The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-09-14
SCHOOL AT TENDANCE
PATRIOTIC DUTY OF
ALL BOYS AND GIRLS
HON. w. T. GALLOWAY MAKES
STRONG ADDRESS AT OPEN
ING or HIGH SCHOOL.
TIE ANDREWS SCHOOL OPENS
Approximately 800 Present First Day
Get Down to Work Under Most
Favorable ircumstances-Mrs. War
ner Talks on School Health.

With approximately 500 pupils pres
ent and eager to begin their work fol
the year the Andrews and High
schools opened this morning amid
prospects that were never better for
achieving the highest aim of public
education, that of preparing the boys
an dgirls of today for good citizen
ship.
About four hundred bright-facea
boys and girls of the lower grades
greeted their teachers at the Andrews
school this morning and number o.
parents and other visitors were pres
ent at nine o'clock to attend the open
! ing exercises. About the same mum
Der of older boys and girls wire seat
ed in the auditorium of the High
school few minutes after ten o'clocR
when the remainder of the spacious
room was well filed with parents and
visitors, as the party of school officials
and speakers filed upon the platform.
The keynote of the city schools was
struck at the High school by Hon. w.
TT. Galloway, in his address on SOP
portunities for Service Today" when
he declared that the most patriotic
thing boy or girl can do is to re-
main in school regardless of the 9TH
er war occasioned demands that may
be made upon him. Mr.. Galloway
was introduced by City Superinten-
dent r. l.. Harris at the High school
as one of the latter's earliest teachers.
! Mr.. Galloway said that the war
crisis had opened to the world the
greatest opportunity for service that
has ever been known and declared
that the victorious termination of the
war will find this gerater country
with greater prospects for the future
He urged the boys and girls to remain
in school and said that the govern,
ment by its action in making q years
the minimum age for the draft had
| demonstrated that it would have been
| unpatriotic to sacrifice the boys in
assume the greater burdens of citizen
ship that will devolve upon them be-
IF tho "a hot
He pointed out that all the achieve
ments of the ages had been the prod
lcts of trained minds and said that in
professions and all departments of
science, education and training will
the foundation of progress. The
boys and girls of today are as brave
md patriotic as were those of the
civil war, he said, but the demand
has not yet been upon them to leave
their school duties.
Mr.. Galioway's address, was a mas
erful bit of advice to the young peo-
pie and an intensely patriotic appeal
to the adults to stand by the govern
ment in it's every process of war |
lie was followed by County Superin-
,endent of Education John P. Ora '
ham, who in a brief address spoke ,
Of the progress of the schools in
Maury county and supplemented the I
'emarks of Mr.. Galloway With wise
ords to the pupils as to their atti-
,ude toward school work this year.
Mrs. Lena o. Warner, specialist in
rural health and sanitation for the
J. S. department of agriculture, made |
splendid address on health of boys
md girls as factor in the prepared
aess Of the nation to whip the Ger
mans. She gave statistics on diseases
showing that health and long life de-
bend on vigorous childhood and youth
The nation wants well, able-bodied |
men," said Mrs. Warner. She urged
, he boys to prepare themselves now !
md be ready to make strong soldiers
and sailors whenever the time comes
Tor them to take up arms.
One of the features of the morning
was a solo by Prof. Dodge, who will |
have charge this year of the vocal
music at the High school, He was
accompanied by Mrs. l.. S. Duke.
Superintendent Harris presided at
he school opening and seated on the
,latform were Mayor j. NJ. Dedman,
Rev. w. B. Kicks, Rev. r. A. Che.
nault, Prof. John P. Graham, Hon. w. t
T. Galloway, Hon. E. E. Erwin, Hon.
G. H. Addison, Hon. W. p Boyd. 7
and Hon. Ulna H. Foster. Rev.
R. A. Chenault read the scrip
ture lesson and Rev. W. B. Kicks
offered the invocation. Prof. Dodge
led the singing of pupils and visitors.
Prof. l.. s. Duke is principal of the
school.
The opening of the Andrews school
found the chapel completely filled by
the 400 or more pupils and a number