Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-09-10

venient to nearly all of the 90 who
are of school age and live at Hickory
Grove. Take 50 from - and there
are only 10 left. All Of the SO pupils
can reach Hickory Grove school in
twenty minutes walk. Perhaps some
will say some of the 90 want to
go to Hicks Chapel. True, but it is
the fault Of the parents To want to
leave one of the best and most health
full school sites III Sequachee Valley
and a splendid school building that is
convenient enough to all and go to a
school house much inferior, and not
quite so convenient to the majority,
reminds me of Thompson colt that
swan the river to get to drink out of
a pond. Our friend who has so much
to say about the school affairs in the
News, positively signed a petition in
1907 requesting the Board of Educa-
tion to move the school from Hick 8
Chapel back to its original place at
Hickory Grove. When the Board
granted the request and established it
at Hickory Grove, he turned right
around and signed a petition in 1908
asking the Board to move it back to
Hicks Chapel. Then he assailed Mr..
E. H. Barker, a Board member, be-
cause he only voted for the very thing
which he had first asked him to do by
petition, and tried to lay the blame on
him. oh, consistency, what a jewel
thou art Truly the legs of the lame
are not equal. 1t is funny how some
men do when there is sugar in the
gourd.
There has been some talk of the
Board of Education consolidating
Looney's Creek school with Kick S
Chapel. l speak as one who knows
whereof he speaks. When that is
done it will be done at the end of the
courts. Those people on the creek
than | can remember and long before
Hicks Chapel was ever thought Of
the very thing that has caused more
confusion and hard feelings among
neighbors than any other one thing
that has ever existed in the 2nd dis
trict of Marion County. Those Creek
folks have as good school buildings as
there is up there on the East side of
Sequachee river, and they have just
gotten in shape to have school since
their struggle to build new house,
and they are having fine school with
Miss Anna Deakins as teacher. The
Board of Education through sympathy
and for the benefit of innocent pupils,
have placed Miss May Graham, who
was employed as assistant at Hickory
Grove in charge of school at Hick' S
Chapel to be out the same day Hickory
Grove school is out The strikers
could have gone to the same teacher
at Hickory Grove and gotten the bene-
tit of five weeks school that they have
lost
What does it matter where person
gets an education so they get itH
hope the next session of the Legislature
will enact compulsory attendance
law, as it would cure parents of neg
lecting their children's education. II
is not intended for parents who send
their children but for those who neg.
lect the duty they owe their children
to educate them. A compulsory law
would advance education and any law
that would advance the cause of edu
cation should be hailed with gladness
by all lovers and friends of education.
A compulsory law is badly needed VI
here in the End district as grown men
of ordinary intelligence have ever
ridden after night persuading parents
not to send to school unless the board
placed the school right where they
wanted it. / have been listening anC
sending my children to school and
have heard most everything except
meat frying. | have decided that q
compulsory attendance law would be
a good thing, but a compulsory law
against telling falsehoods would be
better. FalsehOod is wicked crime
and should be made punishable by law
as other crimes. 1t is an i'll wind thai
blows nobody any good. 1t destroys
confidence. makes one an undesirable
person and stirs up strife, causes
trouble in any neighborhood and will
ultimately cause anyone who is addict
ed to it to be assigned their doom il
hell. II. w. WHITE.
Whitwell, Tenn.