GATHERED IN DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY
i cms of Interest Collected by or Wideawake forrespcac!c3ts.-bdustral and Social
News From the Towns and ViHages-Wnai The Farmers are Doing
Along Agricultural Lines
ITEMS FROM HOLLY SPRINGS
The school at Center opened ihe 9,
with Wilbur Scottcn Principal, r lay
Bird assistant.
There is a new corn shredder rn the
neighborhood ready for operation in
the near future.
The road from Ramseur to Erect is
partially graded and the work of
graveling progresir.g nicely.
Thomas Hinshuw is again able to
he out on crutches.
Ralnh Brav. agent for the Spoon
Nursery, is in the eastern part of the
State. delivering trees.
All nersons interested in the ceme
tery at Holly Springs are requested to
meet there the first day of December,
for the purpose of cleaning the
graves. Thx;e interested, who are
too far awav to work, are requested
to send money to Lucy J. Hinshaw,
Ramseur. Route 1., President ot tne
Ladies Aid Society of Holly Springs
who will look after the work.
RAMSEl'R ITEMS
Messrs' W. H. Watkins and E. J.
Steed made a business trip to New
York last week.
Mrs. C. B. Smith and little daugh
ter, Francis, relumed last Friday
from a week's visit to Wilmington.
Mrs. J. H. Grant, of Greensboro Rt.
5. is visitinsr her daughtf r, Mrs R. R.
Siler. Mr. M. C. Grant, her brother,
of Wheeling. W Va., is also visiting
r.ere.
Miss Amy Reece went to Greens
boro last Saturday to visit her aunt,
Mrs. W. C. Bray, who had the m:sfor
tune to break her arm last week
Miss Nellie Spoon, of Astwborof
spent sevpra! days v ith her parents
here hist week.
Mr. F. C. Watkins. ri-coropanied by
Mrs. I. F. Craven. Misses Lizzie
Smith. Loron . Bjrr:s:-, Ninr. Tate ami
Neil Marshall, made a trip to Greens
boro last week
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Warren, of
Greensboro, nfter visiting Mrs. W. H.
King several days, returned home
Monday
A fine son was horn to Mr. and M.rs.
J. E. Brady this week.
The many friends of Mr. Bennett
Kidd were deeply "rieved to hear of
his death at St." Leo's hospital last
week. The remains were taken to
Bennett for internment.
Rev. O. P. Ader left Monday to at
tend the annual conference of the M.
E. church at Shelby which begins on
Wednesday
Mr. W. B. Webster recently enter
tained the Philathea and Wesleyan
classes of tbe M. E. Sunday School at
his home. Music, games and refresh
ments gave all who were present a
very enjoyable evening.
One of the most destructive fires in
the history of our town occurred Sun
day night at 1 o'clock when the Wat-kins-Leonard
Hardware Company's
bui'dincr and the Ramseur Pharmacy
with all their goods were destroyed.
ipiqM Jpuq jo aas.w s3uipiinq aqj,
prevented the destruction of the en-
jT TRINITY ITEMS
Rev. and Mrs. A. S. Raper visited
friends in Thomasville last week.
Miss Lula Harris visited her sister,
Mrs. Ballance, last week.
Miss Eleainr Albia, of Winston
Salem, is spending some time here
with relatives.
Miss Jewel Parkin spent several
days in Thomasville this week with
her sister, Mrs. Pepper.
Friends here are glad to have Mr.
J. W. Hill and family return here to
the Heitman place.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Craven and lit
tle Braxton are spending sme tiaee in
Newborn
Mr. Georere L. Wood and family
spent Sunday here and attended Sunt
day scmoI waere tftey greeted aany
frimMfai. lie havinr been Enaerloicad-
etit of Sunday Scaeol for a number of
years.
John Peacock risked his grand
mother, Mrs. Crr, last Sunday.
Miss Lide Leach is at home from
the Normal College.
Mr. Oliver Litaker, of Thomasville.
visited friends here this week.
Mrs. Ahra English rnd son and
daughter, of Hillsboro, visited her
father. Mr. J. J. White, this week.
