Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1918 — Page 3

GET OUT OF RUT Is Advise of “Adams County Promoter of Education in Its Broader Sense.” WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? Former Teacher of County (iives Expression Regarding School System. Editor of Democrat: — Having read the county superintendent's most excellent article on the district school. 1 have been wondering ii’ 'the people of Adams county would all keep silent and allow their schools to go on in the same old rat. The rut growing deeper each year, and keep on throwing their money away and allow their children to grow physically to the size of men and women, while their mental faculties remain as children, and the result, an army of country children fitted for nothing. The cry of the nation is efficiency. The cry of the child is educate m? parents. With all the money that lr. been spent for schools and churci in the past fifty years in the coun > <• our educators say that ignorance »s cursing the land. Who is responsible? 1 have been anxiously wa ching to see who would be next : speak through the columns of your paper, instead of an article appearing once a year, this Democrat office and other printing offices over th> county should be flooded with article m this all important subject. The scrool system is in need of a reformation. No reformation ever brought about without agitation, and as one of our great men of the past has said, “In order to bring about a reformation, literature should be scattered knee deep.” Os course the agitator must be willing to be prosecuted, and may lie prosecuted. This being true, may keep many good people silent, but soldiers are needed at home as well as at the front To many of the country people have been sleeping too long and the country school problem lost sight of. It seems it will take a mighty shock to awaken them to what they owe their children.

community, state and nation. Your children owe you nothing. They did not ask tc come, neither <l. God -“cd them. Th. y are mostly the lust of the flesh. Robbed in the beginning of their birthright, then robbed of their rights to educational ad- • vantages. No your children owe you not even a pleasant look. uni. -s you have done your duty and earned it. Why is it, you are soon called the old man, the old woman, and your boys at the age of ten and evqp younger and some of your girls too, are smoking cigarettes and using profane language, and going at an early age as far as the road is cut out. and your country girls having gentlemen l friends at the age of fourteen, and he-1 fore your children reach womanhood and manhood they are dead at top? No your children do not owe you anything, you must earn their respect, honor and good will. Now Adams county has a man who is a friend to the country girl and boy. an up-to-date man. ready to do his pat t Rural fathers and mothers are you ( ’■eady to do your part; trustees where do you stand, you are supposed to be the leader in each township to advance the cause of education. lon are paid for the work. Are you up-to-date or are you back numbers? you interested in the country peopiej of the county, if not you will be doing them a kindness to throw up your jot)., It seems to have been the custom for sometime that when a trustee is elected, he works for the little corner in which he lives. Now this is a time to throw off the yoke of selfishness, look the matter squarely in the and build in your township a structure which will accommodate every child in ( your township, giving all the best possible educational advantages and , 5 stand as a living monument of your! efforts for time to come. Remember the school is for the children, not the teacher, nor the trustee. Now. 1, you live in the farthest comer of your ( C township, lose sight of your little " farm and corner. These farms will, /llt^ B'll 8 'll I*® where they are long after we, are dead, and if they won't make us ( a living without sticking a little t'S room schol house up against it. better let some one else run it. Central- ( ize your schools and it won’t be a till even the knockers will come ijaround and tell you how hard they worked for centralization. Os course there will be knockers J''■just the same old kind that knocked against the stone roads, because the road did not run by their door. Ot course that is simply the plain -elfish knocker. There are many belong to this class. Those whose children have

grown up and gone not Inure-’ted in * school work longer. Those who have no children and tire paying a few dollars taxes, and the woefully ignorant that isn't interested in anything. Although many of them are followers of Christ, they say. Some good people have made efforts to better the conditions of the country schools and after spending their time and energy find they are receiving nothing but kicks and cuffs and becoming disgusted give up the strug-. gle. Shame, criminal, that such an undertaking should be a struggle. | Now, the main thing to do it to lose; sight of the almighty dollar you are. afraid it is going to cost you and throw off the yoke of selfishness that is damning you and your children; and the wool will drop from your eyes and you will wonder why you did not see the great need of consolidation ol i schools years ago. I-ct the little red pig pens go and even your n«w one room modern school houses. They do not answer the requirments. Consoli-I date your schools and 1 would also say your churches, too. but that would quite take the breath of many church Worshipers. Although they know they only have a handful of saved souls in the various little country churches paying from ten to fifteen dollars for a ten cent sermon, for you must know in a township where schools are fifty years behind the times; the churches and preachers are also that far back. One good community center with church and school teacher’s dwelling and a parsonage all on the same ground with a farm of two or three hundred acres, making the whole thing almost self supporting. With parents, teachers and preach | er all working together for the good of| the child. Then Mr. Taxpayer you j would begin to see you were getting . value received for your money. You I could get teachers and preachers • worth while, besides an occasional [good lecture, special teachers could! ‘ | take care of several schools in a conn-, :,ty in domestic science, eugenics, disII ferent departments of agriculture and ’ many other branches, and the talents '.that are now s'ing to waste be made • to increase ten fold, and besides you 1 1 would be doing something to induce 1 the boys and the girls to stay in the country and live close to nature. Help ’ to make farm life a pleasure. Yes, I would tear down the one room school ' houses and churches and consolidate 1 them, and I would do away with the • forms and ceremonies and orthodox

