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^t£R W. HANEY, Ed. .nd Pub.
Phone: 40
i.'„tpred as second-class mat
S 26, 1015, at the post
' ,-p at McCrory, Ark., under
of March 3, 1879.
FRIDAY JAN. 23, 1920.
I
WHAT KIND OF SCHOOL?
What kind of school do you
want for your child? This
•v a question of supreme im
portance to every parent in
and around McCrory. The
manner in which it is answer
ed will mean life or death to
the useful career of many a
boy and girl.
In the past ten years the
enrollment of the McCrory
public schools has more than
doubled, and at this time
everv room is crowded to
overflowing. Whether this
condition is due to an in
crease in educational interest
or merely an increase in local
population does not relieve
the physical; need of better
school facilities. But all in
telligent thinkers will readily
agree that both the interest
and the population are grow
ing. So along with better
buildings and equipment
must come a more vitalized
c.»urse of study.
The Building.
Most school buildmgs have
been erected with one idea in
view, namely, that every class
in the school shall have one
room, where the pupils must
spend the greater part of the
day at their respective seats.
By the time so many class
rooms have been erected the
officials have usually discover
ed that all the money had
been spent, and consequently
the community gets a pretty
building but a poor school.
The modern plan is to have
the smallest possible number
°f class-rooms, whereby more
than one class uses a given
foom for the academic sub
lets, and the money thus
saved enables the school to
have shops, laboratories, do
mestic science rooms, art
studios, libraries, an audi
torium,■■ gynasium playground
equipment, etc. Which build
*??. would you prefer for your
child?
Work-Study-Play Plan.
one progressive
\n°ol in Arkansas has tried
•l the work-study-play plan
pi^C j S Pr°tfounced it a de
*?ed success. When the plan
a ? feferred to the patrons
„ „ the pupils after a trial of
In ew months an overwhelm
S me was cast in favor of
its continuance. It has been
stated by educational author
ities that the plan will work
even,better in a small school
system than in a larger one.
Briefly, the plan is this: The
school is divided into two
parts, each having the same
number of classes. School A
comes in the morning and
goes to the classrooms, for
academic work, while school
B goes to the special activi
ties, one-third to the auditori
um, one-third to the play
ground, and one-third to the
shops, laboratories, music
studios, etc. At the end of
the first or second peroid
school ; A changes places with
school B, and so on through
out the entire day, giving the
pupils a happy combination
of work, study and play.
Which plan would you prefer
for your child?
The Course of Study.
This is the testing time for
many a boy and girl. The
lure of high wages and many
other factors, including the
uninteresting grind of the
average course of study, are
steering them away from in
stead of into school. But
where a course of study prop
erly adapted to the needs of
the community has been offer
ed, it has been found in al
most every case that a far
greater percentage of pupils
completed the entire high
school course. From School
Life the following is taken:
“Many a boy saved to the
school by a good practical
course in manual training will
profit by many other things
the school has to offer and
continue his education.”
“The average parent can
help by discarding the idea
he is far likely to hold that
“What was good for me and
mv father is good enough for
my boy.” It isn’t . The
world moves. The parent
who nowadays deliberately
lets his child leave school at
the end of the eighth grade
of the compulsory school
peroid is practically condemn
ing him to a life of failure.
The fact that a few emerge
without education must not
blind us to the fact that there
are thousands of young men
ana women wnu nave
finest natural qualities and
never can rise because of lack
of education. Something of
this the youth can be told—
that we are soon coming to
the point in j;his country, if
we are not already there,
when the boy and girl with
out a high school education
will be hopelessly handi
capped in getting along.”
Certainly every boy and
girl in the United States
should have a high school
education as a minimum.
That is the least the Nation
can ask.”
But the modern idea is not
only to keep boys and girls
in school until they have “fin
ished” the high school course
in academic work, but also to
fit him for some trade or pro
fession to his own liking.
How would you like for youi
boy or girl to have access to
a course of study such as the
following?
