The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-15
open up SCHOOL S kAWS broke EVEN
Community Service Won 10-InnnG Pitch.
Program In Kansas. Battle, o Q.
Between Reisgl and Lakan Were in Su-
Teachers Parents. perb Form
MUTUAL HELP Of RESIDENTS fastest GAME THIS SEASON
Kinds Organized IDes Mones Twrer Was Inef-
for Social Betterment. fectve in Last Game.
Explain Mc6rath Clarke Held the
Many Advantages Score IL to s.
Community Service . Part Of
Program in Kansas.
Cooperation Between the
Teachers and Parents.
MUTUAL HELP Of RESIDENTS
Clubs Of All Kinds Organized
for Social Betterment.
Explain Functions of States
Many Advantages.

A campaign for organized community
service on the part OF the public schools
Of the state is being carried on in the
county normal institutes at the request
of the board Of administration. This is
a further step in the public service
plans Of the board.
The direct stimulus to this community
service is being given by professors in
the Kansas State Agricultural college
are engaged as instructors in the nor
NAL institutes. The Institutes, each
lasting a month, are held at different
times in the summer. Some are in ses-
sion now.
Ed T. Hackney. president of the board
Of administration, explains the boards
plan for cooperation between the
the paragraphs being taken from a let
ter written by him to DR. ]. r. willard.
acting president of the college.
THE board of administration, after
consultation with the authorities in the
various institutions, believes that the
WI lie campaign in the county normal in
stitutes. now just beginning. for or
ganized community service, with the
school and the teacher as the center.
and as most of the teachers of the state
attend the county Institutes and prac-
tically every institute will be visited by
a member OF the faculty of some of the
schools under this board. it is requested
that you take this matter up with the
professors from your school who lecture
before these institutes, and ask them IN
their addresses. to urge upon the teach
ers in the institutes their responsibility
to the district beyond the walls of their
oEool room. and outside the hours from
9 to 4, and to advise them to call a
meeting of the people Of their district
and to perfect an Organization for the
mutual help and improvement of its
residents.
Cooperation Is Urged.
They should urge an active co-opera-
ton between teacher and parent in or
ganizing debating. mothers or parents
clubs, and clubs for the study of vari-
Gus subjects of interest to their dis
tricts, and should point out that moth
ing will help community so much as
the meeting and the survey and study
Of it's problems. And they should ex-
plain to the teacher the function of the
travelling and package libraries Of the
state and Of the various institutions
and the opportunity and advantage OF
an active cooperation with the extern
sion department of the several state
schools, all OF which are able to render
active assistance to these communities.
They should point out to the teach
er the splendid opportunities for real
community 81 rvice and the mutual ad-
vantage to both teacher and community
Of such a service. We trust that this
matter Of community service may be
presented in every school district in the
state and that good may come to the
people by reason of their organization.
survey, and study of their own prob
lems.''