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Bronze Lions on Grant Memorial
In Washington Arouse Criticism
[immiuiiiiiiniiTirrn'TTr'nini'in!mm
This ia one of the four bronze lions on the Grant Memorial being
erected In Washington that are said to be copies of those on the Nelson
monument In Trafalgar square, London. Each of the lions is couchant
upon a flag that Is supposed to be the Stars and Stripes. The design has
caused much comment and some objection has been made to its adoption.
The Two Go Together.
Show us a man who has accom
plished anything worth while, and we
will show you a man who makes a
specialty of attending to his own busi
ness.
Test for Man.
If a man thinks women are poor,
weak creatures he will soon discover
his mistake by trying to prevent one
from having her own way when she
really wants It.—Indianapolis Star.
Public Education
in Arkansas
Eight Studies in Vital Educational
Problem*.
EDITOR'S NOTE.
Thse Extension Division of the Uni
versity of Arkansas. In no-operation,
with the United States Department of i
Agriculture, will offer this year. I
through this paper, a free correspond-I
ence course in "Education in Arkan
sas,” consisting of eight lessons. Pre
ceding lessons may be had on request.
The additional lessons on "Education
in Arkansas" will be: “Vocational Ed
ucation" (2).
PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ARK
ANSAS
No. 6. The High School Problem.
By J. H. Miller, Director Co-operative
Extension Service, University of
Arkansas, and U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Most people, in considering a ques
tion of law or statecraft, will ask
j whether this or that action is in har
! mony with the intent of the la*mak
| ers or with certain judicial decisions.
In considering the American high
school, however, it is not pertinent to
ask whether this or that is in harmony
with the original purpose of the foun
ders or originators, because the high
school must be considered as a piece
of present-day machinery for the
training of men and women for the
| duties of the present and future. It
must, therefore, be measured by cer
tain reasonable laws of efficiency.
The high school may be inefficient
because of inferior teachers, insuffi
cient equipment, an inadequate and
badly planned building, because of
bad social conditions of the commu
nity or because of wrong ideas and
ideals of those In control as to what
the high school should be and what
it should do. In a way, the hl^h
school should be measured by certain
rules of factory efficiency. It takes
in certain raw material and the pub
lic or any critic has a right to ask
how the output compares with the
original raw material. If it takes in
a hundred first-year students and
graduates fifteen, the public has a
right to know the reasons for this
great mortality. If we accept the
claim of many, that the high school
should be the preparatory school for
the university, and only three of the
fifteen enter the university, the pub
lic has a right to know why.
If the high school, however, is ac
cepted as the “people’s college," and
I not as a preparatory school for col
i lege, we have a right to ask in what
way it has prepared its students for
the occupations they will follow.
Ninety per cent of the girlB will be
home makers, and few schools in Ar
kansas have taught them many lea
aons of efficiency for this great life
work. The majority of the boys will
enter some form o’f commercial life,
with no preparation except the desire
to dress well. Too many of the grad
uates, and far too many of those whe
dropped out on the way, eater upon
forms of clerical or office work.
The high school offers the finest op
portunity in America for the great
work of preparedness for the problems
that must come. So far It has sig
nally failed when measured by the
ordinary laws of efficiency. It has
thrown out too much waste. There is
no good excuse for the horrible mor
tality that marks the earlier years of
‘he high school course. Such mortal
ity proves that the system has been
too ruthless and that too little
thought was given to the 97 per cent
and too much thought to the S per
cent; too little regard for the effi
ciency of the many and too much
thought for the glory of the few. It
must be admitted that far too many
high schools have had little. If any,
influence even In building up an effi
cient community citizenship. It be
hooves thoughtful patrons of our
schools and earnest patriotic men and
women to give serious consideration
to the problem of making the high
school an efficient factory.
No factory can be efficient with in
ferior buildings and inferior workmen
who are paid low wages. In Arkansas
we cannot have efficient high schools
until each community provides ade
quate and well arranged buildings and
adequate equipment and well paid
teachers who have the training and
seal that will enable them to do effi
cient work for training efficient citi
zens. Our communities must come to
appreciate the fact that the high
school should train for efficiency in
the business of that community.
