Putnam patriot., 1910-05-20
Encourage All Workers to Improve City
 and Town,

At banquet of the New York
 Public School Lecture corps, one Of the
 speakers said that the public schools
 have become "the peoples meeting
 houses in recent years the use Of school buildings in New York, Chiea'
 go and other cities, as civic centers,
 where men and women meet To discuss topics of special or general interest, has
 increased greatly. We see no objec-
 to this use of public school buildings.
 and hope the new High School build Ing will have fine Assembly Hall,
 where men and women can meet and discuss topics and plan how to accom-
 plish things useful tot the general lwei- fare and carry theia Of. Such meetings
 should be encouraged to promote nn ae. tlee public spirit and to unite citizens IT greater eudeaVoT to advance the
 social and material interests of their
 home city. Addresses and discussions
 connected herewith would add great.
 lY 10 tic pleasure and profit of our so.
 eial life. As an illustration, We cite
 the struggling efforts of our Business
 Mems Association. During the past
 year 1t has thid out about 800 fof the
 beneiia of the general community. and
 has substantial evidence to show for
 IL, besides giving keen pleasure to our
 ordinary life in securing visit to our
 city of Governor Weeks in a social ga-
 thcring and friendly intercourse. The
 Association secured visit from State Tax Commissioner corbin to address our citizens on q matter Of great pub
 lie interest, and had a gratifying visit from Secretary Charles D. Hine Of the State Board of Education, when the matter of Trade School for Putnam was discussed under delightful socialis ty. Now imagine the multiplying Of such pleasant social gatherings, and how they cheer our lives and help tighten our daily burdens. They are essential If life Is to be enjoyed as the Creator intended IL to be. For We are social beings, ,idependent largely on our upon friendly intercourse and neighborly interest in each other. We have the power and ability to in. crease our daily happiness so that to simply live becomes a delight; so also we can diminish our dally hap piness, until our nature becomes like Ihat of the savage. fnli of hate and sell shtss. There are degrees of happi- aess, from the highest to the lowest among members of every community, dependent upon the degree of love and for their neighbors, or hat red and unffiendliness they feel. Thus se can gauge ourselves and Increase ,ur happiness by conforming to or dis regardinsi the laws of our social and spiritual being.
 In few weeks the eitzens will have he opportunity of seeing some of tue fruits of the Association's abors, in a "House Warming enter ainment. which they propose 10 give o commemorate the opening of the new Dean Manufacturing Works, near he Foundry. The program will be ,iven later.
 In View of what the Rusiness Men s Association have accomplished and propose 10 accomplish al much expen- itture of money and labor, It would be ,sking little to get the rsivilege of hold ng occasional meetiag~in The assembly foam oI one of their school buildings While this would save rent 1t, woald De a greater, benefit To have the citi- lens recognize the Business Mems sAs- ,oeiation as a co- worker with the other public institutions of the town and eiky m uplifting and energizing the vaFi~>i social and genera interests lf the community. h will also a.td .o the importance of the Association to ae thus recognized, and 1t would tend Io greatly increase it's membership---a matter much desired to augment its important work.
 The suggestion to use one Of the school buildings is not made by the Business Mems Association, but that It may be considered and acted upon for the benefit of all associations with purposes tn view, with the de-
 sfa.f n la.