Pueblo chieftain., 1922-03-05
PARENT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
MRS. CUNNINGHAM. Press Chairman. Phone s4se-w

Pueblo County Council. Mrs. J. II.
Fem Pres. will hold the regular
monthly meeting at the Central High
on Monday, March at 1880. There will
bs an important meeting OF the execu-
tive board at o'clock.
Annex will meet Tuesday at 500.
Judge Mirick will be the speaker of
the afternoon and there will be a dis
cussion of the best plans for a cam
paign of school building. Miss Frances
McFeely will give a reading.
The program which was to have been
given at the Lakeside Auditorium on
Friday will be given by the teachers
OF the school board on evening OF
March II.
Wednesday the Central Grade regu-
lar meeting at 80 when Senator w.
o. Peterson will talk on the proposed
Compulsory Education bill and short
program will be given by the kinder
garten- Please bring your quilt blocks.
Coffee and doughnuts will be served.
Wednesday the Fountain. regular
meeting at 3:15. Mr.. w. o. Peterson
will speak on the Child Welfare Legts
lstion.
Columbian P. IT. A. wednesday at ,.
teach our children Also discussion
on the school building question.
At Lakeview Wednesday at 2:30 Mrs.
Pine will talk on Health, using pic
lures and illus strations Please bring
the quilt blocks that you have made.
The per capita tax OF all associations
is due before March 81 and should be
sent to Mrs. C. W. Porter, 2119 East
Routt avenue.
The attention of all tho Parent
Teacher Associations of the city is CEN
tered upon the building plan as out
lined by the Boards OF Education. 1t
has been explained fully that the need
OF space II the chief reason for the
plan. A dark room cannot be cheerful
and It Is as unwholesome as 1t is
gloomy. Flowers will not bloom in
dark room neither Will people. Rooms
have Just as much expression as
faces, they produce strong impress
sion on us at first sight. / have been
in rooms where 1t was impossible to
talk with any animation or pleasure.
They were dark and dismal badly ar
ranged and gloomy. have been in
restless rooms. ovcrcrowded, things
seemed to jump at you for tho want Of
space. have been in rooms where
you could not help having n good time
even II nothing epecial was going on.
just because 1t was bright. sunny ana
cheerful.
The influence OF a basement room,
Rrtificially nShted or an oVercro"ucu
room ia felt by the children and many
a punishment for inattention or a low
grade may be credited to just this
thing.
"Glorify the room, Glorify the
room," Sydney Smith used TO say
when of a morning he would order
the shutters thrown back and the
shades raised.
How can one glorify basement
room on the north side OF a building
that is shaded by another brick build
ing ? We must bring all Of the chill
dren out OF the darkcned rooms and
IN. artificial light and the overhead
heat. and tho crowded restless room.
Not only the children but tho teachers
who pay with nerves and energy and
health. Glorify the school room with
sunlight. fresh air and calm spaces.
Edison association had small but
interesting meeting on account of the
storm. Tho subject was George wash
ington. and the prizes for the success
full ones In tho gamcss played were
framed pictures of Washington. Mrs.
Ovechka won tho prize for tearing the
best hatchc. out of paper and Mre.