The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-11-14
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ne SonmunityB bept TO tno oCnooios
Fifty. perhaps twenty-five years ago,
people were discussing the debt which
the school owed to the community. 1t
was not an uncommon thing for a
Dragging taxpayer to boast of the
fact that the teachers of the schools
were indebted to him for their daily
bread--to make even the teachers feel
that they were paid their wages mainly
through the charity of the community
in which they taught. The schools in
the small towns and villages were rude
structures with no conveniences. The
people would have considered 1t a
sinful waste OF money to put in mod
ern improvements, such as scientific
laboratories. gymnasiums and special
vocational courses. Even in the cities
when these things were granted, II was
usually with the air OF humoring few
foolish dreamers.
But how these ideas have changed
IN the past few years A good school
Is a live wire in any community, They
have greater connection with the
outside world than almost any other
unit in the community and their Spirit
is more widely felt If that spirit is O
boosting spirit the results are surpris-
ing. After graduation the students go
their various ways-some to college or
professional schools-some to farm or
otherwise make their living in other
communities. If they go with a spirit
to boost their home town what tree
mendous advantage 1t is for that town.
Think of the people they will meet who
are perhaps looking for just such a
town. And the teachers, what OF them?
They are constantly changing their
positions, and If you have treated them
as you should and they see that,your
town is a live and growing thing they
are not going to keep still about it
when they go to another community to
teach Neither will they keep still If
the opposite condition is true.
This is only one OF the advantages
of good schools-and we might say a
minor one. Think OF the good citizens
your school gives you. Think how it
builds up your young peoples civic
pride-how 1t teaches them right
thinking and right living. And 1t is
only by right thinking and right living
that we can ever hope to achieve sue
cess for ourselves or for our town or
for our country. Don't grow hard
shelled" toward the blessings of good
school in your community, for they
are many and varied.
Many young people. and older ones
too for that matter, take very strange
attitude toward their work--their
'.jobs" perhaps we should say. In THE
first place, since those of US who have
f,,- lx,tx, hn gro for
part OF our lives at 1t. our work should
interest us, or our lives will not inter-
est us. Most of us are actually working
at least eight hours a day, and eight
hours we spend in sleep supposedly.
That leaves us eight hours to eat, tend
to few necessary things. and get what
amusement we can out OF life, suppos-
ing that we find our work uninterest-
ing. Knowing this. why is It that so
many people take work simply for a
job and they do not seem to care par
ticularly whether 1t interests them or
not. 1t is merely job, and they look
forward to closing time as IL 1t meant
a release from prison. Now there are
plenty OF jobs in the world, jobs to fit
all kinds of people, and you might just
as well be enjoying those eight hours
that you spend each day working, as
to have them drag their slow and I'M
interesting way TO an end. Get job
that fits you and then keep it.
This idea Of changing Jobs is very
wrong one but 1t is evidently quite
common. It is poor policy to follow
for several reasons. In the first place,
IL is a poor recommendation to any
employer. Even though you may have