The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-05-04

That Mississinpi's great natural re-
sources have been discovered to the
outside world, there is M question.
| Every train that comes within u bor-
ders from the north brings men who
are investing their means in our lands,
men who are to promote great enter
prises, and skilled men who are taking
the responsible places at large salaries.
We are permitting these great nat
ural resources to fall into the hands
of outsiders. VIZ, by failure to train
our boys for the higher work OF this
complex age, are permitting most OF
the skilled and high-paid work to be
done by people who come from places
that have put a premium on prepara-
ton for work. If the m of all the
civil and electrical engineers, archi-
tects, and, in fine, all the skilled men
who are doing work in the State could
be secured, it would show that by far
the majority Of them are not our own
boys.
Some say let us offer every induce
ment to encourage the capitalist and
skilled men to come into tn State for
the purpose Of developing its great
natural resources. While few should
cordially welcome any good citizen
who wants to cast his lot with us, yet
should we rely on foreigners to do
this work for us? What use will a
developed state be to our people ii 1T
is owned by others? Do you want your
boys to be satisfied to do the drudgery
and muscle work for low wages while
the profit on the investment and the
high salaries paid for skill go to out
siders? What is it worth to u peo-
pie to stand off and see great activity
without being participants in it, or
without receiving any Of the great
profits derived from the work?
No my friends, there can be only
one, true, genuine prosperity for Mis-
lsissippi, and that is to have Missis-
sippi resources largely developed by
Mississippi blood. Old sensible people
will agree that it is the people and
not the physical state that should be
considered. How can this end be at
tanned? There is only one way under
high heaven, and that is to dignity
the training of the individual. First,
we should make our common schools
he peer of any in the land. 1t mat
tiers not what calling a boy may final
" adopt, it is in the common schools
that he is revealed to himself and is
made conscious of his possibilities, 1t
is there that he can view the great
world and decide for himself his
course in life.
The common school is the necessary
basis fol all other training, and if the
future of the State is to be determined
by the character of training WI give
one fine Anglo-Saxon blood, then it fol-
lows that the first work to do in the
great scheme for the state S proper de-
velopment is to make better the
schools that all our people first attend.
In the first place, the training OF
heir children should be a parents
first duty and highest responsibility.
That person has a very low conception
Of parental responsibility who would
only look to his child's preparation for
life when there is nothing else to be
lone. No one has ever said that chill
dren can be properly reared and train
I'd without expense. To do so often
means harder work and greater sacri-
ice. But is there any other worthier
motive, or greater compensation for
increased toll and self-denial, than to
see the beautiful children God has Civ
en- you daily increase in usefulness to
heir family, to themselves and to
God? Fathers and mothers, when you
see your children through the results
If your toll and s%elf-denial being rails
I'd constantly to a higher plane Of life,
10 you not feel that you have been
oaid a thousand times over for all the
extra work and sacrifice it has oc-
'asioned?
But unfortunately there are some who
look on their children as they do their
beasts Of burden-value them only for
The service they can get out Of them.
It is especially to such people | want
70 make an argument. Let us take
it for granted that even the most in
different parents to the welfare Of
their children would like to send their
children to school when they are moi
Of material service on the farm. In
other words, if you want to send your
children to school without losing their
services on the farm it is necessary
that they have as much opportunity as
possible to go to school before they are
old enough to be of material help on
The farm. Thede is a gap of from five
to sever years between the time when
a child is old enough to go to school
and before he is old enough to do
Preparing Dates.
President Hardy, Of the Agricultur-
al and Mechanical College, is now pre-