Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1896-11-21
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Remember Thanksgiving Day at
Ridenour's School, at 2 o'clo ok, p.
| m.
Mode Linton returned the silver
watch to the owner, Mr.. John N.Y.
ers, and received 81 as reward.
Ralph, last week, just dubbed all
over with eloquent poetic joy and
fervor. The sage deserves the plume.
May he wear it.
The editor of the Herald ought
to be happy if his devotion to his
party has at last been recognized
and rewarded, as heretofore he
like his worthy antecedent, Riley
got praise and honor, but got showed
too far from the warmth kindled by
their own patriotic spirits, to be
benefited. The laborer is worthy
of his hire, and we'd like to see the
laborer rewarded.
Russell Pearell came very near
being killed Monday morning. Climb
ing into Mr.. Will Davis road wagon
black boy pushed him and he fell
between the spokes of the big wheel,
just as the horses started, and re-
volved round and round. Mr.. Da-
Wis promptly sprang to his rescue
and untangled him. Some heavy
gashes and hard bruises were re.
ceived, but he wonderfully escaped
serious injury.
EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP.
Says Chas. r. Skinner, Supt. Of
Public Schools of New York Our
schools should lay the foundation of
morality, virtue and good character
in the lives of all who enter them.
This is a basis upon which all may
safely stand. But, as it is true, our
schools must make our citizens, so
their true aim should be beyond art,
beyond literature, beyond culture, IN
the domain which includes questions
OF government, how governments
are made, why they are made, how
they can be kept pure, and how the
laws and agencies which hold them
together, can be regulated and con-
trolled. There must be close re-
lationship between education as
foundation and national prosperity
between education as a foundation
and national prosperity as a result.
If there is one institution upon which
the safety and prosperity OF the ma
tion rests more than upon any other
it is the public school. The men
and women of the future will be what
the public school makes them. The
school is better safeguard of the
nation than forts or standing armies.
Unless education for citizenship
comes through the schools it may
never come at all. A young man
may not know whether he will be-
come lawyer, a physician, a farmer,
a minister or carpenter, but he
ought early to know that be is sure
to become citizen endowed with a
citizens rights and responsibilities.
Why not then educate for citizen
ship? If this system does not full.
fill the designs Of those who main
tain it and esta blish it, if it does not
round out the lives of our boys and
girls, if it is not making vigorous
manhood and womanbood. if il is
not pointing out the way Tor ali TO
add to the glory OF the state by
comprehension Of the duties Of cit.
izen, then it is failing to do what we
have right to expect of it. 1t was
never expected that the free school
system of our state should mean SIM
ply scholarship. 1t means citizen
ship as well. Ninety per cent. of all
educated in the common schools
never 90 beyond it, and yet they are
/ sent out into the world as citizens
without knowing the rights or du-
ties of citizenship. In all our
schools from the lowest TO the high
est, let there be taught to some
extent the essential features of our
government. This implies the teach
ing OF politics kind of politics
which, without hypocrisy, considers
public office public trust. There
is very close connection between
honorable politics and intelligent
citizenship. / would have your
youth know what caucuses and con-
ventions are, what they are designed
to do before they are thrust into
them to learn of questionable meth
oas from those who would use them
for personal ends. | would have
them learn all these things with di-
rect reference to their bearing upon
the best interest of state and nation,
rather than upon individual interests.
Ii we teach what statesmen and ora
tors did and said in ancient Rome
and Athens a thousand years ago,
let US also teach what our statesmen
and orators are doing and saying. |
would have every school house, ev-
cry college, every academy a nnr-
sery of patriotism, where it should
be taught that the true American
citizen is the highest type of man.
hood. | would teach American
craftsmanship, American valor,
American pluck to American boys
and girls, in American schools. |
would have the American flag flying
from every place where school is
taught, displayed in every school
house, as an object lesson that learn
ing and loyalty go well together. /
would have every national holiday
fittingly observed in every school.
| There is direct relationship be-