The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, November 20, 1908, Page FOUR, Image 4
E. H. AULL, EDITOR.
Entered at the Postoffice at New
berry, S. C., as 2nd class matter.
Friday, November 20, 1908.
FOR BETTER SCHOOLS.
Petitions are being circulated ask
ing the city council to order an elec
tion on the question of issuing $30,
000 in bonds for the enlargement of
the city schools in accordance with
the suggestions contained in thte re
port of the special committee which
report was published in the New
berry papers on Tuesday.
These petitions are being rapidly
signed by the freeholders who realize
the importance of enlarging our school
system. For the convenience of the
committees in charge of the petitions,
and also for the convenience of the
citizens, petitions may be found at
each of the banks.
Under the plan proposed it will not
be necessary to increase our tax levy
in order to enlarge the schools and
every citizen of the community must
realize the importance and in fact the
absolute necessity of better equip
ment for our city schools.
As stated in Tuesday's paper, the
buildings were scarcely adequate
when erected some twenty years ago
and during that time the population
has grown double, and we have beein
.derelict in the matter of improving
our school facilties, so as to have the
school keep pace with the progress
and growth of the community.
Of coursd, we all realize that
buildings and grounds and equip
ments do not make first class schools.
In fact in the old days some of the
very best schools to be found in the
country probably had very poor equip
ment but in this day it is necessary
to the proper training of the chil
dren that there should be good equip
ment. When that is secured then th
community will demand that the very
best trained intellect and brains be
put in charge of the education of oin
children. In order to do this, as we
suggested on Tuesday, It will be nec
essary to increase the salaries of sup
erintendent 'and teachers, and also to
increase the number of teachers.
It is entirely wrong to put one
teacher in charge of forty or fifty
children. No teacher can do good
work and the children cannot advance
when the room is crowded with from
forty t,o fifty pupils. But after we
get our school enlarged then it will
be time to take up these 'other mat
ters. In the meantime it -is well,
5however, that we should be thinking
b-iout them and discussing them.
Nothing so helps a community,
whether it be a city or a rural com
munity, as first class schools, and to
make these you must have comforta
ble and attractive surroundings as
well as trained teachers.
IMPORTANT MOVEMENT.
Congressman A. F. Lever, Supt. 0.
B. Martin Prof. W. H. Hand, Prof.
Ira Williams and Col. E. J. Watson
held a conference this morning in the
latter's office, to devise a scheme for
the establishment of agricultural high
schools in this State.
The conferees were absolutely in
niyon the proper methods to be
pursued to avoid the pitfalls that oth
er States have encountered.
Commissioner Watson states that
the undertaking on the lines propos
ed means more to the upbuilding of
the agricultural industry of this
State than anything that has been un
dertaken in the last half century.
Supt. Martin and Col. Watson .axe
to work certain ideas into proper
shape and another conference willr
probably be held next week. The
whole proposition will finally be sub
mitted by the department of educa
tion and the department of agricul
ture, to the legislature with certain
recommendiations. However, the pro
position will first be submitted to
Governor Ansel.
''This scheme will do more to get
federal help for South Carolina than
an..thing' else,'' said Col. Watson. ''It
is the same idea in the concrete form,
that I presented to the coutry life
commission in Spart anburg yester
day.'
The above is from the daily papers
of recent date.
This is a movement in the right di
rection and we hope when submitted
to the legislature will commend it
self to that body. Anything that is
for the improvement of conditions in
the rural districts should receive the
support and endorsement of all good
citizens. The tendency for the past
twenty-five years has b)een towvard.a
centralizin<. our educational interest
in the cities and towns, and we have
given more attention to higher insti
tutions of learning than to the bet-j
common schools. An effort was mad(
hv t he last le._islature to establish
hip-hi schools in the rural districts,
ainId a provision was incorporated in
the act that none of these cools
should receive ai(d in towns and citie.,
of more than 1000 population.
The board. however. which was ap
pointed to administer this law avoid
ed the restrictions as to cities and
towns and under their ruling; most ot
the schools established under the pro
visions of this act were established
in cities and towns of more than 1000
population.
If this movement means the im
provement of the schools in the rural
districts, we trust that it will not be
attempting to improve these schools
by establishing agricultural schools
in towns and ei+ies where there are
already good school facilities.
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
Those who have labored long and
zealously in the cause of agricultural
education in Georgia are greatly
gratified by the high commendation
given the present system in Georgia
by Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Hays, of Washington, who has re
cently made an extensive visit to the
various institutions in the State.
He speaks in the highest terms of
the State college of agriculture, the
congressional district schools and the
normal schools of the State. adding
that the private subscriptions
amounting to nearly a million dollars
have placed every other State in the
union in the shade and attracted the
attention of the entire country.
All the schools, he finds, are well
located and are doing excellent work,
although we did not need to be told
that they stand in need of additionai
funds.
Mr. Hays lays special stress on the
importance of establishing consoli
dated rural schools. These schools will
take the place of a number of snial
ler schools and will be the main de
pendence of the agricultural sections
for educational advantages. as i- iz
in these schools that ninety-five pei
cent of the popoulation will be edu
ceted. The higher education afford
ed by the district schools and the fin
al course in the State college of agri
culture will give us a regular grada
tion of education in agriculture and
domestic economy and will enable us
to in turn put a number of well
equipped teachers who can take up
the work and carry it on in the fu
ture.
It is pleasing to know that the be
ginnings we have thus far made ini
the matter of agricultural education
have been estalblished on such an ex
eellent foundation, and that we, have
only to extend the system along the
lines on which they have been found
ed.
*This is of special importance when
we are told that it places us in a posi
tion to benefit by the proposed con
gressional appropriations which wvill
be made in the near future, by which
the federal government will give val
uible assistance to such schools as
are already established. Georgia'%
pro rata will be something like a hun
*red and sixty thousand dol4rs, and
this, with the amount which thie State
will contribute, will place us in the
very forefront of agricultural educa
tion.-Atlanta Journal.
The remarks of the Atlanta Jour
aal are eminently correct and we are
elad to know that a movement of this
kind is proposed in South Carolina.
The agricultural interests have been
ignored for many years in this State,
and when Clemson college was estab
lished the argument used was that it
was to be the farmers' college; and
it is a first class school but very feu
af its students return to the farm,
and while it has done a great deal of
~ood it has not benefited the agri
eultural interests directly, ani most
>f its graduates engage in other pur
suits than agriculture. This, however,
is natural because they find more re
mnunerative. employment and it is to
their interest and it is their duty to
dio the very best for themselves that.
they can.
Clemson college has sufficient in
eome if properly used that should be
of material help in the establishment
of agricultural schools in the rural
communities, and by consolidatina
small schools much good could be
done in the educati.onal advance
ment of the country children.
Of course, those in charge of Clem
son college never admit that they
have any money to spare and general
ly find some means of spending theit
income whether it amounts to $100,
000 or $250,000. The past year their
income from the privilege tax was
the largest in the history of that tax,
but we have no doubt that they wih
find some means of spending the en
tire amount.
These agrienho wral schools, in~ Ger
2 ia have beeni quit e a success and
South Carolina mnight well profit
trom what has been done in Georgiat
and avoid and mistakes that were
madea in that State havino- the exper
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