I notions, and spend that time teaching the people along lines most needto make strong characters, real : men and women. ■| I would insist, that the trustees go ’ not to the city superintendent to obtain help in solving the country school 1 problem. The city folks are looking I after making their city as good as possible. and they may want your help. “ That is allright, you should helj> each other, but the city folks may learn by the time this war Is over that the best ’’ thing they can do for their town is to ' insist on the country folks to do '.everything they ran to keep the boys ’ and girls on the farm and give them a II chance for a far education at home. j The city people know the condition 1 of country schools. Not many yeais 'J ago a city man decided to move his family to a farm. A prominent attorney said to him: “It is a shame to take your son to the country and send him 1 to country schools, etc., for he. is a ■ bright, promising lad." Now if the country school is not good enough for I the city bright boys and girls, it is not good enough for the bright boys and ' girls of the country. Now r just waken up country folks and show the city folks what you can do. Just be willing to spend some time talking the matter over. The! j value of your children’s education can not be counted in dollarc and cents. J ' So when you figure on the school problem do not figure on which will be the cheapest way out, The cheapest may be the dearest. To those who can't lose sight of the dollar, just spend a little time and see if you are saving anything with your 'one. room schools. In the first place it costs more to build seven or eight 'one room houses than it would to build an eight room house with an 1 auditorium. Then go to the district ' schools. You will find in one, fifteen children: another, twenty: maybe one, fifty; teachers paid nearly the same wages and all have the eight grades, 'making it impossible to do justice to any child or class. Many of the teach-' 'ers are from the city. They do not [enjoy the surroundings. They arc only there to get a littl< experience: 'do not stay in your community over! Sunday. Cold weather comes along: the teacher in the on ro’tn school is 'also jonitor. Usually live three or four miles from school house; leave [the school Friday at 4 p. m. and re-] turn Monday at 8 a. m; there has been a change in the weather, the pipes are frozen, leaks are discovered, children come through the cold ,ind the snow: . clothing wet from snow they have waded: no e, no school, go back home till furnace man comes. This ;

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may happen several times during a cold winter. The teacher does not know much about furnaces; some work too. The furnace is soon condemned and the trustee decides to go back to the old stove. This all happened in a two room modern school house near me. The furnace has been in use but a few years, now discarded School house is cold, some get too worm, sickness comes along. The doctor is to pay, sometimes a nurse, and the undertaker. All because of av, retched poor school system. There is no excuse now for these conditions, with the good roads and modern conveyances every township should have centralized schools and one good, grand community center. And then you have the county agent who will be a great help to you if you will let him. Some of you think you do not need him, but you are the very, one? that are in need of his assistance. By the time those fifty boys learn how to care for a mother hog and her pig- ( gies, some dadies may find out they

do not know all *iiat is to be known. | Well, there arc- «> many good 11 -s in store for the cilidren, also older folks when the schools are consolidated, I can not take the time to mention [ them all; but taking a look at the real conditions of the country and her [ schools, and realizing what is possible for the rural people, it causes one to almost groan at the stupidity and criminal neglect.—A promoter of Education in its broader sense. THOUGHTS 0 EX PR ESSED Mr. John H. Heller, Editor of Daily Democrat: It won’t be long until the casualties of the world war will begin to come back across the seas to the homes of the brave Adams county boys. Now. this suggests that we owe a debt to the soldiers who have gone out to lay down their life, if need be, for the continuation of the ideals of a free and liberty loving people, as against those ideals that would make this world

despotic and autocratic. This also suggests that an appropriate and appreciative memorial service is duej them. Those who die in the home I land will have the high courtesy of :i funeral service which freinds may attend and receive such comfort as such a service can give. But those who fall on foreign soil will have no such attention. If the conditions of the battle permit they are accorded a military funeral which is generally a formal ritual service read by the Chaolain with such variation as he may, see fit to introduce, but many a soldier falls and is buried without any recognition at all of his sacrifice. The only information that is given to his family is a short formal telegram of his death. This is cold comfort to the, freinds and family of the soldier. His I family has made a sacrifice which their countrymen are only to glad to acknolwcdge if occasion offered the < opportunity. Now, on my own initiative, Mr. Hel-ji

ier. I suggest that every soldier of Adams county that should fall and i'i.- by circumstance denied the privilege of burial at home or in his own community, should have a memorial ’ service held in his honor. This set vice to be in his home neighborhood and should be the occasion of review of the principles and ideals for which we are fighting in this war. Such a memorial service would seem to me give comfort to the family and friends by showing sympathy with them and serve to stimulate patriotism in his fellow countrymen. No American soldier should fall unnoticed or unhonored in this war of humanity. W. PAUL MARSH. o— SPENCER COUNTY THE FIRST I Indianapolis, Feb. 28 —United States Food Club number I in Indiana has been organized at Rockport in Spencer county on 11. R. No. 4, in Ohio I township. Mrs. Addie Bretz is president and she has conformed to all the

I■' iulrements of the organization plan promulgated by Dr. Harry E. Barnard, federal f<. <1 administrator for Indiana. She today became the proud possessor of charter number one. County oi ganizat * ns have been effected in 17 indie;,a countie and arc being reported, Dr. Barnard says at the rate of six tier day. His purpose to have all the county and township organizations in working order during the food production and. conservation season will he successful, he thinks. The war conferences and the educ.ithnri'.l .roj iganda incident thereto have been found very helpful in enlisting public ort for all conservation measure a

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