The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-06-13
ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR
COLUMBIA.

Messrs. Branham & Hughes a
Spring Hill have, in few short years
established preparatory school TO
boys second to none in the South
They have established character fo
themselves and reputation for thei
school so fast and SO far, that they hav,
outgrown their quarters. This condi
ton confronts them: They must en-
large where they are, or move. They
don't want to move. They have
made investments and formed attach
ments where they are. They are
about as far from the open saloon
that shame upon civilization and curse
to our country, as they can get; they
are established there; proftably and
pleasantly established there but-they
need more room. and unless the good
people of Spring Hill will go down
in their pockets for the sum of four
or five thousand dollars wherewith to
build that room, the school will
move. The question Of location, there
fore, As one Of the principals himself
has informed us, is an open one.
Franklin is alive to the opportunity,
and Messrs. Branham and Hughes were
there Wednesday to meet a committee
and hear proposition from Franklin
They have promised friends here,
I, 1oA hoy srpy11d not IL
themselves until Columbia has had
time and opportunity to be heard
from.
Now it is not worth while to argue
the advantages such school would
be to Columbia. Those who do not
know and admit these many and un-
told advantages are beyond the reach
of reason The only question is, does
Columbia want the school bad enough |
to get it. A town that has ten thou
sand dollars to squander as subsidy |
to the Louisville q Nashville Railroad
Company, ought to be able to do
something for school like this. Or
would it be possible to reclaim that
worse than wasted ten thousand dol
lars, and direct 1t to school purposes2
Worse than wasted, we say, because
it not only takes the money from the
pockets of the people, but establishes a
precedent for the future that will loot
the city treasury Of thousands more.
T. bod ~ I'M cvonf ~ IN, |
charging our public schools. But, as
it takes nothing more than the ipse
1lxit, "Be it Ordained, to grow
money on trees, perhaps they will do
both.
The Branham and Hughes school,
however, must be private enterprise.
f it comes. Candidly. we haven't
the slightest idea that it will come.
We don t believe there is enough en-
erprise and public spirit in Columbia j
o out bid Spring Hill even, little a
amlet though it is. OF course Column 81
ia has the wealth. 1t is not a question s.
t means. Columbia has individuals II
III, SluSly, OOuiu SiNo ehO lioAAOy' .
ut will they2 Nay, verify! 1t ought q
, be possible and easy, to raise by q
rivate subscription, twenty thou =
md dollars, if need be, in single y
ny, to this enterprise But is it2 L
OF by half
AT least that is how we think and
ell about it. - We shall be glad indeed
find we are.mistaken. There Is no
terprise we would more gladly help.
one to which..we would more literally
ntribute. But we lack faith. Be-
use we have seen Columbia fail on
is same question so often before.
owever, Columbia has never had so
cd an opportunity as this before, so
'..us hope that the excellence of the
may..inspire us to- ssuc-
ssful effort. .-...
England is paying $40, 900, goo to re-
ok the farms OF the Beers but that
much cheaper than fghtlng.over the