Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-03
South Side.

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Old Crimp was social caller
here the larger portion of last
week.
Don't abuse the summer season.
All Is ordered for the best. When
the watermelons suffer the cotton
tails have n rest.
The sportive little fly is gone.
just how the world could roll
around without the fly we hardly
know, yet people are glad to have
them go. Shoe fly!
The continual popping of fire
arms are Indications that some If
the ine-haired sportsmen are hav-
in fine time. But it may not be
80 fine after Court sits.
J. W. Cassidy, of Sideview, ac-
companied by his good wife and
sister-in-law Miss Laura Wilson,
while on their way to Hazel Green
stopped over with their many
friends and relations at French
burg and went chestnut hunting.
War, war has been all the talk.
If it had lasted much longer some
body would have got hurt. While
we deeply sympathizc with the
down trodden, oppressed Cubans We
might ask if the game was worth
the ammunition. life, blood, de-
struction, money and bonded debt.
BY the way, Mr.. "Flat Greek, y
your sentiments regarding the pub
lie school strikes us exactly. a
competent school board that will
work for the interest of the people
regardless of kinfolks is the thing
we need, and not to elect a board
that will employ one teacher forev-
er, as we have seen done. The first
needs of our schools today is mod
flied form of the old patriarchal
government, when the father gov
erned his family, when the parents
had children. instead of children
merely having parents. IT h G
hearthstone is the cornerstone of
the state, and the family the nur-
sery of the nation" The state is
nothing more than an aggregation
of families, and family government
is the original model Of state au-
thority, discipline and punishment,
and its influence prepares for
good citizenship. In the family
the child learns to make sacrifices,
to suffer privation, to respect the
needs and desires of others. The
family should be the source of good
influences, teaching honesty, So
briefly, dilIgo nee, patriotism and
religion. The children need the
stimulating and corrective influence
of the home should be fed, clothed,
trained and educated; granted op-
portunitics for proper enjoyment !;
and parents should demand implicit
obedience; and the schools would
be almost self governed. The pa
triarchal government of old existed
before states and nations, and to-
day the family lies at the founda-
ton of all good government. When
| ever the home does its duty there
lean be little fear of danger to the
Ischool and nation of unruly ele-
Iments. Disrespect for family law
Icauses disrespect for all law, both
Ischool and state. We will admit
tthat the public schools in Kentucky
4 are second to none. The teachers
certificate is of secondary impor-
htance, and just so long as our pub
I,lic schools are so used we can bid
IA last farewell to their usefulness.
So long as boards demand worthless
teachers, so long as politics, relig-
ious or social pulls are factors in
Ytheir selection, so long as friend
ship and relationship are consider
\ ed prior to scholarship and train
ing just so long will the standard
remain low and no power can give
us trained teachers if our boards
refuse to employ them. We think
it is time for the people to consider
if they can afford to pay so dear
an object on the altar and sacrifice
it for such purposes. Ours is II
government "of the people, for the
people and by the people" and an
ignorant people are not fitted to
exercise the responsible duties of
such citizenship. The state accepts
the obligation of providing for the
education of all the children. As it
demands intelligence it provides
the means for its requirement, and
parents should be compelled to
send their children by law, as the
law does or should compel the main
tanning of the schools. How many
children are growing up today in
ignorance on account of their moth
ers and fathers not taking any in
terest in their future welfare. We
believe 1t is a sin, and parents will
have it to answer for just as sure as
there is God. AS my paper is now
quite lengthy and another of sim
liar size will scarcely do this i'm
portant question justice, we will
hear from other correspondents.
MooNsnINE.
SharpSDurg.