Seventh Grade.
Required:
English.
Mathematic.
Social Science.
Hygiene.
Elective :
Manual training.
Domestic, science.
Agriculture.'
Penmanship, drawing or
music.
Eighth Grade
Required :
English.
Mathmetics.
Social Science.
Elective:
Languages: Spanish, French
or Latin.
Manual training, domestic
science or agriculture.
Hygiene.
Penmanship, drawing or
music.
Ninth Grade.
Required:
English.
Mathematics.
Physical training.
Elective:
Languages: Spanish, French
or Latin.
Ancient History.
Manual training.
Commercial subjects, pen
manship and spelling,
typewriting.
Music or art.
Tenth Grade.
Required:
English.
• Physical training.
Elective:
Mathematics.
Modern and medieval hist
ory.
Science, Botany, Zoology,
Physiology, Botany.
Languages: Spanish, French
or Latin.
* Vocational subjects: Do
mestic Science, Agricul
ture, or Industrial courses.
Commercial subjects: Indus
trial and commercial geog
raphy, typewriting, com
mercial arithmetic.
Music or art.
Eleventh Grade.
Required:
English.
Physical training.
Elective:
Mathematics. ^
History.
Science, chemistry.
Languages: Spanish, French
or Latin.
Vocational subjects: Do
mestic Science, Agricul
ture, Industrial courses.
Commercial subjects: Book
keeping, Stenography,
Typewriting, Commercial
Law, Commercial Eng
lish.
Twelfth Grade.
Required:
English.
American History.
Civics.
Physical training.
Elective:
Mathematics.
Science, Physics.
Languages: Spanish, French
or Latin.
Vocational subjects: Do
mestic Science, Agricul
ture or Industrial courses.
Commercial subjects: Book
keeping, Stenography,
Typewriting, Commercial
Law, Commercial English.
Can any parent within a
radius of several miles from
McCrory fail to realize the sig
nificance of having access to
such a school as indicated
above? Would a few extra
dollars in r taxes cause any
loyal citizen to oppose a
movement to save our boys
and girls?
There are many boys and
girls in McCrory and vicinity,
who would be in school today
if our school could offer them
what they really need. Recent
ly the boys of the high school
were asked if they would be
interested in a course of auto
mobile, tractor and general
repairing to be offered at a
iuca.i garage unutjr tilt; in
struction of a skilled me
chanic. The response was so
enthusiastic that steps may be
taken soon to give them this
opportunity. Surely no broad
minded taxpayer would long
resist the silent appeals of sev
eral hundred young boys and
girls who are so eager for an
education that is worth wMle.
Mothers and fathers of Barnes
and DeView, hear the call of
your children, the bread-win
ners and citizens of tommor
row.
IN UNION THERE IS
STRENGTH!—Contributed.
Miss Ruby Spradlin spent
Saturday and Sunday with
home-folk in Augusta.
Mr. Claude Wade of Pump
kin Bend spent Sunday with
friends at Bald Knob.
Mrs. Clementine Holmes of
Hillemann returned, home
Monday after a few day’s vis
it to friends and relatives
here.
Mrs. W. L. Crail returned
Sunday after a month’s visit
to her son, Claude, at Wynne,
and her friend, Mr&. Mamie
Orjon at Earle.
Money Cannot Buy Any Better
E. D. Grappe, a leading
merchant of St. Maurice, La.,
writesFor a cathartic I es
pecially recommend Foley Ca
thartic Tablets, knowing as I
do that money cannot buy any
better.” They act promptly,
without pain or nausea. They
clear the bowels, sweeten the
stomach and tone up the liver.
Not habit -forming. For sale
by the Red Cross Drug Store.
For the new road it will re
quire 24,500 cubic yards of
gravel, which will require
about nine hundred cars.
Parties wanting to contract
for theX unloading and; haul
ing of this gravel by the. yard,
will pleasd see me.
GROVER McCRORY.
AdV< 12-ia-19t£.