The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-06-03
The ONE SYSTEM IDEA.

SCHOOLS OF CfiSp! Ben Hill county mas
this thing up and is studying it right
now. Dooly has it in mind and 1t is
d scussed in this weeks issue of the
Vienna News There the superintend-
ent is handling it with the people. A
good man he must be. Laurens coun-
ty is at work on it. The Progressive
citizens and school authorities there
have it in hand.
Now, what many citizens of Crisp
would like to see is the same thing
being worked out heie This is mat
ter that all factions can afford to
work for. 1t is a school improvement
worth the having. If by some straight
forward move we could clear the OBJ
stacles, within a very brief period
of time our school children all over
the county would be enjoying the
best elementary training to be had.
That's what all of us want.
The one system for the county is
worth having. No matter who you are,
il you will get your mind on this thing
and study it out, you will want the
one system. Then tell your friends on
the board. That will bring them
around If it is done quite often.
The Dispatch wants to urge you to
get on this and work it. Let the old
political scores go by the board. We
have nothing we want to even up on
the schools. 1t is a serious mistake to
tear up the schools Just to root out
the good that has been accomplished
by cheers when the boss was not in
power
Our school boss has never been will
ing to give the Dispatch standing
room in the community. 1t is pretty
well settled that he does not intend to
do that, and he is quite sure that we
have 10 business saying word about
the schools. Well, he's wrong.
The Dispatch is pledged to just such
things as school improvements in the
community and the county. 1t wants
to urSe now that the boss is wrong
when he tells you that it is only the
ri'll counties that can have the good
so,io; systems. Bib county adopted
tlie ,t:y system we have lately urged
here -rty years ago. The county was
then 10 more wealthy than is Crisp
today. The system is so admirable
in its working that there has been
no need of any material changes in
tbs leng period of time. A quarter of
IL cen Try ago Bibb had the best
scloc,5 in Georgia. 1t still has them.
And l. zen, reader! The school taxes
Levied here have never been as high
AS th6y are in Crisp today.
Tha system has more territory to
cover than lies within Crisp county.
1t has some of the best schools in it's
rural mmunities that can be found
in Georgia, 1t has one superintend-
ent ard one board CT education. There
are n assistants. There is princi.
pal in every school and each school
is era ed the same as the other, with.
in ana without the city limits. There
is no city wall. The boy and girl in
the C Intry get the same schooling as
the boy and girl in the city The peo-
pie of Bibb county would not give up
thier system for any other on earth.
They have faith in their board of ed
ucatiol and their superintendent. This
later official uatc f,Opc;doro hlx, loco
money for his services than Crisp
county has paid its two superintend-
ents the past several years. For the
past ,wenty years Bibb has always
had "a leading Georgia educator as
super ltendent of its schools.
A school board member in Bibb
serves for life The citizens of high
est standing in the county go to mem.
bershir. When there is vacancy for
any Jason, the board itself fills the
place. The entire county is repre-.
on the board membership and
when citizen of one section of the
county goes off by death or other rea-
son. a successor from that section
'akes his place.
The editor of The Dispatch knows