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PAGE FOUR THE CHATHAM RECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1929 ijfyiui£s SOMETHING ABOUT TEACHING Many times, we believe, we have called attention to the unfairness to both bright and dull pupils of being forced to proceed at the same gait in their grades, but this time we wish to emphasize the fact that classes as a whole differ in ca pacity. While one individual student may be able to do ten times as much as another, one class as a whole may be able to compass twice as much as another. Hence the injustice of the teacher’s being pre scribed a certain course to be taught during a term, regard less of the capacity of the class. It is as reasonable to demand that a team of 600- pound mules haul as much in a day as a team of 1200-pound ers. Yet our centralized school system, with the emphasis on courses, grades, graduation, and anything else except the education of the pupils, is mur dering the intellectuality of whole classes instead of de veloping it. Even when it was apparent that a certain class in a big city school which the writer observed, or rather taught, for a period recently, was too far advanced in the text to make it possible for it to proceed in telligently and effectually, and we suggested, out of an abund ance of experience, that the teacher not hurry, she recog nized the justice of the sug gestion but blurted out that it seemed that she had to try to cover the ground. Just recently a pupil volun tarily came over one evening for some help on a lesson. The girl showed that she is capa ble and that if long enough time had been given for lay ing a foundation for work, she could have achieved the mas tery of her subject. But, as it was, she was found utterly floundered near the end of the book, without the possibility, except by long and tedious drill from the beginning, to make more than a grade of five per cent on her year’s work in a fair test. The teacher had set her eyes cn the goal of the course prescribed, with the con sequence that if the pupil in mind is a fair specimen, as we are quite sure she is in native intellect, the work of the ses sion will have been almost wholly wasted; while the real achievement of the class in half the assigned task would have been of everlasting value to ev ery student in the grade. Yet her intelligence and the ability to attend to the subject is such, that with the smattering she has secured, an hour’s exra drilling every day from now to the end of the session would largely overcome the handicap and practically save the many weary hours of time devoted to the subject during the session. And that is what we meant in a paragraph two weeks ago, in y/hich we suggested that during the longer days of the spring another hour of school should be devoted to drilling the grades upon subjects that they are lagging in. The sug gestion was made in the paper because it is of practical ap plication in any school where The Record reaches, and that is all over Chatham county, at least. We are confident that the extra hour given, as suggested, would mean more to the pupil in question than the whole vork of the session will mean, ill the subject in mind, with out the extra drill. Without it, by next fall there will be ab solutely nothing left of her year's work, and she will be an exception if she is not dis gusted with the subject. Now if the girl in question were a blockhead, it would be utterly unfair to judge of the possi bilities; but we were justified by the work of an hour in de ' ciding that the girl’s year of work could be saved by proper handling during an extra hour of each day of the remainder of the session. Education con sists in doing well what is un dertaken. Any subject, any task, is educative if done well; while the half-doing of any task, the half-mastery of any subject, is useless from both the educational and the practi cal standpoint. The making of slovens is anything but edu cation. Yet that is what the ob servance of prescribed courses for all kinds of classes is large ly resulting in. A teacher who is fit to teach is a better judge of the possibilities of a class than any curriculum maker. If laziness on the part of the class is the drawback, the sit uation is noti helped by drag ging them through the pre scribed course without a com petent knowledge of it. With teams of equal power the one may need more urging than the other. A RADICAL MEASURE NECESSARY ' Congress is to assemble in extra session on the 15th inst. Mr. Hoover has called this session for the purpose of se curing farm relief. The presi dent, however, has given little, or no, intimation of what he considers an adequate means of relief. Those who count upon relief through the tariff are barking up the wrong tree. The only way tariff legislation could help the farmer is for the tariff to be taken off manu factured goods, and then only in case it could be done with out disorganizing all industry. The protectative tariff prin ciple is incorrect, in the opin ion of The Record; but it has been in operation so long that all business is geared in con formity with it, except agricul ture, and the fact that it can not be so geared is the clear est evidence that the funda mental principle is incorrect. The twig bent by the begin nings of the protective system has grown into a huge tree, and there is no possibility of getting the kink out of it. Free trade is now out of the ques tion without years of disrup tion of business, and another artificial means will have to be sought to put agriculture on a par with the industries pro tected by the tariff. A few farm products may be pro tected, but their protection only serves to add to the tariff burdens of the producers of the great staples which can not be protected by the tariff. We very much doubt an ade quate remedy’s being forth coming from the hands of Mr. Hoover and his special session of Congress. Too few of the Republican members are suf ficiently conscious of the dire fulness of the situation to fa vor the radical measures that will be necessary to afford the relief needed. When the pro tected industries for genera tions have sucked the lifeblood from the farm population and the latter have become so ut terly at the mercy of the folk who can sell at a determined profit it will be necessary to disregard the formerly taboed policies of direct aid. If a father gives such ad vantage to the one son that he can gradually win the inherit ance of the other, it is then time to counteract the evil al ready countenanced and in force, if it has to be done by a direct tax upon the favored to provide a bonus for the rob bed. One false economic pol icy may reasonably necessitate another, or many. The protec tive tariff is the root of eco nomic