The Newark journal., 1920-04-22
IN APPRECIATION OF MANY
 YEARS FAITHFUL SERVICE

YEARS FAITHFUL SERVICE
 The following letter was prompted by recent article in The Journal by Prof B. F. Cash on the Last Roll Call"
 Newark, Ark, April 8, 1920. MT. E F Cash. Retired Teacher,
 Newark. R. F. D. L,
 Dear Mr. Cash.-When l got my Jour nal this afternoon, the first thing to hold my eye was eThe Last Roll Call9 Before I had read the first paragraph something seemed to tell me that you had written 1t. When l had read 1t through, following you in my imagin= ation down the long vista of years of faithful and effective service in the school room, could not help wanting to tell you that somehow, someway I felt pefsnal loss in the fact that you are retiring from active service in the classroom Mir Cash, what Is to be the fate of our future genera tion if we lose such faithful men as yourself and fail to induce another bright mind to accept your mantle of service with all it's vicissitudes of trials and joys? We can't attract many such minds to the profession when those who have devoted a life time to it must retire in poverty so far as savings from their salaries are concerned
 Your efforts spent in vain The many men and women who tonight are loyal and happy citizens in our land, basking in the sunshine of love around the family hearth, and who owe their prosperity and happiness to your untiring efforts in the school room and to the leaven of your influ- ence which followed them out into the highways and hedges of life, are living examples of the fruits of your successful labor Surely you have left indelible footprints in the sands of time"
 Just think. A little more than as much again teaching for me and III be casting retrospective views thru the telescope of time back over the rugged hills and peaceful valleys of my own life spent in behalf of boys and girls. What a privilege to have a pant in the shaping destinies! And what an awful responsibility. Yet 1t is, to my mind, the gripping fascina- tion of just such intangible things as love of the work and submissive to the sense of duty to humanity that compel men to devote their lives to teaching Certainly 1t is not the Root of all evil' that holds anybody in classroom.
 But, tho money is a very essential element to happiness, it is by no means the crowning glory of beau tiful and successful life It seems to me that the consciousness of life spent in loving service in a meritor- ious work should be conductive toI peaceful meditation to the aged
 Very often when l get somewhat Respondent on account of the teach CTS poor remuneration in material things, turn to little book by Dr. J. R. Miller, "The Everyday of Life Therein l find consolation and inspir- aton. He says: "There are men who are never heard of on the street, whose names never appear in the newspapers, who do no conspicuous things, whose lives have no glittering peaks towering high, and yet the lev el plain of their years is rich with in its beauty and it's fruitfulness of love-" could pay you no better homage than to say l believe that sentence is a characteristic summary of your faithful life in the school room.
 As a eonsoling thought for earned