The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-11-22

high school curse and doing fou
years high school work: the Sum C
three bur dced dollars, each Schoo
having three years high schoo
course and doing three years hiEl
school work; the sum OF two hund
red dollars each year to each schot
having two years high school course
! and i2g two years high school Worl
Provided that money SO Appropriated
to any high school shall be used tt
increase the efficiency OF the high
school: Provided further, that the
total amount OF the apportionnenl
a d expenses under this act shall rt
exceed ten th and dtla,s in e2ct
year"
Scms CT the States provide c0ly one
high school to the c. ulty. Some pro
vide for as many as seven in one coun.
ty, and some provide. tor the organi.
zation OF a high school in any terri
tory larger than a township. Oh
course I should not favor State aid to
any high school unless the comm u ii.
ty, township or county should be vii.
ling to admit boys and girls free OF
tuition from the county in which the
school is located. In order to encour-
age local effort and initiative, I think
the law should provide State aid to
any territory as great OF greater than
the township which would make a
special levy for high school purposes.
This levy need not be large. n some
counties which would gladly take ad-
vantage OF law OF this skind half
mill W. uld be amply sufficient; and I
do not believe that any county wcu'd d
need more than one mill for this pur.
pose, The vigorous and successful
# )rts Of several enterprising CON-
munities In this State to raise funds
to get the Presbyterian C,llege, now
located at Clinton, clearly shows that
such clti,s and towns are ready and
ripe for the building OF first c'ass
high schools n ith local and boarding
patronage.
As intimated alrssdg, the high
school has received very great encour.
agement in the middle and far West.
The next few years will witness great
development in this line in the South.
I should like very much to see the
South Carolina Legislature take the
lead in developing first class system
Of high schools. Georgia will soon
makea move in this direction. The
Georgia University has already &C
cepted the offer OF the general educa-
tion board to pay half Of the salary Of
the officer who will devote half OF his
time to the inspection and classifca
tion OF such high school work as Is al
ready being done in that State. Prot.
Joseph S. Stewart has already visited
every section OF Georgia as an jnspec
tor Of this work. he has prepared
an excellent pamphlet which clearly
shows tie conditions and plainly re.
veals the need Of the development Of
q high school system. I have nc
dcubs the Georgia Legislature will
rise to the emergency. AS is shown
by the North Dakota law, this work
can be started On a comparatively
small appropriation. 4 N jority ot
the high schools would have three
years course Of study. Under the law
they get three buadred dollars aid.
South Carolina gives nearly twice as
much to feed, clothe and educate six.
ty eight boys with scholarships in a
State Callege, as North Dakota does
to encourage a system OF high schools
which prepares several Thousand boys
and girls tor college. 1t seems to me
to be rank folly for the State to give
one thousand dollars to feed and
clothe one boy and give him col.
lege education, when that thousand
dollars might be used to encourage
the establishment OF q high school
which would prepare hundred boys
for college in the same length OF time.
II you will give boy such prepara-
tory advantages as will get him ready
for college: in nine cases out Of ten be
will york to feed and eloths himself
while in college; nor should we forget
the vast amount OF work along Scien
tifc, commercial and industrial lines,
which can be done in these high
schools to prepare boys who do not
get to 20 to college for life. know
OF no possible legislation that would
be mbre far-reacding with It's good
lpfusnces upon our educational sys.
tenn that the enactment Of good
high school low.