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I HE GASTOIMIAN , no BAST aiEtlNE AVENUE TiiEEtajNii number 39 SUBSSCRIPTION: Three Months 25 Six Months .50 One Year $i.oo £n!:ered as'second-class mail matter .3, 1910, ait the postolfice at Gastonift, N. C. under tne Act of March 1879. BRUMLEY & SONS, PubUsfaers. I'HURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1915. STUDY AT HOME OR STUDY AT SCHOOL? j chil There is some agitation in certain sections of the State to do away v/ich the plan of having the children doing all tneir stuciymg at home and only going to school to recite. It is not ex act'/ fair to the children that this should be done and certainly is haru on the parents. Take two children of the same mental capacity, one is the .child, of a well educated person, the other of parents who have not had the advantages of even a common school education. Let them go home to stu dy and one is drilled in its lessons and comes to school with a perfect lesson. The other cannot get its lesson be cause it has not the capacity and can not secure help from its parents, con- secjnently falls down on its studies and gets a bad mark, yet knows that hb or she has more natural ability than the other child. That is discour aging to the child with the parents who are-not able to help it. Of course, the’former child was lucky to be born of parents who could show it, while the other is suffering on account of the misfortunes of its parents. If these children were drilled by the teacher there wouW be no advantage gained. , We know that there are two sxlcs to every question and we are not well enough informed on the subject to han'dle it in an intelligent manner, but personally we are heartily in favor of the “teachers” doing the teaching even if they have to be paid more mon^. The Statesville Landmark is very much interested in the matter and has the following in its last issue rogafding the question. “The Charlotte Observer says ‘The Landmark and others iare advocating a reform in school methods so that children will do their studying •vnH. more and better worlc than under the other method, A. much larger percentage of the pupHs are promoted at the end of the year than when jthe children prepared their lessons at home, or when pa did the work. The school day is no longer in the schools of Hickory than in the schools where only recitation work is done, less than four hours of actual school (work in the primary grades, and than five hours in the more advanced grades. In none of the grades do the j)upils have in any one day more than \five recitations that require prepara- jtion beforehand. In the gra>nmar grades one hour is given to each es sential subject, 30 minutes for recita tion, and 30 minutes for studying the lessons for the next day. In thes# grades .the daily schedule calls for a lesson in arithmetic, a lesson in lan guage, a lesson in history, geography, or physiology, two lessons in spelling, ■one oral and one written, and a lesson in writing or drawing. This method has greatly increased the efficiency of the work done in the schools. This conclusion is reached upon a consideration of the amount and thoroughness of the work done, and the development of independent study, self-reliance and initiative on the part of the pupils themselves. When the studying is done at school ,the teacher can give the pupil just the amount of help necessary. When the preparation is made at home too many parents do the >^udy- ing while the children stand by and enjoy the fun. Every one will admit that pupils should be trained to habits of perseverance, self-reliance and initiative. Actual experience >hown that pupils will study their les sons to better advantage at school than they will at home. The reason for this is easily seen. I^ot aTl parents are familiar with the principles of pedagogy and the best methods of teaching how to study. The many distractions at home pre sent children from concentrating their minds on their lessons. The home atmosphere is very different from that of the school room. Wherever the method of having pupils do their studying at school has been tried there is a strong senti- Tient in its favor on the part of pa rent^, teachers and pupils them- elves. CHARLE M. STALEY. /Hickory, Nov. 22. Phosphoric acid produced from one ajSABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD ton of Rock Phosphate ...... 