The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-17
THE SCHOOL PLANK.

The SCHOOA FLANK.
Of particular interest to th
schools of Obion county is the re
port of Hon. j. B. Frazier's visi
to Union City, which runs as fol
lows
There seems to be an impression
abroad over the state that if there j
any one interest that will be TIN
O biect of more solicituos care thar
another during the administration o
Hon. James B. Frazier, it will be thu
public schools. Mr.. Frazier has il
every speech advocated longer terms
and manifested such deep interest il
the cause of education that he has al
ready been dubbed the educationa
Governor. 1t remained for the chill
dren of Union City, however, to write
a new plank and shove it into the
platform. Mr.. Frazier will have some
trouble in seeing it brought into life
and being, but he promised to do as
much as any Governor could in doing
what the children so confidently said
he would do. Union City has a
splendid public school system under
the management of Superintendent
A. e. Darrah, for number of years a
valued member of the Nashville corps
of teachers at Fogg High School and
as Principal of Trimble School. Prof
Darrah has three schools under his
management, and has splendid
corps of teachers. Mr. Frazier visited
the Grammar and High Schools yester.
day morning, in company with Coun.
ty Judge A. J. Lawson, Mayor John
T. Walker, Senator Seid Waddell,
Capt. Fl. G. Alexander, Col. D. A,
Edwards and Lexie S. Parks. The
children arean unusually bright-faced
lot, and sang and answered questions
in a manner that must have proved
highly satisfactory to their in
structOrS.
In on room the question was asked;
"Whom have we with us?"
"Hon. Jas. B. Frazier, the next
Governor of Tennessee.
"What is he going to do when he
becomes Governor"
SNAKE the school term twice as
1o1c. noun -
When called upon to address the
children of the Grammar School, Mr..
Frazier said: 81 fear that in your en-
thusiasm you have laid out more than
any Governor can accomplish. But
no Governor ever occupied the guber-
Material chair who tried harder to &C
complish anything than | will to carry
out the platform you have made for
me. You are fortunate in having
a splendid school system, excellent
teachers and beautiful building,
You cannot fully appreciate your ad-
until you have seen the little
log school houses IN the mountains
and valleys of East Tennessee, where
the children walk two and three miles
to school, sit on benches without
backs, and are permitted to enjoy even
these poor advantages only seventy
five days in the year. You boys will
some day,be the citizens, and you girls
will tell them how to vote. Enjoy
yourselves, but take advantage of
every opportunity. Fortify yourselves
with knowledge. 1t should be our
boast that we are an educated people.
No state has greater natural resources,
and want to see the day when our
own boys open our mines, build our
railroads and draw the plans for our
houses" .#
To the young people of the High
School Mr.. Frazier said: cit always
affords me pleasure to visit a school
and look into the bright faces of pretty
girls and ugly boys-not that / think
anything less of an ugly boy, for it
turns out that the ugliest
bow makes the strongest, best man.
you have the advantage
Of a splendid school. Few cities in
The state have better school system
than you have here, where a graduate
If this High School is prepared to en-
Ter university. I believe in. the
public schools and in colleges and uni
rersities. believe in girls going as
we'll as boys. We have reached the
Doint where girls are being educated
is well as boys, and it should be SO.
IT am going to make an honest eff
fort to give the school children in
other parts of the state the same ad-