The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-17

crime against our young people.
We owe the boys and girls rea-
sonably good teaching service. We
owe them schools through which they
may develop into men and women.
They cannot reach stages where the
real problems of life can be handled
honestly and fairly till they are made
to know the difference between
shams and realities. A make-belieye
is the worst thing that could ever be
palmed off on the children. They de-
tect 1t and get the idea that all life is
made of shams. Do you wonder that
the idea of false living, dishonesty
in business, infidelity to fellow man
in all lines of business grows with
modern advancement?
The home is the first atmosphere
in which the youngster awakes. If
that is wholesome,-if a sure sincere
ty and uprightness prevails there, it
will have a great deal to do with shap
ing the destiny of the child, but in
the school there is another atmos-
phere and surrounding which needs
guarding with the greatest OF care.
Who is guarding it for us? The shams
of the school room,-the practices
of stealing through in the examina-
tions, the shallow blowing" instruc-
ton, all tend to mislead. The boy
who goes out with his certificate Of
graduation should think it means
something and on the first call Tor
service he should be able to con-
vince himself that he has that much.
Suppose the first shock in the bust
ness work undoes him? Suppose in
college where he goes for future
training he finds he has nothing and
must start all over again? Suppose
he has lust Lick and a promise" at
the home school? How far will he go
in college where he is thrown into a
class with prepared students? What
ere his chances of keeping the pace?
Did you ever get it into your mind
that the poorly prepared boy is hard
to keep in college because he knows
he isn't prepared?
1t is the same way in the world.
Put the poorly prepared boy out
against efficiency and who wins? Ii
that boy has not a remarkable
amount of ginger and energy, he
tl,ows up the sponge and leaves.
Have you ever seen such thing oc-
cur? There is more of just that sort
of failure in training for the boy anu
girl Of today than ever in the history
of this country. 1t is following poor
schooling at home. That thing is
making soda water jerkers out of our
statesmen, out of our thinkers and
men of power and influence for the
future generations!
And the deplorable thing about it all
is that none of them make even eff
cient soda water jerkers! They may
be working today, but where are they
tomorrow? Their accounts may be
right tonight, but what of the NOR
row? In the school they were I'M
pressed with the shams and shadows
of life. How may we expect them to
be men so suddenly after leaving
school?
The man who is laying up mules
and lands for his children after he is
dead and gone is making mistakes
that will mark his own children
and their children for generations to
come. Intelligence is the thing. Real
education is the greatest need. They
would perfer good schooling to thou
sands in wealth. The education and
culture that is coupled with sincere
effort wins in every calling, in every
land, under every sun.
The good school teacher, the good
educator, has the greatest calling on
earth, nothing excepted. The good
school teacher is worth the salary
1t is a fatal mistake to try to GO