The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-29
7 BUREAU
Under Direction of KATE MARKHAM POWER.

the most complex laws. You practical
farmers, listen to me. Here is a
sound grain of corn; there is very lit
tie about its external appearance to
distinguish it from any other minute
particle of matter. but what does your
experience teach you in regard to it?
You know that it contains a vital
principle-the power to multiply 1t
self. There is in this grain OF corn
a stalk and a full grown ear. Who
can get it out? The one who knows
corn nature and those laws that must
be observed in its development. III
L would give the best varieties to a
man who knows nothing of the grow
ing of corn, he could not grow corn
until he learned the right process. The
farmer that gets the best ear of corn
knows when and where to plant the
grain, and how to tend it. God has
nut a beautiful and useful life into
every child born. Who can get that
life out in it's %fullness? The n who
knows most about child nature and
child development. You know this
principle is true in regard to your
pointer pups and blooded colts. Why
cannot you realize it in regard to
your own flesh and blood? The teach
err of your children should not My
be well grounded in scholarship n
be familiar with the best professional
thought, but he should be a man in
the highest sense of the term. He
should have the spirit of the Mar OF
Galilee. who went about doing good,
he should love humanity and consider
it a great privilege to teach school.
have a contempt for any person who
is ashamed of his work, and when l
meet a teacher who is always apollo
giving for the fact that he is a school,
teacher, my deepest sympathy goes
out for the deal little children whose
minds he is butchering and whose
possibilities he is destroying. You
should commit your child into the
hands of honest teachers. A teacher
that would cheat to get the license
that authorized him to teach and draw
money out of the school treasury
should have the contempt of all high
minded people. How exalted in life
should those be who go in and out
before our children!
Lack of time forbids my going
more into detail as to our school
needs. I would like to discuss the
duty of county superintendent and
otbor ooh201 nfSonrc ht1t cannot now
l congratulate you in the step you
have taken in frightening your school
terms and organizing a graded county
system. 1t shows that you intend to
make your schools your first consid-
Grafton. Remember that many people
have many minds, and each of you
cannot always have his own way. Fol-
low the lead of your county superin-
tendent, willingly comply with all his
requests, start your schools all on the
same day, have a graded course OF
study, keep your children in school,
and all will be well with you.
Somehow l feel that there is a
better day coming for Mississippi. l
know that her rich blood cannot be
much longer suppressed. Our people
are now realizing that our best asset
is the magnificent children that God
has given us and that when We do
our part in removing the bars OF ig
~ncrance, and fully emancipate the
best life of every child in the State,
we can then stand up equally statued
among the most progressive States of
the American Union, in everything af-
people,