The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-18
MONEY! QUIT
WORK AND CO TO
EARLY'S SCHOOL
COOkeville Institution Costs
Less for Pupils to Attend
Than Average Person Loses
at Work.

Prof. Thomas A, Early. president Of
the COokeville Polytechnic institute.
called on The News Sclmitar Thursday
evening and demanded, with a smile on
his face and an 1l-cent cigar in his
hand, to know who was responsible for
an article appearing in The News Scim-
itar some weeks ago. while a bill vas
pending in the legislature to take a
goodly sum from the state normals n
give a part Of it to the c. P. l.. in
which said institution was referred TO
as the little school with the big
name
His explanation was good enough to
be true. He spoke SO e%loquently and
me cigar was so satisfying that he
might have matriculated the reporter
II he had been scouting for pupils. Ac-
cordlng to Prof. Eatly's figures a man
working for a moderate wage can save
money in these days of inflated prices
by Chucking the job and spending a
year or SO In the COOkeville school. In
fact, the average annual deficit of the
man working for a salary dts different
with the wage earner) is greater than
the entire cost of a years schooling In
Putnam county.
A student in Cookeville school has an
annual expense of about $3.50 a year.
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Cookeville, and Cookeville Is no piker
town. 1t has n citizenship Of Judge
Landsden and 2,999 others. Of whom
any community might be proud.
' The school, with &c acres Of land,
which is not enough to he a burden,
two auditoriums, two dormitories. shop
building, etc, is valued at $3.50, 900,
CoOkeville n Putnam county donated
the school and the citizens raised $l10,-
600, which left a debt Of $15, 900 to be
4 poiI hHr Ahn utofa IL VNro~ mold In thu
first six months OF the schools opera,
ton out of the school funds.
The school has an enrolment Of 445
and operates on a revenue of about
$2S 1000; This year it will get more,
the state only about $40 a year for each
I pupil in the school. The cost of living
Is remarkably low. Cookeville Is a
great egg and poultry market. There
are many ways Of raising chickens and
school boys admittedly have one Of the
best. Large quantities Of eggs are
brought to Cookeville to be exported to
the United States M some shippers
find 1t more economical to sell at
C~ookeville prices than to pay, ocean
rates down the Cumberland river to
Nashville and take the risk Of break
age and other losses that frequently
result from long range business trans
actions.
Prof, Early is a practical man. He
DeleVeH III WhhllB the SluuchlS WI N
That Is the difference between & prac-
teal man and an impractical man. II
the school. needs a new building Prof.
Early organizes a class In carpentry
and builds it. If the cattle need at
%tention he organizes a class in animal
husbandry. 1t Is a practically school,
says Prof. Early, doing things in a
practical way.
Prof. Early was on his way to Water
Valley, Miss, his boyhood home. He
has not been there for three years. He
Is a graduate of Mississippi Agrt,ul-
tural and Mechanical college, worked In
the corn club organization in Mtssis-
sippi several years and before taking
the presidency Of the Cookeyille schooI
corn dubbed the people of West Ten
nessee to good advantage.
He dropped into the newspaper office
to say that he knew. nothing, Of thu
bill to take away funds from the Nor
NAL schools and was not In favor o.
the bill, and II any of his friends
thought otherwise he wanted to Sc
them right.