Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-04


take this occasion TO call Your aiten-
ton to the fact that by order OF the
school beard the schools will open
| on Monday morning, September IS,
al o'clock
1t is earnestly hoped that all pupils
year will present themselves for en-
rollment on that morning.
Our schools offer excellent opportu-
mites for our boys and girls to fit
themselves for usefulness in life.
Regular and punctual attendance on
the part of pupils is the only way to
secure thorough scholarships, and for
them to be benefited by discipline.
We are pleased to note the sacri-
fees that are made by many parents
10 educate their sons and daughters,
and yet on the other hand we are pain
ed 10 see so much apparent indiffer-
ence on the part of many parents.
! There are too many children of
school age in our midst who do not at
tend school at all and still others who
attend very irregularly. 1t is from
this class cf pupils that the criminal
classes of our race most invariably
come. Therefore, in order to check
this criminal class we beseech all
, parents who have children of school
age to send them to school
The Pine Bluff school board has
always shown great desire to- give
us efficient teachers and a good school
system.
For the pas len years very decided
Improvements have been made along
The line Of perfecting our school system
and today it is the common verdict
that Pine Bluff has a school system
not to be. excelled by any other in the
state.
The schools are superintonded by
one of the most popular educators Of
the south in the person of Dr. Junius
Jordan. and it is his earnest desire
that the colored people shall get all
/ the good possible out of them.
Eve must educate, we must educate,
or perish by our own ignorance is a
trite saying, and it is being fully exem-
plified every day Therefore we should
l< fo oy,;I
grow up in ignorance.
While it is true that all of orr
schools are quite full from time to
time. the school authorities are will ne
It. provide additional room when tho
regular attendance justifics the same.
The scholarship. character. and in
terests of our teachers compare favor.
ably with those of other teachers in
other schools. and there is little need
for sending yonr children to other
schools when they can get better in
struction, for the most part, in the
public schools of our city, and at less.
! expense tc the parent.
This has been proved by the fact
! that parents have sent their children
off TO school and many of them have
finally returned to us because their
advancement in the schools to which
| they have gone has not been satisfac-
tory.
This is further evidenced by the fac.
| that our pupils acquit themselves
creditably in the schools to which they
so, and seldom if ever lose point in
tho grades which they held when with
us.
Several county examiners have
spoke in colnmendable terms Of or.'
pupils. when such pupils have taken
The regular county examination.
The teachers are looking forward t,
making the year 1905-06 The banner
year of the public schools Of nin .
Plnff. We earnestly call upon the pas
tors in charge of churches. ard upor
the other friends of education. to aid
us along this line. and in the further
ance of this great cause.
You can reach many parents in a
way tha, it is impossible for the teach
er to reach them.
Why not inquire into the non-aFtend-
ance upon school of the children g
the members of your congregation?
Many children remain ont Of school
rnon the protext that they have to re
main out of school to work.
ENCOURAGE such pupils to get such
| work as they can do out OF scho"l
hours This will be Sufficient % sun-
port suc', pupils during the schcc7
months. if thev will exercise econovay
! in spending What they make.
| We call uDon the pastors and maize