The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 26, 1908, Image 2
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| RURAL IMPROVEMENT. f
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Truly this is a new age for country
life. In a material way the
truth seems to need no proof. The
facilities for quick communication
in the use of the telephone, in thej
daily delivery of mail and in the
trolley line, put the farm or rural
districts into close touch with the
whole world.
What does this wonaenui im-j
provement mean to the business
man of the rural districts? These
new methods of communication
mean just this: no longer is the
fanner commpelled to roam over i
half a township in his efforts to se- 1
cure extra help for his threshing or '
harvesting. A few minutes at the
telephone will arrange all the details i
for "swapping work."
The past quarter of a century has
witnessed a great development in all
things relating to the farm. It is
almost too marvelous to believe that
in the short space of twenty-five
years so many wonderful fmprovements
could have beeu made. Why
a l.ml- at fho wonderful imDrove- I
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ment of machinery for all working
purposes will readily go to prove that ,
science at last is working for and
with the farmer.
I have giyen you just a few of the ,
# wonderful improvements made along
other lines in rural districts. Now |
we will stop and look to the school- |
'buildiog in the district and neigh- (
borhood. What do you see there! (
Can we point to it with pride and ?
say: "There is our school-build- ,
ing!'" It is sad to relate that all of j
? us catuiot. In many, many'districts j
v we'have only to glance at the school- ,
Gilding to see the need of School j
Improvement Associations. This j
place where coming manhood is ,
molded, where our girls whose lives }
mean so much to humanity are <
trained and shaped in character so j
that each in its way will meau much |
good or harm to our couuty. j
Look well to each building. l)o j
you see there the improvements, the ]
comforts, the conveniences that we
linAR m rural districts! i
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of less importance? For what could
be more importuut than the training ,
of our boys and girls? They who
are to lead in our government, who
are to hold offices of trust, who are],
to Leacti and elevate others. Then !
should we be content with any little
log hut or rude plank building with
no comforts, no conveniences and lo-;
cated in an "out-of-the-way" place
of the neighborhood,a spot of ground
that is ugly and unsightly to teaeherand
children with nothing about
it to broaden the mind of pupil;
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nothing to suggest tne oeauimu
side of life; a gloomy, wierd-looking
spot!' All we can say of some of
our school-buildings is that they
| have four sides and a roof and soineL
times just half a roof. Many are
I not even ceiled and there are cracks
J in the floor you could put your two
lingers through. Why, I have in
mind now a house that was called a
school-building. It is a house about
ten by fifteen feet with five small
windows in it, aud, would you believe
it? there were sixteen panes of
glass brokeu out. Those dear little
children had to sit in that house
five hours each day with the win-j
dows in that condition. I think a'
good plan for the teacher of that j
school would have been for her to
have invited the patrons to come to
school one day and let the children
stay at home and 1 don't believe the
glass would have stayed out long.
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And these are the conditions that
prevail in most of the rural schools
throughout our State. And now do
you ask the need of Improvement
Associations?
How about the furniture in our
school-buildings? Is it what it
should be? Do we see there patent
desks, maps, charts, black-boards,
libraries, pictures, etc? No, no;
some schools have no seats except a
plank nailed around the wall of the
room, where children of all sizes
have to sit The small ones with
their feet dangling half way between
the seat and floor. How would you
like to sit on a seat as much too low
for you as, some are too high for the
little folks? And the walls of many
school rooms are bare. Every teach
er should have copies of pictures of
Calhoun and Hampton in the school
rooms.
i$o much for the building and
furniture. Now comes the school
grouuds. How are these? Have
you planted trees,shrubs and flowers,
or have they grown up in weeds
high as the children's heads?
work of adorniug the ground
rural school houses is one which w
exercise an important and lasting
influence for the good of the national
life.
Sometimes when the teacher tries
to make a change in affairs by beautifying
the grounds and make improvements
in the building and asks
the assistance of the parents, this is
the ready replv: "That is good
mough; we never had that advan.
tage." Oh, think, teachers, that we
ire created to climb, to improve, to
ilevate, to look and make all things
jeautiful and grand in whatever
dace we live. This school-building
vhere the little tots grow and are
trained into manhood and woman.
iood, why of all places it should be
nade most beautiful to attract and
iwakeiu these young minds the
greatest enthusiasm to climb to the
weights of all that is good and noale,
uever being satisfied to remain
n the ugly rut that perhaps some
pareuts had to be iu aud were satisfied
with.
I think every teacher should learn
this creed:
"1 believe in boys aud girls, the
men and women of a great tomorrow;
that whatsoever the boy soweth the
man shall reap. I believe in the
curse of ignorance, in the efficacy of
schools, in the dignity of teaching
and in the joy of serving another. I
believe in the wisuom as revealed in
human lives, as well as in the pages
of a printed book; m lessons taught
not so much by precept as by example;
in ability to work with the
hauds as well as to think with the
head; in everything that makes life
large und lovely. I believe in beauty
of the school-room, in the home, in
daily life and out of doors. 1 believe
in laughter,iu love, in all ideals
and distant hopes that lure us on. I
believe that every hour of every day
we receive a just reward for all we
are and all we do. I believe in the
present and its opportunities, iu the
future and its promises and in the
divine joy of living.''
A teacher believing and living this
creed will teach her pupils to see aud
appreciate the wondrous beauty of
country life; she will help to spiritualize
country thought and life, for
she believes in beauty in the schoolroom,
in the home, in daily life and
out of doors. Such a teacher cauuot
be content with merely drawing her
salary while the school-house and
grounds remain cheeiless and desolate.
"Do noble deeds, not dream th*m
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all day long." Dreams are pleasant,
but they are only given to stir the
heart to swifter action. So, teachers,
let us not only dream bnt go right
to work and organize an Improvement
Association in each school district
for the betterment of its own
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sociai.
Wherever
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