Mrs E. 0. Brame is here for the
winter after spending some time in
Winston.
Mr. W. N. Elder has returned home
from Washington City,
Mrs Ogburn Spencer and Mrs. J. N
Spencer have just returned from i
visit to Kansas.
The election passed off very quietly
here.
Messrs. S. E. Allen and John Wat
son, of Winston, visited friends here
Sunday evening making the trip ir
Mr. Allen's car.
Mr. Pearl and Ess Reddick and
family spent Saturday night and Sun
day here w-ith relatives returning to
Pleasant Garden in their cars Sunday
evening.
The school girls gave a Hallowe'en
party on the night of the 31st at the
Weeks Building.
The book club met with Mrs. J. D.
Brame on the afternoon of the 31st.
Misses Hunter and Rudisill were
the guests of Mrs. Hayes on an au
tomobile party to High Point Friday
evening.
FRANKLINVILLE NEWS
The protracted meetings at Moore's
Chapel and Fairmount closed Sunday.
The fourth quarterly meeting for
Franklinville-Ramseur charge, (M. E.
church was held at this place Sunday
night and Monday. Rev. G. T. Rowe.
P. E., conducted the service which was
well attended and good reports were
made, especially on the finance of the
church p A plan is on foot for finish
ing paying for the new -M. E. church
at this place and if all pay up their
subscription which is already past
due, it will be an easy matter.
Messrs. W. A. Grimes and Master
Clarence, W. C. Tippett and W. R
Cox spent Sunday at Eaglo Springs
with W B-.Cox.
J. R. Hayes and family visited Or-
lendo Burrow in Grant township bun-
dav.
Mis. E. E. Gvanford, of Spencer, vis
ited relatives in this community last
week.
Ouinsev Poole and Miss Bertha
Pruitt. of Glenola, were married Sun
dav.
W. D. Cross ;has moved his family
from the W. P. Moon farm to this
nlace and now octupies the Frazier
residence on Railroad Avenue.
W. A. McPhernon has moved from
Cedar Falls to hs father's, Mr. I. P.
McPherson.
Mr. J. T. Buie has returned from St
Leo's hospital very much improved.
Mr. J A Russell, ipf Randleman, was
in town Monday
Robert Booth, who is at work at
Danville, spent Sunday in the city
with his family.
RANDLEMAN NEWS
Mrs. Mary Davis, better known as
Grandma Brown, and the mother of
Mrs. Callie Brown, died almost sud
denlv Sunday morning, November 1,
1914, between seven and eight o'clock.
She had been complaining for. a lew-
days, but arose at 5 o'clock and rela
tives asked her if. she rested and slept
well and she said she had, but in an
hour or two she complained of a pain
in her breast. The doctor was called
as soon as possible but she died in a
fw minutes. This wows now unrer
t.-in lif" is. She was near eight years
old and was never heard to murmur
or comnlain. May this dispensation
of God's Frividrnre be the moans of
her grandchildren being drawn clowr
to Him who doeth all things well.
Sho w as buried at Giles' Chapel Mon
day evening end quite a congregation
of sorrowing relatives and friends
were oresert.
Married Thursday October 2Sth,
1014. a. fie M. L" P.ivsonatre, Mi.
Emicl Hohn and Miss Mik-1 Iiv;s,
Rev. G. H. Christenberry officiated.
John Stacg has several gourds that
rreasures 24 inches in circumference.
with handles 24 inches long.
Miss Clara Hayes, of Greensboro,
came in Saturday to visit her father
and mother.
Miss Alice Bulkhead was the guest
of Miss Mary Lee Pugh Saturday.
Mr. Earl Clapp, of Whitney, came
home Saturday night and will remain
for some time.
Miss Line WringstafT had a light
stroke of paralysis this week.
Mr. C. H. Redding, of Asheboro,
was the guest of his parents Sunday.
The ht. f'aul Bible Class gave the
Winston-Salem Orphanage $10.50
last Sunday.
