The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-29
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY
THE cHlLD's COMPETITOR.

tied tie far distant sections of the
country together with bands Of steel
have made it possible for the people
to consider themselves the business
+ rivals Of the people in another sec
tion. It is becoming more and more
possible Tor the person who can de
liver the goods" to win over his rival,
The world demands and will have moth
ing else but the man who win dare
and do
We want our boys and girls to know
this. Every teacher and every parent
ought to know that the rural schools
in Georgia average the boy and girl
only 81 days of school attendance in
tho year. while Massachusetts for a
ramber of years had record of send
ing the country boy and the country
girl 10 school an average Of l31 days.
Think Of it! The country boy and
girl in Massachusetts, actually goes to
school on an average more than twice
as many days in the year as does the
Georgia boy ard girl Is the Masaa7
chusetts child justly entitled to his
Yankee intelligence?
In Ohio the children of the country
schools get an average of 113 days
to the year for each one of them. That
is again nearly twice as much time in
school as is spent there by the Geor-
gia boy in the country. Illinois gives
the country boy and girl 10S days in
the year, while the other leading
states in education. all of them, send
the country children to school approx
s. mately twice as long.
Here it is put another way: Califor
MIA, from the first grade through the
high school, gives the child in the
country 1,342 days. South Carolina
gives him 495 days to cover the same
course. Georgias figure is. less TRAN
this.
This is a fuss which nobody bus our
selves. The child is not at fault. II
we would give the country boy and
girl the opportunity. it would not NJ
ways be difficult TO improve the at
tendance at school We first provide
a term somewhat like the old singing
schools and thereby put our stamp Of
approval on q session too short. we
next pay no attention 10 school ST.
tendance and permit our average at
tendance 10 run down. The chjldrae
in Other states living on The farm a.d
in tho country have WORK 20 lo just
our children. They could be kept CT.
OF school there il it were stylish TO
do it. Their schooling is thorou-l
and effective 1t can be made so by
the length of school term and The res
ular attendance
Reminding ourselves always Of ol~
own short comings is not pleasant
duty, but we are doing less for oar
country boys and girls in education
than any other section Of this country.
Even far Off Japan, but lately classel
as heatheTn.- sends the country b.
and girl to school twice as many days
in the year as does the average south
ern state. Is It any wonder that We
have to appeal TO our own pride and
cay that the competitor Of our CHI
dren will he trained TO outssrip ard
master Us in the Industrial years cc
the future?
Our country boys and girls are car
main dependence. They are the naa
and women of the future that VII &c.
termine our strength indus;raly.
They are the children Of today whose
education is Of greatest importance.
Waiting for them to pick the cotton
crop before We provide schools for
them is destroying our own strength
of the future for while they are Shaving
in the fields or romping through The
woods, there is an industrial compe1-
tor training for supremacy in another
ssHtien y th country