Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-09-21

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,ir,s and bows of the state away tfohi ,
home or to quote the popular eA'
,ession. "off to school" every year.
wben there are so many excellent
schools within our own borders nc
Star, always valiant
fighter for the good of the State urges
Tho iniustice of sending numerous
"special cars" laden with our boys anu
girls to the schools of other STATES
II says-and with truth-thaI tho
millions of dollars sent from this StaIe
annually to increase the wealth. "
Ncrthern and Eastern colleges "ouiu'
if kent at home, soon enaDle INC
management of our Mississippi schoolS
to build and beautify their schooi9'
as these beautifully advertised col
leges seminaries, etc, are DeauIih'u'
The Star Loyalty and truthfully asserts
that our schools are quite as goou do
the average school out OF the oOate'
patronized by our people, the OIL! uil
ference lying in the extra amount VI
display which or million dollars an.
rually" enables them to make we
cordially agree with the Star IN al
that it saws, but we 90 one step turther'
In sending our children to Northern
and Eastern schools there may De th9
advantage of change Of climate (ahu
II is a great advantage to most young
Girls. especially. So bad as the pr"o,
tice is, in this instance we can see
some slight excuse But when 1t comes
as in three-fourths of the cases II
does-to sending our children from the
sweet surroundings-the sale' sure
nome life. to any one OIL In'
numerous schools (many OF the
mushroom variety that abound
in adjoining States, we can
not see one single advantage to De
gained-not even in change OF climate
Mississippi has the finest Girls lhduS'
trial College in the world. Her A. q
NJ. College for boys stands at the heau
If that procession. Our university
lacks but one thing to put it alongside
tba hest in the land-the loyal support
of the people of Mississippi. Inc
writer has intimate knowledge OF many
Of the schools around us, as well as oil
almost every one in Mississippi. ana
while our schools have no such hour'
,eb of trumpets at commencement time
and spend something less than Tor
unes ON their year books" ," catalogues
etc. it is undoubtedly a fact thaC W.
are having more and getting less, D.
tbe common practice, than If we KEEP
our children in Mississippi. Where, Il
anv of the church schools about US Cal
wo find a superior to Millsaps College
- And vet some of our Methodist boy
rass through their Capital City, seef
e. ing an education elsewhere Wher
Of oro bovs in better hands than those G
4, mr. Iowrev at Clinton? And yet 1t
he nor an uncommon thing for Baptl'
i'd bovs to do their studying IN othe
ly states. The College at Washington, l
ut addition to other high claims upo
NJ our people. has made and helped max
on history along through the many yeai
OF of its useful life. No finer building
- and no more attractive GROUNDS Cd
~ ha found in this part of the countl
a than those of that splendid school
,so Port Gibson, Chamberlain Hunt Aca
~ emy-and there are Presbyterian DO.
IN Mississippi already planning L
,,v their college days, who do not kno
III. that such a school exists. But Tor u
fact that it would FIJI pages instead
ON columns. we would tell the story
mn Nississippis school for girls-bI
,it. Mountain. Belhayen, Whitworth' t.
en-. schools at Clinton, Meridian, Fren
Camr. Pontotoc-the big college
:, Women. at West Point, and sever
others. all doing work as good a
" some much better than is done by
average school in other States. a
vet our Mississippi girls 90 each ye
in car load lots to Tenness
''' Georgia. Alabama, Arkansas Lou
lana. and, of course, to the Nirslhl
+ nor IN mention the Carolinas, and
sn score of Eastern claimants. II
ny, '',o wrong. When we can get two artlc
~ equally good--one home product
ol tba other foreign, we should alWa
,l,o+ for reasons too many and TOO oDNl'
Con-. TO mention, take the home prodi
any and stand by it. The Hattiesb'
n,, pro,ress urges thai the schols are
,nce blame because they do not advert
the There may be a good deal in this'
Iked we believe they will adyertise-WI
.edv they get the million dollars annual
and that enables foreign schools to ad'
was tise so literally in Mississippi.
the Star calls upon the press, the pu
rmy and the people to urge change al
'om- this line, and we say, Amen!
hon 1t is a good thing for Mississ
sion when her towns install water wo
was electric lights, electric cars and O
the marks of progress But it is II
1t in better thing tor heI' Vi any =
.ade. State. when from among our
p. "boys" these towns can find men
sor- netent to manage these improyemt
N IN While we have naught to say aga
Y. 1t the various managers (some OF W
rong NOTABLY Jackson's-are as pei
fear gentlemen and as abe business
,ring as are TO be found anyWhere)
The have been brought to Mississippi
came a distance, we can not restrain
hold, of pride when we note the SUE
room that one of our own boys-born
This educated in Mississippi-is maxim
S:45 Vicksburgs street railway sys
had James 2. George is not out or
, said twenties vet. but It would be hal
.alrly find a better man for the place he
aging He is an A. & NJ. graduate. And
anees Natchez is to have street rail
learu and another of our boys has
charge. This time a Greenvllle
mas Harry Johnston-and we hope he
iourh will make his undertaking
>pos'- success. When our A. & M. CO
There ;s the success we hope to see it
for q toward which it is, daily climb
was we will no longer have any ne'
front send from home to get our civll
9 tbe neers, electrical engineers, cottor
- tory experts, etc. We VIII raise
""1 along With all other good thint