El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-10
The Morning RainbOw.


IT WAS the little boy called key.
] whose name is James, who shouted
forth. on, the sky is fun OF pieces
or rainbow and brought Us 20 our
porches 70 see, for there was the
ring OF truth In his voice, key IL
over four years old and e very solid
and respectable citizen. one worth
listening TO- He had said IL exactly.
Thursday morning about o'clock the
sky almost straight overhead was
ful Of pieces Of rainbow. i would
nave taken g groWnup a week 70 put
II in less than ten words. but key
said it right off The sky was blue
swept over with fleecy clouds and two
or three bits OF broken rainbow shone
in the cloud masses. They shifted
enec and softeneQ and some times
showed the round OF the inverted
arch ana other times were mere
splinters Of The bow. And look. ,
says key, -the little suns And
there were round shining spots IN
the thin places in the web Of clouds
that looked like little suns They
were shiny and almost irldescent
5nemseilyss- = vas oeautilpl by.
The neighborhOod was fortunate that
L had a five-year-oiG on the watch.
GroWnups were coming and going up
and down the hill, automobiles which
are 10 folks what binders are 20 a
horse were hurrying the world along.
terrace watching, who caught the
moment and gave II 70 the neigh
bors.
Morning rainbows are supposed TO
mean the world is coming 70 an end,
but one sees them occasionally, and
the world goes on as usual In the
winter with snow on the ground a
Z o'clock in the morning rainbow does
look as though Il meant some
thing extra but last December, when
there vas prophecy OF the world
coming 70 an end anyway, there was
q Z o'clock IN the morning rainbow
bending over the world, most unnat-
urally lifting its summer look over
the ice and snow OF an eastern city,
and seeming 20 confirm the prophecy.
Many said the world would surely
end and one man sold his tn lizzie.
but nothing happened However, any
rainbow ought to remind anyone that
there iE more Ia the world than get
ting and spending. A few years ago
Fl Paso had a rainbow by moon
light 50 beautiful, so serene, 90 mys-
tic that at least one Fl Pasoau has
ever since been struggling 20 tell
just how lovely the vision was And
sometimes there are noon raiubowE.
bright circles around the sur they
say.
The best thing Fl Paso can do for
e Paso, for the world, for now and
hereafter. for pride today and credit
On judgment day. Is 70 put her public
schools in order They are not bad
schools by a long ways, the build
iugs are creditable, the teachers as
q body are good, and many are
geniuses at teaching, many have
shown the highest devotion 10 the
art e Paso has spent a good deal
Of money and broad mindedness on
her school equipment and school
problems, but the schools are ike
the public schools in every city IN the
country-pretty good schools, but not
half good enough. Crowded, teach
ers orerWorked, dlcipline nervous
and unequal scholarship hasty and
superficial Fortunately for all Of
Us, children educate themselves
mostly. all except the handicapped
ones, they have 70 be carried along.
But the public schools ought 70 mean
more We ought to have better con-
c1Uons, better work. To make them
mean more there ought to be first
OF all more schools. ard secondly
more well-paid teachers. Forty or
fifty children are too many for any
teacher % carry along through the
classes that require thinking and
reasoning. The child does not get
his due and the teacher certainly
does not have the best chance 10
teach E McE. s.