The Taney County republican., 1907-09-05
THE SCH0OLH0USEs
WHAT THEY MEAN TO THE PEo.
PIE OF THE COMMUNITY.
AND HOW THEY ARE BUILT
Il s the Money That Stays at Home
Which Makes Good Ones Possible
"A Simple System That
Works.

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,
az this country knows it. and the bar.
barism of beriShted Asia OF Africa
You want the schoolhouse, do you
not?
You would willingly make sacrifices
to keep it, 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
IL 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
schoohouses that carry cheer and eu.
llghtenment to the heaTthstones OF
the homes of thousand valleys?
It is the taxes that you and your
neighbor and your neighhur's neigh
bor pay into the school fund year after
year, is it not?
Aud why do you pay it?
Because you own property-real cs
tate. bonds and moTtgages-and be
cause that property Is valuable.
What makes your real estate val.
rable?
1t is the prosperity of the commu,
nity As the community grows and
pr0spers the value of your property
increases AS your property increases
In value and you write your wealth
Ia 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 new and more modern structure, in
which your children and your neigh.
boris children secure their inetruc-
ton. And, again. the erection of the
new building but adds more to the
value OF your property.
It 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 your nelghbor.
and your neighbor's neighboT, are the
farmers, the merchants, the doctors,
the blacksmiths. You are each and
every man who go TO make up the
community in which you live. and 1t is
only when you work collectively that
you accomplish results-that you build
up new schoolhouses,
And how shall you work collec.
lively?
by simple system of boosting one
another. You, we will say, have
oats to sell--your neighbor buys them
Of you He, you will say. has dry
goods to sell-you buy them Of him
II Is this system Of mutual help that
makes the town grow into the city,
that increases the price of real estate
in the town and In The community sur
rounding It. that builds new school.
houses
The dollar that is unnecessarily sent
away from home never bought so
much as a nail for a schoolhouse, never
put shingle on its roof
But the dollars that are unneces.
sarily sent away from home send back
to the community which they left
only ruin II is these dollars that
prevent the replacing OF the leaking
roof. the broken door hinge or the
worn out desk
II Is the dollars that are unneces.
sarily sent away from home by you,
and your neighbor, and your neigh
bors neighbor that decrease the value
Of your. and your neighbors, and
your neighbor's neighbors real es-
tate That makes the school fund
grow less year after year That forces
the discharge of the competent teach.
er for less competent one That re.
duces the standing OF your schools
10 the educational system of the coun
try.
Work II backwards. send your
money for the things you need away
from home Instead OF spending Il at
home. and the system that builds vii.
lagos out OF cross roads, and cities out
OF villages. that increases the value OF
your real estate and permits you to
write your wealth In four figures
where previously three figures were
enough, and you will make OF the
thriving little city but a village, and
OF the village but cross roads.
DO you not believe, Mr.. Citizen, and
do you think your nelghbor and your
neighbor's neighbor should believe,
that II pays best to keep the dollars
In the home community? Keep the
system moving forwards, help to
make a city of your village Boost
your towns interests and you boost
your own.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.