The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-01
KANSAS COAGAENT
SOCIAL CENTERs.

! 0OCIAl1 CEN4EffS-
For a century or SO, the lines of Whit
Still sits the school house by the road.
ragged beggar summing,
have fitted in perfectly with the condi-
1 ton of the country school buildings all
! over this country for most of the year
\ winter months, these simple shrines OF
knowledge have been used to hear the
childish feet have gone .'storming out to
playing and the building has become one
Of the most desolate of STRUCTURES
This condition has prevailed since the
time of the old log school house with its
puncheon floor and split log seats; and it
might always have prevailed but for the
growing feeling that the school house
, could become social center and that
around it should radiate the life of the
rural communities in a way that would
give the taxpayers some return for the
! Investment in school property by making
lie more pleasant as well as giving
benefit
The old spelling match and the lit
erary society where questions of national
and International import were settled
with ease and accuracy were steps IN
this direction but they have been IN a
large measure discontinued with nothing
to replace them
At such a time the educators of Kan
sas, and the state can note with consid-
cradle pride that Kansans are leaders III
this movement are considering plans for
cTir-iro tho ,,ao,,1a ~ tI,a 7jc{rietc some
direct benefit from their school taxes,
University extension lectures, night
unable to attend during the day or for
older members of the community scien-
and social gatherings; these and other
meetings are planned for the country
school house and the time is not far
away when the lonesome looking building
on the prairies will be the center of life
the year around and will occupy more
completely the place which Fourth OF
July orators with inspiring eloquence ac-
cord it.
The country school house has it's part
in f11a fT1T1 a
try districts and if the plans now on foot
in Kansas are carried out that structure
will be an important factor in making
the back to the farm movement sue
cess-Salina Journal.
STICK TO YOUR BUSH.
Young man, stick to your bush. This
was an advice of q father given to his
young son, who for the first time was per-
mitted to go out in the woods with the
other boys of the community to gather
gooseberries. The boy was already to go
When the father called him to his SIDE
and asked him what he was going to DO
when he got to the place where the goose
berries were. The boy quickly answered
that he was going to pick berries. IN oW,
be sure you do" said the father, when
YOU strike a bush full of berries stick to
it as long as there is berry on 1t. Do
not leave one bush before you are through
with it and seek another in the hope OF
lettering yourself, you will find that the
other boys will do just this very thing, put
those who do will return without berries
and very tired boys This little advice
applies to everything else. Stick to your
bush if YOU want to gather any fruits of
this world. 4 roaming sheep hardly ever
gets very fat. You will notice that
young man who is continually changing
his positions hardly ever amounts 10 any
thing in the world. And the men who are
doing things in the world are the men |
who stuck to their bush when they were
bows So young man, if you'd amount to |
ANYTHING on this side of the Universe, |
stick to your bush.--L1ncoln Sentinel