The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-29

MAKES STATEMENT
ON SCHOOL OPENING
Superintendent Capllnger Makes Ex-
PLANTATION In Regard to Opening
Of the City Schools.

City superintendent w. ]. Capling-
err yesterday issued the following
statement in regard to the opening Of
city schools on next Tuesday:
Tuesday morning, September 3, will
witness the opening of the Maysville
Schools. We are anticipating the
usual enrolment. We trust that par
ents will not permit children that are
sixteen years of age to drop out of
High School simply because they can
get good wages doing mems work.
know that under the existing condi-
tions, when wages are high, there is
great temptation to many to allow
the dollar in the immediate view to
| cover the ability of making several
dollars in a more remote period. It
is said that you can take dime and
by holding 1t close to your. eye can
cover the sun. Sometimes parents
get an abnormal idea of the import
ance of the immediate dollar and al
low it to fore-shadow the preparation
afrordlng the ability to make many
times that amount. Yesterdays paper
stated that High School boys over IS
are expected TO finish their High
School work and graduate. To be
sure, they will have to register when
Registration Day comes, but will, no
doubt, be given deferred classification
until they have completed their High
School course. This war has no par
allel in its demands for people with
brains. in fact, the wars of today
are merely gigantic struggles of the
will power and intelligence or the
| great nations.
We have full High School faculty
which bids fair to be the equal of any
in the history of the school. Our new
English teacher taught English in
college last year. The History teach
err, in addition to having taught His
tory for the last seven years at Fort
Wayne, Indiana, has Travelled twice in
Europe and the Orient studying and
lecturing. Our Science teacher not
only has B. S. but and NJ. s. degree
as well. The Commercial man grad.
uated from Bowling Green Business
University. the largest Business Uni
versity in the South and if | mistake
not, the largest one yin the United
States. He has had several years ex
perience teaching and comes to us
highly recommended, Mr. James Mel
ton, who is in charge of the Manua
Training work, has had twelve years
experience in planning mills and furnl
ture factories and knows thoroughly
the problems of woodwork. Oul
teachers in Mathematics and Science
and myself will see that the mathe
mates and mechanical drawing is
correlated with the work shop work
of Mr. Melton
| We expect every pupil to go to the
building In the district in which he
resides, with the exception that al
third and fifth grade pupils below the
Bridge, attend the First District
building and while all fourth and
sixth graders attend at the High
School building. After we have en-
rolled and school has been In prog
ress few days, If we find some rooms
too crowded and others below the
normal attendance, pupils will then
be shifted and where such changes
are made it will be my policy to try
to make those changes conform with
the wishes of the parents just as
largely as possible. We are having
all of the buildings thoroughly clean
ed and will be fumlgated just prev
ious to the opening of school. | trust
that after having read this in the pa
pers, it will be unnecessary for pa
irons to be calling this office asking
concerning the time of the opening OF
school.
Yours respectfully,
| W. ], CAPLINGER,