The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-03-31
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THEM

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THEM.
What Shiawassee voters Shall be a few
Years from now Depends Largely on her
Schools-Their Best Interests Served by
the Election of Mr.. Grin L. Bristol.
Who is going to vote In your precinct ten,
or fifteen, or twenty years from now? Have
you stopped to think that ten years from
now the eleven year old boy now in school
is going to have voteP DO you realize
that that sixteen year old boy is going to
vote in five years mOre? Now are you anx.
ious to do your part TOWARD making or help.
ing the rising generation of voters to become
better than our own generationp Where
then, besides in The home can you accom-
plsh this better than In the schools?
Voters of Shiawassee county are too in
telIigent to need any long exposition of the
value of our country schools, but they are
such an every day affair that sometimes vo-
tiers seem in danger of thinking that the
system will run itself, forgetting that like
every other other political or social institu-
ton, especially in democracy, it is only
when those responsible for such institutions
take an active interest in them that they
prosper. In a democratic or republican
form of government like ours the people re-
fuse to allow the control of their institu-
tons to pass wholly from their hands, and
1t Is this which makes the personal respOn-
sibility of every voter so great And In the
matter of Shiawassee's district schools every
voter in this county has a responsibility
which he cannot shirk if he wishes to. How
are you going to meet the responsibility?
Whatever may be the best way of inn
proving the educational advantages of the
country boys and girls, and whatever may
may be the best way of showing your inter-
est in this great institution of the public
schools, the most effective thing that Shia.
wassee voter can do within the next few
days is the casting of vote Monday for Mr..
Grin l.. Bristol for school commissioner and
the securing of as many of his neighbors to
do likewise as he can.
Mr.. Bristol, while yet young man, has
not been one whose advancement has been
of mushroom growth, but it has been the
result Of hard, faithful work and real pro-
gress. 1t has come because people have
seen in him the earnest desire to do better
than merely good enough. This was his
in at
from the normal school at Ypsilsnti it has
been his record as principal of the MOrrice
school aud for the last two years as school
commissioner A more presumptuous man
of his age might have made complete failure
of the work, and certainly would have made
many, among both teachers and school off.
GERS, feel that they were being imposed up.
on, but the quiet modesty and judcious en-.
thusiasm of the present commissioner have
made work with him pleasant and con-
ducve to the best results i'm the work.
Mr.. Bristol is still young man with all
the energy and ambition of youth, and in
addition to the qualities he had when elected
before he now has highly successful term
of service behind him He is not a cranky
man in any sense of the word, but always
can be depended upon to be In the right
place in the right time. He is man on
whom one can depend and In his hands the
schools of the county will be safe for anOth-
er term. The voters should remember, too,
his economical administration of the Office,
and should consider the advantage of hav-
ing man who is able to get about with ease
into Every part of the county where his
presence Is needed.
The advantages to the county In general
and to the schools In particular are entirely
with the election of o. l.. Bristol to the of.
fee he has 50 faithfully filed. Then what
are you going to do about it? Ifyou are an
American citizen you owe 1t to that citizen
ship which we believe the best on earth to
do your part no matter how Insignificant it
seems to you. Remember the duty involved
by this citizenship. Think whether you
wish the next generation to be an improye-
ment on the present or not and 90 to the
polls Monday IL you have to go five miles
through snow drifts as high as the fences.
Trivial as 1t may seem this is no small re-
sponsibility that rests upon voter, and af.
ter thinking over this responsibility 60 to the
polls prepared to do one act for the further
improvement of the public schools of the
county bv casting ballot for o. l.. Bristol
for school commissioner. Do not shirk the
responsibility. We've got good commits.
sioner. Let's keep him. He will he still
better one and his work will not only tell In
the county treasury, In the schools, but Ia
the characters of other citizens and other
voters In years to come.