The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-03
THIS THING MUST COME

| Britain mas asked the Slate IeBlSld-
ture to take the position of county
school superintendent out of politics
and give each county the right to get
the best educational leader, no mat
ter from whence he comes. He has
made q wise request and one that
must be granted before Georgia rural
schools will ever amount to anything.
There isn't real educator at the
disposal of community sometimes.
There isn't one in half the rural coun-
ties in Georgia that can be consid-
cred qualified and competent That
blocks the efforts of school boards
where they want to do something
worth while But the Counties are
now required to elect resident Of
the county.
The children OF Crisp county will
not get their just dues in schooling
till an educator is provided. They
need an educator The Cordele city
! and rural systems shold be consoli-
! dated and "a. man with school manage
ment reduced to a science and on his
mind and heart should be placed in
chrage. That man will be worth a
salary of $500 to $4,000 year. 1t
will take figure within that range
, to bring one whose service counts, and
it will take some other changes,
among them modification of the
state laws which will make it possible
to secure an education.
But we need this educator. We have
boys and girls that are capable of
average advancement. They are to be
the men and women of the future.
They know now the difference be-
tween shams and penny-grubbing
school methods and real business
like system,-they know. You may
think you are going to fool that boy
who wasn't in school this year back
into the ranks, but you are not. He
knows. Usually, if you have care
enough to watch for it, you will get
his reasons for lack of faith in the
school he has to attend. They are
fair ones.
This need not be taken as any
thrust at the present system. 1t is
not so aimed or intended.
Secretary f. II. Abbott of the Geor
gia Landowners Association makes
an appeal for more schools and bet
ter schools for the farmer girls and
/ boys in letter which he recently
wrote to the state school superinten-
dent.
Here is a striking paragraph from it:
THE chief resource of any state
c:.,sx,, ~.
citizens. ignorance stands out as
the greatest of all obstacles III
limiting progress. The school is
the states chief agency upon
which it must rely to remove
this obstacle. Until ideals and
standards of life are raised on a
bulk of the farms in Georgia,
farmers are not going to discard
the one-mule pillow and paint and
school must become the medium
for providing these higher stand
ards and bringing about a farm
economy that will turn the pres
and farm girls from the town
back to the farm to check the
dangerous tendency toward farm
tenantry in the country
1t will take the real educator and
patrons in consolidated effort to
give the citizens of our county what
the boys and girls need and deserve.
All of us can we'll afford to pay man
with educational service on his heart,
Such leader can get something out
of the poorly paid teachers we have
to employ and keep the whole county
with united front for nine months in
the year.-and such a man can get
the children into the schools. Then
we can claim real school advance
ment and with that we might reason
ably be happy. for good school sys
TEN is a rare thing in the south 1t
would be economy and real progress.
Shall we say it once more,-there is
nothing deserving our attention more