The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, April 19, 1911, Image 3
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SCHOOL BEFORE CLUB.
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Tke followiifg i* the text of Prof.
Hofo G. Sherdan’s speech on the
iWalterhoro Hiffh School, delivered
Before thelakst meeting of the Com
inercuQ Club:'
Education is culture it is
more.* Not only is it the devel
opment in the man himself of a
noble personality and a capacity
for the appreciation of life but
it must be the development ’in
tile man himself of a power to
achieve a living with the most
economic expenditure of ene&y
in competition with his fellows.
The development of the one
without the other unfits him to
accomplish the best in life. The
jrevival of education is one of the
hopeful signs of the times but I
trustthat this interest will find
its expression not only in the
supplying of a general cultural
education to our children but also
in the giving to our children the
vocational education so necessary
in the struggle of life.
i utter no new truth when I
declare that two of the most
potent factors in the develop
ment of a community . are the
well governed home and the well
organized high school. The ut
terance of this truth, ayes, the
truth itself is not the developfng
factor; for truth never won a
victory, never cleansed a decayed
society, never uplifted the
thoughts of men. never budded
a State. But when truth becomes
incarnate, when it animates the
soul of a loyal and courageous
roan or a community of men,
then it is no longer an abstrac
tion of thought but it is a dyna
mic force occupying results.
—The ideal mah is not the. man
of muscle nor is he the man of
interest; nor is the ideal com
munity an aggregation of such
units. But that community is
ideal when every individual is
the equal of the fellow, where
no man achieves the mastery
over his fellows but whereby
education and training every
individual is made master of
nature, enabled to get out of
natures store-house, the common
property of us all, the best pos
sible for self, for society and
state.
The college is the university
for the few* the High school is
the college for the many. 1
would not destroy the college, 1
would have everyone of them
fostered and maintained but 1
would, with all the earnestness o'
my being, foster, rpaintain and
multiply our high scuuoi* ui
every community in Carolina
should possess an ample and well
equipped High school when*
every an*lo-saxon yo.ith coulc
obtain such an education whicl
would make them masters o
nature’s forces and the equ ips o
their fellovs in the stuugle ol
life. I declare to y mj that tin
achievement can no be had ii
the college alone but it can b
had in the establish n »nt oi Higl
schools.
Not every lad it} a com mu nit;
can aspire to Oe a governor or;
bank president or even a c ip’an
of industry, but every youth ha
the right to aspire to that whicl
is best in our American citizen
ship and in the making of a liv
„ ing and a lif$; and that man if
educated who is equipped intel
lectually not only to enjoy that
which is best in the world of
thought but alscr to apply the
knowledge acquired in the ac
quisition of wealth and happi
ness. The industrial and literary
college furnishes this education
to but few, for safe statistics
teach us that only one student in
12B attend college, or to put it
differently, only one in a popu
lation of 500 go to college. Our
daughters, too, must look to the
High school for that education
which will make them not only,
as in many cases, breadwinners,
but our homemakers, our queens
of society and the moulders of
our civilization by teaching them
not only the utilities of life but
by teaching them those accomp
lishments' that add grace and
beauty to womanhood. These
result* can be had in a liberal
system of county High schools
such as we have established in
Walterboro and which, I predict,
will be- maintained in every
county in the state.
1 am an advocate of industrial
as well as literary schools. South
Carolina has done well in the es
tablishment of Clemson college
and Winthrop college, but ac
cording to my theory of eqitfi
opportunities to all nor citizens,
tne system will not have been
complete until there shall have
been established in every county
in the state little Clemson colleges
in the form of High schools. If
South Carolina presents my son
with n profession in the equip
ment of an electrical engineer,
then she should present Tny
neighbor’s son with a profession
as a scientific farmer, if he ae-
siresit^M
lion is
The ImgHieer of the
passes your door receives i_ , _ . .
of $0 per day; -the fireman at the!
furnarp, his equal in mnade.
receives but $1 per day. Does
education pay? yes, in life and
character, in dollafe and eents.
1 congratulate Walterboro on the!
expenditure of more than $2b,00ff
A t I in tmildin* and
A professionaleduca-s,.,,*., m , v ' „„.„iW-an
capital. > One
p. (High School noV organized—an
college can not do it hut 1 institution where every boy W>d I
college can not do it but Id High ^ ()f olli Col | eton C ounty. can
schools with industrial education ;
attached can do it. Mississippi
provides by law art Agricultural j
high School in every county.
Georgia has eleven District Agri
cultural high schools. Columbus.
Ga., has a High school giving a
training for the industries of
that town.
obtain, free of tuition, thattrahv
ing which will tit them for
service in the home, society and
state. With ample teaching force
and proper !>oardintf facilities,
our own delightful town of Wal
terboro will be the campus upon
Win- n .t Wa erbom' '\ l,ich the 8U ' 1S i,n ‘ i
or Colleton 'Vmty? Kemucke™! "' d “n shall Rather to j-k
hfus passed recently a law pro- a 1 c(1ucaUon " ^ ,c * 1 " tbam
an Agricultural
in each county.
viding
school
has added 30 to her
such schools. Virginia has
Agricultural high schools.
i . to achieve both a living and life.
