The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-01-03
VIsTT vOIrR SCHOOLS

VISIT YOUR SCHOOLS
How many of our school children's
parents ever visit the schools or even
know the teachers when they meet
them on the street? How many know
what their children are studying or
how they are progressing? Is there
any of you who have a building TO
make or a fence to build a dress to
make, house to paint or whatever
the job may be, that say to the one
you have employed: Here are the
tools and materials, go ahead and do
it to suit yourself and 1t will suit
me-" Is not that what many OF you
are doing with your children. You
say by your actions; Here is my
child with it's boks, paper and PEN
ell, I'VE furnished the materials and
tools. educate him as you like"
An exchange tells story OF a boy
who was sent to market with sack
full of rabbits lingering around town
all day and coming back without SELL
ing them. When asked by his moth
err why he had not sold the rabbits.
he said no one asked him what was
in the sack. How many OF our mer-
hants are like this little boy? They
have plenty of goods to SCI. but fail
tell the people what is in the sack.
Ii you expect to sell goods in this
day and age. you must open your
sack and keep shouting the merits
of your stock in trade.--An ad in the
Democrat will do wonders.
The latest attempt at Harvesting
the automobile FOR farm work is a
truck arrangement that can be
swung up beneath the rear axle and
SO designed that it may be connected
with the driving mechanism TO OBJ
tain power for pulling plows, har-
rows and other farm machinery. 1t
so geared that it is claimed that
an auto may be run on high gear
without great labor and pull a gang
Of tour plows at the speed OF two or
tnree miles an hour. An auxiliary
cooling device keeps the engine al
| ways cool.
Nearly all the watch signs, prob
ABLY 80 out OF 100, have their hands
set at Sis, bur comparatively lev
people know why this is. 1t is no
accident w. X. Washburn, OF New
York was painting sign for jew
eler of that city, when the news OF
the assassination OF Abraham Lin
coin, April IA, 1865, was received in
| New York and the jeweler ordered
| the painter to paint upon the dial
the exact time when the fatal shot
was fired, namely S:18, and so a
has continued ever since. Whenevei
YOU see a sign after this recall Il
,ourself that it points to the tata
moments
The parent who believes every
word the son or daughter tells then
IN regard to the conduct OF the teach
err, Is very likely to think i'll OF the
teacher and without just reason. II
is natural for youth to be prejudicet
and to resent punishment even II i
is just. Many good school /!
spoiled by the parents upholding pu
pills when the proper treatmen
would be to up-end them and use the
coal shovel. g.,
There are some things that mus
be done in hurry or not at al
Catching a fee is one of the bes
examples apropos of this. But as
rule, it is safe to say, the man oil
woman who works deliberately &C
composites the most. The deliberate
worker is the thoughtful worker
worker, with whom the habit OF sys
TEN has become a second nature
Any one may cultivate it who viii
take the trouble to try; and the mos
unsystematic, spasmodic worker vii
realize with amazement how easy Il
is to get through with an allotted
task in half the time it formerly re
quired, by planning it all out before
entering the office, workshop, Of
kitchen.