The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-09-17
THE 5IHlILH0J5E5
WHAT THEY MEAN TO THE PEo
PIE or THE COMMUNITY
AND HOW THEY ARE BUILT
Il ls the Money That Stays at Home
Which Makes Good Ones Possible
"A Simple System That
Works.

Your schoolhouses. Those Of the
town and those Of the country dis
tricts. You know what they mean to
you and to your children
They represent the difference be-
tween ignorance and enlightenment.
They mean to your children the differ
ence between signing their names
with mark or in writing. They
represent the difference between the
civilization Of the twentieth century
as this country knows it, and the bar.
barism Of benightcd Asia or Africa
You want the schoolhouse, do you
not?
You would willingly make sacrihces
to keep 1t. would you not?
You glory in the free educational
system Of this country, do you not?
But, Mr.. Citizen, did YOU ever SIT
down and consider carefully what
II is that makes possible the school
houses Of this country; the school
houses that stand as beacon lights on
the tops Of a thousand hills; the
schoolhouses that carry cheer and en-.
lightenment to the hearthstones Of
the homes Of a thousand valleys?
II is the taxes that you and your
neighbor, and your neighbors neigh
Dor pay into the school fund year after
year, is it not?
IA ..f1..y do ,po,t now 40
Because you own property-real es-
tate, bonds and mortgages-and be-
cause that property is valuable.
What makes your real estate val
liable?
It is the prosperity of the commu-
nifty. As the community grows and
prospess the value Of your property
increases. AS your property increases
in value and you write your wealth
IN thousands instead OF hundreds, the
amount you pay into the school fund
increases. When the school fund In
creases the old building gives place to
a rev and more modern structure, In
which your children and your neigh
boris children secure their instruc
tion And again. the erection OF the
new building but adds more tc the
value Of your property
II is an endless chain system that
builds villages out of cross roads,
and cities out of villages.
Who are you, Mr.. Citizen. and who
is your neighbor and your neighbor's
neighbor, whose contributions to the
school fund make the schoolhouses
possible? You. and ye1r neighbor
and your neighbor's neighbor. are the
farmers. the merchants, the doctors,
the blaeksmiths. You are each and
every man who 60 to make up the
community in which you live, and It ls
only when you work collectively that
YOU accomplish results-that you build
up new schoolhouses.
And how shall you work collec
tiveiy7
BY simple system Of boosting one
another You. we will say. have
oats to seli-your neighbor buys then
OF you. He. you viii say. has dry
goods 70 sell--you buy them II him
il is this system Of mutual help thai
makes the town grow into the city
that increases the price Of real estate
in the town and 10 the community sur
rounding It. thar builds new school
houses.
The dollar that Is unnecessarily sen
away from home never bought 81
much as a nail foT schoolhoase. neve
put a shIngle on its roof
But the dollars that are unneces
sarily sent away from home send bacl
TO the community which they lef
only ruin II is these dollars tha
! prevent the replacing Of the leakini
roof. the broken door hinge or In
torn out desk
II Is the dollars that are unneces
sarily sent away from Eome BY you
and your neighbor. and your neigt
boris nelghbor that decrease the yalu
OF your. and your neghbors. an
your nsighhcr's neighbors real e'
tate. That makes the school fun
grow less year after year That force
the discharge Of the competent teacl
er for less competent one That II
duces the standing Of your school
J. IN the educational system Of the couI
try.
p Work It backwards, send you
Z money for the things you need ava
from home instead Of spending tt /
d home. and the system that builds Vi
lagos out Of cross roads. and cities OF
Of villages. that increases the value (
your real estate and permits you
p write your wealth IN four figure
where previously three ageres ~ei
enough. and you viii make OF Ii
thriving little city but a village. an
. Of the village but cross roads.
+ De you not believe. Mr. Citizen, ar
: do you think your neighbor and yol
F. nelghbor's neighbor should believ
= that it pays best to keep the dolla
IN the home community? Keep Il
- system moving forwards. help
= make city OF your village. Boo
your towns interests and you boo
your own.
!, WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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