The Jasper news., 1903-07-02
AN OPEN MEETING.
W. c T. U. Holds One Friday
FL Night,

Night,
The open meeting held 10y the W G t.
U OF this city: at the Methodist church
Friday night was quite well attended
and was enjoyed by all present. The
Pft gram Is published IN last weeks
paper was .carrlel opt with the exception
OF couple OF numbers NY persons who
we're unable 20 be present.
The addressfof Rev. Jones was excel
eat nd wac well received by his hearers
The paper by Mrs TUmAn on "The
Common Sense School" was exception
ally good and we give it space in our
columns The paper reads as follows;
The Con mCp.Sr1se sxtooI.
theoretically VIC all agtee that the
gravest concern of a free state, should
be- the education of its people, OF the
common people whose word aud in
tellrctual standards, whose undivided
characters make the character Of the
community. 10 the large ctias thou
sands.of the future voters are allowed 10
drift 10 the streets excluded from the
schools for lack of room. Their fathers
crowd them into shopsiand iactoties Q
false age certificates and set Up as u
Y lid defense against the charge Of per
JUICY that they had better be liars than
their sohs thieves; for the teaching Of
the street follows the kindergarten
lrDcipl that lone learns by doing"
Shooting craps, that is gambling is its
initial lesson aud thorest'follows,
much sucn boys know Of Il, and Of what
it means in his tenement sch lol, respect
Until Theodore Roosevelt came
to teach US that a VS. are made to be
enforced not to bo broken with a brite,
we hao a COMP ulsory education law and
it WIS dead letter. The school a,
thuroties in New York did not even
pretend to know how many CHI llr
there were OF school age, and until 8
y ars 40 there was no way Of finding
out. We haIa lay prohibiting child
labor, and it was broken for quarter u
day az the testimony before tho. legisla-
tvs committee showed. The real BARR r
t child LABOR is ever the school ana
much waste paper. Dead letter laws,
work the same kiud of harm to the
civil spirit Of the community as
hypocrisy 10 the church would to the
Cas- of religion.
We had an excise law, No one has for.
cotton What that stood for---the boy no
more than the rest of us. The saloon
always stood by him il the school did
not. The result has been registered at
tue state reformatory where the crop of
the street is harvestsd-77 pei cent with
olt m raj sense, or with next TO none,
TIA with aver. g, mental ca. ,ty.
Tue material was there to make good
citiz 'ns Of. 1t is an Old story and BAD
une-municipal misgoverment.
The last school census tell us how
great the need Of mUre school buildings
Schoolhouse add TO the character of the
" hA'ht ~ bh' ihNh VI hhuhA q oNah'ihi'
TIE tough who tried both ways in the
~ Gorge Junior R3publir.p rea jonru
out i, cost more 10 DO bad than good.
When we git our public schools run on
Il elc 'mmou sense plan, we shall have
c .aIacter 10 deal with in the 10y and
the voter. "Weakuess not wickeduess"
o. ened the door 10 the Jail for the va
horde that passes through it. We
..odld substitute the school for the jail,
Sur.ly that is common sense. There ";
never worse use to. pu. boy 10 than
put him in Jail.
The details? shall leave them to DO
worked out by the teacher for his own
] Like 10 think that in the
Lev educational plan the chief corner
stone shall be tue boys affection. Aud
that the test Of the successful teacher
and the successful school, shall be their
ADJ ity 10 gam it. Once ASSOCIATE tho |
boys play with his school aud it is done. |
Play is what he wants TO 10. Work is |
what he has to do. Play Is not mere
Idleness at least not in the common |
sense plan it is normal occupation |