The modern high school, to be an
efficient factory for efficient members
of a democracy, should be an expon
ent of good health, good morals and
real efficiency in all things. It should
stand for industrialism and agricul
ture and home making. The efficient,
high school should have more attrac
tive power to draw into it a larger
proportion of those from the lower
grades and a greater holding power
for retaining in its ranks those who
enter the high school. It should send
its students into the industrial or the
commercial world or into the homes
of the community as efficient work
ers. This cannot be possible until
more money is put into the invest
ment In the way of bulldinga, equip
ment and teachers, and real efficiency
cannot be possible until courses of
study shall be offered that will pre
pare for efficiency in the community
and the avowed purpose of the high
school be declared to be to train for
community efficiency and not merotg
train for college.
AMID DIN OF BATTLE
PIPER’S MUSIC AROUSED INTER
EST OF CORRESPONDENT.
American Ambulance Drivers Give
Vivid Description of Scenes They
Witnessed In Land Where
Death Is Common.
These vivid sketches of battle scenes
are given in letters written by Rich
ard Norton and W. R. Berry, who are
attached to the American Volunteer
Motor Ambulance corps, which han
dled 6,000 wounded men in the five
days of the main allied drive in
France last September. The letters
were received by Eliot Norton, of 2
Rector street, this city. Richard Nor
ton writes:
“Still another picture that rises in
my mind as I write is of one cloudy
morning when, after a very tiring
night, I was sitting on the roadside
watching a rather heavy bombardment
near by, and suddenly through the din
rose the sweet clear notes of a shep
herd’s pipe. It was the same reed
pipe I have heard so often on the hills
of Greece and Asia Minor, and the
same sweetly sad, age-old shepherd
music telling of Pan and the nymphs
and the asphodel meadows where
Youth lies buried. The piper was an
ordinary piou-piou, a simple fantasin,
‘mon vieux Charles' with knapsack on
back, rifle slung over his shoulder,
and helmet on head strolling down to
the valley of death a few hundred
yards beyond."
Mr. Berry pictures the stream of
wounded.
One last scene I shall not forget,
he says. “There was a white chalk
road between black pipe trees, and on
it, moving towards us, were two
groups of shuffling men, a blood-red
sunset at their backs. Our car slowed
down to pass between them, but
when we saw, we stopped—and let
them pass.
“On one side moved a muddy, blood
stained company, where blue-dad fig
ures drooped in saddles, or clung with
both hands to a comrade’s stirrup
leather. I saw a broken sword and
empty carbine holsters, and I saw, too,
eyes glazed with fatigue that stared
from dead-white faces. On the other
passed a second company, muddy
and blood-stained like the first, but
there were gray-clad figures stagger
ing in step, the stronger with their
arms around their comrades. 1 saw
the ribbon of the iron cross, and I
saw again eyes glazed with fatigue
that stared from dead-white faces.
"So passed us by a remnant of the
Hussars’ charge, and a group of Ger
man prisoners. Victors and van
quished—with only the white road be
tween them."—New York Evening
Poet.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK A MONROE RY.
South North
5:39 a. m. Huttig .2:27 p. m
7:40 a. m Monroe. 12:26 p.m
cooal. *
Leaves Arrives
11:40 a. m. ... Huttie 12:15 p. m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain &, Southern
FARMEKV1LLE * SOUTHERN RY.
North South
5:01 a. m.. Huttig 2:65 p. m
4:15 a.m. Farmervilte 4:15 p.m
local, f
10:10a.m. Huttig 2:25 p.m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ville.
^Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe
LODGE DIRECTORY
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o’clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
L. M. Despain, W. M.
C. A. Berry, Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER, No. 122, R. A.
M.—meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
L. G. Gibson, H. P.
D. F. Collett, Secy.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320. Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. J. A. Brignac, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec'y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. O. 0. F.
meets every Tuesday evening. Visiting
brethern cordially invited to attend.
W. E. Chadwick, N. G.
Harlan Sehon, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66,
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o’clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Lou Milstead, N. G.
Miss Murray Pilkinton, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 41 1 W. O. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
C. A. McCormick, C. C.
J. C. Bridges. Clerk.
Sweet Bay Circle No. 146, W. C..
meets every second and fourth Thursday
night at 7:30 o’clock. Visitors are cor
dially invited.
Mrs. W. R. Dickerson, Guardain
s
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