The Mena weekly star., 1921-10-13
NSTTTUTECONEST TO SUCCESSFUL END
IF Elvde ". McCord and Dr. H. w. s<3ziey Closed Community inst- t~te Tuesday Night-Much Geod
 Is Accomplished.

tYf ;s the best and most helpful ,>&;rr that has ever come to Mena," Y fhe Expression heard on every side bx men and women, boys and girls, iii pnssing judgment on the Commun- 3kw Institute conducted in this city by or. Clyde Wilson McCord of Lincoln, Xeb.. and Dr. H. w. Stanley of Kan 4&s City. The Institute was opened &6nday night, October 2, with a .assIon service held in the Baptist <hu<ch, and while it was to have erdsd on Thursday night of last Si3I7E the interest was so intense that Snxements were made to continue xSfIl Tuesday, night of this week s-I1nn Doctor McCord delivered the cIorj1r address using as his subject, tXhs Descendants of Ananias."
 T&o climax of the Institute doubt 1crs was reached Sunday night, when ef the second union meeting, Doctor #e(]ord delivered his sermon-address 1n The Challenge to the Church of 1ko Twentieth Century," tho some of te most helpful influences of the InSfItute have been the inter-church .csuferences held each afternoon, the &d(z<esses before the High school, the x1<kering with the business men
 1nd the luncheon table, and the
 ages brought to people in the
 [6nnding community by Doctor 5fnnIey.
 Ihe general theme of the Insti-
 <& was "A Working Philosophy of
 e and in every lecture, address, Yo<Hd table talk and in the inter oii&se with our citizens, Drs. McCord ind Stanley worked with that cen t<1I theme in mind, always holding Ie he high ideal of Christ life, 1ojUting to that as the aim and goal 1I &ll human activity. One of the di- xGc< results traceable to the work of 101e men in this community is the I04er relationship of the church 1oIke, brought about by the union 13cetings, the community singing in WhIch members of the various church <101ks took part, and thru this the f64I1zation of the pastors and mem- bers of the churches having part in <hl6 Institute that the moral, social, Intellectual and spiritual atmosphere & this community, if we will, can be 4Shioned along the lines marked out l|& the Master. Still another direct x0&1xit is the realization on the part
 &he business men that with the thools and the churches they have a 1}X part in building up the commun- }Ex, this coming so strongly to those WE1 came under the influence of
 4oe men. that they now realize as
 UT before, that the church and the
 |o0ls will not do the work in the
 Immunity that should be done by 4<rn unless the business men get be- Ind these institutions. A greater 5<ult of the institute, tho not so ap- p4<<nt at present, is the work that III done with the students of the /xA school and those of the upper
 les in the Central building. Many
 oy and girl as the years go on Fk look back to the time when the
 < community institute was held in
 1a and will say, Thru the mes-
 es that came to me then, I was
 4 to find myself, the ideals then I1 up to me, having been the guides
 my life.' Even now, this infuencs
 being manifested. Watch the young 1QE&5 on the street as they go and 9ou1e from the school, see them in 4c1r football games and other activi- <ieS, visit the schools and note the f4rnestness and loyalty with which they are supporting their teachers and with that honesty of purpose z4qy are carrying on their school #ofk, then you too will say with one 1l the teachers, "This Community h. x<Itute is the finest influence that 64ld have been brought to us." Only
 Commencement time has it been 1tomary heretofore for students to
 end exercises in a body, but here W an exception. On Saturday
 nt when Doctor McCord delivered
 lecture on Modern Jekylls," chers and pupils from the High 4t1ool were there in a body. On an-
 .er night, Mrs. Nadine Wood with
 Irty- eight out of her class for weight pupils from the Eighth
 &<1e, came together to the lecture at
 z Baptist church.
 De Institute was brought to Mena F. N the cooperation of the Commer-
 Club, the schools and Baptist,
 1byterian, Methodist Episcopal,
 lstian and First M. E. church,
 th, churches, all having in mind
 npbuilding of the community
 =ss ss every line of human endeavor