Mrs. Paul Miseheimer and children
of High Point, are the guests of J.
A. Russell an?; fr.milv.
Mr. Worth lvey, of High Point, was
in town Sunday and Mondr.v.
Mr. J. M. Scott and wife of Hieh
Point, pre in town the guests of Mrs.
Scott's mother, Mrs. D. J. Gaster.
Rev. G. H. Christenberry preached
at St. Paul Sunday at 11 o'clock which
was his last sermon for the confer
ence year. Mr. Christenberry goes to
conference with the best wishes of
the entire town.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Robins.
on iNoveznoer 6ra a line girl.
PROVIDENCE NEWS
Miss Annie Hardin, of Julian, spent
oaiuraay nigni ana Sunday at Mr. W
R. Neece's
Ihe. teachers that have rone to
school frnsa sraimd burr art Mil
rjstelie fteece. to Level Cross; lillie
Pugh, to Munnett; Alma Barker, to
ttetoei; Vanner Neece and Mr W. R.
Neece, to Tabernacle.
Misses Edith Macon and Alleen
Pugh, who are attending school at
ailer City, spent the week-end with
tneir parents.
Miss Claude Frazier, of Randleman.
spent Sunday with Mias Allie Frazier.
Miss Mary, Skeen and brother. Les
ter, of Greensboro, visited their pa
rents recently.
Mr. Nereus Barker, of High Point,
visited Mr. E. S. Cox Saturday night.
Mr J. W. Barker, of Greensboro,
was in this community recently.
Mr. Reuben Foust and his mother,
of Gray's Chapel, spent Sunday with
Mr. and M"s. W. R. Neece.
Mr W. A. White, of Guilford Col
lege, visited Mr. and Mrs. A. O Ad
ams Saturday night.
Mr. C. P. Barker spent Tuesday in
Greensboro.
Mr. Exton Barker, of Greensboro,
spent Sunday with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. G. P. Barker.
LIBERTY NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Patterson with
Mrs. A. Fogleman and young daugh
ter were in Greensboro last Saturday
afternoon shopping and to see the
Trail of the Lonesome Pine at The,
urand in the evening.
Aunt Peggy Ledbetter, of Julian, is
spending some time with her son, Rev.
James A. Ledbetter.
Mrs. Maggie Stroud, of Greensboro,
spent the week- end in town with rela-i
tives.
M. J. Reitzell went to Raleigh Mon-i
day on a business trip.
Mrs. C. P. Smith. Jr., spent Friday
in Grecnboro shopping.
Mrs. W. H. Hardin, of Julian, was
a week-end visitor with relatives in
town.
Dr. and Mrs. T. F. Ashburn, of Ran
dleman. were visitors here last Sun
day. Miss lone Patterson has been right
sick for the past week.
Mr. and .Mrs.. -George Kennctt, of
Greensboro, spent Saturday and Sun
day here th guests of Lncle Billy
Kennett
G RAY'S CHAPEL ITEMS
Mr. J. A. McDaniel, of Brown has
moved to this community.
Master Carson Walker has purchas
ed a guitar zither.
Messrs. A. B. Walker, I. F. Pugh,
Harris Foust and Alvis Underwood
attended the election at Franklinville
last Tuesday evening.
Mr. J. H. Walker has purchased a
guitar zither.
Mr. Guy Routh .attoned the election
at hrankhnville.
Mr. J. A. Walker, of Ashehoro, wasi
a business visitor in this community
one dav last week.
Though it is Lui.e iu the season and)
the weather cold, iiev. V. A. vuncan
non killed two garter snakes mi Sun
day. The largest measured forty-two
inches in length.
Most of our farmers are through
sowing wheat.
Mrs. Barbara Routh is recovering
from her recent severe illness.
G. W. Pugh went to Greensboro one
day recently with a load of chickens
and eggs.
School opened here Monday morn
ing with the Misses Smith, of near
Kimesville, as teachers.
Rev. Mr. Pike preached his last ser
mon here last Sunday for this Con
ference year.
