The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-12

AIOns uuA @NOOh~f VI 49, ~~"~--
ington Bee, a member Of the Ken
lucky Press Association, delivered
the following splendid address, 1.-The
Public Schools and the Country
Press before that body, which is
Mn annual session at Dawson Springs,
Tuesday morning.
We must put IL on the basis Of
social Service" this work we pro-
pose TO do, as representatives Of the
Press, in the development and inn
provement of the Public School, for
the training and education of "All
the children Of all the people" to-
ward right living and efficiency in
some proper place OF service which
each may hope TO At and happily I'LL
in the broad affairs of real life.
There is to be no direct pay or profit
for the newspaper mans activities
in behalf Of this important public
institution which so sorely needs
the strongest support of an en-
iightened public. The Country
Press must in large measure do this
enlightening. II Il gets done. There
will be no cash payments for this
job. 1t must be done for love OF
our fellowmen and to build more
safely for the future welfare Of our
children and our children's children.
1t might be urged, perhaps, that the
Country Press would earn paruci-
patton in the public fund, in per-
Torrance Of this service, but it is
hardly to be imagined that newspa-
pers will become paid adjuncts in
the administration of departments Of
education. And so, IL must be pure
~ a social service. And such So
cial service might rightly be set up
under the headline Practical Chris
tianity," for it would surely he
proof. that 1--WE love our neighbor,
whom we have seen"
A "Social Service Catechism," re-
Gently published by committee Of
the Federal Council Commission de-
clares:
Social Service is that form Of eff
fort for mans betterment which
seeks to uplift and transform his
associated and community life. As
such II is the social application of
Christian principles, and is a new
name for the spirit of philanthropy
and service which is as old rs
Christianity"
We must all enlist as social
workers" II we expect to do any
real good in the public school de-
yelopment that must be accomplished
II we are TO see the average man
made in any measure what he
should be. DIR. Edward T. Devine,
director of the New York School of
Philanthropy, pictures the social
worker in these words:
Every man and woman who, in
any relation of life. professional, in
dustrial. political, educational, or do
nestle; whether on salary or as a
volunteer; whether on his own indi-
yidual account or as a part of an
organized movement, is working
consciously. according to his light
intelligently, and according to his
strength persistently, for the pro-
motion of the common welfare-the
common welfare as distinct from
that of a party or class or a sect
or business interest or a particu-
lar institution or a family or an in
dividual."
Perhaps we can best begin in this
volunteer social work of aiding IN
the effective development of better
public schools by advocating vigor-
ously the establishment of CONSOLE
dated rural schools throughout the
state. This goes to the very root
of the trouble and the success of
such advocacy would provide the
remedy at the point of greatest
need. And 1t cannot be denied that
the children in the rural districts
Of Kentucky deserve and must be
given advantages for practical edu-
cation equal to those offered in our
towns and cities. The welfare OF
the entire people demands that our
rural children be generously edu-
Gated and given practical training in
their own home communities in a
manner to rightly enrich the pres
emit and future religious. social and
economic life OF these rural coms
nunities. Less than 3s per cent OF
The total white rural school popula-
ton OF Kentucky were IN average
daily attendance at school during