Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-09-03

uOllhTH " ME TOUT AIN0ffi anu
three million dollars are require
each year 20 keep this enormous
plant running and IN repair The
most sytematic and the most expen-
slye institution IN our country and
and next 10 the home the most pow
criul agency IN the nation FOR good
or evil because nc1t 20 producing
and caring for these nineteen mil-
lion boys and girls comes the work
OF molding and developing these
crude products Of the human race
into lives OF usefulness The work
~ speaking
% preparing the boys and girls OF
today for the worlds work ~ to-
morrow
What an opportunity and With
'I' what responsibility Bur whose
/ opportunity and whose RESPONSE
|bIH'y2
To whom .... .u. el
tuition belong
Does 81 belong 20 mo teachers
/ and trustecs D.d they build .r'
do they equip lf' 10 they support
. 1ad supply b. aIth norkaa MAJ
ter.a1 SO The public school is
an Institution founded Dy TIE faith
era and mothers OF our country Tor
the education OF their children o.
their own free w,Il they placed a tax
upon their own property With this
fak they have built and equipped
this great institution which has cost
them nearly a billion dollars and
these same fathers and mothers for
uIsh the children aud the 100000 .-
600 that keep b. running each yel-.
with tho Si0O. 100000 they employ
half million men and women $50
per cent of whom are women 10
take charge OF this almost a billion
dollar piece OF property and their
nineteen million boys aud girls ami
right here more than o. per cent
OF the fathers and mothers stop the
public school Is the only piece (
property bay. ever hoard Of fbY,
has been founded. built .ouippad
and is supplied. supported and Own
ed by a company fbat has Turned i
over comletey 20 the care ana
management of alarled eupIoy.as
and uusalaricd trustees.
with no more interest than the
fathers and mothers have shown 10
the development of our school sys.
tenn II Is simply marvellous 10 what
degrees Of porf.rtiop "a, ,,o,,os. =,
teaching have been raised Tn,
question which ponfronts et.r low.
a parent today Is not method tp,
substance Not how ar, our chill
drcu being taught bur VHa, are the,
uuue taught or rather a.r
they being taught In other .ord.
are the qualifications of IN, pgbIi,
schools of today equal to tho pre.-
eut needs and the nIiure demands
OF the world when these bows and
girls must take our place. and care
rs on the scheme of life.
Let us go out into the world OF
statistics and look uu "a few fac.
The first sad discovery Is thar 3t-
ter an this work aud eNpeDs. tbar.
are still five million children of
school age lu The United State. ,o.
day who are not u school al aU
aru0ing up 300 absolute, .1norau
parasites ON OBJ, rest of rImau.t
"a menace 90 progress md .t.Iya.
ton.
NrN SIS. learn chat %. De-. .... o..
aII the American -,Hou. .aUdrr.
never go beyond tn, ...H-. er5g.
and Millions OF them ..at. -.H1u. ..
fore the uuh aud sixth Grades ...
reached This leaves only seven
per cent just seven children a.r .t
zach hundred Who DO I'D to .ehao.
hat ever enter our uIen school. up
)ur colleges
We are told that tH, ..... ..
education Is Co prepar, .u ... We
have learned by ,Npar.,n.. n.. f..
lbjcD' of The puuI, s.Boo. Is -a ore.
pare for high school and 0oIIpe, As
a consequence gs per cent or n,a-.
81 eighteen million ot our children.
instead OF being prepared for life.
are forced by our school sl...r. fo
lake exactly the same ,ours, o.. .,u.