Chas. Moody, of Asheboro, and Miss
Esther Walker were married Sunday,
October 31, G. W. Pugh, Esq., officiat
ing. TRINITY ROUTE 1 ITEMS
Mr. Carl Spencer, of Indiana, is vis
iting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Spencer.
Mr. Tom Kennedy has returned
home after spending the summer in
Kansas.
Misses Blanche Farlow, Virgie Saw
yer and uiive jonnson, oi irmuy,
of Trinity, spent the week-end with
homo fo'ks. Miss Blanche Snider ac
companied Miss Farlow.
Mr. Enos bk"n and family visited
at Mr. John Briles' Sunday.
School began at Poplar Ridge Mon
day with Mr. Geo. Spencer as teacher.
Mrs. Pearl Hill Cooper died last
Sunday and was buried the following
day at Flint Hill.
Dipthena and Scarlet fever have
entered the community.
There will be services at Poplar
Ridge beginning Friday night before
the fifth Sunday in this month.
SEAGROVE ITEMS
The farmers of this section are
nearly through sowing wheat.
Mr. Frank Auman and family visit
ed relatives in Greensboro Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Bean, of Jack
son Springs, visited Mr. R. W. Wil
liams' Sunday.
Mr D. A. Coltrane has moved to his
residence on Sunset Avenue.
Mr. W. C. Garner has moved to his
new residence on North Main Street.
We were clad to see Mr. Ransom
Lucas on our streets shaking hands
with old friends recently.
Mr. Alfred King, of near Hemp, is
visiting relatives in this community.
Mr. L. Auman visited relatives in
Randleman Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. rred J. Cox, of Lexington, pass
ed through one day last week en route
to Moore county on business.
Miss Rome Yow went to Asheboro
one day Jast week shopping.
.Mr. and Mrs. J. C. IjOwdermilk vis
ited their daughter. Mrs. W. C. Gar
ner, here Saturday night and Sunday.
Mr. J. J. Harper made a business
trip to Asheboro Saturday.
Mr. C. W. Bro-.ver had the misfor
tune to get his hand badly hurt in a
corn mill a few days ago. but not se
riously Mrs. G. H. Cornelison and little
daughter, Gladys, visited near Suggs'
Creek Sunday.
Misses Mabel and Hester Stuart, of
Why Not, were in Seagrove shopping
Saturday.
.Airland JUrs. T. N. .Slack, of Eagle
fctffpriTipi, pnmrd
through -Seagwrcl
enroute to Why Not to visit his pa-,.
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Slack.
Miss Bertha Yow, who is teaching
at Michfield. spent Saturday and Sun
day with her parents here.
Mr. Edgar Cole has added a great
deal to the appearance of his house by
having it painted.
In conclusion, we would like to see
a shower of rain.
He Believes In Dreams.
Never be vindictive, even in your
Sleep. Mr. Mig53, a well-knowu citi
zen of the X or ill End. was chased by
a bull in his drcarcs the other night.
Across tbe p&bture dashed Miggs. the
bull gaining i'i tvpry Jump. Breath
lessly Mlggs readied the fence at
last, and, safe stride the top, turned
and kicked th.- bull in the nose, break
ing one o' his tors on the wall beside
tbe bed. He is out on cru'chcn this
week Newurk Nev.
Imagination to Be Controlled.
Imagination is a great faculty If
properly coslrolled. Uncontrolled, let
loose to run its course untrammeled.
breeding its kindred passions of preju
dice, fear, hate, malice, it becomes a
menace, haunting us with its fantasies
and fallacies, unfitting us for high
purpose. Yet It dwells latent or po
tent in every human breast, master
or servant, according to th strength
or weakness of tbe will.
Process of Milking.
I do sot know that the process of
milking has ever been described. The
forefinger first clasps the upper part
of the teat, and then the middle, ring
tnd little fingers, in rapid succession,
so as to drive the milk before them
through the orifice. The knack is
rather d'.Sieult to acquire, and at first
very weary Lig to the hands, though
this soon passes. From "A Farmer's
Note Book," by C. E. IX Phelps.
