The Pulaskian., 1919-03-28
Pulaski COUNTY
MUST Be FIRST
ca SAYS EARL BROWN IN AP-
PEAL TO PULASKIANS FOR
RETTER EDUCATION.

In a recent interview, Earl Brown,
president of the Pulaski County
Rural Teachers Association, has
made an earnest and timely appeal
to Pulaski county parents and teach
ors for advancement in education in
Pulaski.
Mr.. Brown, in discussing the situa-
ton said:
GAS president of the Pulaski
County Rural Teachers Association,
we appeal to the teachers and patrons
of the rural districts of the county to
lend your aid in helping to make our
county first in education.
'To the patrons we would say: Be
not content to give your child no
better things than you yourselves
have had; but try to provide means
Z of education that will enable your
boys and girls to cope with other
BOYS and girls of the day. Time has
never demanded, and the world has
never needed educated men and
women more than today.
"Try to make school a part of the
children's lives. Try to make educa-
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education means a better and happier
life; a better social life; better bust
ness life; and above all a better
moral and a more useful life. Visit
your school. By doing so you show
! interest in your children, your
neighbours children, and also in your
] teacher. There is nothing makes the
teacher and children feel better than
8 for the father and mothers of the
district to visit the school.
"Do you remember, how you felt
when you were children in school
when father and mother dropped in
on Friday afternoon? How much
better you tried to do your work :?
How you would have liked to turn
8 the entire class down and walk up
head? The same ambitions that
prompted you may be hidden in your
child. Give us your cooperation and
help US prepare your boys and girls
for future usefulness.
ITO the teachers we would say:
As the patrons should cooperate with
/ US, even so we should cooperate with
one another. There is only one way
whereby we may cooperate. That is
through organization.
"On Tuesday of the County In
Stitute in June, the Pulaski County
Rural Teachers Association meets.
We hope every teacher, expectant
teacher and the school boards of the
rural districts will be there. Come
expecting to be benefited. Let's get
acquainted with each other. Learn to
know each other as persons as well
as teachers; discuss plans whereby
we may better our qualifications and
raise the standard of teaching. Let's
organize ourselves for better. When
we have accomplished the organiza-
ton of ourselves, we can organize
our schools, and the communities II
which they are. All in all we fee
that the organization of successful
Rural Teachers Association means
great step toward the advancement
OF education The success of the
association depends upon the IN
dlvldual teacher. Suppose we ASK
ourselves a few questions. Have
we done what we could to improve
the educational condition in the dis
trlcts in which we have taught? Are
we now doing what we should to I'M
prove the educational conditions II
our county and State? Have We
measured our powers to see what We
are able to do? Are our lives ideal
Are we setting forth the purest a11t
MODEST standard of education? If W.
cannot answer these questions in thu
alnrmative, we have no right to com
PLAIN of low wages. From this goot
Gay on, let's try to be wage earner'
ana not salary drawers"