Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-01-30
Confidential
Letter to Teachers and Others
Who have Business with
the County Superintendent
RV r WHITE S(lpT.
BY L. B. WHITE, SUPT.

The Superintendent gets very lone
some sometimes in his little Office over
the Democrat building He cheers
himself with the thought that his work
is a great one and overcomes the de-
spondency in the belief that he has ac-
complished some good and will accom-
plish a great deal more in future.
However this may be when you or any
of you want to see him on official busi-
ness come away down from the big
Court house and across wagon road
running under the back end of Harvey
and Comer's big store and come up the
elegant stairway to his apartments,
They are not very pretentious and they
are not altogether as comfortable as the
political offices at the Court house but
good cheer reigns within.
The floor is not always spotlessly
clean for he is his own janitcr The
fire is not always so good for the Office
furnishes its own fuel and he makes his
own fires. The stove is not the fine
model of elegance and comfort the splen
did CRATES of the Court house are, for it
is not furnished by tho County. The
only furniture he has is his private
desk and few old time straight back
borrowed chairs, but they are good to
sit upon and if you have business he
will treat you with as great courtesy as
any official in the County.
Do not grow impatient when you call
for some blank or paper or report it it
takes him some time to find it. He
will go promptly behind his desk and
look through the files hanging on hooks
owned by him or look on the floor be-
hind his desk among the papers he has
been co npcllc for want Of better inci,i-
ties to place thare until ha hIl3it. Do
not be surprised when You write him a
letter if you do not get an immediate
answer, for reason your Superintendent
has to make living for his family, and
he may be out endeavoring to raise the
money to bay stamp or searching for
the desired information. The Supt's
mail is about 25 letters weekly requir-
ing an answer
The Superintendent was offered
100000 per year to serve if he would
live out of doors or pay his own rent
and furnish his own Office. This offer
made in the kindest spirit by = its pro-
posers, was declined by him, for the
reason that others who do not qualify,
do not travel over the County at their
own expense, de not pay rents, have
finely fitted comfortable offices, and do
only clerical work get $1,000 and up
wards per year. If the Superintendent
must suffer adversely longer, he desires
to suffer in its fullest measure, so that
when prosperity comes to the office hi
will be fully prepared for its enjoyment
The superintendent is now formulat
ing his plans for A weeks Teacher
Institute to be beld in Lawrencebnrg t
close about the 10 of July or earlier
He proposes to make this the creates
ever yet held in the County, and, if pos
y sibe, one of the greatest in Tennessee
He proposes to undertake this for tn,
meagre pay of s25o.OO per year.
One plan, he submits to you, and in
vites suggestions from all parties in
terested, is to have a gigantic rally o
the schools of the County during tn
Institute with grand spelling an
some suitable trophy awarded to tn
winner in the winner in the contest
Heretofore our Institutes have alway
adjourned to join the general public il
Fourth of July celebration how woul
it do for the general public "to adjourn
this year and join the Institute in
grand educational rally and patriot
celebration? Let him hear from an
with suggestions. He needs them j
order that this great work may G
forward. He should like to see on
Fourth of July in Lawrence County i
which the whole people would be sti
red to patriotic feeling along education