The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-01-23
Factories and Schools.

boarding school We have good city
schools, and these are not to be con-
fused with the boarding school. The
city schools are provided for by taxa
ton, and they should be confined to
the uses intended under that system.
Therefore what we have to say does
not have any connection with the pub
lie schools.
Union City needs something to in
crease its population and its resources
and the things usually looked to to
advance these ends are factories and
schools. But factories are almost out
OF the question for the reason that rail-
road companies discriminate in freight
rates between terminal and station points
to the end that factory can hardly ex-
list at stations in competition with those
OF the terminal locations. Therefore it
is practically hopeless task to attract
factory interests in general way to
place like Union City. We cannot offer
them the proper inducements in freight
rates, and our friends, the railroads,
have brought this condition OF affairs
about. In arguing the factory propo-
sition further the class Of people who
are employed in the factories are not as
as desirable usually as the students OF
the boarding school, be they either men
or women. The men are not satisfied
as a body unless they are near beer
saloon. The women are great deal
better, but the student OF the school
comes from the best families of the
country. The boys have their diver
sioDs not in drinking beer, but in foot
ball and field athletics. The girls have
their own amusements Of good char
aeter, and the boarding school is to
the interior town what no factory can
make it.
We had the nucleus here once OF a
boarding school-a splendid dormitory
campus partially paid for, and, instead
OF selling, the balance Of the money
needed should have been raisec and
the property paid for and decided for
school purposes, so that there would be
no taxes and rentals to pay.
1t seems to us that il has been the
policy OF the citizens OF Union City to
starve this school ever since we have
been here. AT the same time we are
pouring our taxes into the city schools
and giving extra help in some way to
the public schools all the time. And
we should give to the public schools,
but because we do why should the
Training School be starved--to death,
as far as we seem to care. There is
absolutely no conflict between the two.
The one should take care Of the chill
dren who are the citizens Of the cor
porate limits OF Union City; the other
should be place where every boy and
girl in the county and section OF coun-
try hereabouts should be attracted to
come and get liberal education at rea-
sonable cost Hundreds OF our citizens
are sending away to school and thou
sands OF dollars are sent away from this
country, much Of it from the county,
that should come to Union City with
.proper inducements - with an enter
.nrise that our citizens should have.
The Training School seems to be like
lthe man the Bible speaks Of: To him
hat hath shall be given, and to him
hat hath not shall be taken away, even
nat which he hath. !"
Union City had the prospects OF q
county high school, located here in con-
nection with the City High School, a
short time ago. but without a dormi-
tory and campus we would have been
very little better off. A boarding school
without dormitory is without one OF
its most substantial adiuncts. More
over, it is almost impractical to con-
duct a boarding school successfully with
out dormitory. There are some rare
exceptions, and they are indeed isolated.
There is no idle talk about this. We
have only to look at Martin. A few
years ago hardly more than small
station, now city almost as large as
Union City. What has done it2 The
boarding school.
Union City people could well afforc
to buy ten or twenty acres Of ground
put some buildings on it and offer tc
our Training School or 70 some church
needing q good school location. w
have the best Of accommodations to
schools, good health, good water, goo'
churches. GOOD people, but we are no