Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-01

your hands are in your way and you
can't find any place to put EN-. You
. know what / mean. They get too big
for your pockets and while you don't
want to look at 'em, they keep swing
ing out there IN front of you and the
fingers cross and when you do park
lone in a pocket, it feels like ham
Then about this time you'd give any
thing il you could hide the other one
in the same place, and everywhere
you look someone is watching them
same hands. Gosh, it's an expe-
Irience. You been there, Boss. Tell
you how it was.
! L went down to look the high school
over. | been hearing so much about
the fine building and the proficiency
of the teachers, and Florida's supe-
rior school system, and just wanted
to see. I'd never met Prof. Cassels
or the teachers, and / thought it was
about time did Believe me- that's
some bee hive for activity, orderli-
ness and discipline. You take class
Of youngsters full of pep, and coop
'em up and say grind" and you got
a volcano ready to blow at any min
ute. Least / thought so.
! had the Prof figured out as
siX-foot-six disciplinarian, with a
head crammed full from A B C's to
relatively. Imagine my surprise
when l encountered fellow far from
demagogic in appearance, full of
business, and over run with enthusi-
assn for a task that makes or breaks
community. was getting on fine
with him until we passed couple Of
teachers, and one of 'em whispered,
bout like Jules McCrocklin does, ''I'll
bet that's the Cub Reporter Boss,
all your admonitions about never let
ting 'em know left me quicker than
a grammar school kid frames an ex-
cuse for absence or hardness.
Boss, that was when these two
hands of mine started to take on the |
of Tom Cannon's choice
pig hips. Lost? Why, Boss, l fIoun- |
dered miserably. l hadn't. even let the !
Prof" know you called me Cub. He |
thought I was from a metropolitan |
daily looking for human interest |
items. But you can't tell him now
I'm any more than you say | am.
Well, l had to look the plant over,
so on we went Id have given any
thing for convenient place to put
these two hands, and, take my word
for it, some time I'm going to tell
them teachers about it.
It's been long while since I went
to school You and me both, Boss.
And, my, what strides they've made
in buildings, sanitation, curriculum,
etc. Why, Boss, these high school
students are getting q course now
that they taught in colleges exclu-
sively when l risked expulsion. Think
Of it! Turning boys and girls out
equipped to face any emergency in
,ident to everyday life in high
school course. We don't know how
fortunate it is to live in this day and
age, do we, Boss? 1t seems we just
got to keep looking around us all the
lime to find out what a great coun-
,ry this U. S. A. really is. Course
We can't expect the high school or
grammar school pupils to realize
heir blessings to the fullest. No one
,ould tell me or you, when we were
lids. But the parents of these boys
md girls certainly are fortunate.
Guess it's been little over twenty
years since l was in college, Boss,
,ut / paid over $500 for my first
year to get three studies that this
high school is teaching today. And
understand some parents kick about
to carry the school for
,wo months. Something wrongj
Boss. I'll think some of
hem that object don't know that il
iteracy is the curse of those nations
hat are hungry, poverty-stricken and
n the throes of anarchy. High intel
igence has brought US every modern
science and invention, and who knows
tut that Prof. Cassels and his teach
RS are today encouraging another
Edison, Burbank, Lee, Wilson, Mayo
IF Wanamaker. Big cities don't nee
sssarily make our foremost men and
Good schools do, and hum
Die beginnings most often contribute.
I'm Palatka school booster, Boss,
rom now on, hands or no hands, and
I'm ready to move should the me-
,ropolis of Putnam not show its con- ]
,ern in the Future of the young gen.
grafton. If the older people had fall
IN down when we were kids, Boss,
md schools had stopped, where would
We have been? And, Boss, give this
4 thought-we didn't have near the
need II education that the fellows 20
years from now viii need. It's a |