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VOLUME XXI. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA. FRIDAY MARCH 11. 1001 NUMBER IT
Professional Cards
AARON AVALL
Lawyer
Practices in all Courts
Loup City, Neb.
ROBT.P. STARR
Attorney-at-Law.
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA.
W J. FISHER,
Attorney at Law and Notary Public.
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LOUP CITY, W1UBAIKA
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LOUP CITY. . . NEBRASKA.
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j OUR SCHOOLS
The following paper was read be
fore the woman’s club at it’s last
meeting, and is given to our readerB
by request of the members:
Madam President and Members of
the Unity Club:
The subject which you have as
signed to me, “Our Schools,” is one
of deep, practical interest to the
community in which we live. It
touches the women of our town per
haps even more than the men, be
cause the duties and responsibilities
connected with the rearing of chil
dren fall chiefly upon us.
We ought not to forget that we
five in a state where woman is given
the right to vote on school matters.
Whatever we may think on the ques
tion of female suffrage, or the gen
eral right of franchise, it seems to me
we are pretty generally agreed that
as to school matters it is a good
thing that we eojoy tberightto vote.
At, all events, we are bound to ac
cept the fact that under existing
laws we share equally with the men
the responsibility for the education
of our children. We can no longer
criticise and find fault with our bus
bands, if school matters go wrong,
but we must take the blame to our
selves. In many things we enjoy the
luxury of telling the men bow much
better we could do than they do, if
we only had the power or the oppor
tunity. But this is not the case in
regard to our public schools. The
men can now turn round upon us
and say to us, we have given you the
power aud the opportunity; now let
us see you do something; show us
the more excellent way. I am one
of those who believe that we ought
to rise to the full measure of our re
sponsibility and do something for the
cause of education, which shall be
worthy of our day and justify the
wisdom of the law makers in grant
ing us the school franchise.
Now I wish to suggest, id the first
place, that because we bave now a
direct voice and a legal control in
school matters by virtue of the fran
chise, there is no reason that we
should neglect the use of any of
those powers which we had previously.
It has been generally supposed that
woman had some influence with man
and that when she did not have the
right to vote herself, she still had
the ability to afTeCt his vote. Why
should we not still retain this influ
ence over men? Will it not be wise
on our part to use' tact and persua
sive arts with the men to win their
vote for the good objects which we
seek at our school elections? I have
sometimes thought there was dan
ger of antsgonizing the men by the
exercise of the voting cower. You
know we mast admit that the men
are a little contrary and object to be
ing driven. If we are too dictato
rial and insist too stroDgly on our
ideas, the men will bolt and go over
to the opposition.
1 believe, therefore, it will be good
policy t > make the men our allies and
friends. They are often strong
willed and forceful, and our aim
should be to enlist their strong wills
and their energy on our side. Some
years ago, we made a vigorous < ffort
to bring about a reform io school
matters in Loup City, and we so far
succeeded as to elect two ladies on j
the school board. I fear our attempt
at reform was nullified to some ex- |
tent by the latent jealousy of the j
tnen and their natural contrariness. I
They were alarmed lest the women
should monopolize the offices and as
sume the reins of power and reduce
them to a state of political subservi
ence. Now 1 would advocate tbe
!
election of men oniy upon our school
board until sucb time as they shall
cease to fear the dominance of
women, but let us see to it that the |
heat men are elected on the school
board- men who are themselves
well educated and who tuke an act
ive interest in the cause of education,
ft is not in the power of the men
themselves to elect their best ele
ment. They can only do this by the
help of the women. I propose that
we come to the aid of the most in tel
ligent and moral element among the
men in this community for the pur
poses of school reform and that the
very first reform we aim at shall be
to elect scholarly men and solid
business men as members of our
school board.
In looking back over the education
al history of our town for the past
twenty five years, we all know that the
best qualified men have not always
been elected for our school officers
We have had men on the school
board who could not pass an exami
nation in any of the higher grades;
men who could neither speak nor
write grammatically; who took no
interest in the cause of education;
who held the idea that it required no
more ability to teacb children than
It did to bee corn or dig potatoes.
Undoubtedly, we have had some
good men on the board, but it lias
seldom been possible to elect such
Let our motto be to elect only our
best qualified men upon the school
board, ard let us take as our allies
iu this movement for school reform
the cleanest and best men in our
community. We can win out, if we
do this, and we cannot win out in
any other way. This is the first re
form that should be attempted.
Why is Loup City behind all the
neighboring towns educationally ? I
undertake to say the chief reason is
that tbeae oth^r towns have elected
theirbrightesland best men upon their
school boards; men who were them
selves well educated and who appre
ciated the advantages of education.
While we on the other hand have
been running our sc hool elections on
the basis of ward politics and elect
ing, for the most part, men who had
no qualifications for school offices.
