Amador ledger., 1910-10-07
MUCH INTEREST
in HIGH SCHOOL
County School Supt.
Urges Every Voter
To no Duty

| 1t is we'll for the people of Amador
county to remember that on the 7th of
November. they will vote for or
| against the establishment of county
high school.
This question should call out all of
the voters as it is one of the most i'm
portant issues that has been before
them for some time. Amador county
holds a very unique position as being
one of the very few counties in this
glorious state that has no county high
school. We can justly feel proud of
her in many ways, the climate is fine,
her soil productive, her mineral
wealth just commencing to be ex-
plotted, and her forests of spruce, fir
and sugar pine, practically untouched,
nature has indeed blessed us and
poured upon us her bounties. Rich as
she is in natural resources, she is yet
richer in having in her confines over
1000 children, who will soon be the
bone and sinew of our county, for man
is the elementary power and the
supreme value.
That which Amador county reeds is
not so much the educated men from
other parts of the world as she needs
the higher institutions TO educate her
own boys and girls in order that they
may reap the hounties of nature on
every hand and perform the great
duties of citizenship.
. Schools of all kinds stimulate society
through every nerve, they civlllze the
hand and put brain in the palm.
Give us good schools and colleges and
YOU give that which arouses manhood
in men, for you are giving the children
the opportunity to train the mind,
and as you improve this wonderful or
gan or power is in that degree in
creased.
Education does three things for the
individuals
1T stores up knowledge in the mind,
it developes the power of the mind, it
puts one in possession of that power "
| Education is the most enduring kind
of property, property of soul which
no disaster can wreck or ruin.
In saying that every young man
should get the best all around educa-
ton, we are not forgetting the fact
that some men could get only little
schooling, we also known that many a
successful man has trained himself
without the advantages of the school
But let us not forget that such men
| worked hard with constant sense of
tseir disadvantage and with regret
| that they had not better advantages,
| let us remember that the average
Young man who has not gotten IN a
good training is not of that kind. He
is not aware of his ignorance and does
not lament his limitations He does
not work all the harder1to make up for
his lost opportunities, on the con-
trary he looks with derision and up
braids the boys and girls who are
striving for liberal education.
Edward Everett Hale says:
''The safe path to excellence and
success in every calling is that of ap-
propriate preliminary education dill
gent application to learn the arts anc
assiduity in practicing it,
Many boys and girls of the county
are hungering and thirsting for
higher education, but their parents
cannot afford it. Seventy five boys
and girls graduated from the grammar
schools of the county last june. How
many could go away to school? Les
than twenty per cent, sad indeed II
this interrupted development, let thel
be up AMI doing, so that these chiidrel
and the children yet to graduate, ma
come into possession of one OF th'
greatest blessings. the opportunity t
gain a liberal education, and httl
Amador may pride herself in, givin
them this opportunity.
Remembering the time to engrav
men is youth when the plates are sol
and ductile: Manhood is. hard an
cannot be easily cut any more tina
hardened steel.
w. H. GREENHALGH.
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