Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-07

the little folks. called their greetings
in unison in cheery child voices; in
others welcome smiles played over
the youthful faces. Everywhere the
welcome was genuine and from the
heart.
Teachers Welcome Guests.
The teachers, too, were CAD to
greet the callers. They are human
beings and they nave hearts. They
teach school for & living, most of
them, but their pay is meager, and
much of their compensation comes
from the love of their work. Expres-
sions of appreciation from those
whose little ones they train as they
grow up mean much TO these mould
crs of child life. II the parents
would visit the schools more there
would be more kind words said to the
teachers and finer and deeper appre-
citation of their work.
The class rooms everywhere were
bright and cheerful. In practically
all Of them pot and box plants were
growing, many of them blooming. In
nearly every window where the sun
shines were brilliant green geraniums
with their purifying perfume; ferns
and other foliage plants. On black
boards were verses of Christmas
songs, and here and there holiday
decorations in the colors appeared.
The spirit of the occasion was
forcefully illustrated at the Prospect
Heights school. The visitors weru kind
ly greeted by Miss Belcher, the teach
er, and the seventeen pupils faces
lighted up as they saw Supt Mathis
and the others come in. To their
chorus greeting Mr.. Mathis asked
them if they remembered a little
mental moving picture he had given
| them some time ago about a lion.
They said they did and in their ans
wers to his questions and his filling
| in between the story was unfolded,
of how lion once attacked a bunch
of oxen, how they crowded together
as friends and stood with their horns
all down defiantly and the lion, skunk
off, but how later they became divid-
ed among themselves and the lion de-
lvoured them separately.
When they were friends they
stood together and were safe,2 said
| Mr.. Mathis to the children, ''but when
tthey were no longer friends they were
lost. We are here today, these men
and women, from the various clubs
and interests in life, because they
are your friends and they want to
show you they are interested in you
and what you do and want to pro-
tect you and help you. They want
to help you have good school and be-
come good men and women
Old Bicycle Shed Classroom.
As the committees arrived at the
Furlow school Miss Helen Holden,
the physical director, was putting
a group of boys and girls through
/ a series of yolley ball stunts on the
playground. The guests were led
into the annex first. This was built
originally and used as bicycle shed
in the rear Of the main building, but
| the crowded condition Of the school,
unexpected when the building was
erected, has made it necessary to fit
this building as an annex and it is
now used as section Of the third
grade, with Miss Hiida johnson al
teacher. Although a bit dark, be.
cause of dense shade about it, il
makes fairly comfortable class
room Here the children were seen
in their spelling lesson, and a bright
group of youngsters they were.
Stroiling into the corridor Of the
main building, the visitors were
greeted by group Of picked sing
ers of five from each of the grades
With Miss Ella Polk, musical director
of the SCHOOL system at the piano
the first grade pupils sang verse
of the carol, "0h Little Town q
AsStA1CHCliis LHE ntLOuu ana tliEt
grade pupils took up the secone
verse, and the fifth, sixth ans
seventh grades finished with the thirc
verse.
"Did you notice how the altos came
/ in on that last verse;" asked Mis-
Polk proudly afterwards. "Thes
were the beys. 1t is inspiring ant
wonderful to see what music does il
the school and see how the children
develop. There is one boy who fol
two years was able to sing only il
a monotone; apparently he couldn't
distinguish enc sound from another
But now he can carry a tune as wei
as the next ono. He seems to have
just discovered that there is diff
ference, and his interest has beer
aroused. am able to give all of the
rooms only half hour week each
there are so many; | wish / could give
4 them more. But there are drill mu
sic lessons which the regular teach
ers give nearly every day between my
visits"
Learning Color Harmony.
! The next place of interest yisitet
was the sixth grade room of Mis-
4 Martha WheatIey. The fifth. sixth