The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. 3
RUSK, CHEROKEE COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY,, OCTOBER 7, 1921
NO. 14
Will See Panama Canal.
Not all of the life of a sailor
boy is prosaic; it is not all work;
it is not all hum-drum. There
are many incidents that go to
make for pleasure and the hoys
of Uncle Sam's Navy get about
over the world and see many of
the principal cities. They usual-
ly get shore leave while in these
places and if they are of a sight-
seeing disposition they get about
and learn much about the places
thus visited.
We are reminded of these mat-
ters right now by receiving a let-
ter from J. A. Kirkland who re-
cently went from Rusk to San
Diego and reentered the navy.
He writes that his ship will be
one of sixteen that will go to
Mare Island navy yard in San
Francisco bay and after being
overhauled will go to the Atlan-
tic coast via the Panama canal.
Just where they will be sta-
tioned on the Atlantic coast has
not been determined but Nor-
folk, Philadelphia, or Boston will
likely claim them. The trip will
be a very nice one and Ivlr. Kirk-
land will get to see the Panama
Canal, among other sights that
will be taken in on the way.
The Cherokeean will follow
him about on his trip and keep
him informed about the doings in
Cherokee county and we would
not be surprised if Allan would
drop us a nice letter from Pana-
ma and another from Philadel-
phia, should he be sent there.
Would Repair Bridge.
The bridge over the Neches
river on the Palestine road has
been in bad condition for some
time and the Commissioners have
been anxious to do the needed
work to put it in condition for
travel but Anderson county
seems to be short on funds to use
in this manner and have, so far,
been unable to finance their
share of the work. It hoped
that they may soon be able to do
so as our people are anxious to
have (he work done so the road
may be usable.
More Money for Roads.
Judge 6ibson has received a
letter from the State Highway
Department advising him that
$50,000 has been allotted by
them to Road District No. 2. A
copy of the letter is given below.
The $20,000 can be used on the
Hatchetts Ferty Road graveling
it and making it better than it
now is. another $20,000 will be
used on the road from Nacogdo-
ches thru Alto to Houston coun-
ty line, the other $10,000 cannot
be used as suggested because
Highway 37 has not the money
requhed to go with the allot-
ment and so Judge Gibson has
asked that it be given for use on
the, road west of Maydelle to the
river. In case this is granted
the road in the west part of the
county can be placed in excel-
lent shape.
Austin, Tex., Sept. 29, 1921.
Hon. C. F. Gibson,
County Judge,
Rusk, Texas.
Dear Sir:
This is to advise that the State
Ifighway Commission has allot
ted $50,000 State aid to Cherokee
county to apply as follows: $20,-
000 to Highway No. 21 from the
Nacogdoches county line to the
Houston county line, $20,000 to.
apply- on Highway No. 7 from
Rusk to the Nacogdoches coun
ty line, and $10,000 to apply on
Highway No. 37 in the Alto Dis-
trict. This entire proposition
has been discussed today with
your engineer, Mr. Cock, who is
now in the office and he under-
stands what will be necessary to
prepare the plans and applica-
tion covering this grant of aid.
Yours very truly,
ALLEN J. WINDROW.
State Highway Engineer.
Clay Bingham of Dialville has
been selected by County Clerk F.
i. M. Priest as deputy and assumed
his duties first of this week. He
has been employed in Jackson-
ville for some time. He is a
very capable young man.
Mr. and Mrs. Hazelwood of
Nacogdoches came to R u s k
Wednesday ard are visiting with
the sister of the latter, Mrs. E.
J. Bateman.
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A fresh shipment of evaporat-
ed Apples, Peaches, and Prunes,
and the price is right, at Adams'.
Mrs. S. S. Prosser had the mis-
fortune to fall and break her
i right limb last Sunday night.
I The accident happened at the
east end of the footbridge near
i the Pevoto residence. Doctors
Priest and Cobble reduced the
fracture. Mrs. Prosser is getting
along very nicely at present.
This was certainly a regrettable
accident and her many friends
wish for Mrs. Prosser a speedy
healing of the injured member.
