The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1915-10-29
The State Supervisor Of
Schools Make Strong
Address in Keystone
A DAY TO Be LONG RE-
MEMBenED By all PRESENT
Enthusiastic Applsuds By Crowded
Hall Give Encosrasens ut to
Educatiesal Awakening.

sunday afternoon, octoher 2}th, was
a day tn ~ long remembered by tho
pe"ple Of Keystone and the counsg. A
large crowd of representative men, wo-
D-n. boys and girls gathered i'm Cal
houn'- Hall on Main street at O'Clock
T. hear Hon W. W Sanders, state su
per,isor of schools, lsrturp on the ever
growing and burning question of the day
which il having for its otl~s-t communi
ty cooperation with the school teachers
and school authorities in awakening O
srnrs of need for an e.iurstion among
and for all the people "ld and yours
alike
Promptly at O'clock D. m. Prof. r.
L.. Rsnn. principal oi k~vstons- E~kman
Graded School called the m~~tine tn ov-
der, conducted the devotionsls and made
"A brief AMI concise explanation OF the
Object of the u.eeting. The Union choir
under the leadership Of Mr.. Nathan
Thornton rendered excellent music. The
hall wss crowded. every seat Was taken
and men and women were sren sitting on
window -ill-, on boxes and some were
standing when Hon. W. W. Sanders Was
introduced Visitors from oil over the
county were present sEd even Mercer
county WAS represented in the meeting.
The speaker c"mplimentrd himself on
t<ing 18th friends ct home and paid q
high tribute to the Union choir for its
most excellent music He declared in
his introductory remarks that the great
e~t question of today that 10 agitatins
the mindS Of the American people most
attention to the million dollars b~queath-
ell by Philsdelphia lady, a Quskeress.
for the sole purp"-e oi Negro education,
though not for the ordinary kind of ed
uration. hut to ne jndicionsly. econom-
icsily and un-~lfishly us-d for the inn
provement. the real betferm~nt Of COM
mnnity or rural life especially IN the
south. lie very effectively and pointed
ly cited the great berotr achievemenss of
Germany and her mar, elous powers to
successfully hold the powers of the world
at hay 10 the efficiency oi the German sol-
dier-; their e,ineationai syst-rn and their
unaIt@rable Law of preparedness. tie de-
claresi that the rural church work was
growing demands and crying needs for
educational reforms lie claimed that
any chnrrh that only meets cr 90 or twice
q we~k, pr ach q sermon. take up = col
lection. 20 tome and not be heard or
s%n in the community sRsin till another
month could never make nor he helpful in
bringing about community betterment.
but the opposite must necessarily be ex-
pectsd and that IS the poor creatures
could 20 TO the devil. - 70 speak.
In Speaking of tbe com;non Doast Of
West Nirgiuis TO the effect that this state
wa- i'm sdvanre of all the southern ststes
i'm education and politira, fsvors, Prof.
Ssr derH said such statements didn't
mean much because Of the tact that the
southern states had no hiesl standard,
that they were not doing anything, that
their system ~ss poor and by no means
up-to-dste. lie showed that West vir-
ginie was rated ne about the B5,h state
~ educational sdvsncement. etc, when
measured by the standing Of the Eastern
sud Northern states. He complimensed
tie New England states a. having the
least Ter cent OF ignorance OF illiprscy.
lie made = strong appeal 70 put in and
keep in school the Boys and girls of the
race. lie called attention N the danger
of educating the girls AMI permitting the
hoys to grow up In 'znorrnce. He called
attention % the alarming isct of t~snty-
four men out of every one hundred could
MT read nor write and that the object of
starting anew this educstionsI movement
and awakening ~n-e Of enlightenment
among the men and women Of the con-
munit - is 70 make the community life
brighter, better and more helpful to eseh
other in the community. The fact tl,st
ont Of tire 2D.eD children ~ school sxs
only - per cent of them attend school
is q sad and fstsi mistake" he said
Mr.. Sanders made IL very strong. plain
and emphatic that the rsce is not meas-
urrd by the wi-c-t, most literste or by
tho-e few ~ho had reached the highest
rounds on the ladder in material pc<es-
-ions but that the race . measured by
sh~ great mas of unforunst>s Who sr-
low down IN the scales Of social. inssl-
lectusl and moral lie. He said IN army
cannot sdvsncs fssssx thas - sIswsuo
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