Making Tomorrow's
World
By WJILTEH WILLIAMS, LL.D.
NEW EDUCATION
Oxford, Bng
land. "Man i s
born free," wrote
Rousseau, in the
often quoted
opening sentence
of his Social
Contract "Man
is bora free, and
everywhere he Is
In chains." The
world-traveler Is
tempted to re
verse the famous
saying and to
write: Man is
born In chains
world
unto
w struggle Is
I freedom. I
t tion In its
aH2 est and best
Educa-
its new
est and best form
equips the in
dividual for the attainment of freedom
and for its use and enjoyment unto In
dividual good and social service. Pub
lic education yesterday in Great Bri
tain was a rather vague and incoher
ent system, dominated by Oxford and
Cambridge, which were, and could
only be, for the few, and was pursued
In archaic ways adapted to a world
that has ceased to be. Publio educa
tion planned in Oreat Britain today
for working out in fuller detail tomor
row is for the life that now is for all
as well as that which in this world is
to come, perhaps, for a few. It is to
unchain all Britons that they may find
fullest freedom, largest UBe of Individ
ual gifts and no doors of opportunity
barred. Hence the newer universities,
Birmingham, under Sir Oliver Lodge,
and Cork, under Sir Bertram Windle,
and Manchester and London and
Leeds, take the bread studies into ac
count; hence the growth of technical
schools; hence the new education
scheme, which is to enable any British
child to proceed from nation-wide ele
mentary schools to a modern univer
sity. A national system of education,
on lines of present-day usefulness, is
proposed.
All Schools In One Scheme.
The new education scheme outlined
by the minister of education, Mr. J. A.
Pease, is as yet only a scheme on pa
per, but from it will be drawn the
chief changes in the school system of
tbe United Kingdom. Under it the
At-:
i
One of the Oxford Colleges.
universities, the technical schools, the
secondary schools and the elementary
schools are to be co-orelnated into one
great scheme. "No one can deny,"
said 4ir. Pease, "that in ibe last ten
rears i esa swmMies has fraen saade
in the educational system-tit tbe conn-'
try. However, our national system of
education is still not national, and sot
a system." Intermediate education is
to be placed vithln the reach of all
who desire it a complete and pro
gresilve system of education, provid
ing instruction of an advanced charac
ter. Salaries of teachers are to be in
creased. Baths, playing fields, nurs
eries, gymnasia, medical inspection,
nursing, housecraft, cookery and other
domestic subjects sre to be encour
aged, developed and supported with
extra money from the national treas
ury. The compulsory school age, now
fourteen, is to be raised. Supervision
is to be extended over all the schools
in Great Britain. Upon this rock for
mer educational bills found wreck.
"The state should look to the well
being of the children from a very early
age," said Mr. Pease, "even before
they are born. The education of the
young child is primarily physical and
not primarily intellectual." In this re
gard, Great Britain has gone perhaps
further than any other European coun
try in providing medical inspection,
nursing and meals for underfed chil
dren. "We want to build," continued Mr.
Pease, "a road from tbe elementary
schools to the universities broad
enough to be traveled by thousands.
Tbe state will have a profit In the
capacities of thousands which other
wise would be wasted and unrevealed."
Poor Secondary Schools.
The existing secondary school facili
ties were sharply criticised by Mr.
Pease, who suggested that the "Acad
emy," familiar to Americans from its
description in a recent novel, was "an
outstanding fact in our educational
sysUm," and a most discreditable one.
Whether there were 10,000 or 15,000
secondary schools In Great Britain, he
could not say, and he, as minister ot
education, had no right, as yet, even to
IN GREAT BRITAIN
ask how many there were or what In
struction they gave. Recently, how
ever, bis Inspectors bad an oppor
tunity of Inspecting some fifty schools
in Middlesex, and here are two of
their reports:
Sixty-six boys. School dingy, dirty,
poor, Ill-lighted. 'Gas burning at J: 45
p. m. Ventilation so defective that
the broken window was an advantage.
Only one wash basin.