Mrs. Johnson at the Gift Shop
has put in stock a nice new line
of Tally cards, place cards, and
nut cups. It is a beautiful line
i and you will find there some-
thing lovel.\ for your parties.
W. B. Thompson is numbered
among the sick. He has been
feeling badly for some time but
is now confined to the house.
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New Goods Received
....This Week in Most Every Department....
All Dry Goods are showing upward tendency in price,
a good saving to buy now.
I am making, through the month of October, reduc-
tions in price in order to raise money.
Advertised prices and prices reduced are for SPOT
CASH ONLY.
Just Received Car Flour and Feed Stuff.
ONE SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY IS 14 POUNDS SUGAR, $1.00.
Also all customers owing accounts, due now and past due,
please settle. I am catering to the Cash Buyer and Prompt Payer
I have the merchandise and am making the price. Good
quality merchandise, prompt service, courteous
treatment assured all customers.
-YOURS FOR BUSINESS-
JOE B. COPELAND
The Store With the Goods.
East Side Public Square
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EDUCATION. .
(Continued from last weekj
are not given mere information,
but that in addition to the knowl-
edge imparted, there should be
awakened a genuine feeling that
may lead to the desi'ed behav-
ior. Attention is closely related
to rational thought. The good
reasoner is the person who is able
to hold his attention upon his ul-
timate purpose, but who never-
theless is in a receptive frame of
mind, so that he can compre-
hend conflicting facts and see
new points of view. A person
may so shut himself up within a
system of ideas that he is quite
incapable of penetrating beyond,
but the individual who is to rea-
son well must have a mind that
is capable of receiving truth from
whatever source it may come. |
He must not be prejudiced and
one-sided in spite of facts. He
must feel the value of getting at
the truth. He must desire to!
know the facts and be unwilling!
to be deluded.
A teacher should not require of;
the child any task that is beyond j
him, whde on the other hand it
should never be -made so easy
that no effort is required. This
latter caution applies more par- j
ticularly to the bright child than !
it is does to the dull and b ck-
ward pupil. It is the opinion of j
many educators that it is the in- i
tense effort that educates. And i
while no child should be put unt
der constant strain, yet there are
times when he should be called
upon to put forth all that is in
him, for a brief period. Excess-
ive haste in learning should not;
be tolerated. There is a balance!
that must be preserved betweenj
speed and accuracy. When the!
speed reaches the point where too !
many errors occur, then it should
be cut down to safe limits
There is no advantage in work-
ing rapidly if the work is poorly ;
done. It is generally agreed that j
a habit acquired in one particu-
lar field of learning cannot be1
transferred without loss. For
example, accuracy in reasoning,
in solving problems in arithmetic
does not necessarily mean accu-
racy of reasoning in history or
politics or the habit of neatness
in writing paper in English does!
not imply neatness of habit in,
personal dress. However, if an,
ideal of neatness and accuracy!
that is gained in one sort of learn-
ing is held consciously in the;
mind, then it will be possible for
this ideal to influence the learn-
ing in other fields. It is therefore
important for the teacher in guid-
ing his pupil in his habit forma-
tion to insist that he shall under-
stand the methods and purposes
involved in the learning. If this
is done, the specific habit acquir-
ed may be of great service beyond
the immediate sphere of its ap-
plication. However, this sort of
transfer demands on the part of
the pupil a considerable amount
of discrimination and intelligence.
There are four chief ways by
which education is -achieved; by
trial and error, through the
adaptive instincts, through self-
directed initiation and finally
through the formation of free!
ideas. Trial and error is the!
most fundamental process in all
learning. By means of this and
the adaptive instincts nature ed-
ucates her children—altho they
are quite unconscious of the fact
that they are being educated.
They learn without aiming to
learn and generally without
knowing they have learned. £ut
trial and error in its most primi-
tive forms is a blind process.
The individual attempts one sort
of reaction and finds that it does
not work. Quite without pur-
pose he tries another and anothe
until finally he makes the right
response. And yet a large part
of the social progress of human
beings is the result of this blind'
progress of try, try again, as cer-
tain forms of behavior have been
continued until they have be-
come so unsatisfactory that they
could no longer be useful. Then
something else has been tried.
