The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-07-28
The Great Importance Of the OF
flee Of Sub District School
Trustee.

ty IN the State. The number in JET
dason Sournty will exc ed one hundred
and the total in all the counties
will probably exceed ten thousand
quite an army this. Before the Sui
1ivan Law WAS enacted about three
years ago, there We're three trustee
chosen in each of these districtsysay
around thirty Thousand; of this num-
Der, in was said, five thousand of
them could not read or write. Do
we need to go further to find cause
for hte languid prosperity of the
State? Each trustee has in charge
from forty to one hundred pupils
He ds charged with their propT and
comfortably healthful housing, the
selection of their teache and the
general oversight of the school. 1t
is reliably stated that many of these
acting trustees do not enter their
schools more than once or twice a
Year,. SO low has this office fallen
in the estimation of the people in
some sections Of the State, that it is
difficult TO get anyone to serve.
was present at the first meeting of
one of the district boards of Jeffer-
son County under the Sullivan law
When We were talking over the i'm
provement of school conditions, one
Of che slib-district trustees arose
and said, "Gentlemen, for Gods sake,
come and help me- i ann hare, elect
ed by one vote and / had to go
out and bring that man in to vote
Sor me, SO little interest do the peo-
PIE take in thdr school affairs"
It seems as If the management of
our educational matters might be
liNened to the building of a house
wherein the builders gave all atten-
ton TO the roof and upper part, ig-
soring completely the foundation up
% which the security and well being
cf the structure depends.
These sVtb-district trustees are the
very foundation stonss of our COM
mon school system. If these stones
are rotten or faulty, you cannot
have a safe and satisfactory strlc-
tureL Such exactly is our condition,
inst az effest follows olusa Now
fellow Kentuckians! Fathers! Moth
5ars! Patrons! of the schools, all, it
is readily within your power to RENE
ay many of the ills which afflict our
school system, and YOU can do it
with little trouble and no expense.
How7 BY getting together in each
sIb-dlstrict and resolving to put into
the Office OF trustee ths boadest mind
ed, most level headed, most active
and incorruptible man in the entire,
district. You will not, aus a rule find
him serve. Such man will be a busy
suspecting what you want, more like
iy be taking to the woods" but no
matter, select him and then make
him serve. Such man will be a bus
nran and will have many excuses, but
by persistence and insistent persua-
sion, you will get through, his hard
pan and down where he lives, and !
tzbere You will find n patriot, who |
seeing his duty, will do it.
in addition to each one of the du |
trlstee, concerning his individual !
school and which no one else can
do, and which must and will go UNI
done il he fails, these trustees have |
IN their hands the makeup of the |
County Boards of Education and these
boards having large discretionary |
powers are Necessarily important fac |
tors in school government AS the |
stream cannot rise higher than its
source, so the ability and USEFUL
ness OF the County Beard cannot |
rise above the calibns of the average
eli thu trustees who make than. b.
careful and do not Let any man b.
put in as trustee because he has
a sister, brother, aunt or cousin who
WASHES I'D DSCOlllc Il Uedcnefs Ioucn
teachers are almost invariably en-
ployad at the exp nse of the child
r.his interests and this | am fully
satisfied has been one of the fruit
full caus S OF present conditions. Do
not bet sympathy, charity or friend
ship come in bstween the children
and their rights; to do 50 is to pros
titute those noble qualities TO an ig-
1oble end. Let marit alone b. thu
measure of the teacher and trustee.
Once you get this kind of men in Of
ties TO pass, thus chatting ssvsral
find a way out Of all Our maze of
saficulty. Now here is a plain duty,
easy OF accomplishment and absolute
ly with no cost VIII you g,t mp
and do it, or will you sit idly by
aald let it go undcne? VIII you al
low another ysar of Indifference 10