The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-03-06

fairgrounds. II HI trainload of PEN
cf S were not of suit lie size already
for jackstraws. hltchets might be-
SUPPLIED instead of j~ckknives. How
ever, hct3hets should be furnished
the school children, anyway. They
could get abundant amusement out OF
breaking up and making humble
pegs out Of the $4,000 worth Of good
school furniture which was thrown
out of the schoolhouses to make room
FOR new furniture, which was shy on
specifications-so the papers said,
and the papers are always right.
Then, Mr.. Chairman, your ruling On
this question leads to other equip
ment for the Fairgrounds. The school
board report also contains the in
/ formation that one of the colored
teachers takes her 'kindergartents"
around to Corcoran Art gallery once
a week and there entertains these lit
tie 5-year-old tots by pointing out to
them the artistic and mastery fea-
lures OF the greatest collection Of
paintings in this whole country. I'm
Gle Sam pays in salaries, houses and
grounds one-half of an average-year
In and year out-of about $4,000, 900.
Mr.. Chairman, just as soon as your
Uncle Sam can spare the money your
ruling should be brought into service,
and the Corcoran Art gallery pur-
chased as playground for the col
ored "kindergartents" Of the district
(Laughter.) Kentucky, my native
state, will erect a monument to NV
memory for having made a point of
order which brought forth a ruling
| which establishes a precedent upon
which Kentucky taxpayers may have
the pleasure of sending one Of these
little colored tots of artistic tempera-
ment to the Old World to gather up
for the Washington Fairgrounds all
the bogus pieces of the masters which
j. Pierpont Morgan did not have I'M
loaded upon him. Uaughter.)
While Kentucky would thus honor
me, Mr.. Chairman, for having done
nothing more than unwillingly made
the opportunity for such a chance to
and fulsome epitaph for you. Mr..
Chairman, who established the prece-
dent, would be but mOckery of the
| honors which Tennessee would confer
| upon you for giving her. Kentucky's
sister state, an opportunity to pour
the money of her people into such a
| glorious work.
Again, Mr.. Chairman. the printed
report of the school board for this
| city brings the delightful information
that the peoples money is spent to
/ teach the young men and young Ia
/ dies-black and white, from years
( to &C years-to "trip the light fan
tastic tee"
By all means the playground, paid
for by your constituent and mine,
should be equipped with a ballroom
having gilded wall and waXen floors,
that these ladies and gentlemen-col-
ored and otherwise-may, in swallow
! tail coats and kid gloves, sleeveless
and bosOmless gowns. instruct the
disciples of the lowly Nazarene who
are teaching from the pulpit that the
sensual embrace of the round dance
leads directly, in the great hereafter.
to the certain attainment of that for
which He bowed His head and died
upon the cross.
Dancing and Shower Baths.
Let us, Mr. Chairman, that our
earthly fame may be more lasting,
and that our glorious hereafter may
be rewarded with a halo as big as a
horse collar, go back to those school
items, deprive the common herd OF
taxpayers, with Bonded backs. crook
ed fingers, and bleeding palms, from
participation in the erection of this
dancing tabernacle, and give all the
glory to the men of God in Tennessee,
and let them pay for it. (Laughter.)
Mr. Chairman, in another of the
school board reports l find that one
of the colored school teachers de-
scribes the splendid shower baths
which have been erected in his
school. asks now, in simple Justice
to the District of Columbia. that a
swimming pool be put in at public ex-
pense. But that is Of no moment to
either Kentucky or Tennessee or the
other states; all they have to do with
it is to pay for it.
Then another colored teacher, so
the report says, wants a greenhouse
erected and maintained at public ex.
pense, in connection with his school,
Mr. Chairman, why should he not
have it? In this climate the flowers
bloom only in the spring, and that is
entirely too seldom for this gentle
man of ginger-cake hue. Where you
and | reside the chrysanthemum has
hardly faded until the lilac blooms
and almost Immediately after that the
Mareschal Mel, which has remained
green from fall to spring. blossoms
into beauty and fragrance, puts cut
its tiny arms, and renews its kindly
and annual embrace of our humble
cottages which stand upon the sites
where 80 years ago spacious colonial
. homes were the pride of Dixie land.
Mr.. Chairman, this school teacher
and the children in his school are re-