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EDUCATIONAL MATTERS ig <1 < ! ■ By Ang:us B. Cameron The schools are getting under way. Ingram Branch has been going a week. Cameron, Vass, Pinebluff, Put nam and Beulah Hill opened Monday. Pinehurst opens the 6th. Carthage, Jackson Springs, West End, Aber deen, and Addor will open the 11th. Farm Life has put off opening day to the 19th in order to have the four additional rooms completed at the opening. Glendon, Eagle Springs and other schools will soon follow suit. Most of the schools of six months term will open early in October. No date has been set for these schools to open. An earlier date will suit better in some sections than in others, but it is important that all open at the earliest possible date. Contracts have been made with teachers for practically all schools. The general average of the personel of the teaching force has been strengthened for the coming term. Very few will be on the roll this year that did not have the benefit of a course of training in some summer school during the summer. They be gin the term better prepared and with a better comprehension of the work to be done. Some of those who at tended summer school and did good work may not be able to find em ployment. To all of these who have not completed their high school or college course we would suggest and strongly urge that if possible they go on to school. For the first time in some years there are more teach ers than places. This means that those who are not well prepared for the work will find it more and more difficult to secure a position. Bet ter make some sacrifice now in order to secure the better preparation. We quote from a recent article in “Farm Life.’^: ‘There’s a lot to be said on both sides of the college question. It is true that you can find college grad uates in jail, and boys who have never seen the inside of a school house sitting in the seats of the mighty, but that isn’t the rule. Dean Farrell, of Kansas Agricultural Col lege says, and we have no desire to question his figures, that— “An American with no schooling at all has one chance in 150,000 of be coming eminent. With a high school training he has eighty-seven times as good a chance. With a college education he has 700 times as good a chance.” “Gk>ing to college, for most boys, means a few years of hard study and penny-pinching, but if it increases the chances for success 700 times, you have the answer to the question. Why, indeed, shouldn’t the boy go to college, even if it involves some sac rifice on his own part, and some on the part of his family?” The same is true, and perhaps in a larger way, of the girls. The First Day We wish to urge upon parents the importance of having all the children in school the first day. Perhaps more failures in school are due to missing the first day than to almost any other cause. The old saying “a good start is half the battle” is as true of school work as anything else. The child who is at the beginning gets an even start and is inspired with confidence and a desire to keep up and make good, while the one who enters a few days late always has a feeling of having missed something, and while he is getting adjusted and try ing to catch up the others are mov ing on. The late arrival works under a handicap. Of all the days in schools the first day is most important. Bet ter miss a week later on than to miss the first day. See to it that your child is there on time the first day. Consolidation of Schools We quote the law bearing upon consolidation for those who are not fomiliar with the same. “5473. Redistricting and Consoli dating. The county board of educa tion is hereby authorized and em powered to redistrict the entire coun ty or any part thereof, and to con solidate school districts wherever and whenever in its judgment the redis tricting or the consolidation of dis tricts will better serve the educa tional interests of the township, or the county, or any part of the coun- ty. “5475. Provision for transporta tion of pupils in consolidated districts. Upon the consolidation of two or more school districts into one by the coun ty board of education, the said coun ty board is authorized and empower ed to make provision for the trans portation of pupils in that consolidat ed district that reside too far from the schoolhouse to attend without transportation.” A good deal of thought and discus sion is being ^ven to consolidation these days. It is no longer a debata ble question. It has been tried out and found better. The plan is not 100 per cent perfect—nothing is—but judged in the light of results it is better than the old way. In actual dollars spent it may cost more, but in ratio to the value received the cost is much less. It means that the boy and the girl who under the old system did not get an equal chance will get it. It simply means a square deal to all the boys and girls. Our county has not moved as rap idly in this as some other counties. We have made haste slowly in or der to make it sure. We have been forced to move slowly because funds have been lacking. Some counties have a complete system of consoli dated schools making it possible for the boys and girls in the remote country districts to have school ad vantages equal to the boys and girls in the towns and cities. This is the goal for Moore county. Why not? We can do it and the children are en titled to it. A large per cent of our most pro gressive men and women are con vinced. They no longer question the wisdom or the necessity of it. They know it is the thing to do. With them the only question is, “How shall we do it?” The answer is by a coun- ty-wide special levy for schools with the county as the unit. Of course, there is some opposition. There al ways will be. No progressive pro gram has ever been put on that did not meet with opposition. Many of our best people at first opposed stock law and predicted that if the law were enacted people would perish. But none have been so unfortunate, and none would wish to go back to the old system. There was bitter op position to the good roads movement but it would be hard to find an in telligent man or woman today that world advocate a return to the old system. It costs more money to be sure but we are getting more for our money. Our roads are not perfect and we haven’t gotten all the roads we want nor as good as we want, but they are better than they once were, and they’ll be better and better as the years go by. 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Malachi was perhaps cor with Nehemiah; probably su| same relation to Nehemiah | gai and Zechariah did to After the completion of th| Jerusalem Nehemiah seeinf been called back to the I’eii but returned to Jerusaiei few years. Though outwardj of the people were correct, pointed out the sins of a con hood, mixed marriages and pay tithes. I. Israel's Base Ingratitul God approached them vvi| der affirmation “I have lov< was the prophet’s burden this fact unto them (v. 1). and worldly were the peoplj failed to see God’s hand The attitude of Israel to G(j in the skeptical insinuatioi hast Thou loved us?‘ Tl answers this by showing of Jacob and His passing b; destruction of Edom and II. God's Severe Indici 2:17). . 1. Against the Priests They were guilty (i) oi (1:6). Their profanity wa| Ing the name of God. To f[ God is to be profane, name in any unreal way i* ^ilty. (2) Sacrilege (vv. sacrilegious act was in luted bread and blemishc To bring such offerings t< ruler would be a gross ii to be acceptable with G^ genuine; must cost son}( should give to God our bes no intellect too brilliant to| Lord’s service. The younj esteem their lives waste( them on the altar of miss! flee. (3) Greed (1:10). not willing to open the do| house without pay. Our be out of a heart of love for profit. This has a vltaj to ministers and evangelif^ enter Christian service worldly gain is of this typ< iness (1:12,13). Because] love the routine of duty some. (5) Not teaching] the people (2:1-9). Thoi to teach God’s law to the| a great responsibility ai most surely demand an 2. Against the People (j 15). (1) For ungodly mai 1-2). God’s purpose In th^ of mixed marriages was tl ^Ise up holy seed (v. 15] rtage of the believer wit Uever today brings confui fold of God, and, turns
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