The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-07-13

has so ostensibly done the evasion act
as the Advocate. They first attack the
whirlwind campaign movement, then
they make an artful dodge to Normal
Schools and in the last they present a
chaotic mass Of these two and the Sui
llvan Bill, which is not Sullivan Bill
further than being presented by that
most excellent gentleman and states
man.
We can successfully deny the charge
of evasion and il the Advocate will
publish the article from issue of July 6
in I. J. your subscribers will most as
suredly corroborate the statement. In
any event we hold that evasion is a SUI
perior trait to misrepresentation. In
conversation with Boyle county citizen
is or 20 teachers were named who were
teaching in Boyle five years ago and
are still following that vocation, how
ever penurious the State may be with
her pedagogues.
Again we believe that more than
three citizens of Boyle are for the new
educational measures; for we are not
prone to think that the Danville deni-
zens are so non-progressive as to op.
pose a measure which has for years
bettered school conditions in the States
and territories where it has been oper-
ated. II is fact, gathered from reli-
able statistics, not from rather care
full poll" that every State and terrific
~ over which floats the Star Spangled
Banner has one or more Normal Schools,
the most progressive from Is to 20. In
every leading foreign country, as we'll
as in our own U. S., the policy now be-
ing pursued by Kentucky is approved
and carried out. In fine the judgment
of the civilized world and of its educa-
tors and statesmen is for the system
opposedi.by the Advocate, and they
have long since abandoned the plan un-
der which Kentucky has made such
slow and disgraceful progress. We Of
ten hear the plea, back to Jeffersonian
democracy, and We are for that. but
give US at the same time more of the
Jeffersonian policies in education, for
this system virtually originated with
him and has been perfected through the
years.
We are rather surprised that such
asinine questions are raised by the Ad-
vocate as teachers being in the night
rider class or subjects for the school of
reform. But none can gainsay the fact
that the morals and manners of the boys
and girls of our Commonwealth are in
the hands of the teachers and the
teachers need more thorough training
in the art of giving all kinds of instruc.
ton. In other words Teach the young
ilea how to shoot or the young idea viii
shoot you. "A Better teachers, better
schools and a more united effort on the
part of public, pulpit and press is the
ultimate aim of the leaders of the new
m,vement. Will the Advocate aid in
this worthy cause or will they with a
very limited number of periodicals OPP
pose a forward movement which should
be nearest the hearts of all true Ken
tuckians. Aid and let the blot of illit-
eracy he stamped out and depredations
of such class be stopped?
Who but the teacher is the founda-
ton of the school system? What can
our friend:mean when he says this mon.
ey should:be given to the masses? 1t
is the teacher.who is the mental and
moral leader,of every school. rural or
otherwise, and why is the money not GO
ing to the masses? We fully agree that
the children are all not in school and
that the compulsory law is not enforc-
ed. Whose fault is it? The object of
the Whirlwind Campaigns. which the
Advocate berates, is to stir up such
public sentiment that all school legisla-
ton will be carried out; for law with
out public sentiment back of it is only
half law. Local option, as Danville
citizens well know, is of no effect un-
less public sentiment is such as to see
that the law is enforced in said districts
and we are glad to note that such senti-
ment seems to exist in your good town.
We do aver that it is the fault Of the
people and not of the law.
And thisIbrings to mind another top
ic which seems to prevail in the mind
and that is the small crowds which our
contemporary avows attended the edu-
cational rallies. This fact. il It be SO,
only shows the greater need of some
clonic:movement to get the citizens
interested in raising our State from its
lost condition educationlly. Is 1t not SO?
The small crowds were not due SO
much to hostility as to gross indiffer-.
ence. And you know in sacred writ
there is a sentiment expressed because
you are neither cold nor hot. will
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