Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-06-23

eral spheres, snail measure up to the
highest standard of competency and
efficiency. The principal should not
10y burdened with room. He
should be an itinerant-a teacher in
all rooms-a teacher of teachers as
well as pupils. If the trustees and
commissioners will! give us what we
want, us indicated here and elsewhere
in these columns, we will have IL
school the next scholastic year that
will challenge comparison with any
of equal grade anywhere. They can
do it if they will.
TIE JOURNAL invokes liberal sub
scriptions from all who are approach
ed toward securing the encampment
here this year of the Second Battalion
of the Maryland National Guards.
Aside from the mere pecuniary advan-
tage to be gained. a greater and bet
ter object will be realized in the ad-
vertisemeut which the town can make
on its own grounds to numberless
strangers of its advantage as a place
of resort in summer.
Subscribe all, aud subscribe literally.
salaries are to be reduced because new
school houses must be built This is
laying the cost of building On the
teachers; it amounts to the proscrip-
tion of teaching talent among us and
prohibition of all that wants to come
1t is a premium which only lncom-
potency values. and a system of half
feeding which never fattens. but loses
all that is fed. More than all, it is an
authoritative confession, every year
repeated and emphasized, that the
public school system as carried on in
this county is a flat footed failure.
THERE was trouble in Cumberland
about "A Nuisance on Front Street" ;"
aud notice was given by the Times to
the authorities as follows:
Should they not attend to it at once the
inhabitants of the street will call upon the
board of health to abate the nuisance.
In a self-laudatory notice of itself
later it cites an example of its success
full censorship
On Saturday the filthy condition of this
(FronD street was noted i'll our columns.
ON Monday it was cleaned.
All this about an insignificant grass.
grown gutter.
But when it came to IL petition of
400 citizens contravening the personal
partisanship of one man in an issue in
volving the welfare of one the largest
educational institutions in the county,
it says in effect to the JOURNAL and all
the rest of the 400 grin and bear it
In some cases the Times is for the |,
and against the 400.
THERE is gossip over the proposed
establishment of IL high school in
Cumberland.
No need whatever of distinguishing
Cumberland in that way.
Equip all the schools with teachers
amply able to impart all the education
prooMed for By lac, and the results all
oro' tie county will be far more bene-
fetal than n little dudish tuition given
to a few in Cumberland. Don't spend
the taxpayers money for embroidery
and gilt edge, and stop making Cum
berland speciality. Give the children
all over the county the best that can
be had of the pure milk of education.
All are alike needy; all alike hungry
and thirsty; all want some Of the
kernel none want the husks all want
cream; none crave clabber and whey.
But to carry out the high school
idea a number of high school teachers
will have to be imported. That is in
accord with our fancy. But don't cen
tralize or consolidate them at one point.
Distribute them and give us a high
school complexion everywhere.
WHEN the Anarchist bomb exploded at the
Haymarket two years ago officer Timothy
Sullivan, who was in the second detachment
of policemen, fell to the pavement with his
body torn with metal from the bursting she'll