The Tupelo journal., 1904-09-30
BUREAU
Under Direction Of KATE MARKHAM POWER.

Today all over the land the school
doors are open wide, and through
them We hear the echo of thousands
and tens of thousands of eager voices,
as the lads and lassies begin. with
JOY, the work of another year And
as we sit far off at our desk and think
about them with far-reaching love
and all-embracing tenderness, the
faint echo Of their happy young
voices to me and whispers of
wonderful things hat coming years
will bring into their lives-splendid
achievements, great triumphs, profess
sional success and all manne of good
and beautiful things which go to make
So much l CLEAN from these echoes
that would make page after page OF
matter, all filled with interest, but
space forbids the telling. l can but
express, once more, what is In my
heart always, for that great throrg
which fills our schools in Mississippi.
the wish that all that is brightest and
best of the passing day, so taken up
and woven Symmetrically into the
hearts and the brains with which they
have been blessed. We can buA hope
that each one of the many may learn,
in time, the wisdom of garnering the
treasures of learning, and of saving
the flying moments that go to make
the hours and days Of life. We hope
that each 10y and girl will let the
great teacher be his guide as he takes
his studies for the rear. OF these too
few childhood years Iife's foundation
is made, we must remember, and, If
we would have the Superstructure a
stately ore, with perfect proportions
and strong enough to withstand the
storm and stress of life, then We must
cut each :;Cne with %accGratH eye and
set it with steady hand that it may,
throughout all time, bear sturdily, the
teautiful cdiice that intellect. cal
ture and religion have reared to
crown it.
1t is our earnest hope today that
the registers viii show, il every
graded school in Mississippi, the
name of every child of school age who
dwells within reach of the building.
And once the name is on the register
parent and teacher should see that the
absent marks against it are few and
far between.
A little later, when the rural schools
Cpen, We hope and believe that we
will see a notable improvement in the
work. We know, of course, that some
of the counties are preparing to do the
right thing by the country schools IN
giving them longer terms and thus
enabling them to secure better teach
crs and encouraging them to improve
their school grounds and houses.
There is still great room for NIL
provement, however, and we long TOR
that great, glad day when every coua-
try child in Mississippi Though he
and his may never have heard of a
locomotive whistle) will have facili-
ties for education equal to the town
child, who has always had the best
Not until then need we expect to
get anything approaching our rights
i'll the attachments OF our children.
| Where we have now one well trained
| youth. equipped for life's battlefield
We will then have fifty, and | know
that many thousand patriots unite
with me in praying that God will speed
that happy day.
In my reading during the past week
have found an unusual number Oh
excellent articles which bear directly
on the subject in which We are most
interested just now. From these l
have culled a few, and give them to
you gladly, expressing more gracefully
and with more strength that l cal
command, my W ideas:
I'm our State, where agriculture Is
and must continue to be the chief in
dustry. the school house should be
made the fulcrum of influence to pro-
mote it's influence and development
toward perfection. 1t should labor for
good roads, to make country life at
tractive, as we'll as remunerative, and
by these means check the tendency
o. the young people to abandon the
independent life of the fields for the
dependent and often fruitless life in
| the cities."-Gov. w. w. Heard.
Human life is SO short at the Ions
est. so sorrowful at the best, that it
pays to crowd as much real happiness
into child life as possible.
"The most productive thing in the
| world is not q dollar, not two dollars,
but a thing that is not material; \
| thing that rules ships, commerce, and
men: it is a boy, and above all. an
American boy."-Lyman Hall.
Everything in the South waits
| upon education. Our industrial de-
| velopment waits on more captains OF
industry, superintendent of factories,
and skilled workmen. We have the
resources; we a get the capital in
abundance. Our need is the men who
know how to plan, to organize and
to work. Even our agriculture waits
Upon the intelligent farmers, horti-
culturists, dairymen, and stock breed
ers."-Pres. Chas. w. Dabney, Uni
versity of Tennessee.
Taxation by the State is but an
appropriation for the security OF so
ciety, protection to property and the
advancement of the people. lgror-
ance leads riot and vice, hand IN
hand, to disturb society, destroy bust
Less and overturn the government,
The surest foundation for our system