The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-04-12


arc simple but very necessary TO b
filed out il the club member desire
TO have his work count as IL shoulc
Many have enrolled In the past an
have done the greater part Of th
work as outlined except to send th
rep pIrts as required and have there
fore lost much educational benefit t,
be derived from such work.
Those who undertake the work an,
carry it through the season as well a
submit the required reports have th'
opportunity Of competing for man,
county and state prizes as well as u
compete against boys and girls doing
similar work In other eastern states
In Bennington county there is $4,000
already donated for paying the ex-
penses Of six club members, doing tho
best work in six different projects, to
the Vermont State Boys and Girls
Industrial Exposition. The Vermont
State Bankers Association has offered
prizes amounting TO $l,ll3.00 to offer
an incentive 10 the hundreds of boys
and girls in the state to do their best
in this work. OF this s1,13000 Ben
nington county boys and girls are en-
titled TO receive $3l.00 in ten first
prizes; S2100 in ten second prizes;
Sll00 in ten third prizes; 81 90 in one
fourth prize. They also have the OPP
portunity of competing for many state
wide prizes totaling S234.00.
School superintendents, teachers,
parents and other adult citizens
should use every means possible so
that the boys and girls with whom
they work and in whom they are inter
ested may enroll with the state club
leader, Mr.. E. L. ingalls,, Burlington.
VT
w. ID. Hurd of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College, has well sum-
the effect of club work on
club members in recent article: "The
effect of club work on club members
must not be lost sight of. Boys and
girls learn TO work, they learn to OBJ
serve, they learn to discriminate, they
earn to cooperate, they learn to de-
scribe what they do, they learn bust
less methods, they learn to weigh and
,alance things according to real val
les, they are encouraged to read and
Iiscuss, they are broadened by their
ontact with others, they develop in
tiative and judgment, they come to
he age Of Is or 19 able to do some
hing, with knowledge of how and |
18th the confidence that they can do (
:. Club work gets hold of boys and J
iris at the right stage of their de-
elopment for directing or redirecting
loir thoughts AS one not actively '
ngaged in the actual work of organ J
.ation and supervision, but who is in {
close touch so that / can I
.e its real workings day by day / b
ave felt that no other movement T
'ntains such possibilities" Ii
There has never been time more c
,propriate for boys and girls of this G
unity to express their patriotism I
an at the present time when they r.
ay assist in supplying the many
cessities for the home. We are u
w entering upon q war with and Il
'ainst country whose most serious m
oblem is that Of feeding the armies II
the field as we'll as to feed those at tr
me. Our national government does fr
t need our boys and girls under 10 tn
ars Of age to take up arms against nj
r common foes on the battlefield, m
it does need every boy and girl in m
8 state to produce q large part of st
at they consume. BY 80 doing tn
Try boy and girl will have done his as
ire to bring victory TO his country Gr
the victory will be all the greater
,ause he or she has done q share.
Only that becomes real or helpful GU
any man which has cost the sweat Of
his brow, the effort Of his brain or adj
anguish Of his soul.' old