580 lbs, LETl^ER FROM COUNTY DEMONSTRATOR FOLK. He W:^rites of the Way to Secure Good Fertilizer Cheap—What Can’t be Can be M^e at Home. actiy. Under present conditions, the city schools, or most of them, the children do 75 to 90 per cent, of . their studying at home and 10 to 26 p?r cent, in school. .The Landmark ' would reverse the situation. It would have 75 to 90 per cent, of the stud ies in the school room, where the teacher could supervise and help, and 10 ,to' 25 per cent, at home. The Ob server says if children did all their studying in tl^e school room it would ‘require 22 years to graduate from high school instead of 11, and the average youth would be ready to en ter college at the age of 28 and grad uate at 36.’ Some teacher trying to - dodge work of course gave Col. Har ris that information. More studies in the school ^ room . would of course mean longer ..hours , there, which would affect nobody but. the, teacher. Instead of sending, the children home to study in the afternoons the teach er could 'stay with them in the . schwl room for a part of the after- nomi at least and help them to make better progress, than, they can possi bly 1make at' home alone, or with the help parents can give. . “The Landmark has no desire to prolong the time of the children in school. With the. multiplicity of studies and the multiplicity of grades in. the modem graded school it takes even an apt pupil from infancy to practicalTy early manhood or woman- hood to get through now. What the .children-need is-more help from the -teachers and fewer studies.” It seems that the “study at school” systeni has been tried out at Hickory i ^nd found to be an improvement over • the “study at home” method. The fol- ' • lowing letter was sent to the Charlotte .’Observer regarding the matter: To the Editor.of The Observer: In a recent editoriajj comment you eKpressed the opinion that there are • di^dy^ntageous features about hav- ■fog-Children do, their studying at s^^r instead of;at home. Yqu esti- Dlate that such a method will require y«irs for a pupil to graduate from the high school'iftstead of 11 years as at present. It w|U be of some in terest, perhaps, to know how this jjlaiVj^s^ succeeded-where it has been 4o learn the actual facts in the ••‘.east, .• ^.'‘'^I^o^'t^le T'ast three or four years thV pupils in the schools’ of Hickory have done their studying at school Dear Sir:—I wish to call the atten tion (f the farmers of Gaston county, throi^h the columns of your paper, to a :^ew facts regarding fertilizers. The- indications now are that the priice of all fertilizing material will be? unusually high next year. The sup ply of Acid Phosphate will be cut off because Sulphuric Acid is used in man ufacturing it, and the Acid is now in great demand for making ammu nition for the warring nations. Pot ash cannot be gotten in sufficient quan tities because it comes from Germany chiefly. Ammonia will be consider ably higher than usual because a lot of material from which it is obtained is imported. Cotton Seed Meal is a good source of ammonia, but it will be high because of its value for both fertilizer and feed for liviestock, prin cipally cattle. Belfeving the above to be true, then let us begin planning to fertilize our next crop in time to make adjustment and possibly save paying ruinous prices for the fertilizer. Consider first the Phosphoric acid. As you know, Phosporus and not Phosphoric Acid is the plant food. Phosphorus is derived from Rock Phosphate or Floats as it is called which is found chiefly in Tennessee, South Carolina and Florida. The Phosphorus as it is found in the Rock Phosphate is unavailable, so to put it in a form in which the plant can take it up, the Rock Phosphate is finely ground and mixed with an equal weight of Sulphuric Acid. The acid acts on the Rock, producing Acid Phosphate which is sold for fertilizer. The insoluble Phosphorus which was in the Rock Phosphate was changed to Phosphoric acid which we think of as being the plant food contained in