The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1880-01-29
1878.

Seven Scholarships at Nashville Normal College. 14OO 90
Thirteen Scholarships Nashville Normal College 500 90
Teachers Institutes l,Oo0 Vol
Water Valley Public Schools SUI W
Columbus Public Schools Observation-Disclosures. 5Oo w
Vicksburg Public Schools. SUI ~
Jackson Public Schools 2oo W
Summit Public Schools OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 20o W
A horleon pnbic Schools .......... $50 90
Total SIS $50 90
This fund has heretofore been used principally in the d
rect aid to public schools but Dr. Sears in recent communl
cation that the Board of Trustees at their meeting
in October last had decided discontinue aid to public
schools except in extraordinary and to use their d
for educating teachers for their work This will prove serious
inconvenience of schools that have for several
years past looked this for assistance but the u
result it believed will prove beneficial to the cause
education.
AN ASSISTANT IN THE SUPERINTENDENT
Is much needed The duties of the Office have largely in
creased within the last few years and such that no
one man properly attend to them The State Supern
enden is expected visit and inspect The schools IN oe
en portions of the State counsel and advise with County
superintendent; hold teachers institutes and to look
after the general interests of the public schools Yet when
leaves his office the Capitol it must be closed and It's
business suspended until his return The average numr
of letters been called to annually for the
last years. will not fall short of two thousand and IN
addition to this he is required by law to furnish all the necs
say blanks County Superintendent for the operations
their respective schools
The State Board of Education has allowed for the last two
years small amount, 5000 co. per annum from the con
ngent pay its Secretary and he has been employed by
Department in the of assistance without which much
of is business must have been neglected.
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
1t will doubtless appear many work of supererogation
at this day. undertake argument support popu
lar education but there still among those who would
dispense with all State aid this important of State
duties of whom honest in their convctions-boev
ing that the education of the youth of the country duly
which devoves alone the parent This queston-as to
whether or not the shall aid in the education OF her
chdren may accept the sentiment of other States and
peoples settled in the Affirmative IT. as it claimed the
virtue integrity happiness of people depend their
negence if the statistics of the prison and poorhouse
relied that the great of their inmates are unedu
caed if it be true that ignorance and sensuay go hand In
hand, and that iteracy bgotry and superstition are all
closely allied then the to this question is
misskeabe No in this ghened age will question the
fact that labor remunrative just in proportion it is d
rected by intelligence and SKILL and at this particular period
of time remuneration in shape other the endot al
labor and the amount of remuneration should be in inverse
the of labor in other words should be
aim to derive the fullest benefit from the labor expended
and in order attain this end must be able to labor intel
igeny would not be understood arguing in favor OF
parsmonous policy in school for it be demon
trated beyond the peradventue of doubt that invest
ment Of State individual means brings in SO large prof
as in education Unfortunately for Mississippi she is at pres
en unable expend that amount in the education Of he
j youth that her necessities demand.
1t is an impression among those who hav
given but little attention to the history the State pub
lie education dates its introduction among from the term
nation the late and that the present system oste
the people by those who had abiding interest with
Such however, is not the As far back 1916 Act
establish a system of schools adopted by tn
Legislature of this State In January 1867 eminent bod
teachers composed of such n. Wadde Geo. Little
D H. f. Johnson Thoma S. Cartwright, Walter Hman, A.
Qunche many others of the leading educators of the STATE
assembled the city OF Jackson take under consideration
it's educational interests This body urgently recommends
the adoption by the State of school system, for til
colored well the white children. And even previous
that date scarcely message from the Governor fails to
attention this important Governor Holiness NOR
than sixty years ago. in his annual message says ln con
muny where the people profess to be capable of governn
themselves and where legitimate power emanaes from then
acknowledged truth that the facility of obtaining ed
cation object of primary Importance and ought to ca
the unremng attention of those to whom the high function
are committed" Governor McNutt in 1885, said Propert
qualifications having been repudated and short residence
mature age being the sole passport to the baobox, and
office is essential to happiness and the preservation
our liberties provide sufficient and proper nduc
mens to secure the education of every child in the State
Governor Tucker in his message to the Legislature in lS4
he urging the adoption of looking TO public educ
IN ton said at true would have pay school tax vi
IN have no children educate This would be expen
1d without profit to extent But in an enlighte
at ed and Just view Of the subject the whole commun
children to educate would be benefited Hon. A. G. Brow
s who still lives and enteans the sentiments expressed by
nd more than quarter of century when Governor OF
on State sad The rich may say we have no interest in
education of the poor There could be greater
ate fatal error Pride the love of offspring the ephemera peast
of witnessing OF youth nurtued by our care
expands and grows and rpens into manhoodhese teach
rich educate their chden but the higher consde
ons of patriotism the holier of religion and mora
The the pure unsned love of human happiness teach h