The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-10
TO BOYS AND GIRLS
They Can Help in the Great Work
Brought BY War.

They Can Help in the Great WORK
Brought BY War.
The Vermont Agricultural Eyten
sion service through its club work de
pertinent is now carrying on a cam
paign for production, food prepared
! ness and thrift through doing worth
while things. 1t Is the purpose OF this
department Of the extension service
TO make II possible for every boy and
girl in the state. not over nineteen
years Of age, to enroll for club work
in at least one of the twelve projects
garden, potato, corn canning, bread,
sewing, poultry, handicrafts, pig,
| maple sugar, calf. lamb.
| Wherever there are five boys and
! girls in community who desire to
take up one special line OF work a
club organization should be brought
| about that the members may have
frequent meetings for the discussion
OF things relative TO the work under
! taken. Each member of the organi
cation should have some part in this
meeting that he or she may feel II is
really theirs and that the success of
il depends upon the work done by
them. In addition to the regular Of
iicers. president, vice.president, secre-
tary, treasurer, there should be some
adult leader interested in the particu
lar work the club is doing in order to
give much help to the officers as we'll
as to the other members. The adult
Oh toIr int two
where members OF the club fail 10 do
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Every boy or girl in Bennington
county should take advantage of this
opportunity offered them to join one
or more of the clubs in order to take
up the work as outlined by the extern
sion service. The records and re-
ports are simple but very necessary
to be filled out If the club member de-
sires to have his work count as it
should Many have enrolled in the
past and have done the greater part of
the work as outlined except to send
the reports as required and have there
fore lost much OF the educational
benefit to be derived from such work
Those who undertake the work and
carry it through the season as well as
submit the required reports have the
opportunity of competing for many
country and state prizes as well as to.
compete against boys and girls doing
similar work in other eastern states.
In Bennington county there is $50 al.
ready donated for paying the eXpens-
es Of six club members, doing the best
work in six different projects, TO the
Vermont State Boys and Girls Indus
trial Exposition The Vermont State
Bankers, association has offered priz-
es amounting to 10000 to offer an
incentive TO the hundreds OF boys and
girls in the state to do their best In
this work or this sl1S0. Bennington
county boys and girls are entitled to
receive $31 in ten first prizes; $2l in ;
ten second prizes; s1l in ten third
prizes; 81 in one fourth prize. They /
also have the opportunity Of compel ,
ing for many state wide prizes total |
ing 1924.
School superin ,endants, teachers, !
parents and other adult citizens
should use every means possible $50 /
that the boys and girls with whom |
they work and in whom they are IN.
terested may enroll with the State
club leader, Z l.. ingalls,, Burlington. /
w. d. Hurl OF the Massachusetts
Agricultural college has well sum !
married. the effect of club work on
club members in a recent article: |
The effect OF club work on club mem
bers must not be lost sight of. Boys
and girls learn to work, they learn to
observe, they learn to discriminate,
they learn to cooperate, they learn to
describe what they do they learn
business methods, they learn to weigh
and balance things according to real
values. they are encouraged to read
and discuss, they are broadened by
their contact with Others, they de-
velop initiative and Judgment, they
come to the age CT eighteen or nine
teen able to do something with
OF now and with the con
hdence that they can dot it,
Club work gets hold of boys and
girls at the right stage of their deveI-
opment for directing or redirecting
their thoughts.
AS one not actively engaged i'll the
actual work OF organization and su-
peryision, but who is in sufficiently
close touch so that l can see its real
day by day ! have felt that
no other movement contains such pos
siblities"
There has never been time more
Being forehanded is best
exemplified by the man whose wis
dom consists in having today that APP
probation of life insurance, which
other people gain years later. 6Sth
year. National Life ms. Co., of VT.
(Mutual) Earle S. Kinsley, General
Agent, Mead Building, Rutland, VT
appropriate for boys and girls of this
county to express their patriotism
than at the present time when they
may assist in supplying the many ne
cessltios fer the home We are now
uron a war with and against
4 country whose most serious problem
IS that of feeding the armies in the
field as well as TO feed those at home.
Our national government does not
need our boys and girls under nine