The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-31
Boys and Girls
Doing Their "Bit''

one-third of our boys and girls Of
club age, 10 TO 10 years, have
joined the agricultural clubs
and so pledge themselves to scien-
tifically produce food. Are all
the boys and girls in your house
hold enrolled in this army of 300?
If not. have they good reason for
not being enrolled? In Montana
there are eight clubs, corn, gar
den, canning, pig, sheep, calf,
poultry and potato. Surely at
least one of these will appeal
to every child and will not enter
fere with the home conditions.
Do not think that a child must
do club work and nothing else,
for while he is cultivating the corn
for his father, he can easily cult
vate an acre for himself (seed
corn for one acre can be procured
from the county agricultural agent
for one dollar) and while the girl
is tending to the chickens she
may be at the same time tending
to her club chickens, which have
been marked by identification
tags on the legs. In addition to
the ordinary work of production,
a contestant is asked to do only
three things, sign an enrolment
card and mail it, send in a simple
report next fall, and exhibit at the
county fair.
Some of the values that a boy
or girl receives from joining a
club are: That he may feel he is
producing food which is very i'm
portant and producing articles of
cash value which makes it posi-
BILE for him to buy thrift stamps,
thus lending Uncle Sam money!
AS he lends money to Uncle Sam,
he is also learning valuable les
sons in thrift and these habits
once formed will help him all
through his life. Not only will the
contestant learn how to scientific
ally care for garden, corn, calf,
etc., but next fall he will see that
it pays to work according 10 sci
entific methods and he will follow
these same methods along other
lines. Another good habit formed. /
Perhaps some of you are asking
why child can not do all this
without joining club, he can, but
to most children there is an in
spiration in knowing that thous-
ands of boys and girls all over
our country are working in the
same club that he is and that
Uncle Sam is back of the whole
The fact that his
work is judged along with the
work of the other boys and girls {
also makes him take more pains s
with it. If five or more enroll in !
one community, we try to or
ganize local club for there is r
added inspiration to meet with |
one and another and compare re- 7
suits. The contestants also learn :
something of how to conduct
meetings and speak before others,
lessons that are hard to learn in :
later life. Membership in a local
club is not necessary and has no :
effect whatever on a contestants
in the state club. Letters
Of help and encouragement will
be sent out to all contestants from X
Bozeman and Glendiye and Mr.. /.
Orewlecke, agricultural instructor b
n the Dawson County High Il
School. will try to visit each con- Z
estant twice provided the con- a
estant sends us his section, town. n
ship and range, SO he can be To- K
lated without two much trouble. Il
The following prizes are offer
ID, but Dawson county boys and N
urls are loyal enough to work U
thoughts of prizes. In 5,
potato, garden, poultry and corn in
lubs, the county winner has
rec three-day visit at the State
Fair at Helena, in all clubs the =
ounty winner receives a free
cholarship in any Of the stat :
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