Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-09-29
CRossvLLE. TENNESSEE. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER

land County can provide, then in the
name OF heaven, get every boy and
girl in the county, round them up.
miss no one and make hose four
months a period of the most inten-
slve study held in any school in the
| countrq. Make it a feast like that
OF which Christ spoke of when many
refusing to come, he said go into
the highways and hedges and com
pei them to come in"
Now, at the beginning of the
school term is the time to put this
compulsory school law in force, and
the man to do it for you is the tru-
ant officer; if ever a person had a re-
sponsible position, he has; and if he
DOESN'T attend to it, he ought to be
dismissed. His job is to see that
children of school age attend school.
1t may not be delightful task, but
IL is necessary one-so necessary
That the man who does it should be
chosen with the greatest care.
Men get their offices in these days
sametlmes because they are popular
or because they belong to the win
ming political party, and it is not in
frequent that an Office holder thinks
that to take the money is the princi-
pal duty of his office; but the real
and only reason for giving a man a
office whatsoever is his efficieincyj
and willingness to work Any man
who is perfectly agreeable to taking
$300-a full teachers salary, the
salary of a little woman who is on
the job all day every school day in
the week, every week of the school
year-for rounding up delinquents
and doesn't turn in full worth of re-
suits ought tohave his job taken from
him, or the office which he occupies
should be discontinued from the lack
of the need of it. Ges results or
,ounce your truaut officer. Let him
get busy, that would be far prefera-
BILE; he's good fellow.
But now Mr.. Editor we've come to
the cfux~ of the whole matter. Up.
on my word, the roads in your coun--
ty are the limit. l drove over them
q month or 50 ago when the dustf
was so thick that with every autoic.s
bile or team chat passed, the clouds
so ascended on all sides that the sun
was turned into blood and it looked
sure enough like the Day of judy
rnent was at hand, or maybe the
Hindenberg hordes with caterpillar
tractors were coming behind screen
of dense smoke.
Then came ther ain, and all that
dust was turned into mud through
which to pass had to roll up my
trousers to my knees and ankle deep
wallow through it for seven and a
half miles to my destination. Nov
please tell what heart can truant Of
ficer put into his work or what in tn
name of common sense is the use OF
paying $500 of those precious school
funds to compel children to attend
school when they can't get through
the mud, and if they could in the
colder weather they would be in
first class condition to get bronchlt-
IS, tonsilitis, the flu, pneumonia and
oright's disease, sitting all day IN
water soaked shoes and stockings.
want to say great many things
about improving your schools, but
what is the use of wasting time and
printers ink if the roads are so bad
,alf the time the children can't get
here. The teachers tell me: We'll
hey come pretty faithful until it BE-
rims to get cold and the wet weather
les in and then the smaller ones have
o stay at home, and there is gradu-
Il dropping off and we hardly have
Good roads are at the
,asis of practically everything worth
While in the cimmunity; over them
,ou haul your farm produce; over
hem you carry your lumber; over
hem the travelling public goes
ourists, drummers bringing with
hem in thei rautomobiles samples
f their fine goods; over them the
hildren must go to and from the
chools to which they are sent.
he whole world has adopted the
1odern road it's means of inter-
curse and so long as you Withhold
ood highways so long will you be
hut out from the world and the ad-
antages which commerce can bri ig
ou; and so long must your schools,
rort though the trems may be-re-
lain untitled, unattended while your
ONES are teeming with children up
n whom Cumberland County is de-
ending for it's future.
A Student of Mountain Problems.