I would have |
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It will give the teachers an opportunity to
' train the pupils how to study and to assist them in |
studying. Actual experiment has shown that probably
the majority of children have very little idea j
how to attack their school tasks, and, when left
without guidance waste a great deal of time.
6. It will eliminate to a considerable degree
home study and the task which so many parents
face in trying to teach their children at home. A j
certain amount of home study, especially for the
s older children, is necessary and should be assigned.
These children, however, should be taught in school
how to study the work assigned for home study and
, should not be obliged to call on their parents for
help. A pupil who is earnest but slow would be assisted.
and a lazy pupil would be obliged to do at
least a minimum amount of work in school.
7. The school buildings embracing a plant (
valued at over $50,000 are now used only four or j
five hours per day for 180 days in the year. Allowing
the school plant to be idle and unoccupied for
so great a majority of the hours and days of the
( . year is unbusinesslike and uneconomical.
Under the single session plan as at present, prac- I
tically every minute is given to recitation. No teaching
can be done as it should be done. It is a fault |
of the system, not of the teacher, pupil or parent. j
We are attempting the impossible when we attempt j
to do a full day's work between the hours of nine
and two. A longer day greatly increases the amount
of work done, and at the same time must meet with i
the approval of every business man in the com- j
munity. The teacher's task should not be to find
out how much a pupil has learned from home study
but it should be to intelligently impart wisdom to
him whether by project teaching or otherwise.
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?.. y be giving dinner at all hours of the day. Mr. '
doesn't come home for his dinner until two o'clock
and I am sure he is going to have hot dinner. You
school teachers are always trying out new fads just
4v. to see how much trouble you can give us mothers."
It is no new fad at all. A great many of the fathers
and mothers of Abbeville will today say that
the best schools ever were the ones which they attended,
beginning: at an early hour and continuing
until late of evening. As one advocate of the double
session says, "Often you could, in old days, see
the school children and the ploughman returning
THE LUCK OF HERBERT HOOVER.
Thp Sfafp t.hinVt; wpII of Mr. Hoover on account
of the men who do not like him. It says:
"Luck comes the way of Herbert Hoover. Boies
Penrose, "stalwart of stalwarts", United States
Senator of Pennsylvania, the ideal Republican of
the Republican party, has issued his decree against
the consideration of this Californian by the National
Republican convention. He declares that in
1918 Mr. Hoover called on the people to elect a
Congress in sympathy with President Wilson and
that, in the Penrose opinion, eliminates him from
Republican toleration.
Doubtless Senator Penrose, in this expression
truly represents' the true-blue high tariff everything-for^business
Republicans of the United States
and when the convention meets in Chicago the name
of Hoover will be on the tongues of no men who
are not themselves under the tongue of Republican
suspicion.
Once a man was nominate^ for President who
was "loved for the enemies that he had made." He
was elected, too."
The State does not notice that Mr. Hoover has
other enemies whose names it failed to call. In a
statement given the United Press Thursday, Mr.
Hoover called attention to the fact that not only
had Senator Penrose read him out of the Republican
party, but Mr. Bryan had declared that he, Mr.
Hoover, was not a Democrat to Mr. Bryan's likinc.
Is Brvan one of the enemies made by Mr.
Hoover for whom he should likewise be thankful?
We have also noticed that Mr. Hoover in recent
addresses advocates the ratifification of the Treaty
of Versailles with reservations, stating that practically
every thoughtful person now recognizes the
necessity for reservations. Will this make Mr. Wilson
an enemy of Mr. Hoover, and will he be among
the enemies who will make Mr. Hoover's calling and
election sure?
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GROGGY SPRINGS.
There is a place in Abbeville county named Groggy
Springs. If it is what its name would imply, it
is likely to become a very popular resort.?Newberry
Observer.
,We regret that it becomes our painful duty to
ir.fe-m Brother Wallace of The Observer, whose
tongue seems to be hanging out, that Groggy
Springs is located entirely too near Due West to be
of any value as an oasis of any benefit to other
than the theological students. Good wateriis its
sole product.
HAT OR NO HAT.
"There are about forty live issues in this country
to-day in which I am interested," says Mr. Hoover,
"and before I can answer whether I am a Democrat
or a Republican I shall have to know how each
parity stands on those issues."
Mr. Hoover, he wever, resists invitations to say
what the forty issues are and his own attitude toward
them. When asked to express opinions he
smilingly tells the reporters, perhaps truly enough,
"now you are trying to get me into' trouble." The
public is familiar with similar aversion to exact
statements by other conspicuous men, and it has
generally been found that such are candidates.
Mr. Hoover is a Western man and has a regional
liking for frankness. It seems time for him to
come out and say openly whether or not his hat has
been thrown into the ring. No one will precisely
know what the platforms will contain until the conventions
meet, and although Mr. Hoover is inexpert
in politics he is not so ill informed as to think
there is possibility of either convention adopting a
platform and then adjourning for a week or more
to discover whether the same parallels the one Mr.
Hoover has in the recesses of his mind.?New York
Tribune.
NO MORE CHEAP MEAT.
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One country or several countries involved in a
war may profit by it and come out richer than they
were when they went in; but they profit at the expense
of some other country or countries; and taking
the belligerents as a whole, the loss resulting
from the war is greater than the gain.
The New York World points out that there is no
hope of cheap meat for a long time to come; and
the reason why there is no such hope is the fact
stated above. This war impoverished most of the
WArlH if HomnlicViP/1 unrl Hocfrrtva/1 an-if woe *vc_ I
pecially destructive of the world's herds. It depleted
the total of the world's livestock to an unprecedented
extent; and this is a species of destruction
that cannot be made good in a year.
The whole world will pay the penalty, this country
among the reSt; for with Europe's 'herds almost
wiped out, the European demand will increase
the prices here. The war brought much money in
to the United states, it made a good many Americans
rich. But Americans in the mass will be paying
for it for a long time to come in the form of
high prices for meat that used to be cheap.
This is not a cheering thought for the consumer.
But for farmers in regions of America where livestock
can be raised cheaply and successfully?as in
lower South Carolina, for instance?there is opportunity
in it.?News and Courier.
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