The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-07-21

ton. In the years, which have elapsed,
one organization after another has
come into existence to meet the re-
auirements of the community of young
people The organizations are as fol-
lows:
Good Will Home Assn, sW. p.
Hinckley, Supervisor; Good viii Boys
Grammar School, w. B. Hussey, Prin-
cipal: Good VIII Girls Grammar
School. Mss Gladys Godfrey, Prin.;
Good VIII Sewing School, Miss Geor-
gia Morrow, Principal; Good Will High
School, G. II. Merriam, Principal;
Good Will School Council, Wardweii
Wallace, President; Good Will Boys
Sunday School, Mr.. E. L. Macomber'
Supt.: Good viii Girls Sunday
School, Miss Georgia Morrow, suppl;
Good Will Y. M. C. A, STEERING
Powell President; Good VIII Y. w.
G. A, Miss Gladys Godfrey, Presl-
dent; Good VIII Baseball Association,
Sterling Powell, Manager; Good VIII
Track Association, Walter ). Morrell,
Manager; Good viii Orchestra, Miss
Edith Gardner, Leader; Good Will Re-
ligious Association. Miss Georgia
Morrow. Pres: Good Will Boys
Camp. Mr.. Justin o. Johnson, Leader;
Good Will Farm Manager, Mr.. Walter
Price; Superintendent of Buildings
and Grounds. Mr.. j. w. futile.
SOMETHING DONE
Yes, something has already been
done. The world war put stop to
development and also caused us al
most no end of financial difficulties;
a disastrous fire in 1920 by which we
lost our finest building, the Prescott
Memorial, with pipe organ and 9th
err equipment, entailed very heavy
expense. beyond the cost of rebuild
ing. But the war is over; things will
soon be on a normal basis again;
our debts should be paid; our work
should be moving forward with
strides and bounds. Shall We not at
tempt great things-you and while
these things will count the most for
God and humanity?
WHAT WOULD | LIKE TO DO?
1t is fair question. And since
this article is personal In nature,
will give a personal reply. The plan
has been so carefully developed in de-
anything new to undertake. The Home
idea, Industry, Education, Recreation,
tail that there does not seem to be
Discipline, Religion, all seem to have
been given a nucleus; farm, home,
shop, barns, garden. library, natural
history, art music, recreation, relig-
ion-all these interests seem to have
had a beginning, and are sustained as
we'll as they can be with our present
means But everything should be
strengthened; everything undertaken
should have more generous financial
support. And so | would like to see
every building put into the best of
condition again after the World War
period of neglected repairing; | would
like to see two or three new, endowed
cottage built and equipped at
once; would like to build q High
School Building near Moody Chapel,
SO that the Charles +. Moody Building
could be devoted to the needs OF the
Boys Grammar School,. would like
to see the usefulness of Good Will
doubled; | would like to see the spec
ial endowments for a,music department
completed l would like to see a larger
library building. and the Carnegie
Museum and Library used for Museum
purposes, instead of for Library pur-
poses. 1t was given for both, but is
no longer large enough for either.
would like to see the proposed Me-
mortal to the one hundred and eighty
two Good Will boys who were in SER
vice in the great war. built; | would
like to see the sum total of contribu-
lions doubled; l would like to see the
general endowment fund doubled.
Here. then, is the plan.
1t has been stated and re-stated;
here it appears once more, in slightly
different phraseology. | appeal to the
public; | appeal to the reader; | APP
peal to you. who may be listening
while some one reads aloud, the print
ed lines. Something has been accom-
plished since 1889, when the work be-
gan in material form with three boys,
dollar and a comprehensive plan. ]
think that, If / should die and some
one with skill in writing should make
the appeal, there would be a response.
But can we not do better than to
wait until l am gone. The work,
when | am through will go on; but
with the foundations laid deep and
substantial, can We not work together
for yet a few years and make them
deeper, more solid and raise the SUPER
structure higher?
G. w. HINCKLEY.
ITEMS
Under the direction of w. p. Hinck-
ley, Supervisor, two thousand three
year old transplant pines have been
planted on Good VIII territory this
spring. This is a small number, but
makes nearly ten thousand which
have been planted in the last three or
four years. The stock for these plant
ings has been furnished for the pur-
pose by a friend of Good Will. The
re-foresting of part of the Besse
Reservation-two hundred and fifty
acres of land recently acquired
through the generosity of Mr.. Frank
l.. Besse, of Clinton, Maine, is a lar
ger proposition, but it Is hoped ii can
be taken up in the spring of 1922.
In addition to the planting of the
pines, good number of other trees,
chiefly elms, for ornamental purposes,