If this has worked, well and good,
if not the trials have been con-
tinued until a satisfactory adjust-
ment has resulted. But a higher
form of trial and error than this
blind process is that in which the
individual with foresight and def-
inite plans consciously limits i he
field of exploration and avoids
many useless attempts at those
attempts which are clearly shown
in advance to be inadequate.
And since this trial and error is a
tremendously wasteful process,
the individual should strive so
far as possible to limit its scope
by intelligent self direction.
While we are educated in a great
measure by the adaptive instincts
and by conscious imitation, yet
the highest form of learning is
through the formation of free
ideas which are notions of pro-
cedure taken from one situation
and capable of being applied to
another situation, differing in
some measure from the first.
The individual learns how to
conduct himself in a given situa-
tion and later a new situation is
presented that in some respects
is similar to the previous experi-
ence and knowingly he uses the
experience gained in the former
situation to aid his conduct in
the new. Thus, he does not need
to begin all over again for what
he has done in a previous experi-
ence comes to his aid in a later
experience. Thus, it is extreme-
ly important for the learner to be
able to gain general notions or
ideas of procedure—there will
never come a time when the
process of trial and error can be
entirely eliminated from our be-
havior. and the adaptive in-
stincts must too, plav an impor-
tant part, particularly in the
early years of life. However, if
the human race were limited to
these two methods of learning,
all higher forms of intellectual
achievement would be made im-
possible; and teachers must see to
it, as far as possible that the abil-
ity to intelligently profit by ex-
perience, and consciously apply
the results obtained in one situa-
tion to another are more and
more developed as the child ad-
vances in his formal instruction.
In this way alone, will he gain
ability for self direction and ini-
tiative. Otherwise, he must re-
main the creature of habit inca-
pable of adjusting himself to new
conditions in an intelligent man-
ner.
It is a reasonable aim of any
system of education to develop
personality. This may be defin-
ed as a combination of a stock of
useful habits and of vital ideals j
that constitute the ends of a ra- J
tional power of "Willing." The
Character of the individual con- !
sists mainly of two important as- j
pects. One of these is a set of
reliable habits that work in the j
situations of life with automatic j
precision. The behavior of the!
person can always be counted on
in these particulars in so far as
he possesses a definite character.
Habit however, is only one as-
pect of character. A person
must have the power of self di-
rection or to will wisely in those
situations in which the old stock
of actions is no longer of value.
Imagination is fundamental to
effective behavior and must be
considered in all forms of learn-
ing. Imagination, instead of be-
ing in essence, unreal, is one of
the chief avenues through which
reality is opened up to the indi-
vidual. The works of Art, the
discoveries of Science and the
conduct of the practical affairs of
life are dependent to a large de-
gree, on a vivid constructive im-
agination. In fact, all men are
ranked by their imagination or
vision. In a real sense, the
vision makes the man. It gives
him his reach and power. One
man sees nothing new in the ma-
terials of life and worK and he
becomes one of the w o r 1 d's
drones. Another man sees an
engine in the kettle, a new lan-
guage in the clouds, or an angel
in the marble and he becomes an :
inventor or an artist.
Above all, I would have you
remember that the greatest serv-
ice we can do a human being is;
to give him a right education-
physical, intellectual, moral and
religious. It is our duty to do
good to all, and in as far as in us
lies, it is our duty to labor for
the education of all, that no child
may live with an enfeebled body
or a darkened mind, a callous
heart or a perverted conscience, j
Program Cherokee County Association.
October 10-12, 1921, Jacksonville, Texas.
WOMAN'S DAY PROGRAM
Woman's Missionary Union Auxiliary to Cherokee County
Association, Jacksonville, Oct. 10, 1921.
9.30 a. m.
Devotional Mrs. T. M. Dean
Words of Welcome Mrs. J. D. Aldredge
Response- Mrs. W. H. Shook
10 o'clock—"Laborers Together."
