The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-10-23

get man or woman with a $500 ed
ucation to teach for 1925 a year.
Then with better teachers will come
better schools, and then better educa-
tion. Besides this their lands will
increase in value, men of means will
move into the country searching for
good schools, society will become bet
ter, and there will be general i'm
provement along all lines. Unless we
do have better schools the best teach
ers will 60 to other countries where
the inducements are better, and we
will have to take those whom we can
get, who are satisfied to get first grade
license and never have any inclination
to get any educational or professional
training. The result is our children
must drink from stagnant pools rather
than from fresh running streams.
Our fires Of educational enthusiasm
must be kindled from dying embers
rather than from live Goals and fam
ing torches.
Mr.. Watergrass says there are many
people in Rankin who cannot send to
school more than four months during
the year. / do not believe that, at
most, there are 10 per cent. of the peo-
pie in these circumstances ordinarily,
but admitting that many of them can
not they will have better advantages
while they do go, and so will get
more out of the school than hereto
fore. According to last years report
there are 2O4, 222 educable children in
this state who never entered school
house. Is that any plea that we
should do away with the public
schools? There is quite a number
whose fathers, or many of them at
least, pay taxes to support the schools.
No, no such argument will be ac-
cepted by any one, nor will the
argument that some cannot attend
more than four months be accepted
against the extension of the free
school term. We have six months
in Rankin county and we will not
go back to four, but when we reach
the proper state we will extend it fur
Their to eight or ten months.
Mr.. Watergrass seems to think the
negro will get more than his share,
and no doubt he will. I do not pro-
pose to offer a solution of the negro
problem. But think if left alone
the problem will solve itself. We
cannot legislate them out of the bene-
fit of the free schools, and if we
could, I for one would not favor it;
for ignorance is no remedy for any
thing.
Mr.. Editor, it is getting late and
Mary Jane keeps on after me Jim
Thomas Henry Jones if you don't 60
to bed you won't wake up until an
hour by sun in the morning, and you
know them niggers won't pick a lock
of cotton till you get in the field.
They don't care whether they get to
start to school this winter or not.
Bus must tell you what the man re-
minds me of whoe opposes the extern
sion Of the free school on account Of
the negro before I go to bed. There
was once man living out west who
had dog that barked Ia great deal.
One night the dog kept up so much
noise that the man could not sleep.
It was awfully cold and the ground
was covered with snow, but the noise
was more than the poor fellow could
stand, SO he got up and went out on
the snow barefooted and in his night
shirt and caught the dog. He sstayed
so long that his wife became uneasy
and went to the door and called John.
John was shivering from head to foot
and his teeth were chattering SO
that he could hardly speak, but he
answered. She asked him what he
was doing. He answered: I'LL
I'm er-r-r-r try-y-y-y-ing -g-g-g TIT
t-tO-o-o-o f-r-r-r- reez-z-Z-z-e this-s-s-S
d-d-d-d-d Odd d-d-dog- g-g-g .to-o-o-o
death eth-eth.
The man is starving his own child
rem intellectually while trying to
starvc the nergo, who does not feel it.
It is late and / will stop for the
present.
Best wishes for the editor, and con-
gratnlations for Mr.. Watergrass.
Jim Thomas Henry Jones.
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