The Monte Vista journal., 1907-09-14
THE ScH00[H0UsEs
WHAT THEY MEAN TO THE PEG,
PIE OF THE COMMUNITY.
AND HOW THEY ARE BUILT
Il 10 the Money That stays At Homo
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 4 mark or In writing. They
represent the difference between the
civilization Of the twentieth century.
as this country knows 1t, and the bar.
barism OF benighted Asia or Africa.
You want the schoolhouse. do you
not?
You would willingly make sacrifices
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
It IL that makes possible the school
houses Of this country; the school,
houses that stand as beacon lights on
the tops of 4 thousand hills; the
schoolhouses that carry cheer and ell
lightenment to the hearthstones Of
the homes of a thousand valleys?
1t 10 the taxes that you and your
neighbor, and your neighbor's neigh.
Dor pay into the school fund year after
year. IL 1t not?
And Why do you pay It?
Because you own property-red es.
tate. bonds and mortgages-and be.
cause that property 10 valuable.
What makes your real estate val
liable?
1t 10 the prosperity Of the commu-
nifty. Az the community grows and
prospses the value Of your property
increases. Az your property increases
In valuo aAd you write your wealth
in Thousands instead Of hundreds. the
amount you ray into the school fund
increases. When the school fund in
creases the old building gives place to
. new and more modern structure. In
which your children and your neigh
bor's children secure their instruc-
tios. And. again. the erection OF the
new building but adds moro to the
vales q yoar property.
II = ~ endless chain system that
bui161 n l1ees out OF cross roads.
and clt14 1T Of villages.
Who e tou. Mr.. Citizen. and who
r. your nelghbor and your neighbor's
ns,Ghbor. whose contributions to the
school fund make the schoolhouses
possible? You. and your neighb0r.
and your neighbor's neighbor. are the
farmers. the merchants. the doctors.
tho blacksmiths. You are each and
every man who 20 to make up the
community In which you live. and II IL
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 10 this system Of mutual help that
makes the town grow into the city,
that increases the price Of real estate
IN the town and 10 the community sur.
rounding Il. that builds new school.
houses.
The dollar that Is unnecessarily sent
away from home never bought 70
much ~ nail for schoolhouse. never
put . shinGle on it, roof.
But the dollars that are unueces.
sarily sent away from home send back
TO the community which they left
only ruia. Il 10 these dollars that
prevent the replacing OF the leaking