The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-30

man wants his home as attractive and as comfortable as he can afford to make 1t. He may not analyze his feelings in the matter, but he knows that he is hap pier and that his view of life is more wholesome when his surroundings are pleasing He may be very fond of read ing, but he gets great deal more pleas ure from a favorite book if he has a comfortable chaid and a good light He may like good food but he enjoys it still more if the service is dainty
 Environment-isn't it half the bat tie. And isn't this doubly so with chil- dren? They get impressions and form ideals just as certainly as they breathe and these impressions and ideals are largely the product of their surround lnEs
 Put child in a pretty, clean school room, properly lighted, heated and ven- tiiated and he is absolutely certain to do better work, to learn more to have clearer ideas, and to develop more de- srab1y than he would in dingy un- comfortable room, even though he had the same teacher in each instance. Now, as to the school at Alliance. The patrons want a good school building, properly equipped-the kind of school plent that will give their children the best possible opportunities and they are working to secure it. It is a matter of
 
 efficient school because they recognize that it is their childrep's right and that efficiency costs not more but less thar ineffective teaching
 The school is in session now as it is a farming district and they have the term divided with five months in win ter and three in summer. It Is this present summer term that has aroused the patrons activity for their school Most fortunately, while they have torested in the school they have a splendid corps of teachers who have ent cred into the interests of the com munity and who are helping Loyalty, just as if it were their own home town. They are real teachers
 West Is Principal
 The principal during the summer term is c. R. West. member of the county board of education and princi- ral of the school at Bessie, Maben mines. He has placed that school in the very front rank of the Jefferson county schools and he is working with the same spirit at Alliance during this vacation.
 The first assistant teacher is Miss Edna Lawless. a college girl from Mississippi She fairly radiates happiness and she is filling her place wonderfully well in the schoolroom and out of 1t. Miss Eva Lee Collins, who has the interme- diate grades, came up from south Ala bama after school began as a fourth teacher was needed. There are only three rooms and it seemed an unneces- sary expense to build another room when the house will be so soon abandoned as a school The members of the Christian church solved the problem in a very happy way. They have a tent in which their services are held and they very generously offered its use for a school room.
 Miss Lois Weir, primary teacher, moved her little folks, 37 of them, out under the tent at one side of the schoolhouse. The walls of the tent are not up, only the canvas roof is used, and it Is as airy and cool as can be. The ground is covered with sawdust and the old benches are used, so shower does no harm, and the children have room enough in the middle of the test.
 Miss Weir is another Mississippi college girl and she will go back this fall She has been teaching at Alliance for year