Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 119, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 6, 1923 Page: 6 of 8
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int. BULL&ilJN MARCH 6 1923
Stocking Up a Member of Rum-Fleet
Starting the Flow of Booze to America
Weighed down -with a' cargo of as-rorted wet roods the ships in the rum-
fleet sail daily from Nassau in the Bahama Inlands for thirsty America
Here is a schooner in Nassau harbo r stocked with its wet cargo and ready
to sail for "somewhere in America."
Plenty of Wet Goods for America
Wharves in Nassau Bahama Islands arc piled high with cases of liquor ready for transport to the "booze
fleet" in the harbor. This photo gives some idea of the amount of liquor ready for the booze-runners who scoff
at the idea of capture by revenue agen ts.
1! HIGH SCHOOL
TEXAS' GROT NEED;
CfliOLIBi! 1 UBGED
is
SECESSAKY TO PLACE COOT-
TBr SCHOOLS OX PARITY
1TITH THOSE OF ClTr.
The following is one of a series
of articles appearing in The Dallas
!News and prepared by Dr. Massel-
;man: The most " significant movement in
all modern education is the move-
ment to establish public free (high
.schools throughout the land. In a
sense this movement was an after-
thought in the State's consciousness
of educational responsibility. The
State set UP "Gbmaioa schools" where
"readfn and writing' and 'rithnietic"
were to he taught as the necessary
safeguards of civilization. Then came
the thought of the need of training
leaders for the work of the State and
State colleges were founded. Soon it
was found that more "prep schools''
"were needed to train the hoped-for
leaders to. enter college aad this led
to the idea of publicly-supported "prep
schools'
Later the iaefi grew up thai the
"common schools" did not give enough
education and training t all the chil-
dren of all the people. Democracy;
could not he marie safe for a sef-
a very sparsely-scattered way. Most
of the country hoys and girls in this
good land of America have no high
school opportunity. In Texas there
are some 600060 of those hoys and
girls who have no high school chance
worthy Gf mention. Some 6 the States
are worse off than Texas if the men
tion of that will be any comfort to a
Texas citizen.
The high school movement has -not
spread to the country because it was
not an organized national movement
nor an organized State movement in
education. It was a local educational
movement in this place and that. The
educational wish to provide the larger
educational opportunity for the youth
was widespread hut only where prop-
ty was "massed" was it possible to
build up a high school. ' It is plain
then that the movement could not
spread to the country districts save
where the communities "had .struck
oil." The strong communities set out
to give educational justice to their
own children which was right and
proper- No one would deny the valtfo
of gtop consciousness working for
the good' of the group's own. The sin
of America and of the several States
of America is that the -educational
rights of the Tural boy and girl were
lost sight of in tho rejoicing over" the
educational opportunities which had
come to the city hoy and girl. The
splendor of the million-dollar high
schools in the cities here and there
so dazzled the eyes of the citizenship
that they could not see .the education-
al horels of the lowly ones in the
If the common school districts would you whose hcart3 begin to' get heavy.
consolidate wherever possible and I All along in this series of talks we
every district vote a local school tax have heen taking tho position that the.
nntP it hurt avo could get enough
money with the help of the State-to
the rural children but we can never
county unit plan of school orgnnlza
tion can be established in Texas by
hare nine months urade school for J simply utilizing the independent
school district law to organize each
carry the high school movement to j county hs a whole into an indepen-
fhe country with success by fhe'local j dent school district. Three counties
governing people with a ftth-grdet rural districts.
education nor even with a sbtfh-grsde i The social consciousness of the
one. So what we Imew as the high Saviour of mankind was said to be so
school came to be on earth aad its j sensitive that he could not rest in
growth in the cities and towns of the j 1H?ace when even one of the "ninety
earth has been more than phenome- Uad njM. without the fold of
support idea in school work. Either
the SJate and Nation must get togeth-
er and "plant" a high school in each
community deserving -such a school
and support the same leaving the
communities to support their grade
schools or we must adopt the county
unit j)lan. We believe the county way
is the one wise way for our State
and perhaps for all the States
liaising: the Money.