Boys from eleven to eighteen years
of age In the same class. Class held
in a clubroom in tbe space between
two full-sized billiard tables. No desks.
Of course, said Mr. Pease, good
work is done in many private schools,
but there are many others where con
ditions make good work impossible. If
education Is to be compulsory the pa
rent ought to have a guarantee as to
the sanitary character of the schools
and the way children are taught It is
the Pease bill, with its costly but com
prehensive scheme, following a pre
vious bill by Mr. Balfour, that Is to be
considered as a basis for national edu
cational progress.
Universities Adding "Brtsd Studies."
Borrowing the word from the Ger
man and much of the idea as well, the
newer British universities are adding
tbe "bread studies" to their scope of
service. Even Oxford and Cambridge,
where, favored Britons formed pleas
ant and profitable friendships, enjoyed
Hgreeable social Intercourse and had
the acquisition of knowledge as a
rather minor consideration, have been
stirred to activity in this direction.
Medicine came first, and then en
gineering and agriculture and com
merce, and. In tbe new National uni
versity of Ireland, journalism. At
Birmingham there is a school of brew
ing, at Sheffield a school of steel ma
king, at Durham a school of ship
building. "These seek to provide,"
said Sir Bertram Windle, "a type of
university instruction which, without
departing from the high ideals which
should always rule in such institutions
and the broad, general education, adds
specialized and professional training
and does not wholly avert its eyes
from the requirements of its students
as future money earners." It strikes
off industrial chains.
Teaching Steel Making at Sheffield.
At Sheffield Is an example of the
newer city university, a teaching uni-
a2
versity, fashioned for general learn
ing because without general learning
there cannot be tbe beat technical ed
ucation but also for the special indus
tries of the great manufacturing city
of Sheffield.- -Jr-visttor . saw In . -the
metallurgical laboratory of tbe anlver
slty, under the guidance of profess ars
of eminence, students working at tbe
science of the steel industry. They
were slim, lithe figures, a lot of them,
and with them were four or five older,
slower end more portly persons, who
could be recognized ss professors,
though they had on leather aprons. At
the steel works In the city tbe visitor
saw much the same scene, with this
remarkable difference, that instead of
the portly foreman-professors there
were skilled men, trained in tbe works,
who were instructing the students how
to make steel. "Fifteen years ago,"
said the owner of the steel works,
"Sheffield was threatened, we were
falling behind the continent in the
quality of our steel. Then we brought
the university to our help science
serving industry and nothing can
now equal the quality of Sheffield
steel." Public concern as to industrial
competition ia the source from which
the British movement for bread studies
has derived its main strength.
Lags In Technical Educstlon.
Technical or trade schools, taking
the place of the old apprentice train
ing, now sadly out of date, are In
creasing in England in number and
efficiency. At the present time about
250,000 boys are attending classes in
technical schools for the purpose of ac
quiring some handicraft The system
of technical education, however, curi
ously enough in this great manufactur
ing country, lags behind that of Its
nearest neighbors, Germany and
France. The National Industrial Edu
cation league one of tbe many organi
zations for educational change seeks
to remedy this condition by compul
sory technical training. "Our system of
industrial education is so topsy-turvy,"
said one of tbe members of tbe league,
"that a boy must commit a crime be
tore he can be compelled to learn a
trade." In the league's plan every
r '
body. should bo taught a trmdai?
time when this is accompli.hed iA
ever, does not appear to be n
band. t.
Great Decrease In Illiteracy f
Much improvement as the rem J
tba more general education that
been provided ia noticeable in nZ i
avatam anil MtaTiii.fci,. . "aooL
school attendance have brought iw
Forty yean agoatof every l.onn T1
mamea ra.jcngiana .and Wales i
signed tbe marriage register Jul
their mark, because they could W
write their names; last year onW
The proportion ot women who
with a mark decreased during jr
same period from 312 to 20. in uJ
land the proportion of men thJ
shown to be Illiterate decreased tun
404 to 80 and of the women from iu1
to 76; in Scotland, men from 114 to if
uiu ui wuiiieu irvm at xo 19,
Scotch Laborers Keen for Educatlu
Scotland, which furnishes wUdomtc
London, as Ireland furnishes it
has ever lead In the general dlg
nation of education among Its nemd.
