The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-14

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editorials some time ago a tentative
allusion to the small number of boys
graduating yearly from our public
schools. Do you not think that as a
public organ one of whose interests
is to elevate the standard of the
community in every way, that your
paper is too lenient or at least too
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vital problems of the city, state and
country, namely the educational prog
ress
Have you forgotten that Napoleon
said he feared three newspapers more
than ten thousand bayonets? Feel
ing certain that it is not so much
Indifference with you as lack of time
to look up statistics on such matters,
l trust you will give me brf54 Apace
i your columns for the several arti-
Giles would like to put before the
people of our city realizing that the
newspaper is the most direct, potent,
and fruitful agency in the promulga-
ton of any worthy theory.
First, let it be understood that the
writer not only understands the gen.
eral conditions in Brunswick, but is
familiar with those of the individual
in almost every case and that these
papers are not intended as reproaches
ror as suggestions to the individual.
A few years ago new school prin-
cipal in the city asked the writer
what the general attitude of the peo-
pie of the city was toward education.
These papers are written for the pur-
pose of calling attention to the civic
standard of education and not the
personal; for asking the cooperation
of the community in the cause of ed
cation and enlisting their sympathy
and encouraging support in the ele-
walton of its standard.
When one observes what education
and educated men and women are
doing in other countries and other
parts of this country, the question
arises to the thoughtful mind, what
are we doing for and through educa-
ton here. Do we really place the
high value on education that brethren
in other parts of the world do and are
our children being fitted to cope with
the well-trained judgments, the stored
minds, and the theoretically and prac
tically instructed intellects of the
great world of science, progress, and
learning?
To begin to combat all the argu-
ments in defense Of the existing in
difference to the cause of education
WOULD be task so herculean as to
be second only to the efforts of The
News to secure better mail service
for our city; so l shall be content to
attack only few of the most for
midable, and hope that / shall speed
lily gain disciples who will charge the
lesser detachments until every foe is
vanquished and the cause of educa
ton reigns supreme in Brunswick
Perhaps the most frequently used and
Overwhelmingly convincing arguments
is that Lincoln and others who have
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any education and the iconoclas
points with triumph to the million
aire who boasts that he never reaC
hook in his life.
This reminds one of the case of the
teacher who on persisting in keep.
ing in on geography received the mes.
sage through one of her pupils tina
ma said she didn't know jogafy ant
she got married, and Aunt Jane didn'
know jogafy and she got married, ant
you know jogafy and you didn't"
Evidently the aim of life in tina
family was matrimony. But was i
the knowledge Of geography that KEEP
the unfortunate teacher single, AM
was it ignorance that made Lincoll
president or the unlettered man
millionaire? If it were, we would b.
compelled to increase the number o
presidents and the millionaires woul,
simply infest the land. Still we ad
nit that some very fine men are max
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to the strata of society in which the.