The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-07-27
HON. W. W. STOCKSTILL FOR COUNTY
SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.

| oOA VI GOUNAI1ON.
| One of the most important Offices te
be filled in the county by the elections
next Thursday is that of Superintendent
of Education, position which necessa-
| rily must be filled by man fitted both
! by aptitude and experience; a man who
| has for years given his very life to the
cause, and a man who is SO qualified thai
| at all times and in particular times he
can cope with the many issues and con
| ditions that may arise.
Such man is w. w. Stockstill, the
| present incumbent, who is candidate
for reelection. That he should be
elected, is tribute due his efforts in
behalf of the children and schools OF
Hancock county, for the welfare OF
whom he has worked in and out of sea-
son. The schools of Hancock are in
good hands, and our fathers and mothers,
the taxpayers, cannot afford to seek
new experiments. Mr.: Stockstill is a
man of mature age, man of family and
a man in whose care can be trusted our
educational interests. AS a supervisor
of our schools and teachers his tenure
of Office has been pre- -eminently sue
cess, save those oyersights, if any, that
are being magnified by political enc
mics, court house rings and cliques.
The evidence of the most successful
school systems in every section of the
country and of the most successful
county, town and district systems in the
South proves conclusively the necessity
and the wisdom of competent supervi-
sion. Without competent supervision
and direction no great business can sue
ceed. This business of education is no
exception to the rule. Each county sy S.
tenn of schools must have competent
head. 1t can rise no higher than its
head. The supervisor of the county
system should be man trsined to his
work, with ability to make and execute
plans for the improvement and training
of the public school teachers to direct
campaigns for education of pu bile SEN
timent on educational questions, and for
the advancement of public education
along all needful lines; to advise, stimu-
late and properly direct school commit
teemen and other school officers; he
should be endowed with tact, wisdom,
common sense, character, grit, ability to
get along with folks and to command
the confidence of teachers, officers, chill
dren and patrons. In a word, this man
occupies the real strategic point in all
this work of public education in the
South today. He must be a many sided
man, possessing not only professional
training, but rare qualities of leader
ship. The work is difficult enough and
delicate enough, the responsibility great
and sacred enough, to require the entire
time, thought and energy of the most
competent man, the entire conservation
of every faculty of his head and heart
and body.
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tinue the services of Mr.. Stockstill, pos
sessing, as he does, all of these Ideal
qualities. He also fills DR.. Chas. D.
| McIyer's estimate of a county superin
tendent:
"The County Superintendent ought tt
be the livest man and the most inf uen-
| tial leader among his people. His work
more than any other work in the com
munity, needs man of great tact and
energy. He should be a man who car
| win the confidence of the intelligent
lead the ignorant and illiterate, and give
| help to the plodding men of mediocre
ability and position. In an argument
| on general questions he should be able
to hold his own with the strongest pro-
fessional or commercial men he may
chance to meet; and in the discussion
of educational questions he should be
more than match for them"
Not to re-elect Mr.. StockstilI would
be reflection upon the intelligence o.
the people of Hancock County and
| would stamp them as ungrateful and un-
mindful of their best interests. But we
need not tell you nor suggest to place
your tx" mark opposite the name oi
w. w. STOCKSTILL, as it will appear
on the ticket next Thursday. Your in
telligence and better judgment has al
ready told you so. Don't be misleadl