The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-02-20

peopIe can I'VE mucn oI tner lives
under cover. but out in the small town
there is a larger and better censor
ship because everybody living there
knows what every other does. 1t
tends to make better men and women
when our lives are public to the peo-
pie about u.s.
Second, should say that In the line
OF education. the system Of the med
ium sized town, say from one to seven
or eight thousand Is better than that
OF the larger city. The school board
picks it's teachers more precisely, be-
cause they take larger interest in
the affairs of the school, while in the
city they are frequently chosen by
correspondence. A poor teacher can
get on in Il backwoods community be-
cause the people do not know what
they should expect Of teacher and in
the larger city poor teacher can hold
her position because we have no ade-
quate means Of checking up on her
and finding out that she Is poor
teacher, but not SO in the medium siz-
ed town. The personality of the teach
ers is the largest and best force in the
school room and we get a better flow
Of personality among boys and girls
and teachers in small sized town
than we do in large city, where the
individual boy and girl is lost in the
larger system, or back in the rural dis
tricts where there are not enough
students.
There is more home life in the me-
dunn sized town. In back country
you are away from home, with the
sheep. cattle or whatnot; if you go to
market, it is longer time away from
home. In the city we have too many
distractions. The city father has less
association with his children. But he
can have this and still tend to his bus
mess in the small town.
There are more avenues for inno-
cent enjoyment and for right relation
ship in the small town. The city has
too many methods of dissipating time;
too many methods Of the wrong kind
OF amusement and entertainment for
children while back in the small vii
lagos there are not enough Of the right
kinds of enjoyment. In the large cit
les there are too many social and class
distinctions but in the medium sized
town rich and poor go together; there
is more perfect equality.
I There is less secrecy in the small
town. One can live two lives in the
city before being found out Your
boy may be going to the bad and you
do not find it out in time to stop him.
The life Of each individual is largely
an open one in the small town. There
is a moral standard in the small COM
munity--one general and definite stan
dard, to which each and all of the
people must measure up But in the
cities there are various standards
every group has different standards of
morality: a man can have any degree
OF moral standard or moral ideas. ]
think that having the standard more
definitely set makes the people better.
/ In small towns every individual is
interested in the success or failure of
! his fellow. In the city we do not get
acquainted with the people; are not
so much interested in them. In the
town life there is a oneness that de-
velops the humanitarian idea and
these men and women who grow up
in the towns and villages are more
democratic. There are fewer pitfalls
and less financial strain in the small
town than in the city. The price that
the wealthy woman pays for her hat,
the price she pays for her dress. the
price the wealthy man pays for his
automobile--all have a tendency in
the city to make the other fellow, who
can not afford these things. feel that
he must do likewise. Consequently 1t
strains the moral fiber and moral in
tegrity of men and women living In
city, who try to measure up to appear
ances or to the pace set by the veal
thy people who are able to do these
things without detriment to them
selves.
There is glare and attraction
largely artifcial---that is drawing boys
and girls from the country to the city
If we can check this tendency ana
show that there is larger manhood