The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-08-23

The children of the Blue Grass?
The children of the Knobs?
The children of the Pennyrile?
The children of the Purchase?
The children of the Country Dis
tricts?
The children of the Towns?
The children of the Cities?
They are capable of doing any
thing which has been or which will
be accomplished by the human
race.
What they need is a chance for
the right sort of an education-an
equal chance for every one of them,
no difference where he lives or what
he is Give him a chance-an equal
chance.
We do not need to have poor
schools.
We can provide
Comfortable school houses,
Pure water,
Decent outhouSes,
A jacketed stove,
Comfortable seats,
A play ground,
A work shop.
We can
Clean up, paint up, fix up,
Hire a good teacher,
Pay a decent salary,
Provide some place for the teacher
to live,
Teach the children worthwhile
things.
Send our children regularly to
school,
Provide them with necessary
books,
Encourage them in their sutdies,
Teach them to respect their
teacher,
Train them to work and obey,
SympathiZe with them in their
difficulties,
Teach them to love our country
and to obey it's laws.
We can organize Parent-Teacher
Associations that will
Work for the school and boost
school.
Put window shades at the window
and pictures on the walls,
Provide warm lunches for the chill
dren,
Help them to make play ground
apparatus,
Assist them with their entertain
ments,
Put a few books in the school Ii
brary,
Encourage pupils and teachers.
Surround the school with good
will and good-cheer-make whole
some atmosphere.
Elect competent members on the
Board of Education,
See that enough money is levied
to maintain the schools properly,
Insist on the elimination of poll
tics in the appointment of superin-
tendents, teachers and attendance
officers,
Make known to our Senators and
Representatives the needs of the
schools and our wishes relative to
education,
Demand that teachers, school board
members and other public officials
do their duty,
Protect and defend the rights and
privileges of our children and see to
it that every one has a chance.
Heaven itself cannot help us if we
have no desire to help ourselves.
What should the people of Ken
lucky as a State do for her schools?
Provide a competent, well-tralned
teacher for every school.
Provide sufficient funds to main
tain a good school in every district
of the State.
Provide competent leadership for
the schools.
Enact an up-to-date school code
and see to it that it is enforced.
Manifest a genuine and sustained
interest in education.
What things need be done first?
Pass the two constitutional amend
ments: j.
One to take the great office OF
Superintendent of Public Instruction
out of politics and to make it posi-
BILE to have some sort OF continuous
educational policy.
The other to improve the method
of distributing school funds so as to
make is possible to have an ef11clent
school in every part of Kentucky.
Elect a Legislature favorable to ed :
ucationa1 progress.
Conduct a campaign for better
schools in every part of the State.
In behalf of the children OF Ken
lucky, we appeal to the people of
Kentucky to see to it that the schools
of Kentucky shall no longer rank
forty-ffth, but among the best OF the
nation.
1t can be done.