Under the county unit plan of or-
ganization whatever money the State
decided -to raise and set apart as; its
share of educational responsibility for
the high school education of all the
children of 'all the people would come
to the respective counties for high
school work. if . the State were to
nal. In a 500-mile trip one may now
see a dozen city high school build-
ings costing half a miUkm dollars
each. No nioaey has beee spared in
building these high schools in cities
and towns. Without conscious latest
grade schools have suffered in order
that the city may have a great fcn
school. Salaries for high cheol teach-
ers are in many places almost doable
those paid grade teachers. ' Such In
- ment.
The T"niTersity of the Itfanr.
Taken all in all the American high
Ecnoui m uie hock ctcwlwm at wwiet-
tive human' effort. It is a conscious
. effort on the -part of the cities and
towns to give to all the youth of these
cities and towns 'an American chance' i
for a start in the .battle of life. If
the born equal idea m oar national
.' Constitution means "equality of op
portunity" then the high school is
i-iitz guui & ui iuc trwmz u mis otruv
and that to enable their children to
seize the opportunity.
Only a few will ever go to the col-
leges "God's favored tenth' ac thy
say in some university circles. The
.high school will forever he the uni-
versity of the many. It is the square
deal school of a democracy par ex-
.' cellence and deserves to be developed
" and organized so that it will provide
life forms cast np from the biological
-.boiling pot of existence. "When the
-high school movement covers the land
it will be the educational pride of
. - our Nation.
"What of the high scfcoolin the opes
country? Well in the language of
;the street "She ain't titera" save in
privilege but the social consciousness
of America And its States is so poorly
.developed that .it can revel in the
good which comes to the children of
the few while the children of the many
In the open country are clothed in
educational rags this is the chiefest
shame of our great country.
Efforts for Rural High School.
A few of the States are beginning to
make some real efforts toward the giv-
ig nf the country boys and girls a
high school chance. California leads
all the world in this respect I think
I speak the truth when I say that
now every foot of land in California
is within some high school district
so that practically every boy" and girl
iii the State is provided with a high
school. Gradually transportation and:
missionary high school teachers will
take high school instruction and train-
ing to all the hoys and girls -of that
great Stated IMs a glorious sight to
sec -one of the great union high schools
in California it makes a lover of the
children. in tie open country thank
God and lake courage.
In Texas the one way to bring high
school education within reach of our
rural children is the way of the coun-
ty unit plan of school organization.
In this part of our educational work
the strong and the weak spots of our j tax. Thus the enemies of tho county
Staie must absolutely stand-together unit plan talk. But wait a minute-
say witli California that $30 per pupil j
in attendance in the high schools was
tho State's part then each high school
v.ouui Jiuve tins much money as a
ha?is on which tho county could build
up tho high school work of the coun-
ty. It would be the duty of the 'coun-
ty to figure out a plan of county high
school support to at least match the
State's part.
In California tho county and cchi-
munity puts up ?li for high school
work for each $1 given by the State.
As property is "massed" In Texas a
better plan would be for the State to
put up half the money for high school
work and the county iulf.. There are
a growing numbor who can 'see how
the State is going to get .ist part of
tho money for working out educa-.
tional justice in -Texas for the. chil-
dren of Texas but many are blind
when it comes to talking about the!
way the .counties: are going to get
their part of this. moneVi The chif
reason for the blindness is that oj
many of our common school districts
have leaned upon the State so long
that they hope to koQp on leaning on
it. We have already pointed out in
these articles at several points the
lack of local support for our schyol
work and suggested that "heaven
helps those who help" themselves" Wei
hate to mention it again but the peo-j
ple of the counties ot Texas must)
make up their minds that the rural j
high school can hot. come to them
like an angel from on high it must
grow up in. part out of their own de
sires for ttfeir own children and be
built in part with some of the dollars
earned by the sweat of thetr own
brows.
A County 'School Tax.
