The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-03-06
GROWTH OF SCHOOL INTER-
EST IN LOUISIANA.

The growth of school sentiment
in recent years in Louisiana has
been phenomenal. and much OF 1T
is due to the vigorous educational
policy Of Gov. n. G. Blanchard
and the intelligent work OF State
Superintendent j. b. Aswell,
who has been in reality a superin-
tendent of schools and an evan
gelist of education. In regard
to this development, the Loulsl-
ana School Review has the follow
ing to say:
More money is being spent for our
schools in Louisiana this year than
was ever spent for them in any pre-
vious ear and more people than ever
before are aware of and are con-
sciously participating in what is thus
being accomplished. Only a few years
ago in this State (Only a few weeks ago
in some parishes of it, you could 10
coax out a cOrpOral's guard to hear
one of the ablest Institute lecturers in
the whole country talk for three-quar-
tiers of an hour on tie subject OF
schools. the subject Of all subjects
most vital to their childrrn's welfare.
But now you can get a crowded house.
mothers. fathers, u~ncles, aunts and
cousins, to hear all about the move
ments for more and better schools. and
to join in and help it along. This
shows that the world moves.
1.-The first thing a real live superin-
tendert do = these d',s is t. put in a
long distanc- call f"r some gr-at big.
/, acknowledgment. i~ar-e-souled :chnni
9 .ugelist to CONE ncid d ''prOtr"cted
meeting and get up a big ''revival''
l in his parish. Then he sends out the
} faithful into the streets to invite the
) people to come, even into the high
l ways to invite the publicans and sin
ners, to come hear the words of truth
the gospel of education for all The
, people. At first the people hold bacE
7 and are afraid lest the evangelist nigh
t call upon some of them to raise thu
e tune They go way back and 81
down in the farthest seats. But as tn
times grow better apd the great caus
spreads, it is now no common sight t.
see the court house crowded even up t.
t the 'mourner's bench
q SIT is not possible fully to appreciat
q the value of this educational evangel
ism that has been growing with us TO
twenty years, and is now working s.
powerfully among US. 1t began mos
conspicuously and effectively with Col
Boyd's importation of MI. Brombaug
and the Brombaugh infusion.
"That was the beginning. But sine
that time great issue has come of tina
origin throughout the whole State
Il The development of the institutes an
b the summer training schools 70
teachers has followed: many elOquer
voices and restless energies hav
added their strength to the movemen
Y and among the people at large-tf
T. unknowipg, the indifferent. the oppo
s ing-thousands and thousands ha'
h been ~"saved," and are still beir
saved daily in every parish. II
. present State Superintendent OF Ed
u cation and his able assistants and a
TX visors have held to the policy of brin
m ing into the State at every Opportuni
# the big men in school affairs OF 9th
States, the representative school men
:. the nation, the educational evangelis
y of the new gospel-the salvation OF 9
r. m~ocracy through the public schOt
We We have had Stetson. Tomkins, N
a liver, Aycock, Cook, Harvey, Houc
Rose, Whitfield, Heineman. Ellis a
IT, others of this type GO up and down
a State, talking to people and teacher
VS. and everywhere doing good and ma
he ing popular the most important wo
of the State has t do. And it continue
he Let it,"
re +.
of All go cents music at 30 cen
10 at the Moss Pharmacy.