Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-03-31

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LA, much do you use your school
nsog Just during school hours
~ ,ive DAVIS of the week, or maybe
w month besides for a social?
un. sioure out what percentage Of
- lime that perfectly good school
omptv and how much it cost, and
80 nercentage of the money so
vested is giving no return.
rhot is what one man did, and the
husv and talked the thing over
S,th his neighbors, and they started
".irg the school for elections, and
sntortainments, and night classes,
nd farmers association meetings,
and mothers conferences, and par
on+teacher associations, and-goud-
acc don't know what all.
somebody heard about his idea
and got him to explain it to their
roigbborhood. He went on from lit
+lo schools and towns to bigger ones
He became adviser in civic and social
oonter development for the extension
diy;sion at the University of Wiscon-
Gin (where I became acquainted with
bim) and by and by the President at
washington sent for him to take
charge of the same sort of work with
the whole of the United States as his
field Of operations.
The United States is a pretty big
Mace and you may never come in
contact with his dynamic personality.
Rut YOU can read his book, THE So
cal Center in which he says many
interesting and practical things
Among them he includes this "Song
of Neighborhood, by Edna Ketch-
am, college girl (who worked her
way. She caught the spirit of what
he was trying to do, and put it into
words that sing easily to the tune Of
"Auld Lang Syne" and therefore may
readily be adopted as the official
neighborhood song for any new So
cial center that is formed.
Come close and let us wake the JOY
Our fathers used to know,
When to the little old schoolhouse
Together they would go;
Then neighbours heart to neigbor
warmed
In thought for common good;
Well strike that fine old chord
song of neighborhood.
The fathers Glove the wilderness
And made a clearing here,
Then at its heart, this friendly roof
They joined their hands to rear;
And here they met and talked and
planned
A larger common veal.
Their future we are living now
We, here, their purpose feel
Out in the world we all have learned
Hardness of toll and care;
It's tried our souls and shorn our
youth
OF dreams and visions fair.
IN worry for self we may have lost
The larger hope and claim;
Come, meath this common roof, and
here
Wen find its power again.
The little old red school is gone:
Its spirit must not go,
foI what it to our fathers meant
Our present time must know.
rleaVy the work that waits our
hands;
our single strength but small,
united here for common tasks.
hach finds the might of all
Speaking of the neighborly ac-
cord between Canada and the United
states, in Edward Eagles Hope of
Vne Future the Hon. Arthur
Meishan prime minister to Canada,
says Only mutual ignorance and
Suspicion can prevent these relations
from becoming permanent in the
lamlly OF English-speaking peoples.
- Is necessary for us to make con-
Stant efforts to sustain and advance
'ne spirit of good will. We must
iron out each small difficulty as it
arises
Above all we must endeavor to
understand each other. Every trav-
0ier can help. 1t is a process which
Van never be completed. No one
oan phophesy when or where a sub
'e'' OF disagreement may arise; but
whatever it may be, clear under
0'anulng of the question is bound to
reveal the fact that our interests and
purposes are not fundamentally di-
iseht' And Mr.. Eagles avowed
purpose in his hook iS to hiring bie