Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-12-14
SCHOOL NEWS.

worker the Honorable William A.
Street, veteran in educational work.
am requested by the State Super
intendent of Schools and also the
Governor of the State to set apart a
certain day in this month on which
the schools of the county will take
up a collection for the benefit of the
Near East Association.
We are told that the Near East Re-
lief is incorporated by our congress
and has administered aid in that Sec
ton of the world for number of
fears, and has exhausted the sup
plies that were sent to care for up
wards Of 10000 orphans and SOC, 900
refugees.
In accordance with this request
am setting apart Friday, December
% for all schools Of the county to
make an effort to raise funds for the
Near East Relief as stated above. Each
child may contribute ten cents and
solicit contributions from the people.
A public program should be rendered
in all schools of the county, as this
will be the last day Of school before
Christmas, and the parents and
friends invited to come out and spend
the afternoon with the school,
All contributions can be sent to the
undersigned who will try to keep
close tab on all reports and will pub
lish same in the county papers
naming school and teacher and the
amount contributed.
Since all counties of the State are
expected to help with the funds for
the Near East Relief, we hope the
teachers and patrons of our schools
will not let Barbour county come out
at the bottom Of the list. We should
strive to be near the top of the
amounts contributed. But this cannot
be done unless we all help. 1t is
hoped to publish the amounts contrib
uted by each county in the West Vir-
ginia School Journal and Educator SO
all can see just what each county has
done.
We are still trying to arrange a
date for the State Superintendent of
Rural Schools to be with us this
month for the purpose of scoring all
schools that are trying to be stand
ardized. We have at least ten schools
in the county that can be standard
lied so far as building is concerned.
The other things required must be
brought up by the teachers and
friends of the schools.
A first class standardized school
will receive $4,000 from the State;
and the second class $4,000, and
metal door plate will be placed on
each school standardized. Any COM
munity that can standardize its
school will be fortunate, indeed, and
will receive no end Of free advertis-
ing. We have few school houses
that we think will rank well with
anything in the State but not many
of our people know about them, and
the fight it took to get them; but in
no distant day our people will see the
advantage.
Occasionally we meet a man who
longs for the good old days" when
the three "r's" were taught to the
"tune of the hickory with" but these
individuals are growing scarcer each
wear and will soon be no more in the
land of the living. The Hebrew peo-
pie we are taught were required to
wander forty years in the "land OF
wilderness" before they could go in
and possess the Land of Caanan does
any one wonder why? And we be-
lieve that most of the old people in
the forty years of wandering died,
and it was left to the younger and
more progressive race to possess
Caanan. And yet we find people who
long for the good old days" when
our fathers used the wooden pillow
and ground their grain by hand or at
the overshot mill.
The day of the wooden pillow and
the overshot mill in education is past.
We are now in the steel and electric
age, and must change our way OF
thinking, and it behooves the best OF
us to keep pace with the van OF pro-
gress, so rapid are the changes. Those
who refuse to think in the terms OF
the present age, and who refuse to adj
just themselves to present day condi-
tions must relegated to the rear