Until we elect progressive men upon
the school board we shall continue
to be a quarter of a century behind
all the neighboring towns education
ally. How many of us feel our
selves deeply humiliated and dis
graced 88 we compare our schools
with St. Paul and Ord. The back
ward condition of our schools has |
driven away from our community j
the best and most desirable class of
immigration, men of capital and of
good social standing. Business men
bad better wake up to this fact. It
is a question that touches our mate
rial prosperity. If our public schools
bad been equal to those of Ord our
business would have developed to
the standard of Ord. Ignorance and
poverty go hand in band as far as
communities are concerned. As we
make progress in intelligence we
make progress in wealtb. After we
have succeeded in electing a qualified
school board, all other reforms will
come easily. One of the first will
be to secure the 11th and 12'h
grades. It is really a shame that!
we are without them now. Look at
the expense which the parents of our
children have been put to in sending
! their children away to other counties
to secure the higher education
Thousands ot dollars have gone out
jot this town and out of this coun’y
! which ought to have been kept at
1 borne to aid in building up our edu
| national Bystem and enriching our
: merchants here. 1 see no reason
why at the very next annual meet
ing this very question should not be
made an i*sue and the school b >ard
ins'rueted by the vote of the school
meeting, to put in the two additional
grades and hire the additional teach
; era that will be needed. I will also
1 suggest that we as worn, n ought to
take a special interest in securing j
j school reform along the liue of man
net's at.d morals. Some feticheis
seem to entertain tbo view than 'lit
matters belong exelusheh to liom«
'raining but 1 cannot agree to this.
I admit that as parents we cannot
shift the entire reap- n-ibilih upon
our teachers, but inunt Iook well to
the manners and mnrtl- m' •
children at home It must b re
me robe red, however, that • t < ■' ■1
dren are in the hands of the tench* t
for lours of the day and the in
tbinoces and instructions which they
receive at school will outbalance
what they receive at home. Living
as we do, under a republican form of
government, it is important that our
uirldren should be taught to he
truthful and honest and possessed of
moral courage to stand for the right.
It is important that they should b<>
trained in habits of neatness, punctu
ality, order, obedience to law and
respect for the rights of others,
without these qualifications our
scholars cannot become good citi
zens, and it has been well said that
the school houses dotted all over this
greatest of all republics, are factories
for the manufacture of good citizens.
I go farther than this: I think our
teachers should leach gentle manners,
kindness and politeness. These con
stiutte a grace and ornament in
every kind of society It is a very
mistaken idea which assumes that
only the wcalt y or aristocrat kt
classes are expected to he polite and
gentile and refined Unfortunately,
these classes do no’ always exem
plify the highest type of courtesy,
bu' sometimes have only a surface
polish which barely conceals the
native roughness and coarseness be
neath Often the poor and middle
classes manifest a higher t\pe of
i tr.it nobility. In a republic we ought
all to he gentle people. Good man
ners are an ornament to the humblest
citizen and in aristocratic countries
they become a throned monarch bet
ter than his crown I was very mm h
pained to hear that less than a year
ago, a stranger, who visited our
town with a view to locating here,
was so shocked to observe the bad
manners of some scholars that he
instantly- made up his miml not to
bring his own children to town where
the manners of the pupils were so
entirely neglected in the public
schools. As women, let it lie our
care to see that morals and manners
are part of the curriculum in our
schools. I have not time to point
out other reforms which are to he
desired. In conclusion I wish to say
that. I only hope that there may re
sult a generous spirit of rivalry be
tween the men and the women of
this town to sec which of the sexes
shall contribute ftiost to the educa
tional advancement of the scholars
of thin town.
“ Let knowledge grow from more
to more, and more of reverence in
us dwell, that mind and soul accord
ing well, may make one music as be
fore but vaster. ”
Mrs. It. J. Nioiitinmalk.
All He Asks.
My old ambition? I've forsworn
I And rainbows I no longer chase;
Deceptive pleasure now 1 scorn
With what I get my wants keep pace.
I'm not at all allured by glory;
I've had a glimpse behind th>- mask
That covers herqts famed in story
just solid comfort's all I ask.
I think I’ve had my fill of Jove;
In time It gets a trifle boring.
No flower, lock of hair or glove
Do X consider worth the storing,
The cup that cheers 1 an. not taking;
At one timo 1 could drink a ea k;
Itut now It sets my head to nehlng—
Just solid comfort's all I ask.
A big armchair, a blazing fire,
A seasoned pipe, a book worth reading
And slippered ease I most desire;
few things beyond these i am need
ing.
My old ambitions but amuse me
As In the lire's warm glow I batik
I’m wiser now, so please excuse me—
Just solid comfort's all I a»k.
—Chicago News.
What He Wanted.
Lord Melbourne, when lJriti-ii
prime minister, was pressed to give
an appointment to a mart because he
was a good fellow, "and always
votes with us when he thinks we arc
right.” “D--him! What’s the good
of that?” demanded his lordship. I
want a fellow who will support me
when I am wrong.”
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