Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-02-22
TO THE PUPILS IN The
SCHOOLS OF SALEM

some money, and help feed the hungry
children in Europe.
Anything you produce will set free
articles of food for export although the
things you produce are not of the kind
of articles needed. People in Salem who
eat is vegetables grown by you will
cat less bread, meat fats, beans, etc,
and its saving win amount to many
tons Of food.
Organize as follows:
Form stock compsny with par value
of shares one dollar and sell them to pu-
pills and teachers for ten per cent cash
and ten per cent a month.
The pupils in each room form a city
and elect a mayor. Each building be-
comes a state and elects governor and
all the states form country and elect
a president. Mayor, governor and the
president appoint officials when exper
fence shows need of them.
Laws are made by vote of the owners
of stock. Each person having as many
votes as he holds shares of stock.
Anyone can propose a law by putting
his idea on paper and reading it to the
stock owners in his room.
Those in favor sign the paper and
those opposed or indifferent do not.
When pupils owning majority of the
stock in the room sign then il goes to
the state and county. 1t becomes law
when majority of those interested sign
All propositions tina pass the city are
kept on file So the action Of every pu.
pill can be seen at any future time.
Any one can at any time put in nomi-
nation a candidate for any office.
He puts on paper his reasons for wish
ing to make change and the proposal
takes the course outlined FOR making
laws.
=. The Labor System.
The children work in gangs with q
foreman who keeps q record Of the time
each pupil works and gives him credit
for as many cents per hour as he is
years old. AT the close of the season
the amount credited to all Of the child.
rem is compared with net proceeds, and
this determines the amount each re-
ceives.
About 20 years ago there lived in Los
Angeles q young man who had no
steady employment, and less than three
hundred dollars ready money anu with
this small capital he commenced the
pigeon business, on the lot he occupied.
The business soon outgrew the place
he had and he took a large tract along
side the Los Angeles river in the city.
In few years after his removal he
was feeding the pigeons more than two
and 0ne-half tons of wheat day and
had net income of over twelve hund-
red dollars per month.
Coaster wagons can be furnished at
about one dollar each and the coasters
with q box to 90 on them will be sold
TO pupils at cost on the instalmcnt plan
of ten cents cash and ten cents a week.
Those purchasing wagons will have a
district around their homes which they
will 90 over every day and collect table
refuse. All families will be asked to put
in box furnished them anything that
will have value as food for pigeons or
other fowls or for pigs.
Pens for pigs can be made of lum.
Der obtained by wrecking useless build
ings.
People from far eastern states tell us
that almost every family there keeps
one OF more pigs. The pigs are brought
III the spring when about six weeks old
and put in q little pen which they never
leave until sold in the fall. when
they dress $50 to 300 pounds each,
Pigs enough should be bougnv 20 eat
the label refuse.
One hundred dollars will fix up a.
room for making candles Pupils can go
out as statesmen at the schools and on
their rounds collecting table refuse II
can be sold at about half tho common
price and still make good profit as
the pupils do all the work themselves.
The principal business should be the
cultivation Of vacant lots
From Review Of Reviews.
"Last ycar the school children in Can
ton, Illinois, raised and sold garden
product amounting to $lO0s.00. Com
mcntinq upon this the author says;
stI.ook for moment at he results. IL
oave financial aid to needy families; IL
furnished fresh vegetables for many
table that knew too often only pork ana
beans; Il furnished employment and
entertainment for young people. VINO
otherwise might have found devilinent
for their idle hours; 1t awakened fe"'
interest in the soil and in naturei ~
cansed more interest in child life; ~
caused a better understanding between
home and school; it gained the co-opefa'
tion of parents in school work; II tram
cd the mind and the eye toward an ap,,
preciation Of the orderly, the clean ana
ihe beautiful; it aught perseverance
and thrift" -.
Another article on page lOo OF the
same magazine tells of cooperative
creamery in Duluth, MIMI, run BY pup,
I'd school pupils who made and sofa
2g3l mounds Of butter last year. Eaeh
pupil paid So for one share of stock N
Inc company, thus giving them a smaii
capital 10 start with. They had bank
recount, paid ali bills with checks and
in all respects conducted the business as
adults do with better success than the
averago adult would have had.
The following is an experience IN
small city:
The president, the governor and the
mayor appointed such officers as OK
nerieuce showed the need of The pu-