The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-14

bring up your children in a saloon
town, look elsewhere. Waste no
money Indicating here The saloon
is not here and 1t. is not coming here.
We suffer from some neighboring
towns it is true, but it is the suffer
/ ing of the just. We have no partner
ship with it. We wringsno revenue
out of ii. We are not tiptoeing
around on any compromise teeter-
board, church one end one and sa-
loon on the other. We are not greas-
hing our conscience with schemes of
regulation. We regulate it just as we
| would regulate blacSsnake.
The Public and High School.
The public school is one of the pets
of DeFuniak. Year by year there has
been growing pride and interest in
all of its work, and we'll that it is So
for the public school is the demo
cratic institution of the country, and
he who belittles or sights or starves
| it is either an aristocrat or a fool
and Florida has no use for either. If
| | could send one message through
every community of this state it
would be, love, honor your public
school, support 1t, see that your chill
dren attend it. 1t is our hope, our
! hope, our Hope! Purge our columns
! from illiteracy. Get in touch with the
educational tide that is sweeping over
these southern states. Pledge your
| representative to compulsory educa-
| ton, and let the radiance OF our
| schoolrooms pefmeate our villages
and homes like the radiance of our
summer skies.
Nor is this in disloyalty to private
schools or higher institutions of learn
ing The public school is the reser-
voir from which all receive their sup
port
The vote was taken last winter to
bond the town for a new school build
ing. 1t makes one swell with pride to
record the fact that only six votes
were against it. Where those six
votes came from 1 do not know, though
| it was rumored that one grew 4 so
small after the results were in that
he hid behind a spool of thread all
the next day. The other five have
not been caught. The school grounds
| have been enlarged by -the purchase
of another. block, and the new build
ing will occupy a commanding posi-
ton at the head5of. a.streets back from.
! the Lake but still overlooking it,
Some of us are hoping the old build
ing will be transformed-a part of it
| into gymnasium and the other part
| into an industrial department in
| which the art of cooking and house
t'keeping, the making and mending of
garments and~the care of the sick will
be prominent It is the strangest
thing on earth that these things that
so vitality affect hea1th and home, and
around which all our comforts in life
revolve, should be not only neglected
| in the education of the young but al
4 IN
a home as it, should be kept is the
most honorable in the. world, and the.
one who relieves wife and mother.
from cares which rob her of time that
should be given husband and children
| Is werthy-Of a place in the synagogue,
and every young woman who has not
been thus Observation-Disclosures her
other accomplishments-ha been
wronged deprived of the best of
earth's blessings.
And while all this is true and no
| one denies zit, here we are Juggling
alonsy begging and praying and plead
ing to get sliliful help-and the mis-
tress who does not know how, at the
mercy Of the unframed
What an opportunity this article
gives for airing ones hobbies! One
time after Robert Collyer had deliv-
cred a sermon a man came up to
shake his hand and tell him of his
appreciation. He said, Mr. ColIyer
I've heard yousgive that; sermon three
times but never enjoyed it so much
as today" Nothing abashes. speak
or more than to be caught delivering
old goods, but Collyer was equal to
the occasion He grabbed the mans
hand With renewed warmth, smiled
approvingly and exclaimed, "Oh, you
lucky dog!" And so I say to myself
"Euck dog! The editor has given
you clean swept
Connected with DeFuniak's public
school, is WaltonS County High School
This prepares for college, and each
year sends out a worthy class. That
the public school has been ably adj
ministered unto by Prof Rogers is
proven not only by the fact that in
two years he has brought it from
years of chaos to a graded school
ranking among the first of the state,
but by the petition circulated for his
reelection this year signed by almost
the whole community, only ten l be-
lieve refusing. Some public-spirited
citizens have offered prizes for ora
tory and composition, and these con-
tests add additional interest to COM }
mencement week
Palmer College.
Two years ago the Presbyterian !
church purchased the old Normal |
School property (the legislature this !
year generously returned the price, |!
and will open III the autumn. the new !
Palmer College Early in the winter /
DR.. J. w. Walden of Atlanta was en- |
gagged for president, and during the |
past months he has been working In I!
its interests, ably seconded by the |
pastor of the Presbyterian church, |
Rev. John Stanley Thomas Every.
thing is reported now IN readiness for /
successful opening-faculty en-
gagged, buildings repaired, grounds inn |
proved, attendance assured, $4,000 /
raised in DeFuniak and many more /
outside. Write DR.. Walden for parti- |
culars. While Palmer College is I'm.
der the management of the Presby-
terrain church it will be in no way
in its interests. So
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