Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-10-19
AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOLS.

AlnEkIIAN Huh oInUULS.
The bulletin recently given out by
DR.. r. +. Caxton, United States COM
missioner Of education, contains mat
ter that will prove gratifying to every
friend of our public schools. II is in
effect that the number of high school
pupils has doubled in the twelve years
that have passed since the beginning of
the twentieth century and that the
number of high schools has almost
doubled, that there are million and a
quarter students now in the high
schools. that one fourth of the chill
dren who enter the elementary schools
now pass into the high schools, a
higher percentage than ever before,
and that most of this growth has been
In the public as distinguished from the
private high schools. SO per cent of
high school pupils now being in the
public and only II per cent. in the priv
ate as aginst 6s and 90 per cent. re-
spectively in 1890. The bulletin con-
tinues:
els il any wonder that the people
believe in their high school and give
but scaRt attention to the occasional
hostile criticism that is heard? The
public high school is winning because
the people are satisfied that it is doing
its work. They realize what it has
meant to the rising standard of Ameri-
can citizenship.
1.-THE people have shown their appre-
citation of their high school in the most
direct way possible-by supporting it
unfailingly and generously. They have
faith enough in it to pay huge sums of
money year after year. that the high
school may do greater and greater
work. More and more attention is be-
ing paid to high school education. Mil
lion dollar school buildings are gong
up in American cities-palaces one
might call them did not the word sug-
gest idleness. and there is no idleness
in the present day high school Indus
try. technical ability, homemaking, to-
gether with the essentials of cultural
education, are being taught to our
boys and girls in the splendid high
schools Of today on scale that was
never dreamed of in the civic life of
any nation before our time.
America has made great strides in
the past, and one of the most potent
factors in its advancement has been the
public school system. This showing
indicates that greater strides are yet to
be made. 49, Frederick News.
This is Peggy Stewards own anni-
versary.
Wit makes pretty good sauce, but
it's too rich for steady diet.
The witnesses at the Becker trial
are sticking to their stories, anyway.
Few people are educated to great
usefulness outside the school of adver-
sity.
This is the day the Peggy Stewart
Tea Party Chapter. d. A. r., Cele-
brates.
Nearly everybody at some time in
his life squanders money on some
scheme that won't work
-
Never tell man he is food he
won't believe you and besides he'll be
one more enemy on your list.
Publicity is the thing that counts
nightly for any man or cause-that is
if it's a good man or a good cause.
What big time the oolonists did
have off Wind Mill Point more than a
hundred and quarter years go today.
If Mrs. Peggy were to look out of
her window today she'd see 4 game of
football and not the burning of the
brig.
Colonel Roosevelt certainly showed
plenty of courage under a very trying
condition. And he hasn't called any,
body liar yet, either.
sThe growth and the development of
civic improvement is manifest every
where. Every village and every ham,
let shows the awakening of the desire
TO build sidewalks, improve the lawns,
erect better houses, make better
streets. construct more modern and
more comfortable public buildings of
every kind. Many of the cities are