The Forrest City times., 1910-09-16
The Opening 0f School.

The fall term of the Forrest City Public School opened Wednesday under most favorable auspices.
 One now meets of mornings and at noon crowds of happy, bright-faeed and beautiful children vending their way to and from their studies, all un- concerned with the weighty affairs of state which later may be their por- tion, busy with their innocent amuse- ments and without d care or re- sponSibility to mar their perfect hap piness, save, perhaps. now and then d particularly hard lesson to learn or task to perform, and this for passing moment only.
 But these cheery children of today are the serious men and women of to- morrow when as they grow in years and learning they become the pre- servers and promoters of our great in- stitutions of government and com merce. The closing days of the school year will usher the new made citizens into tie arena of action and make room fer others yet untutored, and leave others still ready to enter the colleges and universities of their country.
 We have read, and besides expe- rience tells Us, that it is a time when the need of edutat on 10 fit men fer life should be observed by all: when We know that the young men who gol out from the schools and colleges equipped with an educationare better able To meet the problems that con front men. and that they must even tually become leaders ln commerce, m government. as well as in the profes- sions, art, science and literature.
 Fne boy who starts with a good edu- cation has half the battle one. and the boy who starts With scant education starts cut handicapped, and because ef that fact We should realize that. no matter how much we may pay for Knowledge or how lttle it costs to be gaorant, knowledge k cheap at any est and ignorance is extrayagance. no matter how small 1he cost.
 The boys who are educated are going to be leaders in the community in whatever line of endeavor they may undertake.
 Time was ill this country when men locked apon liberal ed1cation asa lux ury Co be enjoyed by the seions of NeaItH, bal now men have come to# re gard it a~ a= necessity t0 Hfe's work and the p8ofefthe man the more earn estlY lIe strives to obtain aaedacation for Hi,#saa
 Nith reach succeeding scu5o.yearAr- kansas aud Qt6erSfateS in Inc South are utffte tatH-r advanced n eda- cagianal lines the b5l> and girls who ga ont from tne plpliz schools ths Aear. aFe i #ittle better educated than those ef la~s year. new methods and new systems are constantly being adopted the child of ; know, more today than the average man of +5 Knew half a century asa. and to=this fact alone is due the progress of the world.
 The words eI hone expressed by Sen ator Benjamin IT HH Ge0Fgia. forty wears ago have -ame trae
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