Texas i * to ° The great-
mimw nf i est 118861 l h at our town and
: county has today is her ooys and
Let I T^ ere 18 nothing too good
us compare results in other
states. In Iowa the value of
farm products of every farm
laborer is $1088; in
lina, $149; in South Carolina.
$147. The net product per acre
in the South is 40 per cent less
than in the central states. South
Carolina with her same labor
population could increase her
farm products four fold byi
trained laborers and improved
machinery.
Herein are the high schools
already established failing to
meet fully the needs of the mas
ses. They are regarded in a
for Walterboro boys and girls—
nothing too good for Colleton
bovs and girls. The hew Wal-
North (W <erboro we are building .ill be
what the boys and girls of today
will make it. This is equally
true of the New Colleton.
great measure as feeders for
Colleges whereas only about 2 or . K stands for his rising,
3 per cent of a community go to
College. Instead of being
planned to fit a boy or girl for
AN EASIER ACROSTIC
C stands for the cross and the
crucified friend.
On whom all our hopes of Heaven
1 )epend.
H is for Heaven, that gity of
gold, * yA
He purchased for all who will
come to His fold.
on the
first Easter morn.
As he came forth from the lamb.
At the day’s early dawn.
successful entrance upon life,! I is for idols, which must no
they are planned to crown the longer be owned,
youth with facts for college en-; K(U i|18lead jn our h(>arU | e ,
trance requirements ami thus the lh|s ( hrj8t ^ enthroned .
needs ot 2 p.*r cent of W- .s stands for Simon and though
ulation are met and the needs of
98 percent, go^j.nprovided for.
i'he average community boasts
not how much il.ev are doing!
for 98 boys and fcir!?, but how
The
can
much they are doing for the 2
that go to College. Rather let
our High sch<>ols be established
to meet the needs of the 98 who
stay at home and at the same
time provide for the other 2 that-
go to College. It can be done b>
arranging the course of study
in the High school so that in the
2nd year of High school work the
curriculum shall lead to the giv
ing of the student further oppor-
.unity for intellectual training
but at the same time give him
an opportunity, to apply the
knowledge acquired to the mak-
dig of a living. True the system
will require more trained men
as teachers and more money; but
the needs of the times demand it.
Then will it no longer be the
fact that our boys at 15 are leav-
ng the High School to the girls
done, Then will the movement
of the choicest young men in a
lommifnity to the city clase, and
instead of deserted farms now in
he hand of indifferent and in :
•ompe ent tenants, there will be
ievelojHfd communities. the
•enters of wealth and culture,
the multiplying of such homes
is will indeed., he the bulwark of
lational and state life. There is
ic oth~r investment that will
/i Id handsomer dbidends than
the capital that you put into an
educ. tiond instituion not, it is
true, computed in dollars and
ents but in life and character
of the boys and girls of your
community. After all. wealth is
not in the raw material of your
field and forest, your mines
and factories, but it \i in the
mind that conceives and devises
plans for the converting of these
raw materials into useful and
salable articles. The value of a
ton of pigiron a’ the mine is in
significant hut when converted
j into steel and manufactured into
watch-springs, it is worth $1000
j per ton. It is the trained intel
lect and the directing mind that
renders all raw-material valuable
from a money stand-point.
To put it upon the lowest
plane, that of a money basis,
education pays in dollars and
cents. Two brothers in the
same home; the one received ^
college training, the other re
jected the opportunity; the one
in Texas earning $150 per month
as an ellectrial engineer, the
other at home receiving $12, and
his board, running the engine of
his father’s lumbermill. Two
brothers in the same home; the
one converted the real estate
received from h*s father’s mill
into to a professional education,
the other, remained in the field;
the one receives an income of
three thousand dollars a practic
ing physcian, the other continues
to sing the song of gee-haw be
hind a mule on a 40 acre farm.
t’hiefest I be,” *
blood of my Savior
cleanse “even me.”
T is for trust, we must have in
his name, . ,
If wi t h him in his Heavenly!
home, we would reign.
I stands tor the inscription.!
v hich Pdate did chose.
To nail on the cross the king of
the Jews.
S is for suffering on Cal very's
dark brow,
That redeemed from our sins we
might be even now.
R again is for rest and re-unioa
above,
In the bright field of glory on
the smile of God's love.
I is also immortal, God’s breath
in our hearts.
The eternal, which even death
cannot quench with his
darts. -
S is our service we gladly should
render.
To this dear loving father, so
true, kind and tender.
E stands for Eden, that sweet
« • home of the Soul.
Where sorrows never come and
where billows never roll.
N is for. the news that Christ
rose from the grave.
And tho through the valley of
death all his children can
1 e saved.
Composed by,
Mrs A. Bennett.
Lodge, April 14.
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