The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-09-21
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
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By ]. L. POWER.


printing some very sensible and timely
editorials on the subject of sending the
girls and boys of the State away from
home, or to quote the popular ex-
pession, "off to school," every year,
when there are so many excellent
schools within our own borders. The |
Meridian Star, always valiant
fighter for the good of the State, urges
the injustice of sending numerous
special cars" laden with our boys and
girls to the schools of other States.
1t says-and with truth--that the
millions of dollars sent from this State
annually to increase the wealth Oh
Northern and Eastern colleges, would,
If kept at home, soon enable the
management of our Mississippi schools
TO build and beautify their schools,
as these beautifully advertised COL
leges, seminaries, etc, are beautihed.
} The Star Loyalty and truthfully asserts
, that our schools are quite as good as
the average school out Of the STATE
ratronized by our people, the only dli-
ferepce lying in the extra amount OF
display which our million dollars an
rually" enables them to make. we
cordially agree with the Star in all
that it says, but we go one step further.
In sending our children to Northern
and Eastern schools there may be the
advantage of change of climate (and
it is a great advantage to most young
girls, especially. So bad as the prac-
tice is, in this instance we can see
some slight excuse. But when 1t comes
as in three-fourths of the cases 1t
does-to sending our children from the
sweet surroundings-the safe, sure
nome life, to any one OF the
numerous schools (many OF the
mushroom variety that abound
in adjoining States, we can
not see one single advantage to be
gained-not even in change of climate
Mississippi has the finest Girls Indus
trial College in the world. Her 4. &
NJ. College for boys stands at the head
of that procession. Our unlverslt!
lacks but one thing to put it alongside
the best il, the 'land-the loyal support
of the people of Mississippi. The
writer has intimate knowledge of many
of the schools around us, as well as ol
almost every one in Mississippi Anc
while our schools have no such flour
lsh of trumpets at commencement tme
and spend something less than FOR
tunes on their year books" catalogues
etc., it is undoubtedly fact that We
are paying more and getting less, b!
the common practice, than if we KEEP
our children in Mississippi. Where, IL
any of the church schools about us, car
we find a superior to Millsaps College
- And yet some of our Methodist boy!
~ pass through their Capital City, seek
o. ing an education elsewhere. Where
are boys in better hands than those O.
DR.. Lowrey at Clinton? And yet 1t Il
~ not an uncommon thing for Baptis
s. boys to do their studying in othel
States. The College at Washington, IL
ed addition to other high claims upo1
our people, has made and helped maxi
history along through the many year.
IL of its useful life. No finer building
he and no more attractive grounds cal
II; be found in this part of the countr.
st than those of that splendid school
w. Port Gibson, Chamberlain Hunt Acad
u emy--and there are Presbyterian boy
in Mississippi already planning TO
10 their college days, who do not know
VI that such n school exists. But for tn
{. fact that it would FIJI pages instead
columns, we would tell the story o
~ Mississippi's school for girls-Blu
et Mountain, Belhaven, Whitworth, tn
n schools at Clinton, Meridian, Frencl
Camr, Pontotoc--the big college TO
*. Women, at West Point, and severa
ice others, all doing work as good an
MS some much better than is done by tn
average school in other States. An
Sc yet our Mississippi girls go each yea
of In "car load lots" to Tennessee
xt. Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Louis
he lana. and, of course, to the Virginias
lid not to mention the Carolinas, and tn
ay score Of Eastern claimants. 1t
'ut wrong. When we can get two article
III equally good-one home product an
U. the other foreign, we should always
for reasons too many and too obvlou
- to mention, take the home produc
-, and stand by it. The Hattiesbur
,ao Pro1ress urges that the schols are
,so blame because they do not advertise
IN There may be good deal in this, bu
we believe they will advertise-whe
nv they get the million dollars annually
~ that enables foreign schools to adve
" tise so literally in Mississippi. Tn
Star calls upon the press, the pulp
on and the people to urge change alon
OF, this line, and we say, Amen!
lit
en-. The Southern Express Company ha
displayed great faith in the future
), our progressive little city of We
Point by erecting IN cffice bildiu
there.