The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, August 13, 1907, Page SEVEN, Image 7
POSSIBLE DISADVANTAGES
OF THE HIGH SCHOOL LAW.
The St.ate.
As universally granted by your
recent correspondents as to the
compulsory educational law now im
pending. the success of our education
a! efforts is of the higohest importance.
It is, therefore, vitally important that
no mistake just now should be made.
All readily admit that high schools
are very desirable, but too few may
possibly consider what disadvantages
may result from tdo great an ambi
tion and eagerness to est'ablish them,
and thereby secure a portion of that
fund thrown out into the present free
school system by the state like a veri
table apple of discord. Let us brief
ly enumerate some of these disadvan
tages:
First. These high schools impose
additional taxation upon a people al
ready too heavily taxed, in that spe
cial levies are to be made, both to
erect special buildings and to pay
higher salaries, all without materially
improving the possible advantages of
the common free shool system.
Second. They disrupt and depress
the present free school system, over
crowding some schools, and depleting
others.
Third. They crowd people into
towns to the injury of country com
munities, thereby depreciating the
value of real estate and educating our
people to loaf around towns in idle
ness, trying to live by their "wits,"
which is an incalutulable menace to
honesty, prosperity and, we may add,
white supremacy.
Fourth. Neither colleges nor com
mon free schols, but mongrels; these
high schools interfere with both,
teaching our people on the one hand
to be satisfied with brief superficial
training, and on the other hand low
ering the efficiency and grading of the
common schools, no ambitious teacher
caring to teach a merely primary
school.
Fifth. They render inadvisable
the enactment of a compulsory eduea
tional law, now impending. the state
having no right to force the people to
patronize schools beyond walking dis
tance, especially after having des
troyed the schools at their doors. I
Other disadvantages could be men- <
tioned, but let these suffice for a
warning ''to make heste slowly."
The educational effort of the state
should be:
First. To ereet a good, efficient
school in every community, where it 'a
will be easily accessible to all. I
Second. To make these school meet f
all the needs as to primary and sub- 1
collegiate training, which can be done. i
Third. To adopt a compulsory edu- i
eational law. i
Fourth. And to leave collegiate
training to her many state and pri- t
vate colleges already in existence, I
thus developing her present resources <
without oppressing present institu- 1
tions, a'nd without inflicting upon our<
people needless change~s and unending .I
taxation.
We have written briefly, bul hope s
all will consider the subject well be
fore voting unnecessary changes.
STUDIBS or ELOOT LIFB.
1
Bureau of Plant Industry Carryingi
On a aVluable Work.
The experts of the bureau of plantj i
industry of the agricultural depart
ment are getting at the roots of the i
matter. This is literally true, for the i
root experiments with plants are the
outcome of a st.udy of the problems';
involved in wide and shallow planting, c
as opposed to close, ordinary plantingjl
In the former methods, a great roott
development would enable the farmer t
to do well with very little rain; in
the latter, his reliance is entirely on
raln.1
Experimenters have hitherto been
'handicapped by the abseree of a de
vice properly to study root growth,.
but this difficulty has been overcome
by A M. Ten Eyck, a member of tle ;
Dakota station. Mr. Ten Eyck adg a t
trench two feet 'wide about a block
of earth in which were growing some
plants, the roots of which he desired.
to study. When the block stood out
quite clearly alone he made a light
wooden frame to fit around it and coy
ered this with common wvire poultry]
netting. This held the earth in place
and enabled him to pierce it through
with small wire rods, which were then
fastened at both ends to the netting.
When enough of these thin wire rods
had been run through, to hold up the
roots in case the earth was washed
away. he covered the top of the
romia with '>thin plasteri of ParisI
paste, which sAn dried holding the
plants lie desired to examine firmly
about the base.
The subsequent stages of this pro
ess, which has been adopted by the
bureau experts, involve the washing
of th a earth from about the roots with (
soft., warm water, leaving them whiol
ly exposed and sasper.ded upon the)
V1*es 'Wijeh had been f',.reed iin'rh11
'11V i . It ilC become ca;x 1!(- to
ift tihe age, with its plaster of Par
s roof, holding the desired plants, to
;uch a place as desired for study.
'are is taken to dig the surrounding
rench deep enough in the beginning
oN avod the 1)osibiity of the roots
)ein still connected with the each
AC:!ow.
The root experimenters have met
onsiderable difficulties. For one
hing the fine thread-like portions of
he roots are destroyed at their extre
nities by the warm water washing.
[he threads; ho,wever. at the points
Ahere they ended, have 1#-en analyz
d. and it has been found that even
t this early stage of the progress of
he nourishment upward, the great
hemical work, the taking from the
oil of lime, sodium. nitrogen and the
ike had been completed by the tiny
lamert. Somewhere. a little furth
r on in the soil &hich had been wash
d away, the work had been going on.
It is the understanding of this process
hich is now desired, and which is
till apparently as far off as ever.
Nevertheless, so'me valuable results
iave already been attained. Natural
y, the investigations so far have con
erned the plants most valuable to
nan-wheat and corn, potatoes, beans
ind the like.
"Roots" observed one of the bu
-eau's investigators, "seem to possess
tetual sentience in regard to their
earch for water. One of the inter
sting and valuable results of this in
estigation is that now science can de
ermine which of the plants are deep
eeding, and hence which are most
uitable to dry, insufficiently watered
;oils. For instance, a species of wheat
hich had the power to dig ddwn -six
eet in its search for food and mois
ure, woitid be better adapted to the
ry regions of the west than one that
ould dig but four. There are certain
;pecies of wheat which do splendidly
n naturally soft, sandy soils, but
vhose roots are too -weak to dig
hrough heavy soils. This cannot be
etermined by simply pulling up a
t-alk. It requires such an investiga
ion as this which the government
as inaugurated.
"Anoth.er thing which has been
)roven by the investigation of root
evelopment is why land laid down to
Tass is made better. It has long been
nown that when the wild prairie is
irst broken the soil is mellow, moist
ind rich, producing abundant ea-ops.
tfter a few years of continuous culti
ation the physical condition of the
oil changes. She soil grainis become
iber, which is bad; the soil becomes
aore compact and heavier to handle;
t dries out quicker than it used to;
t balks worse and often turns over
n hard clods when ploughed. This
ompact texture makes it difficult for
he young roots of plants to develop
iroprly. It also 'eauses an insuffi
ient supply of air in the soil and
aakes it- sticky when wet, dusty when
try, so that ~when 'loosened by the
lough it is easily blown away. This
s because it lacks roots of the right
ort-stout, hardy, deep reaching
-oots.
"A little table of soil conditions is
ieing prepared for regions - in which
hese root invest.igations will prove
>f especial value-which will prove
nteresting and suggestive, seeing that
t may be .modified to suit almost any
egion. It contains the fact that an
ae of soil to the depth of one foot
s estimated to weigh 3,225,00 pounds
nd then tabulates the facts, namely,
hat within the first foot of soil there
s found: 6,722 pounds of phosphorie
mid, 32,897 pounds of potash, 47,407
ounds of lime. Thus within the rea
f nearly every plant is found four
imes this sum per acre, for nearly all
lants reach four feet downward with
heir roots.
"It is figured out that this means
~nough phosphoric acid to supply the
vants of 1,400 annual wheat erops
tnd of the other constituents even
nore. The relation of this to the root
avestiations lies in the fact that no
'oot shiould be deprived for lack of
.mple ploughing of free search among
hese chemicals for what it needs.''
Education turns the wildl sweetbrier
nto the queenly rose.
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