Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 1 · column 4 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved
Business Course At
Rappahannock High
The business course at Rappahannock High School is not to' take the place of the professional business school in the pupil’s lives. Courses in bookkeeping, typing and shorthand that are being offered for the first time in the consolidated high school are introductory and pre-vocational in nature. They* not*- Intended to take the place of business courses in full time business colleges or other advanced schools. In short, the course at the new high school is not given in competition with a business college or any other institution whose primary purpose is to fit the persons attending with complete training for the business field which he plans to enter.
In the high school, courses in the three business subjects named are open to juniors and seniors, to be taken along with English, history, biology, math or any other required subjects totaling sixteen or more units for the four years spent in higli| school. In regular full-time business schools, the pupil concentrates on business courses for about eight hours a day. In high school, the pupil studies the same subjects not more than one or two hours a day.
In some -cases it is true that the typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping learned in high school may allow an unusually gifted pupil the minimum equipment needed to start in some job where the requirements are not too strict or exacting. The high school course in business, however, is not, and should not be mistaken for, a substitute for etght or ten months concentrated study and practice in a good business college. The pupil cannot expect it, his parents must not expect it, and his employer has no right to expect it.
Barksdale Cites Values
In Erosion Prevention
Do rainstorms work for or against you?
H. S. Barksdale, chairman of the Rappahannock PMA County Committee says that they work for the farmer >who prepares his land right and against the farmer who leaves land unprotected.
He says rain can damage land in several ways. It can cut gullies and wash off rich topsoil when land is left bare. This run-off carries away organic matter until only the sterile subsoil remains.
Recent tests conducted by the U. S. Department of Agriculture show how a good sod can check erosion. In a 15-minute period, an acre of land with a good grass cover took up 2.36 inches of water and moved only about a half-ton of soil by splashing. The same test showed that an unprotected acre in the same time took up only .1 inch of water and 70 tons of soil was moved by splash erosion.
“These are things for farmerv. to think about these days as hafw vested crops are coming off the land,” Mr. Barksdale says. “Getting land protected by * good plant growth of cover crop or pasture will pay 'cHvidends'in dollars. The Agricultural Conservation. Program-seeks to help fanners in -this objective.”
61.6%