Benevolence Mrs. E. B. Mason
Personal Service Mrs. Carter Childs
Missionary Mrs. F. M. Loper
Education Mrs. W. E. Sloan
10.30—Our Young People.
Juvenile _„Mrs. Don Reeder
Y. W. A .Mrs. O. W. Childs
Special Music—Selected.
11 o'clock.
Our County Auxiliary, with reports \ .-Mrs. A. D. Sparkman
from the field. ( Mrs. C. W. Crim
11.30 o'clock.
Mission Study - Mrs. J. A. Beal
12.15 o'clock.
Appointment of committees, announcements, etc.
12.30—Lunch.
Afternoon. 1.30.
Devotional Mrs. H. W. Berryman
1.45 o'clock.
"Sunbeams."
2.15 o'clock.
Our District Mrs. Albert Sledge
Our Training School at Ft. Worth Miss Johnnie Swann
Business Session 3 to 4 o'clock.
Adjournment.
•
Monday Sight, Oct- 10, 7.30.
Devotional.
Address—Woman's Work.
Introductory Sermon Rev. T. M. Dean
Tuesday Morning.
9.00. Devotional.
9.30. Reading of letters, organization, appointment of commit-
tees, etc.
10.00. Report on Christian Education M. W. Robinson
11.00. Report on Hospitals Mr?. J. A. Beall
11.30. Divine Service.
12.15. Lunch.
Tuesday Afternoon.- Missionary.
2.00 o'clock. Reports on
State Missions J. D. Aldredge
Home Missions W. C. Binford
Foreign Missions T. M. Dean
$75,000,000 Round-Up C. W. Orrick
(Discussion of all these reports under direction of C. W. Orrick.)
5.00 o'clock. Adjournment.
M i s s ion a ry E v en in g.
7.30. Devotional.
8.00. Missionary Sermon.
Address F. S. Groner
We duesday Mornin?.
9.00. Devotional.
9.15. Miscellaneous business.
9.30. Report on Buckner Orphans' Home A. M. Holland
10.15. Report of Executive Board, and Associational
Missions K. A. Woods
11.30. Divine Service.
12.15. Lunch.
Wednesday Afternoon.
2.00 o'clock. Reports on
Seminaries.
Sabbath Observance Judge J. B. Guinn
Temperance.
Finance.
Resolutions.
Miscellaneous and unfinished business.
Adjournment.
What Has Been Done on Roads.
The report of County Engineer, Calvin E. Cock, showing the
work so far done on the roads and what is yet to be done was filed
with the Commissioners Monday. It is a very interesting report
and shows that 71.95 miles of road has been completed in this dis-
trict. The average cost per mile was $3,858.56 or a total expendi-
ture, including retained percentage, of $277,523.81. There are 7.95
miles yet to be completed with an estimated cost to complete of
$27,303.42.
The roads completed and to be completed, together with the
cost of work done and cost per mile is given herewith:
ROAD Cost to Date Gr ding--Hi' Cost per Mi. Est. Cojt to
Fin. Unfin. Complete
Crockett $29,150.77 7.73 $3,771.11 $_
Gallatin 16,776.07 4.0 — 4,194.02
Funderburk 13,300.89 3.0 4,433.63
Ponta 29,212.43 7.08 4,126 05
Holcomb 23,875.07 6.06 3,939.78 —
Hatchett's Ferry 61,113.92 14.90 4,101.60
Woodlawn 20,120.11 4.5 4,471.13
Lower Palestine 28,173.83 6.63 4.249.30 1,369.00
Maydelle 33,350.01 7.55 ---- 4,117.23 2,235.71
No ChanceiShady Grove) 5,592.19 5.36 1,043.32
C. Smith 6,051.83 1.7 3,559.90
Gallatin (Dialville) 6,134.77 1.74 3,525.73
Cherokee Hall 3,607.99 1.49 2.1 2,421.46 9,204.09
Bowden 1,063.93 0.21 l.o5 * 5,066.33 6,994,62
Maydelle No. 2 — 4.0 7,500.00
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Martin, W. L. The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1921, newspaper, October 7, 1921; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291222/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.