Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-09-12
PROF. EVANS
Has Something to SsJ to Parents
And School Children.

day Public school work is pro-
vided for those who have not com
pleted the common school branch
as. and Marion also provides free
| what but few towns in the State
offer, even for money! high
school course for three years be
yond the common school branches.
Every parent and thinking boy
and girl in tins vicinity belisve in
the value Of education; and no
community of people have proved
it better. Attendance is the great
proof of school interest. aud last
year there were not over SIX loaf
ers about our streets ! make a
distinction when use the good
word "loafer" between the boN aud
girls of school age who are out OF
school with good excuse aud the
loafers who have none.
Let us this year keep the child
rem in school, We have a chance
with the child in school, but with
the careless attendant none; and
when in the end satisfactory re-
suits do not come out NJ non'at.
tendance at school the parent is to
blame.
There is great mistake being
made yearly in this county. and
in this town of Marion. So says
enlightened public sentiment, in
that out Of classes uf - To- 80 fin
ishing common school branches.
10 to II only enter higher school
work. aud out OF those 10 or IL,
only > to ; are supported by self
or others to complete higher
work.
There is a disposition on the
part of some 10 think the teacher
is talking shop when he calls this
a serious mistake, nay, u blunder
in life that works regret, Weakness
and disaster.
SO my friends ! quote "a few
words from Forward" the best
edited young peoples paper | ever
saw, and every word | quote is
but an echo Of kindred sentiments
expressed by men aud women Of
experience every where. II says:
There is a time in a boys life,
in many cases, when he begins TO
be impatient about going TO school
Especially if he lives in a big man.
ufacturing town, whore opportuni-
ties for a job are plenty, he is like
ly to say, at about fourteen or fif-
teen years of age, or even young
or. i want 10 20 To work
whats the use of going to school
any longery He is so sure that
there is no use of it that he falls of
in his interest and his studies and
the result is that his parents often
yield to his wishes, and Jim or
Tom or Harry goes into machine
shop. or factory, or n mill, and
stops his education. AS far AS the
school is concerned, from that day.
Perhaps no thinks he is wise, just
then; but anywhere from five to
ten years thereafter, he begins 20
find that he WAS foolish, and he
usually repents il more or less
strongly, for the rest Of mis- life.
For education is II very precious
thing, and we must get it in youth
or make mistakes and lose oppor-
tunsties ever afterwards for lack of
it.
"Of course the reason a boy goes
TO work at fourteen is TO make
money. Otherwise he would just
as willingly stay at school Now,
statistics prove that the Tennessee
boy leaves school three years ear
lier than the Massachusetts boy
The average annua. amount Of mo-
ney to each inhabitant of the Uni
ted States, man, woman aud child,
is about fifty-fve cents day; that
is, if the value of everything pro-
duced each year in this country
were to be divided among the in
habitants each would receive that
much. But the people of Massa-