Acid Phosphate. As a matter of fact, the plant food is not Phosphoric acid but the Phosphorus which is contained in the Phosphoric acid in a soluble form. By treating the Phosphate Rock with the Sulphuric Acid, about twice as much Phosphoric acid was produced as there was Phosphorus in the rock. Rock Phosphate containing' from 13 per cent to 15 per cent Phos- j phorus which is equivalent to aboiit | 28 per cent to 30 per cent Phosphoric’■ acid can be laid down at Gastonia in j sacks in car lots for $7.71 a ton. You see for $7.71 you get a ton of Rock Phosphate containing Phosphorus equivalent to about 29 per cent PhoS' Cost of one ton of Rock Phos phate .-........'.?7.71 Cost of one pound Phosphoric Acid produced from rock l 8-25c Phosphoric Acid in one ton of 16 per cent. Acid Phosphate "... .320 lbs. Cost of one ton of 16 per cent Acid Phosphate $15.00 Cost of one pound of Phosphoric Acid in 16 per cent. Acid Phos phate 4 17-25C But don't think that it would paj to buy the Phosphate Rock because it is cheap. It would be expensive un less you can have it acted upon by some acid. It is not necessary to have Sulphuric Acid. The acid produced by decaying vegetable matter is, all right. The only thing the rock will have to come in contact with this lon ger than with some stronger acid. The action of the acid from decaying vegetable matter upon the Phosphate Rock produces Acid Phosphate the same as Sulphuric Acid does. Places where Phosphate Rock may be used profitably. 1. In stables or in sheds where cat- are fed. Scatter a good bit of the ground rock in the stables once a week. Keep the stables well beddid. 2. On land where there is a lot of decaying vegetable matter. Put the ground rock out early so the Phos phorus will become available by the time the crop needs it. Cover the rock lightly to keep it from being washed in piles. 3. On sour land or land that is sub ject to overflow. Those having bot tom land should by all means investi gate and use of Rock Phosphate. Re member that Rock Phosphate is nol recommended for hill land that doe« not contain decaying vegetable mat ter. And what about the Ammonia and Potash (Nitrogen and Potassium)? Well, if you have a good crop of clover or vetch to turn under, or a good coat of manure to put over the land, you have plenty of both the above elements. If you have a good crop of oats or rye to turn under as much Nitrogen and more Potassium is available for the next crop than would be supplied by 400 pounds of an 8-3-3 fertilizer. A ton of mixed unleached wood ashes contains on an average 5.5 lbs. of Potassium. But the Potash problem is not a serious one in Gaston county. The experiment with fertilizers carried on on Mr. C. M. Faii^’ farm shows that Potas sium givesWery little gain. And this on Cecil Sandy loam. The greater part of ^e county is clay and this type of ^oil is known to contain ] enough Potassium. AU th^ is n( ed on clj^Hpl^iR^fall and~v^ plowin^PWa^me vegetation turjued into the ^soil to make the' l^otassi available. If there is enough Potassium in soil, but not enough Nitrogen and Phosphorus, and the soil does not contain enough vegetable matter or is not Sour enough to justify the use of Rock Phosphate, then the cheapest commercial fertilizer at present is Acid Phosphate and Cotton Seed Meal. If cotton seed are exchanged for cotton seed meal, the meal does not cost any more if as much this year as it did last. But many cannot resist the high prices of seed. Below is the cost of a ton of mixture in the proportions of 20 Olbs. of 16 per cent. Acid Phosphate and 100 lbs. Cotton Seed Meal. 1333 lbs. 16 per cent Phosphate at $15.00 per ton $10.00 667 lbs. Cotton Seed Meal at $36 per ton 12.07 Trains Leave Charlotte Effwtive May 30, 1915. EAST AND NORTH BOUND, tached. Connecting at Hamlet No. 14—5:05 a. m.—Through train for Wilmington, with parlor car at- with train for Portsmouth, Nor folk, Raleigh and all points north and south. Also for C.. A. & W. for Charleston. Dining car service, vestibule coaches and sleeping cars to Washington and New York, con necting at Maxton fov .A C. L. points north- No. 34—10:10 a. m.—For Raleigh and Weldon and all local points. No. 20—5:05 p. rn.