The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-11-09

Tue very excellent paper read by Prof
d. u. Lowrey at the spring meet,ny
OF the State Teachers Association
Inis paper was SO full of good argu.
menus and practical information that
we are constrained again to divide If
with our readers. So much ia being
saiu-and more should be said-rela.
i've 10 the too common practice of
Sehuing the boys and girls of Mlssjs.
sippl out OF the State ito finish their
euucatlons' that this expression from
one 30 familiar with the subject Il
most opportule.
ana, by the way" said Prof. Low.
rey, let me just here appeal to YOU.
iadles and gentlemen, as Missisdppi
'eacners and Mississippi patriots, to
stand for the schools of your own
state. asked prominent lawyer
Oh one OF our best towns, Were YOU
educated at the University of Missis.
sipl? and he replid, No, was not.
ana l wish to the Lord had BEEN
AND then he went on to tell me how
he had gone to another Stata both
Tor his literary course and law
course, and had come back 10 find
nlmself stranger to all the rising
lawyers Of the State, most Of whom
might have been his schoolmates had
the place for him to be educated been
more wisely selected.
Two young women went to a pub.
Tic meeting where people were gath.
cred from all over the State. Both
or these ladies had been reared In
Mississippi and one had attended one
OF the Mississippi schools five years.
While the other had been educated in
most excellent school of another
State. At this great gathering the
two stood side by side. The girl edu.
Gated in Mississippi greeted friend
after friend in the passing throng.
while the girl educated elsewhere
looked on in amazement for awhile,
and then exclaimed: Don't you see
how am a stranger in my own State?
My father did me an injustice when
he sent me away to be educated
And SO 1t is. When we send our Mis-.
slssippi boys and girls to other
States to be educated we make three
fold mistake.
First. We deprive them of the
broad home acquaintance which they
shall need for their future happiness
and success.
Second. We cultivate in them the
evil tendency to look abroad rather
than at home for their best things.
Third. We. perhaps, decrease and
at least lose an opportunity to in.
crease their loyalty to Mississippi;
and our grand old State, in this her |
new era of prosperity, entering upon
the splendid possibilities of the twen-
tieth century, shall need the ardent |
loyalty of her evry son and shall |
more need the ardent loyalty of her
daughters, who are to be the mothers
in her homes, and to shape the char
acters and ideas of her citizens yet
unborn. I plead not from a selfish
standpoint; l need no increase Of pa
tronage. Blue Mountain College has
for the past two sessions been offered
more pupils than she could take and
had to turn away some for lack of
room; but l plead against what l see
to be an evil and what believe public
school teachers can do more than 9th
ers to correct.
ALAS! for the Mississippi boy or
girl who thinks our beloved old State
has no school good enough"
Through the kindness Of good
friend in Pontotoc county, we are
enabled to increase our list of veter-
ans who fought side by side with
their sons during the war between
the States for the land SO dear to
them and us. The men and soldiers
SO distinguished are: Samuel Big
nam, living north Of the town of Pom
totoc, hale for his eighty years, and
the father of the worthy superintend-
ent of education, D. G. N. Bigham.
who in those troublous times also
wore the gray and was wounded with
a Federal bullet; E. H. Robbins, who
resides at Troy, and is very old (S1).
also has a son living in the county
who carried musket for our Sunny
1t is a genuine pleasure
to know that these fine old patriots.
with their "boys," have been spared
so long to the land they love and for
which they SO CALAMITY fought.
During the week or two Just pre-
vious to this issue of our letter there
nave been enough tragic happenings in
our beloved State to more than fill
our prescribed space. There have
heen accidents, burglaries, riots and
murders to stain the pages that should
he fair. and it may be that some OF
our readers will think us careless IN
our recital of mississippi Matters
bocause we do not recount these. We
feel. however, a deep sense of respon'
sibility in the conduct of these col
umns, which were for so long pleas.
ure and pride to him whose pen lies
now at rest. And as it was with him.
~ shall it be with US. We shall en-
5eavor always to use these columns
far the good Of the State we love, and
through them, with your help, TO co.
nnerate for the advancement OF all
orhlic interests, the education OF our
pontb the protection Of our helpless
and the reverent care Of the remnant