The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1920-02-11
GREAT TASKS FOR LINCOLN.
County Agent Legett Makes Recon-.
mendations As To How to Get
Best Results.

Lincoln county can live and pros
per only by doing things and get
ting results. The county is no stron-
ger than its weakest community
and some of our communities are
very weak. The great need now is
for active local leadership, co-opera-
tion and organization. Upon these
the strength and development of the
county depends.
Standing before us, like stone
wall are many great stubborn prob
lens. The people of our small one
teacher school districts cannot do
successful cooperation. There are
too few active local leaders, too few
men or women who want to do the
set fe kind CT work at the same time,
te0 poor educational facilities for
our boys and girls. There is little
hope of building a great and wor-
thy county until our boys and girls
are properly educated. This cannot
be done in our one-teacher schools as
they now exist. 1t is impossible for
one or two teachers to handle high
school work in our small schools. On
ly very few boys and girls will be
properly educated if they must leave
home in order to attend school.
Some of the great problems con-
fronting US may be largely solved
by combining two or more of our
small school districts. In well-plan-
ned consolidated school districts our
boys and girls will have the very best
of educational opportunities and ia
cilities. Any cooperative enterprise
will have a chance of success be-
cause there will be more live COM
munity leaders, more women, more
men and more money. There will be
pride and interest in the school by
all patrons and people of the COM
munity.
The coming together of the people
for business and pleasure at the
schools will create a spirit of coop
Grafton and farmers will begin to
get the real value for the fruits of
their toll. We may easily combine
the farm products of the county for
market. Our bulky products such as
feeds, fertilizers, fencing, farm ma
chinery, seed, ETC., can be bought at
wholesale prices at a great saving.
Do not form the idea that we do
not need good merchants, bankers
and business men. We must have
merchants, bankers and business men
but we need only those who will CO.
operate in every way with the farm
ers. When we look into our small
rural communities with their un-
painted, unscreened, and inconven-
tent homes. schools and churches we
realize that we have not received a
just consideration from the business
world. Then, when we stop to think
we know that the whole world is
depending on the farming class of
people, because, should agricultural
production stop for season the
whole world would almost starve.
We are not asking and working for
fortunes and pleasures gotten un-
justly, but we, do want good conso-
lidated schools, good churches, good
homes and square deal.
For the above reasons and for
many others we should consider Sc
riously and with thought the conso-
lidation and organization Of our
small school districts into better
school and community centers. Will
not our farmers, farm women, farm
boys and girls Of leadership begin to
work in this way? And then let us
continue to work, farmer, banker,
merchant and business man, all for a
well rounded, we'll organized coun-
ty.
Henry Legett, Co. Agt,