The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1849-09-28
Union Schools.

School Journal, to the citizens of Upper Sandus-
ky. The Union School system in our opinion is
decidedly the best and most judicious plan that
can be offered in cities and towns for the pro-
motion of education. II is in fact CoLLEDGE
where the children of the poor have an equal
chance with the children of the rich--here ALL
can meet and press forward hand in hand to
obtain the prize-education'
"Under the very judiciou proviiions of
the law passed by the late General Assem-
bly, for the better regulation of Schools in
towns and cities, many Union Schools are
about to be put into operation. Probably
there never had been time since the first
settlement of Ohio, when so much interest
on the subject of Popular Education, has
been felt as now. The sympathies of COM
munity seem to favor our Public Schools
as the only institutions capable doing all
that the wants of the achote rising genera
ton demand Many men of welth have
become satisfied that it is cheaper to build
school houses, than jails and poorhouscs;
to employ school teachers than police Off
GERS: In word, to prevent crime than to
punish it. The proposition, that the whole
community can be educated cheaper and
better than a part, is fast becoming an AK
ION; and blessed will be the hour, when
this grand truth shall be universally pro
nounced a postulate.
In this connection, it may not be improp-
er to state, that the citizens of Massiilon,
by vote Of one hundred and thirty y-tour TO
ten, have Just voted a tax of S2, ,OJo for the
support of their school for the coming year.
The citizens of Wooster have just star
ted a Union School under very favorable
aspiccs. They have secured the services
of Professor +. M. Parrit as superlntend-
ent who has commenced his laoors with
his accustomed zeal.
Mr.. W. Travis has been selected to take
charge of the schools in New Lisbon, aud
has already commenced in his field OF labor
with a corps of seven efficient teachers.
The citizens of New Philadelphia have
done themselves honor by volng a tax
sufficient to build themselves a noble
school house, two stories high, and ninety
feet by fifty wide.
The tiourishing town of Canal Dover,
will soon be benefited by a good Union
School.
In Brownsville, Licking county, a Union
School has been established by vote OF
the district
In Warren, Trumbull county; Milan,
Erie county; Mt. Vernon, Knox county,
and Bucyrus, Crawford county, Union
Schools have been voted by the citizens,
We are pleased to learn from the Per
rysburgh papers, that the Union School
there, in charge of Mr.. Wright, is sue
ceeding well; and that much interest IN
favor of popular education has been ex-
cited in that region.
Josiah Hurty, A. NJ, has taken charge
of the Public Schools in Xenia. We ex-
pect to hear good things from there.
The citizens of Lebanon, Warren county,
have purchased the late residence of Thorn
as Corwin, and are about to erect a fine
Union School House upon the site.
A district School house, two stories high,
and eighty by tiftysix feet on the ground,
has been erected in Lancaster, Fairfield
county, at cost of $4,000. Mr.. John S.
Whitwell of Circleville, has been selected
for principal:
Before many moons shall wax and wane,
there will be at least forty Union Schools
in Ohio; and each one of them will require
a man of talant and energy, one fully i'm
bued with the spirit of the teacher, to take
charge of it; and for his services good
salary will be freely paid. Why will the
young men ofcur State stafve out their pro-
htlesS and Improbable lives in the learned
professions, when such honorable and lu-
crative stations are within their reach?-
Prepare yourselves for teaching as you
ought to prepare for the practic of the law,
by careful and unremitted study, and you
cannot well fail to succeed in attaining
postion of which you may well be proud"