The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-03-24

have, it must come through the
means that we provide. Therefore,
it behooves you and me and all Of as
to examine carefully what are the
means that we are using to educate
the children of this generation. That
brings to my mind this question, for
YOU to consider. Who will occupy
your seats in that grand jury box
fifty years from now? Who will be
the men listening to the charge of the
Judge on February 28th, 1971.-fifty
years from now? Who will be the
lawyers sitting at the bar? Who vii!
be the Judge occupying this seat. The
chances are you will be gone, The
chances are that most of US, if not
gone, will be so decrepid; will be a
charge on our family. You can't tell
But the live virile men who will oc-
cupy our seats-who will they be?
You cannot expect the men from Eu-
rope or San Francisco to be the meG
in control here. 1t will be just The
men and women we make. They
will not be any better, or any higher,
CT any ADLER than the conditions and
opportunities that we provide for
them, measured by their efforts. Now,
we cannot say what kind of
men they will be, except this: They
v i'll be lust what their fathers have
n ade it possible for them to be-noth.
ing more. That brings the response
bility to you and to me to provide
the very best facilities that We car
n ovide to make them the very best
rem and women. If you cut out the
places of vice, the immoral :tmos-
here, and then if you will give thenn
good roads to travel to school, ant :.
then provide the means for that edu-
cation, then we have done a great
deal. Now, l don't think, Mr.. Fore
r,an, that our educational system is
doing what it ought to do. l don't
believe that we are getting enough for
for the money we spend for educa'
ton, and l don't think we are
spending as much money as we ought
to spend for education. This brings
in the question Of who shall teach
these children. We need the very
Lest talent that is to be had for this
y, rpose. There is no better work III
this world, or any other world as for
that matter, than the moulding and
developing a human soul. Now, the
person VINO would train and develop
human soul requires talent Of the
highest order. 1t requires talent that
is unimpeachable. 1t requires a dis
position that is fitted to handle a
human life, and you cannot get this
talent for the measley sum that we
pay our teachers. There are men and
women of talent that can make more
in other departments of life than in
tedcQluR. we Cdll uOt ChPSSt q ihoh VA
talent, or a woman either, Of char
acter and fitness to raise and teach
the child, when they know that when
they get old they will not be able to
save a dollar. You will find that the
average salaries paid to white teach
ers last year was S463.OO and some
cents. Now, if you will take the city
teachers, many of them are paid good
salaries, but those in the rural dis
tricts are not. To teach and train
and develop a human being, not only
for this life, but for the life to come!
Every black man on the railroad gets
more money than the teachers do.
Your plowman last year got more than
they did. Now, to begin with, Mr..
Foreman, let's be frank about it. How
can you expect to get the right kind
of men and women to teach your ch'l-
dren if you don't pay them. 1 sm
saying your children because | want
to get close to you. Now, YOUR