The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-05-17

tai advantage. In the country these
are minus quantities. The church
is the only place TO go, and of course
the majority go. In the city a large
part of the population instead of go
ing to the churches go out into the
country to spend a restful day
perhaps to the country clubs.
The city is the home of evil and
vice. There are dancing halls. pic
ture shows and every other cheap
amusement. While the city fellow
is engaged in beholding the very
elevating picture entitled 1.-THE Ad-
ventures of Desperate Ambrose" or
1.-The Wife He Couldn't Buy" his
country cousin is employed in read
ing good books that will develop
both mentally and morally and in
observing the beauties OF nature.
And then, you remember, 1.-THE
groves were Gods first temples. :"
Before man learned to hew the shaft
and build the roof above him he
worshipped in the woods and in the
secret places. When Shakespeare
spoke of sermons in stones, books in
the running brooks, tongues in trees
and God in everything, he wasn't
talking about the stones in the
streets of London, the water in the
cutters, or the trees in the florists
shop, but rather of those things in
Gods great out-of-doors.
Resolved that country life has
more advantages in a physical, men
tai and moral way than city life.
Negative-Vieva Roper.
Honorable judges, teachers and
fellow classmates: Our opponents
say that country life has more ad-
vantages than city life. We shall
try to prove to you that city life
has as many if not more advantages
than country life and we think it
will be an easy matter to prove that
it has more.
You know that if you ask people
their opinion on the subject they
will usually tell you they think the
country has more advantages, but
they are continually moving to town.
Why is that? They must find some
advantage there that they don't have
in the country.
One reason is on account of the
schools-for educational purposes.
They find the need of mental devel-
opment-developm which cannot
be attained in the country. The
schools there are not up to the stan
dard of city schools. Many times
the teachers are not efficient, for
there is not as much care taken in
selecting the teachers for the rural
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not as long in the country. For this
reason they cannot advance the pu-
pills as far nor teach as thoroly as
in the city schools.
Another disadvantage in the coun-
try is the difficulty in reaching the
schools. Here they are far apart,
and as most children have to walk it
places those at a great disadvantage
who live far from the schoolhouses,
especially the small children. 1t is
true that in some places they have
wagons to go around and collect the
children, but that is done in only
small per cent of all the schools in
the country. What are the other
children to do? They do without.
On the other hand the city schools
are easily reached and any child in
the city who has the desire to do so
can obtain an education. If he does
not have the money to buy books
there is always some kind of work
he can do out of school hours, sell
ing papers or number of things.
My opponent has said that there is
difference between schooling and
education. That may be true, but
you will admit that schooling goes
far toward getting an education, and
II one has the schooling it is much
easier to get an education.
And another great advantage of
the city schools is vocational train
ing, which, l think, is needed in
every school, country as well as city.
But this cannot be had in the coun-
try for several reasons, among which
are the lack of money and the COM
paratively small attendance. Where
this system is adopted there must be
large number of pupils. The city
has the money and the pupils and it
is being adopted in most of the city
schools.
Now let us talk of the churches.
Here again the country is at a dis
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the churches as it is to the schools.
And then as rule country churches
only have services once a month,
some of them twice; while in the
city, everywhere, churches stand
open every Sunday and several times
during the week. They have their
different societies and among the
most important of these are the
young peoples societies, for they
bring the young people into closer
interest with the church In the
country, although some churches
have formed these societies, by far
the greater number have not.
And this brings us to the social |
life. What is the social life in the |
country as compared with that of
the city? On account of the distance
between neighbors, social inter-
course is necessarily limited.
Again, the people in the city have
the advantage of seeing good plays,
of hearing the best of music, lee
lures and lyceum courses. None of
these can be had in the country.
Now, to pass to the physical side
of the question. Where do we need
stronger proof of the advantages of
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