The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-21
Trustees for Dillon County.

Dillon county. In making these
| appointments the Board has used
the utmost care and dcliberation in
selecting men of character and abil-
| ity for these places of trust. And
| just here | will say that | regard
the position Of trustee as OF more
weight and responsibility than any
other position a man may hold in
| the county. The powC? Of control
| ing public education is almost Il
| fearful responsibility md but few
/ people fully realize the Importance
of good school or on the other
| hand poor school in community
No man should accept position
| of this kind unless he means to give
not the odds and ends of his time,
| but a great deal of his time. though
| and attention. In fact may say
| he should make the duties OF the
| office Il supreme care Of his life.
| For instance, the future life of
| thousands of young men and women
may be seriously affected by his ac-
| tions in public way
| Ii may be said just here that a
trustee may be too active in some
ways. For as rule trustees are
not teachers and never have been
| such and therefore in many cases
the teacher knows better than the
trustee. In such cases the supreme
| lnfV nf tho IL.
the teacher i'm his work. For in
stance Il great many times IA trustee
Is not able to judge of teachers
Ymethods, whether they are good or
YDad. 1t is very seldom that a trus-
tee is good judge of any teachers
ability. However it is possible for
him to learn how to judge of q
teachers ability by giving some tim,
ana thought to the work, and by
visiting the school enough at least
TO know when it is situated.
In the last year or two Il great
deal has been done in the advance
ment OF public schools. Dillon coun
ty has quadrupled it's efforts i'm To-
cal activity for increasing the funds
and the equipment of the schools.
believe that under present condi-
tlons the county will begin its first
year with at least four thousand
dollars more than the same schools
mad last year. In addition to this
movement has begun for bonding
districts and building modern school
houses. All. these modern improve
ments should be heartily endorsed
and enthusiastically entered into
by the trustees. In fact trustees VIII
will not become leaders in these
movements, should resign the posi-
tlon and let some one else be ap-
pointed, who will do so.
In conclusion let me say that we
have selected the best men that we
could and il remains for the people
in each community to stand with
Them and uphold them in their
work, for no man can do anything
contrary to public sentiment. Fur
lhermore there is no necessity for
every one to take it as his particu-
lar duty to criticise everything that
| the trustees do. In the first place
IL is inhuman to be infallible and
The best school in the county. may
lie destroyed in six months by the
people OF a community for no rea-
uson under the sun except that ev-
erything doesn't go just as the
knockers want it 20 go, and thar
| they are not considered, in every
n.atter of however little import
ance it may be. There are some
PEOPLE who can not be pleased and
IT is to be hoped that the trustees
Of the public schools of Dillon conn
~ will not try to do so.
Very truly,
JOE p. LANE.
! Albriton District No. / ]. r
Trawick. j. M. Mcqueen and J. A
Norton, Dillon.