—For Wilming ton, sleeping car, passengers can stay in sleper all night at Wilming ton. This train connects at Hamlet for Savannah, Jacksonville and all points south and north. Arriving in Washington 7.10 a. m., in New York 12:57 p. m. No. 16—7:50 p. m.—Connecting at Monroe for Atlanta and all points south and southwest, alsc connects at Monroe with fast train for Nor folk, Richmond, Washington and New York, through steel vestibule coaches. Pullman sleeping cars to New York, dining cars Rich mond to New York. WEST BOUND. N'/. 15—9:05 a. m.—Local for Ruth- erfordton, connecting at Bostic with C. C. & 0. for all points on that line to Johnson City, Tenn. C. & N. W. points north at Lincoln- ton. No. 31—3 :25 p. m.—Local for Ruth- erfordton, from Raleigh and Wel don, connecting at Lincolnton with C. & N. W. for points on that line. For further information call.’nhone 180, City office, 9 South Tryon St. JAMES KERR, Jr., T. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. JOHN T. WEST, D. P. A. ■m£ GOOD NAMES^^-, OF KNOWN ' SPONSIBLE ARE ALSO BEHm OUR NATIONAL BANK^ EMC.E ARRIVAL OF TRAINS IN GAS TONIA. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SCiIfDULE SOUTHBOUND No. 11 11 ;30 am No. 35 11:17 am No. 37 10:42 am -Mo.\ 39 8:00 am No$ 29 5:20 am Noi 45 5:45 pm NORTHBOUND No. 12 5:00 pm No. 36 9:21 am No. 38 7:46 pm No. 40 M:38 pm No. 30 10:16 pm No. 46 12:15 pm lEDMONT AND NORTHERN Be^een Gastonia and Charlotte, M-C7 Schedule Effective Sunday, MayjK, CONF THE CHARACTER OF THE MEN BEHIND A BANK AS WELL AS THEIR FINANCIAL RESPONStUIL' I IS ALWAYS LOOKED INTO BEFORE THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AT WASHINGTON WILL GRANT A CHARTER TO A NATIONAL BANK. If you have not yet banked with us ask our customers how we trat THEM. We shall be pleased to see you COME IN. Citizens National Bank Gastonia, N. C. W'E PAY 5 PER CENT INTEREST ON CERTIFICATES Offi'’«“rs: ANDREW E. MOORE, Pres. A. G. MYER.S, CActive) Vice-Pres W. H. ADAMS, Cashier. I Depositary State of North Carolina—City of Gastonia—Gaston County. ' station. 1915. 204 West Main Gaston leave Gastonia. 7:00 A. M. 9:00 A. M. 11:00 A. M. 1:00 P. M. \3:00 P. M. '5:00 P. M. 7:00 P. M. 9:00 P. M. 10:45 P. M. Connection made at Mount Hollj with Seaboard Air Line; at Gastonia with Southern Railway and Curolina & Northwe.^tern Railway. The above schedule, figures and connections are not guaranteed. E THOMASSON, Gen. Mgr. C. S. ALLEN, Traffic Mgr., Avenu eave. Charijtt 8:00 A 10:00 A 12:00 A. M. 2:00 P. M. 4:00 P. M. 5:00 P. M. 7:00 P. M 9:00 P 11:00 Our Greatest Offer A YEAR’S READING FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY 2000 lbs. $22.07 One ton of above Acid and Cotton seed meal mixture contains 11% per cent Phosphoric Acid; 2% per cent of Ammonia, Vz per cent Potassium, and costs $22.07. One ton of ready mixed 8-2-2 con tains 8 per cent Phosphoric Acid, 2 per cent of Ammonia, 2 per cent of Potassium, and costs $28.75. The above figures speak for them selves. If anyone wishes to see me about fertilizers .terracing, orchad work, or anything concerning the farm he will find me in my office in the courthouse every Saturday. Drop in and let me share your troubles. If there is any thing on your farm that you would like for me to look over, let me know either in person or by mail. I am only too glad to hear from and talk “Better Farming" with those who are interested in their farm. Very truly, B. P. FOLK, Farm Demonstration Agent for Gas ton County. Ruud Instantaneous Automatic Water Heater A reliable, inexpensive promoter of home comfort and conven ience that stands silently in the basement or any out of the way place, yet instantly prepared to rush hot water to every part of the house with absolutely no attention You simply turn the faucet. under the direct supervision Of the phoric acid, whereas, in buying Acid teachers. The result is, that under Phosphate, you pay $15.00 and get this ipetbod the pupils doing ^ only 16 per cent Phosphoric acid. TAXPAYERS TAKE NOTICE IF your State and County taxes for 1915 are not paid by Jan. 1st, two per cent will be added. No excep tions made. Please pay at once. W. C. ABERNETHY. 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