The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-04-11

Superintendent of Public instruction.
Frankfort, Ky.
number Of the leading school men OF
the state. asking them 10 attend a
conference at the Commercial club.
That conference met on the 31st day
Of December last. An organization
was formed, an executive committee
appointed. and il 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 better trac-
ton lines. more agriculture and bet
ter agriculture, more citizens and bet
ter citizenship-in brief, school de-
velopment means state development"
Prof. Regenstein then introduced
Captain Brinton b. Davis. president
of the Louisville Commercial club,
who said
Kentucky 1t j. noble cause that
brings us here today. IT. is a cause as
worthy and great as any for which or
ganiZed society has ever fought We
see around us some Of its standard
hearers. Men who have truly cOnSe-
Grated their lives 10 the upift of hui
manty. devpting their time. energy and
talents to the education Of the growing
generations. The Louisville Commercial
4 L. n ant 1arr
Gil welcome. doUbly 81 because we are
boHnd by a common interest I'm the fur
therincc Of n project Cor which they
are giving their all. and to which we
fain would contribute our mites.
1t is our duty to So exercise our stew
ardships that those who follow may in
herit a treasure enriched through the
intelligent manner of it's application.
We should take for example not the
servant who buried his own talent in the
ground that he might return il intact
to his master. but he who returned ten
talents tor the five placed in his trust
I believe | am vOicing an opinion in
which you will readily concur when
| say that the greatest Of our natural re-
sources is the human mind. Without that
great gift, all others were useless in
deed. There are people on this globe
who have been as richly endowed as we
have been by Mother Earth, but who
owing to their ignorance. allowed field
and forest and mine to lie unproductive
ana unworked. In other words. they
have not sufficient intelligence to appro-
pirate their resources.
This great natural resource-the hu-
man mind-the greatest of earthly bles-
sings. is then our most cherished heri-
taSe and we should not only preserve
it intact. but put it out at every us,Irv
that it may return talent for talent If
We afford our children greater adv1n-
taceS than we enjoyed. We shall have
the conscientious conviction of having
performed our duty.
he foremost need of an educational /.
system is TO keep abreast of the times I
What was good enough for the fifteenth
century was not good enough for the
sixteenth century. and the demands Of
the twentieth century cannot he met by
tie pottage o: the nineteenth century. ,
7 ne current of life is ever onward. but I.
what shall we say if We cut off the sup ,
ply 1T the rivers source.
II we fail TO meet the demand of the \
times; If we do not interpret the call 4
of DUTY Alright. shall build around .
this prosperous empire a Chinese wall. /
within which will grow the rank weeds (
OF ignorance and idlenesS and vice and |
superstition, barring all the vital i'm .
pulses that should act as spring showers 4
on fertile fields
Show me the wealth Of Kentucky You
VIII point not to the wide fields or the /
on rushing streams. Cr the waving for
eStS. or the mountains with their treas
ureS; nay. YOU will point 10 the human
beings who cultivate the fields WELD the /
AK and saw in the forest. and use pick /
and shovel and dynamite to open the |
mountain caves. They constitute the /
grand asset Of the State of Kentucky:
nay. they are the State
And what of those who take up the |
task when we relinquish it, those chill
qren who now go 10 school to have their