The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-01-27
INFORMALLY Entertain
1 Editors at Home School

1t will perhaps take some time be-
fore Sank Centre can come to any,
thing like full appreciation of what
the visit of the Northern Minnesota
editors, made last Friday afternoon,
to the State Home School for Girls
will mean to that institution and to
Sank Centre in general, but the seeds
have been we'll and deeply planted and
are certain to produce MANIFOLD and
luxuriantly.
Practically every editor and public
official who inspected the school die
so for the first time and there was not
one who did not afterward confess
that the magnitude of the school and
the nature of the work being done was
revelation and surprise. Where
these moulders of public opinion and
servants of the people were almost in
variably in the past apathetic toward
the school-and in many instances al
most antagonistic toward the heavy
financial expenditures-they have now
become the warmest admirers and
supporters of the school and its sys-
tenn. The splendid appearance of
buildings and grounds was a large
factor in bringing about this change
in feeling yet the great influencing
force was the exemplification by Mrs.
F. F. Morse, superintendent of the
school, and Charles E. Vasaly, mem
Der of the state board of control, of
the system and method of study, cul-
ture and correction employed by the
faculty under the direction of Mrs.
Morse. This exemplifcation was
through short talks by Mrs. Morse ant
Mr.. .Vasaly as building after building
was visited and by the visitors being
allowed to see every angle and phase
of the every day life of the girls ana
young women and the attendant merit
features offered the girls as incum-
bents for better and higher living.
At the smoker rendered the news
papermen Friday night in the Com
mercial Club rooms, speaker after
speaker eulogized the school and the
methods employed by Mrs. Morse, ex-
pressed surprise at the magnitude and
character of the work and promised
all support possible in the future for
the institution and the moral imsur-
anee" it represents.
Especially did "Bob" Dunn, editor
of the Princeton Union, state senator
from his district, member of the sem
ate finance committee, and old Re-
publican wheel horse, struck a popular
cord with the editors when he pledg-
ed himself as senator and finance COM
mittee member to do all in his power
at the next session Of the legislature
to secure for the school every penny
Of the appropriation asked for by the
board of control for extension and
maintenance.
Senator Dunn was among those Wis
iting the, school for the first time.
Legislative and newspaper records
show he has always been good
friend of the school but he, too, con-
fessed that he had not realized what
the school really was and the good it
was doing. At the smoker he was
greeted with burst of applause when
he said, after explaining why the ap-
preparation for the school had been
cut at the last session: Il
"But Sank Centre will have one
friend at. the next session who will
talk and fight for them and Sank Gen.
tire will pretty nearly get what it
wants for this school. What I have
seen convinces me. that the school
needs what it asks for and ! like the