The record., 1911-04-13


Frankfort Ky.
number # the leading school men OF
re- si e, asking thcm 10 attend ]
ea1le' eioe--st the CoimEelelaf club.
rat Conference met on the Sist day
OF DCl omber last. An organization
was formed. an executive committee
appointed. and it was decided to hold
a state wide convention on this date,
in the interest OF the rural school
movement
THE slogan. More Schools and
Better Schools" means to the state
more factories and better factories,
more railroads and better railroads,
. more traction lines and tetter trGc-
ton lines. more agriculture and bet
ter agriculture, more citizens and bet
ter citizenship brief. school de-
vclopment means state development"
Prof Regenstoin then introduced
Captain Brinton b. Davis. president
Of the Louisville Commercial club,
vh1 said:
air Chairmun ard Fo!lOW-Citizens of
I
brings ms here today. IL H. cause as
worthy and great as any FOR which or
Cauized society has ever fought we
see around us some Of it's standard
/ bearers Men who have truly conse-
1 Grated their lives to the uplift Of hu-
| marity. devoting their time, energy and
talents to the education Of the growing
generations The Louisville Commercial
/ Club extends to those gentlemen a cor
/ dial welcome doubly - because we are
! bound by a common interest in the fur
/ therance OF a project for which they
are giving their all. and 10 which wo
fain would contribute our mites,
| IL is our duty to so exercise our stew
arishirs that those who follow may in
herit a treasure enriched through tho
/ intelligent manner Of its application.
/ we should take for example not the
servant who hurried his own talent r. tn
| ground that nc might return IL intact
| to his master but he VINO returned ten
talents for the hve placed IN his trust.
believe / am vOicing an opinion In
which YOU will ready concur when
I say that the greatest OF our natural rr-
sourc ; Is the human mind Without that
great girt. all others were useless in
deed There are people on this gloDc
who have been as richly endowed as We
have been by Mother Earth. but who
/, owing 10 their Ignorance. allowed field
and forest and mine 10 lie urproducuve
and unworkcd In other words. they
! have not sufficient intelligence 20 appro-
pirate their resources.
This great natural rcs1arce-thc hui
man mind-the greatest OF earthly bl-s-
sings. ia thcn our most cherished hari-
/ tase and we should not only preserc,
Il intact but put IL out AT every usIrs
that IL may return talent FOR talent. Il
we afford our children greater ad,an-
, H.. H..
the conscientious conviction Of havin;
performed our duty.
! The foremost need Of an educa 1bna
system is 10 keep abreast OF the times
L What was good enough for The hftecati
century VAS not good enough for tn
sixteenth century. and the demands n
, the twentieth century cannot be met h'
G tha pottage of the nineteenth century
The current of life IS ever onward. bu
Whist shall We say If We cut of the sup
Fly at the rivers source.
i u We fail 40 meet the demand of IN
0 times: IL We 90 not interpret the cal
. OF duty Alright. we shall build aroun
this prosperous empire a Chinese wal
e within which will grow the rank weed
4 OF Ignorance and idiencss and vice an
4, superstition, barring all the vital i'm
pLls that should act as spring shower
on fertile rcids.
u show me the wealth az kentucky. Yo
+ will point not TO the wide fields or th
, on-rUsaing streams. or the waving for
- ests. or the mountains with their treas
$ ures: nav. you will point To- the huma
it bcincs who cultivate the fields. WELD th
!, nx ard saw in the forest. and use pic
aud shovel and dynamite 10 open th
mountain caves. They constitute Oh
II prlnd asset of the state If Kentucky
nay. thoY are the state.
:, And what OF those who take up th
I" task when We rellnqulsh -: those Chi
! 5ren nho rg 50 10 scholl % have the