Show i f 1 I S Some me weeks ago we published an account of an experiment of ofa a i woman school superintendent in opening night schools schools' in the mountains of eastern Kentucky for the purpose of teaching people people peo peo- pie older than children the rudiments of an education how there was was a g rush to the school of young and old men and women eager to fa O learn How mothers wanted to learn to read tead and write that they might write to their grown child children en and read the letters from those children in return how all grades of men and women came came caine some that they might be able to keep accounts some some that they y might be able to read their Bibles some from an inborn love ve vc of learning which they had never been able n le to gratify gratify gratify-a a marvelous showing Well VeIl because of that showing or for some other ther reason the sai same e experiment was recently tried in Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia and lo 10 when the hour came cattle for opening the schools people were in line waiting to be enrolled We wonder if it is so o everywhere in our OUt land Our fr free e schools have been reaching out for two generations to gather in the children Have so many been passed by or are they men and women who are not native h b i rn i Ours Our have done dOlle great thing as a people but are we as I M ri ti fun full duty to our fellow men |