The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-06
TO MAKE SURVEY RAH RAH WITH DAD
Harand Bartholomew Of ST. Kansas Children WIN Take Up
Louis Visit Topeka. College Course With Father.
VIII Begin Preliminary Work Miller of Protection, CO.
of City Planning. manche Co, After Education.
MAKES PL ANS FOR MANY CITIES HE IS FARMING 24O ACRES
Has Been Engineer for City of Has Taken Time to Gull
st. Louis Five tvate Books, Languages
Work VIII Require Several Begins Course State Agrcul
Years to Complete. turaI College in Winter
Kansas Children WIN Take Up
College Course With Father.
L. C. Miller of Protection, Co.
manehe Co., After Education.
HE is FARMING 24O ACRES
Yet He Has Taken Time to Gull
tivate Books, Languages.
Begins Course at State AgricuI-
turaI College in Winter.

Being a college chum with his two
sons and having dates TO take MS
cIassuate daughter to the football
ga rnes@these are things in the life OF
II. G. Miller, a Kansas farmer living
near Protection Comanche county,
who Is getting his education with his
children and who is determined-to
keep intellectually abreast with them.
MANY men look back to their cnlld-
hood davs and remember what won
derfuI "paT' dad was when he taught
them how tn swim, when Ne took them
ont for rabbit hunts and when ne leo
them about explaining the wonderLui
things that were on display at the
country fairs And when returning 10
lfhe nares of childhood memories there
are many who would like nothing SO
much as to have dear old dad Tor a
nal again. But If plans work OUT
aright the Miller children will have
richer memories to look back 10 tnah
most foIks-they will be able TO re
n1eToIoer how they studied with dad as
well as played with him and now tney
went to college with him and had MIN
always so close to them
L. c. Miller is 81 years old Wnen
a youngster he was too poor ana toO
busv making a living to get an educa-
tion and when he married and began
life for himself, on his own hook, ne
had learned how to read and write
and that was about all. He acquired
a farm and his family began to grow
and he became buster than ever But
when his children began to grow up
he realized that they would soon out-
strin him if he did not devote some
Of his time to an education, and NOT
wanting his children to be ashamed
of him he decided to try to get bet
rer education and at the same time
turn his efforts to helping his chill
dren. So when his cnltoren oe tI.n
ola enough he began teaching them
and since has been teaching ana also
teachfng other children at the district
school during the winter months
Got His Own Diploma.
Miller has six children. The Oldest,
danrhter. is IL. Then there IS
son and another son 3, The tMo
oldest children have completed thels
ecbooIing I'D to the eighth grade ana
thafr father has taught them all their
GRADES except at short Intervals wnen
fhev had other teachers. How tne
children proved a spur to the 1atneI
10 Improve his education is pest toIu
bv the father himself. Here Is the
way he tells it: 49, =.
few short years that the father
couldn't be the teacher very much
longer as he hadn't finished his hlgn
ecbooI course He needed 2 Y GREATS
Not haxing a high school eoucatloh
had also become a handicap IN my
te- i'm with S. B. Mordy, the Protec-
ton superintendent of schools. and
thru his help and instructions 1 got
my diploma"
Raising a family OF six children,
farming $40 acres Of land and getting
an education at the same time Is some
thing that many might hesitate TO
tackle. But Mr.. Miller has done it
and has met all the obstacles. Here
is what he says about how 1t was
done:
Gives Credit to Wife.
Tho I would advise no one to try
the experiment who is unwilling TO
work hard 1 also would say that 1t
would be impossible without = good
wife to help out Much of the credit
belongs to the wife in this case. Three
nights out of each week We studied
1 read the text aloud and we discussed
the subject matter together. Those
three nights out of each week we
burned considerable midnight oil
often being up as late as a. m. But
it was interesting enough that we
want more of it next winter Hence
the college work"
MIR. Miller will teach school this
fall again and will take a. correspon-
dence course from the Kansas State
Agricultural college. However, before
the fall school work starts he IS get
ting more than eco acres ready for
the sowing of wheat In reluctantly
talking about his unusual endeavors
he was asked what gave him the will
to do the things he is doing His
reply was:
wife and babies all willing and
anxious to help because dads going
along to college when we 60"