The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-22

cannot be astonished after a visit to
some of the remote mountain districts
to find thousands of these crackers"
eager to find places even in the cotton
mills. Taking 1t, however, that many
cannot do this and must continue in
even lower lines, it is certainly very
much in order to carry to them all pos
sible benefit If isolation means social
degeneracy and decay, then a main
! work of those who would lift up the
! race, where help is most needed, Is to
! be found in the remote sections of the
country, which do not appear to have
been considered heretofore, possibly be-
cause of the inconvenience, or because
the victims of ignorance and poverty
were too dull to properly applaud the
roformers.
It may we'll be set down that mo
scheme of education can Justify itself
which is not related directly and help
fully to the social and economic needs
of community life" The idea of this
Georgia reformer is to organize farm
communes, and, as means of bringing
the people of various communities to-
SGlHcl anu luuS uttlNltlS lIlS greatest
advantage from broader association, to
unite the small schools into larger and
better schools, where ordinary academ-
! ic instruction Is intelligently given and
where at the same time some of the
long hours of the school day are deVo-
ted to such forms of handicraft as can
easily be transferred to the homes of
nd of
! occupation and income; land If, in adj
dition, nature studies, school libraries,
mothers clubs and village industries of
! all sorts gradually come into existence,
| then we shall have a different kind of
! country village in the south" Truly,
| it may be repeated that household and
village industries are everywhere need
i ed in the south.
Among the future teachers now being
trained to take charge of this great
work of setting up a school that can
| be a safe unit of aggregation for coun-
! try civilization are scores of young wo-
men who have chopped cotton and
! split corn 'middles' and undergone all
manner of hardships in field work"
! OF course, these are really only
! bright and lucky few, who leave be-
| hind them on the desolate hillsides
thousands who cannot aspire to suffi-
| cient learning to teach others. There
| are in the remote hills Of Georgia and
| other southern states thousands of peo-
| pie without any chances worth having
It would delight and almost make vain
!. some of them to be transferred to even
| the most strenuous and eXacting kinds
, of employment to be found in the
| towns and cities.
1t may be that conditions are much
worse in Georgia than they are in Tex
as, but the citizens of some remote re-
| gions of Texas will doubt it. Take it
! that conditions are better with us, and
still it must be generally agreed that
| they are bad enough, even in portions
/ of our thickly settled counties. We
| have coming in from Georgia and from
| a dozen other states thousands of peo-
pie mostly children, with nothing to go
on but a bony team and lean dog to
trot along under the wagon. We have
on hand and to arrive quite all that we
can provide for, and more than we are
providing for. It would be we'll to con-
slider the Georgia method of providing
first-rate central schools for them, and
we should not stop even with that. We
should enlarge our Industrial life In ev-
cry possible way, so that a little room
may be made for the chanceless, and
so that the helpless may be thus ena-
bled, as far as possible to help them
. selves.-Dallas News.