The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-03-06
trict officials may. in the exer.

tTlct OFFICIALS may, IN the exer~
- the cial functions, deem
| st Gni as these equipments aIa
vat l.. the scope CT their selection.
Mo. it lot be we'll to increase the
sp RIP on aid erect an Uncle
It's Cabin?"
Not ly il music taught In the
Was on scho Is, but these self
pla lag panos- IN o'as 1 believe
t ey call them-are put in and paid
for by your and my accerdian con-
sti.uents. These instruments are not
there for instruction, because 1t TO
q'ires no more teaching to play one
Of those mocha aical instruments than
IT does to turn grinding organ. Un-
der this new precedent that district
officials can equip anybody's play
grounds, and can equip them with
such games and amusements as they
choo e. why not send these pianolas
from the schoolhouses to the school
Fairgrounds?
Mr.. Chairman, l am not afraid to
make a small wager that Bob Tayl2r
paid for the instrument upon which
| lie learned to charm and thrill the
souls Of the mUsic-loving men and
women of this country; but il he
wishes to hang his fiddle and bow
upon the wall, never to take them
down again, and take lessons upon
the rianola or the grinding organ, he
is still within the school age of the
District Of Columbia Uaughter)
Grind Organs and Undesirabies.
However, l am not quite sure that
| I will not make a point of order
! against Senator Taylor taking lessons
on the grinding organ at the expense
| of the American citizen. If that con-
| cession is made to him he may next
| demand to take lessons in the public
school with the bear and the drum.
| The g hiding organ and the bear and
| the drum must, by all means be re-
served for the many foreign born Who
are in Was hington, declining our cit
| izenship, refusing to pay taxes, hoard
| Ing our money to be sent back to a
foreign land, while all the time their
| children are receiving the advantages
CT free tuition, free books, free scien-
tific instruments, and hot lunches in
| the schoOlhouse. When the desir-
| able ones of these become citi-
zens with US. take upon them
selves the oath to support the
constitution and "Old Glory" help
support the government, then, Mr.
Chairman, l am willing for them to
80 into our unsupported Fairgrounds
ard receive the long, tedious and diff
cult Instructions from our accomplish
ed teachers upon the grinding organ;
t,fen they should be permitted to play
with our Teddy bear and beat our
tom-tom, but not until then.
Mr. Chairman, under the tight
wad" public school system which the
American congress imposes upon the
District of Columbia the pupils have
cooking schools. The teachers give
the public money to little children,
send them to market, and have them
taught how to buv. These stall keep
ers in these markets who teach them
90 not, imagine, charge too little for
the teaching
When they have had this lesson in
buying they take, or have sent, to the
school that which the stall keeper
has taught them TO buy; then it is
served in five and six course "festi-
bles." I recently saw one Of these
menu cards. 1t had ice cream on it.
asked the principal of the school
he was a colored man-whether the
children made the ice cream or
bought it. He said they bought it
already frozen. but he could not tell
me how much teaching it required to
nave the children and their invited
guests to learn how to eat it. But.
Mr.. Chairman. that is OF but little in
terest to your constituents or mine.
All they have to do is to work hard
Is hours out of the "a to get the
money with which TO pay for it all.
Then, in the public schools here in
Washington they have sewing schools
The government furnishes them with
the material which they use in the
sewing lessons. They make aprons,
and so forth, and then, after they are
made, they are made: the same gar
more, so they just let the girl take it
home with her.
Also Teach Millinery.
Then. they teach millinery in the
public schools here. The government
buys the untrimmed hat frames. also
material with which TO trim them. The
teacher gives instructions how to trim
the hats When a girl has trimmed
one to suit her new dress. it is trim
med; it cannot be trimmed any more:
it is useless to the government. so
the girl is permitted Just TO run along
home with it.
Then, so a printed a report of the
school beard says. if she wants to
trim another she does so. If, after it
is trimmed it is trimmed. it is of no
use to Uncle Sam; he does not wear
that kind of headgear, and the girl is
told Just to run along home with it
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