The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-05-23
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES

The following is a list of pupils of
the Elvins schools recently receiving
attendance certificates from this Of
| flee: Elsie May Grey, Helen Sibole,
Leslie Maurer, Levina Hampton, Be
atrice Downward, Leslie Lee Clemens,
Stella Frances Grieshaber, Roman
Reese, Raymond Elvins, Ralph Gray,
Edmund Richards, Lloyd Wadloy,
Charles Meadows, Hattie Reece and
Harold Hartshorn.
The Doe Run Board of Education
has elected the following list of
teachers for next year: 7. E. Joyce,
superintendent; T. E. Gideon and Miss
Emily Matkin, high school depart
ment; Mrs. Florence Boord, 7th and
8th grades; Miss Julia Self, 5tn and
9th grades, Miss Maude Downs, Bird
and 4th grades and Miss Florence
Lewis, 1st and End grades
missouri ranks thirty-second in
educational opportunities and support
of her public schools, taking country
and city schools together. But she is
seventh in wealth. She is fifth in ag-
ricultural products, yet with vast I'M
developed agricultural possibilities.
She produces more poultry than any
other State-the total annual receipts
from the chickens, turkeys, ducks and
geese would pay the running expenses
of her schools for more than four
years. Missouri is first in purebred
stock, second in mules, third in hogs
and corn, and first in lead and zinc
position in the commercial world of
which any State might justly be
proud; but she stands thirty second in
education.
at is not the fault of Missouri's
resources that she stands thirty-sec-
ond out of the forty-eight States in the
rank of her educational opportunities.
Missouri is but the reflection of her
people. What she is and what she
does is purely a human problem.
"The public school is the most vital
of all our institutions to the life of
the Nation. Everywhere history tells
the story of death and decay in those
nations that failed to educate proper
ly. When education is wrong, every
thing is wrong. Where there is no
vision the people perish The schools
are the eyes through which the people
look into the future. Missouri is not
living up to her possibilities. She will
not become the great State that Ma
ture intended her to be until she rem
ders adequate support to and makes
proper use of her country schools.
"When we reflect that Kansas City
and st. Louis and many of the small
err cities and towns have excellent and
well supported schools, we are forced
to the conclusion that Missouri's low
rang is due to the low standards of the
country schools. If all the facts were
known, Missouri's country schools
would rank even lower than thirty
second.
"In value of school property per
child, Missouri ranks twenty fifth,
having $61 invested, while Massachu-
sets has $104. In money spent per
capita of total population she is thir-
teenth, while her neighbor State,
Iowa, is eighth. The Missouri child
must get along with only $40 for its
education each year, while his cousin
across the line has the advantages
that, can be purchased with $36. Each
$10O of Missouri's wealth is called up
on to give twenty-five cents each year
to the education of Missouri's boys
and girls, while Massachusetts,, a
state of concentrated wealth, is called
upon to give thirty-six cents of each
500 of its wealth for its schools"
J. CLYDE AKERS,
County Supt. of Schools.