The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-04-29
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lions OF our DOyS ana girls, they
become proud and want to at
tain higher and better things.
Yet there are forces at work in
our social body, our commercial
ism, and our politics, that make
it harder and harder for the boy
or girl to succeed as individuals,
and by the dim light of my forty
years of hard experience as it
penetrates the gloom of the fu-
ture, I can see the door of op-
portunity tasty being closed to
the youths of our land. THIS
SHOULD NOT BE THE CASE.
In my past experience | have
come in contact with a great
many things that should not be-
and | have seen the need of
things that were not, and in
asking the people of Rankin
County to let me represent them
am only asking for an oppor-
tunity that | crave more than
| the power of wealth or the glory
OF kings, to do something in my
weak way for those in peril.
It is not compatible with good
judgment to through our edu-
cational facilities lift a man tc
the higher realms of life, and al
low certain conditions to exist in
our body polite which makes it
impossible for him to ever at
tain his ideals.
The four great questions be-
fore the American People today,
are EDUCATION, VOCATION,
COMPENSATION. and TAXA
TION. AS to how best to solve
these problems is the very crux
of ones life. N
The American People today are
no more satisfied with the pres
|'ent status of these Burning Is
sues than are the Mexicans, or
the warning factions of Europe,
over their troubles, and again
we will have to Revert to our
never failing ALMA MATER
the school of apprehension a
more correct solution of these
problems.
Experience has taught us that
too much of one's.life is consum-
ed in school, the Curriculum
should be shortened, and the
study hours heightened. We
are teaching too many things to
the boy that never succor the
man. If we study Latin be-
cause some of our medical names
are in Latin, we had better
change the names of the medi-
cine and learn the boy who is
going to farm how to sharpen a
pillow point. Take little time
from Voice culture, and give it
to Milk and Tomatoes. Most of
them will have to marry poor
boys, and notes in High G. don't
satisfy a hungry stomach, and
laundry bills don't replenish the
pocket book.
Again we are paying too much
money on schools that don't ben
eft the masses. Let's have good
schools close enough to attend
without the Talaho. Just raise
the Curriculum, we have teach
ers-cut out the Ball, and teach
them from 8 to 4 o'clock.
Then when they are turned
out in the world educated men
and women let us hope, the
question of VOCATION con-
fronts them.
What shall / do to earn a liv-
ing? is the all absorbing thought.
The professions are all crowded,
/ am not satisfied with the way
mother and father did down on
the farm. | have been elevated
to higher sphere, how can | !
attain my ideals? The gray,
headed men and women of this
country have fought battles,
some of them have passed
through four years of desperate
conflicts, but the hardest battles
are yet to be fought by the young
men and women of this country
trying to attain their Ideals
Boys, and Girls, | sympathize
with you, here is my hand.
Let's open the door of oppor- |
tunity wide to poor boys before it |
is closed forever in their faces. |
Land that our fathers sold for
a few dollars an acre, can't be |
bought now for $4,000 per acre. |
Our Mortgage, Bond, and Bank
ing systems are tasty concen-
trating the wealth of the. land in
the hands of a few.
Something must be done to
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