The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-25

county in sending the ten boys or men
| to the University. He said that the
sending OF the pupils there for the
agricultural course was particularly
valuable to this, the western part OF
the state, for he had noticed, during
this visit here, which was his first In
this section, great acres OF undeVeI-
Oped lands in the county. 1t had the
effect, he said, OF making him change
| his opinion of PensaCOla's interest II
educational matters, because he did
not believe the 7-miH tax levy for
schools, as held out here, was Sufti-
ctent to supply good enough schools
mere He quoted several instances
where the tax levy was higher and the
schools were gOOd.
Dr.. Conrad advised good salaries
for teachers. He ridicUIed the idea OF
paying teachers $50 per month for an
eight-mOnth term of school. He espe-
cially Tidiculed the idea of giving =
teacher $50 per month who is mex
perienced, for it did no good. He did
recommend that the best trained
teachers be secured, and the salaries
for those who understood the child
were not measured in dollars and
cents. Inexperienced and unframed
teachers, he said, were an injustice to
teachers and also an injustice to chill
dren. Before he closed he again took
occasion to congratulate the county in
sending the boys 10 the university.
He was applauded generously.
DR.. JOINER.
In part, DR.. JOyner spoke as fol-
lows: Il am glad to be here and
after the embarrassing complications
in getting here after the delay l thank
you for being here. There is no time
to make a speech and shall only en-
deayOT to submit a few remarks
may be inclined to what I heard at
Jay today. Standing by the table, af
ter feeling that I had made a fairly
good speech, a gentleman, cycling Cap
tain Lynch, said: He is sure long
winded, amt hep and as I chuckled at
the captains expense the man added:
And he is just like you, wasn't he@
That is about as delicate a cOmpli-
ment as I ever got, but 1 suppose it
was the most sincere one.
Again | must say that l am glad to
be here, to be with you Florida people.
There is a bond between Florida and
North Carolina that is a glad one
Bound to Florida by the bond of sOr-
row over the sacred common lost
cause, and bound together in the com
mon hope and progress Of the com
mon Southland In my boyhood days
I played in the ruins of the home of
your first governor, MOSley, who was
great in Florida and a great man in
North Carolina. The old homestead is
still in the estate, that Of my brother
in-Iaw. And I go back and think OF
the warm interest and the new blood
en-, TeI n
stranger in your midst
Education you say. a subject
great, 1t is a subject close to my
heart and 1 have tried to devote the
best years Of my life to it. And /
don't regret it. There is not much
money in IL, but there are rewards for
the teachers. and I take it that the
most of you are teachers
He related instances of great re-
wards coming TO those faithful in their
line of chosen duty, telling an Incl
dent of q rich old man who had tried
to immOrtaIize his name by erecting a
stone with name and deeds inscribed
thereon Winds blew and rains fell
and the stone was CTUmbled. His
name was emblazoned on the noun
tain side. Il cTumblCd. In a city one
day a little child came to him and
drh-ft ItL Il lew AE-lLto ~ Jay Di rHtttt
\ few coins were dropped into beri
I~-E. when with tcaT-bedimmed eyes,
she gratefully accepted and said she
t.c-5d remember him through years.
That was the monument he desired
The memory Of himself i'm the mind Of
the child and Of those after her. That
was the kind Of reward a teacher re
ceived. Watching a boy whom she
had trained in early days climbing the
ladder OF fame, and taking the thought
to herself that she was instrumental
in his upbUilding. 1t was a reward tOI
be sought.
Dr.. JOyneT made q point that the
average man did not understand the
value of education and the duty he
owed to the children. His own chill
dren as well as his DeighbOr's children
were to be looked after in this won
deTful age, an age never before |
eqUaued. An educational atmosphere |
must be thrown around the child, |
when all may secure the benefits there
of. It was a dangerous age to bring a !
child into without education.
He drew a fine parallel between the /
census story of illiteracy in the South |
and the education in the North, show /
ing how iron, for instance, taken from !
the Southern fields was paid for a S2Ol
per ton in crudest shape, sent to Mas
sachUsetts for instance, and returned
here, for which we paid $50 for the