The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-11

On the receiving line, so to SPEAK
If all the news emanating from IN
county schools, we have been stfucl
time and again by the fact thai Ger
tain institutions seem to feature ]
not excel in certain phases Q
school activity.
LET if be understood that thes
conclusions we have reached an
give below are purely one man
opinion. What is more we hav
only the school news on whlcE t
base these conclusions. That tn
news is a criteria, ipso facto, re
mains debatable. However the fact
are convincing and we merely pas
them along for what interest the!
create.
Best OF Poets
For example, Isaac Bear, iron
this vantage point, turns out con
sistently better poems than an!
other county school. Last year ont
of the children of this school was
awarded first prize for what wa
unouestionably the finest poem
printed that session It's text was
boy promising himself to become
doctor, "a great physician" Las'
week Isaac Bear again solldltlec
this impression with a plethora Of
verse that was so clever we made
it our feature.
Another example Of the way each
school seems to stick like the
shoemaker to his last, is-well, let's
take Tileston. Biography is Tiles
toms fort. Last week we carried {
short but almost perfect life OF Pot
by one of the students. A few weeks
previous, we featured another re-
view of some illustrious characters
Today Tileston again smashes
through with a good biography, this
one being on the life Of Lincoln.
Hemenway this year and last
seems to walk away with all honors
when the subjects gets geographical
and historical. On several occasions
We carried stories of the earth and
it's people past and present by Hem
enWay children which were SWELL
gent. This year we have all read
pieces of the same ilk as produced
the Hemenway way.
One school which stands unique
ly atop the heap in its field is
Wrightsboro. Those children are the
"money-raisingest" bunch going.
They want certain things for their
school-say, a garden, or visual edu'
cation, or a fine picture-and they
devise a way of raising money-and
get it. And they come close to
matching the community spirit OF
Cornelius Harnett-
All Are Loyal
Well, this is touchy ground. Al
children believe their school and
their community to be the very
best. Their loyalty and enthusiasm
is always a wholesome, heady thing
But, alas, some children write less
about their community than others.
We have only "the records" to &c
by. And time and again we have
found on this page a Cornelius Har-
nett student tootin' happily about
the school, the teachers, Brooklyn
What other conclusions could We
draw?
Another school which is damned
in at the top, full as a tick with
community spirit, is Forest Hills
And another Sunset Park. A Mon
day seldom passes, when we collec'
the news, that we fail to pick vi
from one of these schools q story
about their side of the world.
But Jul feeling about Fores
Hills leans more to this fact: Thu
children turn out the best editorials
Of all. This was more true las
year than this. On several occas
ions stories were printed that hat
some hard, thinking talk in then
and pounded home a side to contro
versial topics.
And Sunset Park. The students
here have matched, if not passed
the enthusiasm Of Cornelius Har-
nett for activity about thier school
First there was their pride in OBJ.
tanning a double "A" rating. And q
new teacher. New books for the
library. The extensive repair work
But we like to think that Sunset
Parks main strength lies in it's I'm
bounding enthusiasm for it's traf.
6c boys. The traffic [quad is
news" with a capital IN" to these
children-and well it should be
While we are an adult, we hav,
as healthy respect for those lad,
with the white Sam Brown belt,
as we have for a cop at Front ant
Princess.
Carolina Beach, a new conner t,
our page, presents to us a mixture
Of feelings. It is a small school, i
is, in a sense, remote and way off