Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1908-08-04

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with the public schools of Cherokee
county for period of nearly twenty
years, have been called upon many
times to make estimates for school
houses and other buildings. / have
ever endeavoredto be economical in
the construction of these buildings,
and doubt that there exists school
house in the county that has been
built under the supervision of the
County Board of Education that any
one can say has cost an extravagant
amount. The County Board of Ed
ucariOn has ever believed that
child in the "LITTLE COUNTRY
SCHOOLS" is AS much entitled to
decent, good, comfortable school
house as a childin town or city.
The parents and patrons of these
schools are willing to put their mon
ey INTO the house and it bespeaks
we'll for them that they are demand
ing the same comforts and attentions
for their children as the people who
live in a town or city demand for
theirs. l challenge, any man to
bring just cause for censure because
the County Board of Education has
endeavored to give the LITTLE
COUNTRY SCHOOLS" equal ad-
vantages with the children in the
town. In a number of places where
school houses have been built, you
will now find that religious services
! are held in the school houses, where
heretofore the people either had no
house of worship or had to go a
IEsnea1es. .d4staRGes thar thez naK. haxe
to go to be comfortably housed when
they were worshipping God.
Again, the County Board of Ed1-
cation mas endeavored tofprovide the
children in the "LlTTLE COUN-
TRY SCHOOLS" and all schools
with funds sufficient to give them
good and competent teachers. Il
has not always been and is not now
able to give to these "LITTLE
lCOUNTRY SCHOOLS. or any
other school, as much money as il
would like to see them have for the
education of the children. Every
year demand Is made upon the Coun
ty Board of Education for more mon
ey to employ more and better teach
ers in nearly every school in the
county. In large majority of th'
school districts in the county thu
school census will show more thar
80 children in their respective dis
trIcts. In every district there ar
some children who have, advanced
beyord the average young and mex
!, perienced teacher, and unless suffi
Gent money is given districts to em
ploy experienced and. capable teach
, ers to teach these children, their pa
! rents are driven to the necessity o
sending them to some town, wher
, they have to pay for their board an
} tuition, or they will have to keel
r them at home and let them renal
: dwarfs educationally. DO you pre-
/. fer sending your children from hom
r to>procule their education at a grea,
? er cost to you, or having them edu
? Gated at homeS
8 ! note that Messrs. Rice, Marti
= and Hill say "that $1.75 TO g 90 pc
f day of five. hours we think is yer
f good pay for sLITrLE COUNTR7
= SCHOOLS" / know the fact I
I be that men are paying $500 to &2.E
! per day for men to handle lumb'
J. and oxen. Are your children wort
g less attention than lumber and oxel
n Again, teachers are employed f
o only four months and turned loo
IS in midwinter without anything
" do. Will you sacrifice your time
Ie the teachers do theirs?
n My associates and were reared
- the country, and although | ha'
ol lived in town and have all my Ii
rs visited towns and been thrown wi
,e people inhabiting towns, have nev
$ yet found any reason why a boy
oil girl in a @LITTLE C0UNTR
re SCHOOL" or large country scho
il should not be given as full adva
Sc tages as those who live in town. I
ID law in this republic of ours guara
le tees equality TO all and special pri'
Sc lege to none. Go to any city in t
1t United States. today and you "
Sc find among its progressive men me
a men who went from the count