The Springdale news., 1917-10-12

Protracted meeting commenced here Sunday.
 A light frost Friday night; no dam age done.
 J. Rutherford's two children are sick with malarial fever
 Grace McCullom, whom we report ed as sick last week, is not much i'm proved.
 Misses Annie Means and Hazel Gibson and Teddy Sanders, who are attending school at Springdale visited home folks Saturday and Sunday.
 Luther Hines is very low with ty- phoid at this writing Being believ- CT in James 5:14-15, he has not called in medical attention, and is in a very serious condition.
 Mr. Editor, fear if we have to wait till that road improvement dis trict is formed to get the Harp noun tain road worked, I'll have diseontinu- ed the flivver and joined the aviation corps.
 I cannot see the reason for exempt ing theological students from the draft and taking capable young men teachers from their work in the school room The task of educating the rising generation IS certainly as important as increasing the number of preachers Pilgrim Rest district had a most capable young man teacher who had just begun his second term at that school who was giving univer- sal satisfaction; yet, he was forced to give up his work, leaving the district without teacher. and closing the school just as the pupils had gotten interested in their studies. The d. reetors are finding 1t difficult to se- cure a competent teacher to take his place. Were 1 patron of Pilgrim Rest school, the Washington authori- ties would be informed as to what l think about the matter anyway
 When We have finished making the world safe for democracy l hope we will turn our attention to correcting few matters near home. For one, we might release our children from the tyrant known as compound numbrs, by introducing the decimal, or metric system, established by France more than q century ago, and adopted by most of the civilized nations. That three feet should make yard, five and half yards rod; that We should have q liquid gallon and a=dry gallon of different capacities, and many oth- CT equally silly scales of relation, are not greatly to our credit as an intel ligent people. Children spend most of an ordinary school term learning what should be learned in a few lessons If we had a decimal standard. Autocrat- ic governments handle such matters better than we, because popular pre- iudice does not have so much lntlu- ence where officials are not depend ent upon the people for their power Because the business world Is used to our anticipated system, and for fear change would meet with opposition our politicians make no attempt to change it. In an autocracy the change is made, and in short time everyone is accustomed to the new condition. and would not think of re turning to the old way. With Us t would be made political issue; dem agogues would ride into office on 1t, and what ought to be done. without cavil CT question takes years of poll tics to accomplish If you think there is nothing to this, just get gallon measure at the hardware store and peck measure. compare the two, and have some business man explain the difference when he finds that two gallons won't make peck. Not long ago, a man sold me a peck measure full of gasolene for two gallons. Get peck measure and see if the garage will fill it for two gallons.