evils, but the root has imbedded itself so deeply in the industrial bedrock of the country that the evil must be countenanced, and then coun terbalanced by what under other circumstances would be improper means. It will re quire a radical measure to counterbalance the old radical protective tariff. £ Durham is holding an ex position this week that should receive the attention of Record readers. It was opened Mon day evening with an address from Governor Gardner. e We see by The Sampson In dependent that the farmers of that good old county are ship ping swine by the carload. Sampson used to be a great hog-raising county. THE CHATHAM RECORD. PITTSBORO, N. C It doesn’t stand to reason that any sensible man would desire to ruin himself and im poverish his family by drink ing Yet sensible men, in other respects, at least, do that very thing, though often promising that they will quit. Some of us who are not addicted to drinking know how hard it would be to quit smoking, say, and that one would not only walk a mile for a certain cigar ette but for any kind of smoke if he was without one for a considerable time. But if it were a hundred miles, proba bly one would make up his mind to quit. And thus the drinking man, only to a more grievous extent, is pressed by his appetite to seek the stuff against his better judgment. But, convinced as he must be of the evil of the habit, he should be one of the most in terested in getting the stuff as far out of reach as possible. And he can do more than any body else to affect the removal of it. If the editor of The Rec ord had the requisite proof, he wouldn’t hesitate to help such a man to the full extent of prosecuting every dealer in reach. But he hasn’t the proof, nor has many others who would be so disposed. But the drinker has it, and can make the knowledge effective for the protection of himself and family. Ypt we doubt whether he should betray the dealer without warning. But it is pro tection that is wanted rather than punishment of the dealer. 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Provide all electrical conveniences and labor •aving devices for the farm. penalty of being prosecuted when the drinker becomes him self, or by the friend for former sales. We saw a man removed from temptation, or temptation removed from a man, in Lum berton 25 years ago. His sin cerity in pledging himself to quit was tested by his being asked to give information as to where he got the liquor. He gave it; prosecution dried that town as it had never been dried before. But if a man thinks more of his bootlegger than of himself, his family, his church, and his God, then he will con tinue to protect the bootlegger, to kill himself, and humilitate his family, and the sooner he kills himself the better. <s> There were nearly twice as many girl high school grad uates in North Carolina last year as boys. Accordingly, those who are counting upon the transformation of the state industrially through education must place their reliance large ly upon the -women. 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(Earners Standard Time) „ WE A P and 37 aaeociated radio nation* 9 JUST RECEIVED car load cement. Prices right. W. C. Johnson. SEED Irish Potatoes, $3.50 by bag. W. C. Johnson. _ WANTED: To buy your cross ties. Delivered on road or will buy them standing in the woods. See me if you want the most out of your timber. W. C. Johnson. MAINE grown seed potatoes, cob blers and red bliss at Poe and Moore’s at 40 cents a peck. CABBAGE and Bermuda Onion plants, all varieties, $1 per thou sand, 5M lots, 75c per 1000. Prompt shipment. Dorris Plant Company, Valdosta, Ga. GOOD FLOUR AT A low price at R. J. Moore & Co.’s, Bynum. 100 POUNDS SUGAR $6.00; 25 pounds for $1.55 at R. J. Moore’s. AUTO TIRES 30x3% cords at $3.75, and 29x4.40 also cheap; 30x3% tubes only $1.25 at R. J. Moore’s, Bynum. FULL LINE of Ferry’s Garden Seeds, also seed oats and onion sets at R. M. Connell’s, Highway 93. VALUES—YOU will find them at Hall’s. WHOLE JERSEY milk—ls cents a quart delivered anywhere in Pitts boro early in the morning. Lexie Clark. VISIT HALL’S for anything you wish. A complete line to outfit you.from head to foot; at prices, too, that suit the shrewdest of value seekers. NEW GOODS being shown daily at Hall’s. You should see their shoes, dry goods, and ready-to-wear prices. PROFESSIONAL nurse. I am lo cated in Pittsboro and offer my services as a professional nurse to the people of Chatham county. Elsie Lucile Peterson, R. N., Tele phone No. 79. IF YOU want good inspection on your ties and cedar sell to W. C. Johnson. A FULL line of heavy and fancy groceries, bought right and sold right, at Connell’s on highway 93. SEE ME about your seed oats be fore buying. W. C. Johnson. FOR FEED OATS, sweet feeds, ship stuffs, wheat brand, see R. M. Con nell, on Highway 93. assures you the most sturdy, safe and beautiful bodies. All General Motors cars have ’"Body by Fisher.” Volume Production—By produc ing around z,00c,000 cars and trucks a year, together with many other products, General Motors can effect large economies in manufacture which arc passed on to you in the quality and price of your General Motors car. 7. Combined Purchasing Power of Many Companies —Assuring the use of the best materials at the lowest prices. World-wide Service —There are 33,000 salesrooms and service stations in more than ioo countries to serve General Motors’ customers. Permanence —General Motors is in business to stay. Its resources, strength, and stability assure you that the quality, service, and value of its products will be maintained- THURSDAY, APRIL 11. IfrgQ TESTED SEED POTATOES, $375 per bag at R. M. Connell’s, ‘on Highway 93. HIGHEST CASH PRICES paid crossties and cedar posts. You may measure posts yourself and be sure you get right measures R. M. Connell, Highway 93. CHICKEN FEED, sweet feeds, oat« etc., wholesale or retail at lowest prices at Poe and Moore’s, Pitts. boro. Soy—Somehow I don’t have any luck at all. Poi—Well, that’s better than hav ing bad luck. Pick — So your brother tried to get a government job. What is he dome now? Wick—Nothing. He got the job. To Identify Genuine Aspirin *T I HE increasing nse of Bayer A Aspirin every year is proof that it has no ill effects. It is the accepted antidote for pain. It always helps; it never harms. Quick relief when you’ve a headache, or cold; or are suffering from neu ralgia or neuritis. Rheumatic pains yield, too, if you’ll only give these tablets a chance. But you want genuine Aspirin, so look for the Bayer Cross on every tablet. The box always bears the name Bayer and the word genuine printed in red. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of S&licylicacid
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