The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-03-28
School News
STEWART F. GELDERS, EDITOR

GELDERS, EDITOR )
;. 1t is all right and all well 1t matter
not whether the hardworked studen
understands all he knows or not; tn
teacher has reached page 500,
whereas, the best her predecesso
could do was page 573.As a result. tn
grades on the final examination pa
pers are disproportionatcly low. PEG
pie don't send their children to schoo
to enable some schoo; teacher to Sc
record mark They send them tc
school to prepare them Tor a success.
full life. But on the other hand, it is
fully as bad to spend nine weeks on
Macbeth" while English literature
contains thousands of gems which the
pupil will probably never read be-
cause his teacher wanted to be sure
that he knew just why Barcus refused
to take dinner with Carsus on the eve
OF the battle of Gumcreek.
Somebody thoughtfuTly stopped up
all the drainage outlets of the BOYS
basement one day last week and turn
ed on all the water faucets. If he ex-
pected it to cause the building to float
away. he was badly fooled. but it did
flood the basement several inches
deep.
On Friday night the preliminary
contest for the Third District Meet
will be held at the Court House. and
a record crowd is invited and expect
ed. The contests in music. express
ion and defamation will be held.
Most of the brains and beauty of the
school will be on display. The pro-
gram will include between IS and 20
numbers, well assorted. The enter
tainment will in itself, be worth the
price OF admission, l5c and 25c, but
since the proceeds are to go TO the
titz-Hi Annual, the performance is
even more worthy of your generous
support.
The more we look over the perform
ance Of our athletes, the more dis
couraged we get about the chances
of the Triton Aggies to take away
even third hdnors in the dual meet
next Saturday. In the 440 yard dash,
Ebert Murray and Elmer Waitcs
are each making better record than
any that has been made since Wesley
Collier made the middle distance in
50 seconds. In the 220 there are three
or four boys who are making abso-
!utely new records In the 100 ward
sprint ]. L. Pittman is the same boy
who made time of 10 rs seconds
last year. and he is about 20-pounds
bigger now than he was then. In the
shot put we have Dean Hopkins, who
has put it farther in practice than any
Fitz-Hi heavy weight has ever done
before. In the pole vault, new event,
we don't know how we stand because
1t is unprecedented. However, Lois
Green and Cliff Miller are soaring
rather high. The hurdles look good
with Theodore Justice going like a
streak in between the jumps and Lee
Ricketson ripping over the barriers
in way very suggestive of swiftly
flowing stream. The broad jump is
the only event on which the outlook
is dark. Ebert Murray being about
the only one who has made credit
able showing On the high jump we
have Lee Ricketson and. Ebert Muir
ray, but neither are doing any prac-
ticing. at least not in the open.
1t is probable that number Of high
school people will motor to Triton
Saturday to see the big doings
The glad tidings arrived Saturda,
from Mr. Stroller, of Vienna. Presi
dent of the Third District Higl
School Executive Committee, that tn,
decision for the Ashburn- Cordele
Fitzgerald triangle had been awarded
to Fitzgerald by default of the othe
two contestants. The committee ha,
arbitrarily placed Fitzgerald in tn
triangle with Cuthbert and Americu
and seemed inclined to keep us there
but Prof. Stringer and Supt. Ricket
son appealed to those higher up an
we are now privileged to send on
team to Americas to debate the tear
from that city, which was victoriou
Friday.
The contests in spelling and essa