Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-07-31

schools or our favorable location.
Progressive journals that are in
tereStrd in the material and cdu-
cational development OF the South.
west are continually calling attcn-
ton TO this county, and OF Il large
number OF local articles written by
myself and sent 30 foreign papers,
but one has been refused puhlica.
ton. The Literary Address made
at our commencement ono year
ago was published in full in sever
al disintcrcstcd journals and was
given editorial comment i'm Il mum.
Der of others, and yet that address
was decidedly aud throughout local
hnring special reference only to
our own people, immediate sur
roundingS and interests.
All of which goes to show tina.
such IL fact as the adaptahility Of
this place as an educational cen
ter is recognized as truth where.
ever and however expressed. The
woman'S argument holds good
here; that Il thing is SO because il
is so; and from the very fact that
we have two good schools here now
and find il necessary to build an
other, the idea Of making Taze-
we'll an educational center has for
It's foundation not only an outlook
but real status, reality. The
proof of the pudding is in its eat.
ing" And again the very fact
that Tazcwcll College, now found
ing, has for its supporters and pro
motcrs our best people, public
spirited and calculating men, is
proof positive. With Tazcwell
High School, Tazcwcll Female
Seminary and the completion of
Tazcwell College for young men,
we have accomplished much to.
ward making this an educational
center, and certainly already de
serving such IL name for large
scope of surrounding counlry.-
Probably no town can point with
greater pride to the wide scope of
country lying adjacent to il than
can Tazcwcll G. H., and yet within
this whole vast region there is not
one school giving first class cOllcgi
ate education to boys or Il thor
oughly practical business educa-
tion. Two of our present schools
existed and prospcrcd when the
slow bus ''ploddcd its weary way"
between this place and Graham,
and now, that our country is being
cut up b. railroads and we are on
Il through line running through a
rich, prosperous and rapidly devcl-
oping country and having fine rail
road come ctions, is an argument
greatly TO our point.
Location also has much TO do
with the nature and prrtcnsiomS Of
schools. While the faculty is vi
tai to IFS real character and value.
location is important to an cduca-
tional institution and determines
III large measure the ccntcrS Of
education. Certainly there is not
III the State more favorable Ioca-
ton tEan Tazcwcll, either as to
scenery, soil, productions or eli
mate.
The truth is apparent that if our
people would become sufficiently
interested in the value and work
of education and unite on this one
idea Of making our place what it
deserves to he, great cducation-
al center, there is no reason why
such Il state may not be speedily
brought about, and why we should
not assume and appropriately bear
the name Of "Athens of the South
wcSt.n
The following. clipped from a
Norfolk paper of last week, is sig
nificant:
Leaving the main line Of the Nor.
folk and Western, however, Mt Radford
and going southwest as far as tho Ken
tucky line, you find not over three
schools for young men in territory
composed of $4,000 square miles. This
is the great coal, gas, iron, timber and