The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-30
The BEST IN SCHOOL.

From The Atlanta Constitution:
THE best we can do in school is
to provide the best" is an epigram-
matte truism taken from a straight
frOmthe.Shoulder editorial in which
The Cordele (Ga.) Dispatch takes the
taxpayers Of Crisp county severely to
task for the inadequacy of the educa-
tional facilities which they provide
for their sons. and daughters.
The point of the editorial is that
no matter how deeply concerned, how
conscientious or how proficient a
teacher may be, she cannot do the
best work of which she is capable,
nor hold the interest of her pupils in
their studies, unless she has adequate
and sufficient appliances with which
to work-unless, in other words, she
Is given a bright, neat, well,kept and
well-equipped workshop in HIGH to
pursue her high calling.
Both parents and children" ar
CUES The Dispatch, lose interest and
fall out of the ranks when they find
! there is no real school,, and no school
can be a real school which is run un-
der misery, penny.skimping, money
saving policy.
NO amount persuasion, no rigid
law compelling attendance, no other
power" declares the Cora &c newspa.
per- will keep the children in schools
that are not schools" and the tragedy
of all local tragedies is our lack of
efficient schooling for the young"
No fortuneti however, great" says
The Dispatch
can compare with the value of the
childs schooling and the young mans
education, or the young woman'S
education. 1t takes an education to
put the youth truly in position for
finding where God has intended him.
1t takes college training to equip
him to work there with success. 1t
requires real training, the kind the
youth himself knows is no sham. 1t
takes it from the start, real training,
vitality efficient training, training
with an individual flavor to it, to
make life count for something.
And the Crisp county taxpayer Is
mercilessly bombarded with the fol
lowing rapid-fire of questions:
Are you still trying to lay aside a
few dollars for your boy? Have you
thought of his schooling? Do you care
anything about it? Do you know you
are swindling him and fooling your
self without end at your present pace?
Do you know you are not fooling him?
He knows the difference between real
training and mockery-shallow plow-
ing! Are you willing for him to start
life literally surrounded by shams?
The editorial closes with this
striking appeal:
Think Of it. taxpayers! You've.
reached the time where education and
intensified training count. That was
always the case, but it is now come
time when your uneducated boy
and uneducated girl must stand in
the rear and watch the advance, as
it is taken by those who have train
ing. Shake that idea that you are
doing we'll enough. Efficient training
is the best asset the child can ever
have when he goes to the battle Of
life.
What The Cordele Dispatch says
is true-every word of it-true and
constructive.
Undoubtedly it was deserved and
timely as applying to local conditions
but The Constitution takes this ocs
casion to broaden the scope of its
applicability to include all of those
rural districts in Georgia whose
school funds are not amplifield by
local county school taxation, supple
mentary to those that are derived
from the state.
Every word that The Cordele Dis
patch has said is as true of every
non-lOcal taxation county as it is to