Possibly the best way to provide the
rural high school money of a county
to match the State's high school mon
ey would be by a county high school
tax. Some say that our State Con
stitution forbids a county to vote a
county school tax. You can vote
county road tax a county brldgo tax
and so on but not a county school
State that there Mould soon be a mad
rush as to see which counties could
"shift" to the county unit plan the
quickest. Of course tho . better way
would be to have a general law which
would enable the State to come on
the county unit plan as a whole and
one time but n good thing is worth
getting in more ways than one. Only
the fool drops his effort to win just
because he finds one door closed 'to
him.
inglSelioor District.
Take another look at the local sup-
port side of the rural high schoof ques-
tion. In school work constructi-e or-
ganization and adequate support usu-
ally go hand jn hand. To provled for
the high school education of our coun-
try boys and girls we will need in
each county besides the city high
schools which can be utilized a given
number of high schools. Now it Is
likely' with the county as the unit
the .County. Board of Education will
find it the wisest plan to organize
the county into high school districts.
Unless we mistake our reading of
the law the State could permit the
organization of these high school dis
tricts in the counties. Tf
by the independent district plan what school districts could vote a high
wj4.Hu .svu oum oe iue result: me school tax. So hv snmo tr.Hvrt
s.ght of that $25 per child lying there school organization we can And the
in the State Treasury would look so way to the local money to help sup-
good to the several counties of the port the rural high schools. There
in the State are so organized. If this
be done there is ho trouble about the
countywidc tax. for all such districts
have the privilege under the State
Constitution to vote school taxes.
There are those .who say that the
State can not make a law requiring
the counties to establish the. county
unit plan by the independent school
district road save as each .county
would choose such a plan by. a vote
of Its people. This may lie true and
it ma; not; but even if it should prove
tnie the "shift" to the county unit
plan by' county voting would not be
so difficult as one might imagine. Let
the State of Texas decide to raise.
jiay $25 per child for each high school
in the State and hold the same in its
treasury to the credit of the county
'"J8 until sue)
jto orgam:
such time hs the county voted
e Itself into a countv unit
w4m ' - -fe . m liii
Native women on the wharves of Nassau in the "Bootleggers' Haven" of
the Bahama Islands are shown here carrying cases of liquor to the booze
fleet about to start for thirsty America
is nearly always a way. to do the right
thing even under existing circumstan-
ces if you look hard enough for it.
We are perfectly willing to have all
high schools in a county be county
high schools under the county unit
plan with a county-wide tax If that
be the way we can get the thing done
best of all. But-the more we think
about the matter the more we are in-
clined to feel that even under the
county unit plan of school organiza-
tion 'it might be better to organize the
county into high school districts for
high school work.
Whatever of value there is in local
sentiment could thus be -taken over
in the local high school district. It
might oven be a useful thing in get-
ting the movement started to have
the custodianship of the property and
such other things as the County Board
of Education would d5em good to put
in their hands. This would be in har-
mony with our suggestion that in
"shifting" to the County unit rhm the
common school districts might re-
ter is that the high school movement
musf be carried to the country and
rural high schools provided for our
rural boys and girls. The educational
manie of America is the denial o
high school opportunities to these
boys and girls this long. The time
has come for every State to "get from
under" this shame and as quickly as
possible. The county unit plan is the
way out for Texas and in my jndg-
ment for most of the other States
of the Union.
Dr. IV. H. Matthews of Fort Worth
who Is Commissioner for the Methodr
ist Hospital' will speak at the Old
Presbyterian Church tonight at seven-
thirty. He is very anxious to meet all
the members of the Brownwood Hos-
pital Club. There will be no collec-
tion. Everybody is invited. Every
member of the Club is urged to bo
there.
a Q. SMITH Pastor.
Picture Framings 3Tayo Studios.
Don't fail to se8 "Clarence" Pri-
main when it was necessary to main-f day night March 9th. You will get a
tain a .graded school in a common ' laugh from every line nowaru rayne
school district. By such procedure i Auditorium.
we' could overcome local prejudice '
and get under way with less unhappi-j Curfew bell in the time of William
noss to those who are alwayr fearful j and II in England was thef'
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that all fires and candles be estt
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