The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1900-06-06
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xercises Of the Glynn High
School, Friday Evening, June LIST.
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We must not deiude ourselves into thinting
that the iiiteracy Of georgia IS due soleiylo
the Negro. Nearly isAss rant our vi.ii6
population is inIterate, whis ID s5lshaia
lively new State Of Iowa there . loas saAa
per cent. Of ntiierscy, and IN Kansas lev than !
per cent. Forty states Of the American Union
rank higher than Georgia.
Iuiteracy necessarily begets pauperism and
crime. Not out Of Or 70 pur white eoasicts can
read; not one out Of nfsy Of the blacks The
question as to the enect ofeducation upon crime
and pauporism is no longer an open one. A
people that viii close. their eyes TO the results
Of education as reached In other countries, will
open their eyes some day 70 sec the once llne
Institutions Of America erunblng INTO aaaes,
and the flames Of anarchy destroying their very
homes. 1t isnot merely sunicient for the state
TO supply the means Of education. but it is
equally necessary, that tho means 50 suppllea
should be used. As Well provide phyacian
and pledlcine toratiek child, and then permit
an ignorant and yiseious parent to prevent tie
child from receiving the benefit, as to inraisn
schools and teechers aud then allow tho chill
dren 10 DO depriyedot the advantage Of them.
Il is weak sentimsutaiity % tax about taking
away from parent his eontrolo OF his own OF.
spring. Eyey system of lewsw while Il rscog-
niaes the right Of theparent toeontrol the child,
yet limits the exercise OF thatlight. II the pa.
rent from any cvuss is annt % have the care
and custody-of the child, they may be taken
from him and given to another. No man has
the right to even use his own property to the in
jury OF his neighbor-certalnly not to the in
jury of the state. No greater injury can be done
the state than 70 suffer It's children 70 grow up
in vice and ignorance. The remedy may be Sc
we're, but the disease requires heroic treatment.
have seen white children picking cotton in
the feids, while along the road tradged regro
boys and girls 10 school. admit that at times,
it may he necessary FOR our children to be ab-
sent from school, bat in many instances, the
fanlt lies with an ignorant and yiseious parent.
There is no good reason why education should
netre compulsory
That it may operate as hardship in special
cases, Is .truei but is there any thing, which we
are:iereed to io,that does not operate as hard
shpS We pay taxes, serve as Jurors and wit
nesses work on the public roads, and discharge
allOf the duties OF citizenship uuder compute
sion. The power to excuse from sending child
70 school could be vested in the County school
Commissioner, or In some at and proper per
son; and Whenever good reason required that a
particular child should be relieved from going
to school for certain limited time then such
exemption might be granted. It would not be
necessary that this compulsory attendance
should be long continued, but every child
hould be required to read, write and cipher.
low can this compulsory attendance be en-
orcsdP How do you enforce the discharge Q
ny duty imposed by law? There is nothing
lore simple. Make the failure OF parent to
End child to school during certain ages, and
'r certain periods OF time, misdemeanor, and
nnish the parent guilty OF that misdsmsanor
) fine or Imprisonment and disfranehisement,
Oss the disease need such heroic trsatmsnss