Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1907 — BUT THE DEMOCRAT WAS RIGHT [ARTICLE]

BUT THE DEMOCRAT WAS RIGHT

An item appeared in the other two Rensselaer .papers last week regarding the awarding of a scholarship by an outside college that vyas inaccurate and misleading, and a correct report of the matter was given in The Democrat after getting the facts from an official source. It was a matter that we had no personal interest in whatever except to publish the facts as they were and we did not expect to rfer to it again, but for doing this we were given a “calling down” and accused of misstating the matter “after two other papers bad given a correct statement” of the same. Now, as a matter of fact, the statement in this paper was absolutely correct, as we have again verified it, and that in the other papers was almost wholly wrong. Perhaps a dozen outside colleges—outside the state —each write the Rensselaer high school to send them their best student graduate, stating whether it is a boy or girl that is wanted, and they will present them with a year’s scholarship. If student does not care to ussCt, then the next best, and so on.TThe colleges, no doubt, can afford to present to a non-resident student one year’s tuition if they get the studeht for the other three years* of the course at regular cash rates. Now these are the facts, and instead of the scholarships being awarded for competition and coming direct from the college or university, they come through the high school and there are usually several of them to give out to the graduates if any students care to Sue them. The Democrat sometimes makes mistakes, though not intentional, yet the reader will usually find its statemets can be relied upon as correct.