The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-12-02
WHAT CAN ANTHONY DO

thought of the same thing along with |
me. Anthony has proven to be one of
the healthiest towns in the state Of
Florida. And if a few of the other
towns viii allow me, viii say that
that Anthony ships from its farms
more truck than any other town Of its
size in the state.
As gazed upon the pretty display
of farm products exhibited at the
: Marion County Fair this year repre-
!. senting this community and the An
!: thony school, I thought of Anthony
!. as a miser, who has plenty of money
and who was afraid to let one cent go,
: feyen If it would double its value with
interest.
The question has been asked, what
:: can Anthony do? /, for one, am afraid
. that Anthony will never increase its
: population much higher than it is at
: the present time, and that it will not
at any time be of any interest to the
homeseekers, unless the citizens of
{: the Anthony school district cooperate
!: ard build for themselves and the COM
; ing generation schoolhouse that will
J be of real credit to the neighborhood.
Anthony needs for its children a
: schoolhouse that has the required
/: number of rooms. one that viii allow
: the principal and the teachers to car
ny out the full required high school
fcnurse, without so much trouble, which
IS due to lack of rooms and blackboard
: ispace.
!: What makes good school? For one
!: thing good school, to my way of
I: thinking, is school that teaches boys
: ard girls to be good citizens of the
: particular place in which they live.
y Now if all the people of Anthony lived
!: IN Greenland and they wanted their
|: children to stay there, / would call it
|: q poor school if it taught only Latin,
z Greek, algebra and French. even if
2 the principal was Prof. Woodrow Will
J som and all the teachers were grad
g iuates of Yale and Harvard. Because
I. these branches of learning would not
I: be of much use to US up there. But if
/: they taught along with the other
z studies, the art of how to catch the
3 animals of the frigid zone, and how to
= live in it and be more healthy, then /
& would consider that good school that
= carries practical knowledge along with
I: theo Their work.
/: But out here at Anthony. a small
z town situated in the country, / call it
: good school if it fits the boys and
b girls who live here, if it teaches them
q how to farm better, how to make more
I: corn and spuds to an acre. with the
I: same labor and expense; how to make
/. orange and peach trees grow and
J. bear, and if it brings the farmers of
, the neighborhood closer together in a
8 social way.
"a A school of this kind is worthy of
4: being called an Al school, You know
Z: there is sort of an epidemic among
" the young folks of today, that causes
. them to want to go of to town and
IS leave the farm. 1t seems to be like an
s old hen Matching out brood of ducks
Z: She may raise them. care for them
4: love them, but just as soon as they
4: reach the age they go to the creek t.
9: take swim, then the old hen car
O. stand on the bank and call and coax
k but they won't come back.
* A great number of the farmers are
4: just like that old hen; they raise theil
Y: children just to have them SWALLOWED
i: IuE by the city, asssoon as they gee
% Icf age. If the school that the boy
. and girls went to had been well fixeG
As $50 that the teacher could have got tn
4: boy or girl interested in the agricul
N: tural line, then probably that boy O.
u: girl would have remained on the farm
W Anthony has always had good teach
@ teachers who did great work i
- the community. but there is no ques
As ftion but that they could have don
az more if they had had the require,
II: rooms and the grounds under bette
u. fence so that they could have had no
8. only book references but carried o.
% actual experiments with the pupils il
'As agricultural work
80 am sure that some one has said
'.' "You don't stop TO think that all o
W this will cost more money and taxes.
~ Yes, | realize that it will, but what i
q the difference in giving little none
~ on the school here at Anthony, some
y: thing that will build up the commu
u: nifty, or letting your son or daughte
80 spend their younger years of life her
81. Ia poorly equipped school. and whe
ne or she goes out to face the worl
- be saddened by the fact that they ar
~ lot fully qualified. Or, in other word.
y: send them here to school for 10 or L
n: years and at the close of that tim
81: have to send them away to som
- other school. just to learn what the
~ could have learned at their own hom
:G school if the school had been properl
SYs equipped for a thorouDh eourua =