The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-27
CONCERNING GOOD SCHOOLS
FOR THE CHILDREN OF CRISP

not worked solely with the purpose
Of educating the little boys and little
girls. That aim has NOT dominated.
He ought to De laying plans now
for the years work ahead, but, instead,
he is writing letters to your parents,
telling them that we are attacking
him personally, and want his job. He
never was so far in error He is telling
them cur suggestions for improve
nlents will tax your fathers to help
run the schools CT Cordele, when he
kncws that more than half the taxa
bic properly in Crosp county lies in
CCTdele and that two thirds of the
population CT this country is outside
the city limits Ct Cordele. He knows,
no matter what tax rate we have to
Fay foc schools, that over half of it
will lie against the property within the
city limits OF this town. He knows
that fer every little 10y in Cordele
there are two in the country that need
the.t good school, just like the little
hoy in Cordele He knows that for
every one little girl in CCrdele there
are two little girls in the country
waiting, waiting, on and on, for their
coed school that is not.
He is asking your parents to sign
and return to him now, a card indi-
eating to him that they do not want
the good schools that can be provided
fol- you under one system. He is urg-
ing them to say that they still want
this country to have one system for
the little boy and girl in Cordele and
another poorer system for you in the
country, and he has appealed to them
CT the poor political clap-trap argu-
ment that they will be taxed to help
run the schools of Cordele. Shame on
him! Not one word of it is true. He
knows it.-knew it when he wrote
that to your parents.
Little country boys, little country
girls, yours are the greatest possibili-
ties under Gods sun You have learn
ed how to work You already know
how that counts in the world. Let us
tell you now that you can learn how
to think. You can know how to take
hold Of the really great things in life.
You can find your life's calling in
school Did you know that? In
school the fires of your hopes are
lighted and they burn on and on
through life, were you to live a thou
sand years. In school you first rise
high enough to look out upon the ma
jestic mountains of knowledge that
great men explore. In school you
arm yourself for the hard knocks of
life.
The head of your school system has
had to do with your schools nearly
twenty years. In that long time he
has given you nothing better than the
little boys and girls had a generation
ago. His ideal is political control, not
school advancement. He uses the
word conservative" with regard to
administration of school affairs and
to him that word means what you
have now is good enough. To him that
word means the same method in
school this year that was employed
last year. 1t means the same method
next year that was employed this
year,-and on forever.
Two or three times that man has
had control of the schools of Cordele,
and each time he went to that place
he did it by turning political tricks
that were planned in the dark, when
the good citizen who works in the
open was at his rest and unsuspecting.
He is there now against the will of
the good people of Cordele. They know
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already working He is there through
the political chacinery Of man who
can never open his heart to good
school for a child that is not his own
In our city schools we must resist
it with all the power in our souls
That kind of school management
must cease. This system is coming
from under such regime as surely as
the sun shines. There are too many
people now who know the value Of
good schools And in the country the
fathers and mothers must resent it.
They must have better schools for
their children The way must be open
ed for advancement.