Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-03-07
KNocAer Knocks.
Knockorsyille, Somewhere, KY.
March Z, 1912.

Knockorsyille, Somewhere, Ky.
March Z, 1912.
Me.iEditor:
Would YOU kindly let me have
space for a few thoughts? | was
both surprised and astonished
when ! read your paper; surpris-
ed because it is such a good pro-
diction as a whole-not surpris-
ed, either, for know what you
are capable of hut lamentabIy
astonjshed, yea, shocked, sham
ed and chagrinned when | see
some Of the ideas expressed by
your correspondents.
| refer, for example, to what
Fair Play said last week on the
subject Of extended school terms,
donating stock license to State
Fairs and appropriating $75,0C0
to erecta Governors mansion.
Over his name in last issue we
have the following hash: well,
our Legislative body is doing
some good work, but one bill
passed and others pending are
detrimental to the whole country.
For instance, the bill to extend
our school term to seven months;
the appropriation Of money COL
lected for licensed stock to the
fair; and the bill appropriating
S75, coo for the Governors man
sion. They all ought to meet
with aIstern rebuke from the
people,.
Now, we are not wanting a
personal "knockdown" to F. P,
nor do I'VE waut to know his
name. Just to know his ideas is
Sufficient.
A newspaper is a great medi-
UNI for Che dissemination of IN
formation and knowledge, and
those VINO read it are naturally
inclinedlto believe what it hands
out, hence f. P. should be very
careful to know that he is exact
Iy correct before and when he
dishes ont his ethical lore. Just
the kind. of servant he processes
to be is quite difficult for US tC
determine, using his ideas as {
basis. "a
What Opposed to the extern
/ sion OF the common school term
/ 0pposed)to the appropriation o.
! Che funa raised from licensed
stock tQthe State Fair! 0ppos
- appropriation of SIS, OO(
ERECTION Of. a decent, com
Ssicn fDrthe Goyefaal
4 ofKentlAly which would Be al
inestimable asset and honor t
the Commonwealth! And these
all these, things should be me
with astrong rebuke from tn,
peop1el
If F. P. is correct and sincerC
in his position, why did he no
give some sound, logical, sane
reasoning and facts to back VI
his argument-no, not argumen
) but assertions?
You ask, what do you call him
Well, in the absence of sufficien
and convincing proof of his posi-
ton, we call him an anti-educa
E tionalist, a non-progressive So
cialist Of antiquated, misery in
ciinations, a backwoodsman pur
: and simple-especially simple.
: We venture that this scrib
does not write as he actually be
, ieves (for we think if he woul,
! take the second thought he coul
not believe what he says), bu
only speaks by force of his en-
: vironments.
Environments and immediat
: surroundings are great incentive
to ones thoughts, or at least one
words, and this being true, Fal
Play must have been hangin.
astride a dead limb on a dead
: scrubby oak far back in the bac
? woods, with nothing to besti
: and haunt his muses. but tn
) shuddering boot of the echoin
/, owl.
The extension of the schoC
term goes to the development an
promotion of the culture an
: higher education of both presen
t and coming generations and tn