"Even tbe agricultural laborers in tx.
Scotch constituency whom I represent.
eu, saw a aisunguisnea member r
parliament, "were keen for educatloi
They were men whose wages in net
tnd money and what they got oths
wise amounted to not more than S6jt
a week. They were great, bub
itrong fellows, well educated, and wtti
wives as keen as they were; the c
tages were without a speck of dirtua
with an abundance of books. Thm
read and they thought There wai u
breaking down of this class barrier
through education, and father and
feeling they bad much the u
chance. It was a matter of accident
or choice whether one went to a fan
or to a learned profession; the leaned
one was one who could manage a fare
If the pinch came and the tanser
could adorn the learned profenloa;
both were keen democrats, but in noth
ing so democratic as this, they meant
to have proper education for their
children." The democracy extended to
student life also, it may be assumed,
from the story told of Doctor Words
worth, the author of the Greek gram
mar and tbe originator of that inter
esting and diverting educational spec
tacle, the Oxford-Cambridge cricket
match. Coming from England to SctV
land to take the headship of a collep
in Glenalmond, he was "struck by tit
absence of awe" in Scottish boys; or
"even of ordinary respect" for the
schoolmasters. One Scotch lad came
up to him after a' lesson and said:
"Can you tell me where I can get come
good worms? I am going out fish
ing." Public Schools Gaining, Private Losing.
A notable sign of educational change
is the increase In the attendance upoa
the council or state (public) scbooli
in Great Britain as compared with the
attendance upon the voluntary or pri
vate schools. Five years ago 2,813,757
children were In attendance upon the
council schools; this year, 3,213,8
an increase of 400,112. The attend
ance upqn the voluntary schools hid
decreased 347,343 during the same
period, falling off from 2.479,824 to
2,132,481.
Four principles are involved in the
state's support of the council scbooli,
as outlined lu tbe elementary school
program of the Liberal party: Full
and complete popular control and do
religious test for teachers; every pa
rent to have opportunity to send his
child to a council school either the
school is to be taken to the child oi
tbe child to the school; where denom
inational teaching is permitted none oi
the cost is to be paid by taxation; s
recognition of tbe value of Bible teach
ing. Around these principles macs
contention rages in tbe political
world.
Universal Education the Aim.
The new education in Oreat Britata
la slowly -moving to tba previa ion of i
the esiomltty ef train lag. which is tit I
only basis of a true democracy which
forbids tbe conception ot the "ele
mentary" school for the mass, the "see
ondary" school for - the "selected"
classes, and tbe universities for the
few destined by inheritance or envfr
onmeat to be tbe "leaders" of tbe peo
ple. Tbe new education is universal
education of all for the service of all.
If the prophets of the new educs
tlon speak the truth, it will make
Greater Britain instead of a Little
England. Educational progress i
slow, however, in this land. New ed
cational Ideas find acceptance only
when they become old. But no flntf
material for educational experiment
exiBts. In tomorrow's world it may
a Briton from the- council schools ol
today, who yesterday would have beD
denied opportunity of living bis lite
who shall call the nations to yet high
er things. Newbolfs tribute to tit
handful of school graduates of yester
day in England may be true will b
true of the scores of school gradu
ates of tomorrow: .
The sand ot the desert is sodden red.
Red with the wreck of a 'V
that broke .
The Gatllng's Jammed and tbe colon?
dead, .
And the regiment blind with am
and smoke. .
Tbe river ot death bas brimmed
bank. J
And England's far and Honor
But the voice of a schoolboy rsllW
tbe ranks:
"Plap upl play up!
and VMM
game!" .
(Copyrisht, lm. by Joseph n. BowWe.i
Freeh Air Pump.
Electrically driven portable
pumps are provided by a big w
York electric company to Pro'"
fresh air to Its employes when wr
Ing underground.