The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-10
PLANS CENTRAL
ORGANIZATION
Community Service Worker
Here to Help Toward
That End
CLOSER BONDS OF
CITIZENSHIP AIM
Temporary Committee of Local Citizens
to Meet Coming Week - List of Some
of Things Possible for BrattlebOrO
Through This Plan.


of Things Possible for BrattlebOro
Through This Plan.
Closer bonds of citizenship through self
expression in recreation, music, and
drama is the plan of Community Service
for BrattIeboro. according to Frederic X.
Brown. on invitation of a group of repre-
sentative citizens, who is in Brattleboro to
perfect the organization of Community
Service locally to this end.
Summer and winter leagues of baseball,
basketball horseshoe pitching, ice and
snow festivals and carnivals, Christmas
celebrations, community sings, music
week, doll and pet shows. May day cele-
brations. children's paradeS, swimming,
water carnivals. pantomimes, dramas,
tableauX and pageants, play and game,
neighbOrhOOd gatherings and plcmcS, IN
StituteS for the training of local volun-
teers for leadership. song leaders classes
for the training of song leaders for service,
and community centre organization are
some of the things possible for Brattle-
boro through this organization. with the
proposed community house playing its vital
part and the activities in town supporting
the community house.
The plan calls for a central Organiza-
ton of citizens. on nOn-partiSan and non
Sectarian basis, which, under executive
trained leadership. works through various
committees of a representative sort. The
recreation committee. for example, would
be composed of u group interested in all
the varied phases of recreation and would
supervise such activities as athletic
leagues for schools. churches lodges and
industries, train new workers in game and
athletic leadership. conduct winter sports,
holiday parades. and nanny similar COM
munity-wide affairs.
The music committee would be COM
posed of those interested in the develop
ment of the varied phases of community
music and would conduct community
sings. training classes for song leaders,
music week and community choruses.
The dramatic committee would be COM
posed of those interested in the citizen
ship-making values of the varied forms of
drama and it would be responsible, under
trained leadership. for story -tellerS to
serve the organizations and institutions
and play places as volunteers. community
tableaux. pageantS and plays, at the same
time training classes for dramatic work
ers and volunteers.
Mr. Brown is practical organizer who
last December organized the foreign and
natiye-b0Tn citizens of northampton into
a spectacular tercentenary pageant in
John VI. Greene hall of Smith college, con-
Quoted skating carnivals and game and
play hours in the same city. He has just
come from Westtield, Mass. where, on
the Fourth of July, he helped the people
OF that city to produce the great children 5
parade. city-wide boy and girl contests.
and Il civic fete i'm which the mayor and
other officials. the G. A. r., American
Legion. Spanish War veterans, Girls
club, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, American
ization class. community chorus, a
Czecho-SlOvac group. Polish. Italian.
Lithuanian and Spanish groups were
Blended in civic ceremonial witnessed by
5000 persons and said to be the greatest
aSsemblage of citizens on the green that
Westfeld had ever seen.
THE temporary committee of local citi-
Zens interested in promoting local com
munity service includes II. G. Rice Mrs
Carrie l.. Hamilton. NJ. ]. Moran. George
L. Durham. Martin Austin. Mrs Gilbert
Simons, Charles +. Mann, Charles G. sta
ples. Carl $. Hopkins. Col. f. W. Gibson.
c. \. Harris, w. !. Pentland. Joseph g.
Estey. f. II. Crane and others
This committee Is to meet early next
week to perfect a permanent organization.