The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1919-11-21

In all towns there are two classes
of people. There are those who are
boosters and there are those who
are knockers. 1t lis unfortunate
that the people of Mariana do not
take more active part in the
school life of the town, and become
boosters of the school. Sometimes
we wonder just how many people
there are in Mariana who know
what kind of school they are send
ing their children to. We wonder
if they ever visit the school to see
if it is kept in sanitary condition
for their children. We wonder il
they keep in touch with the teach
ers of their children and extend to
them the cooperation they deserve.
Every year boys and girls leave
Mariana and go away to the diff.
ferent prep. schools in this country.
Hundreds of dollars are spent that
ought to be saved. Do they get a
better education in the prep.
schools than they get in our own
M.H.S.? They do not. What they
do get, in many cases, is lot of
expensive habits; sometimes ways to
cut classes, and if they are studious
and attend to their business, they
get practically what they would get
here. Let us. assume that every
boy and girl that leaves Mariana
for the prep. schools graduate from
them. Is their prep, school diploma
worth any more to them than a
diploma from the Mis-? 1t is
not, and in most cases it isn't worth
as much. The Mariana high school
is one of the four accredited high
schools in the eastern part of this
state. 1t stands higher than For
rest City, Wynne, Blytheville, Os-
eeola, Brinkley or any of the other
towns rated in the same class with
Mariana, with the exception of
Helena, Paragould and Jonesboro.
A diploma from the M.H.S. will en-
ter a student in all of the larger
universities and colleges in the
south without an examination, in
cluding Washington and Lee, the
universities of Arkansas, Mississippi,
Tennessee. Alabama, Tulane, Geor-
gia Tech, Vanderbilt and Texas.
What is the use of going off to a
prep. school when you can get a
better education right here at home!
Some of the boys and girls who go
away to school have fathers that
are among the heaviest taxpayers in
Lee county. Do they stop paying
their school tax when they send
their children away to school? If
the school isn't good enough for the
Mariana children, let's make 1T
good enough. If the faculty isn't
good enough, let's get new fac
ulty (and we would like to see you
get a better faculty.. We admit
the building isn't good or rather big
enough, so let's get in behind the
board and get that new building.
Let's keep Mariana boys and girls
in Mariana, and let them work for
Mariana. Right now, our football
team is handicapped because OF the
lack of larger boys. The boys that
should be playing for ~M.H.S. are
playing for several prep. schools.
If we are ever to have better
school conditions in Mariana, the
people of the town VIII nave 10
wake up and take an interest IN the
school and become boosters instead
of knockers.
There are numerous things that
one may do in order to become q
booster. If you are patron OF
the school, see that your children
put in sufficient time on their stuo- I
les at home and cooperate with the
toschers See that their attendance
is regular and punctual. Visit your you :
children during school hours. Inc
teachers will always be glad to have
you.
If you will come to the school d
and see the grade of work that Is
being turned out you will immedi-
ately turn into booster, if you are
knocker. Send your children TO
vour home school and save money.
Give them a better education IN
College with the money that you
I..~ erorf IN them in prep.