The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-21
A DAY In NEWLLANO
Rv Robert Lindsey

Newllano. | have just come in from
work at the printshop. Maxine Gaddis
and George Cantrell are still there.
Max. is running the linotype machine
and George is putting up some bundles
to be taken to town early in the morn
ing. Mrs. Gaddis is down there too
with some work. waiting fer Max to go
home. Two of the printers have left
for short time and that makes extra
work for those who remain to hold
down both ends Of this mighty ship Of
true cooperation and brotherhood.
We do not work night and day all the
time, neither do we let a job go just be-
cause some one or two or half dozen
are forced to leave for time.
go to school in the forenoon with
the other eleventh grade pupil, Ruth
Sutherland. The tenth grade compris-
ing two also go in the morning,
and the grade children are busy with
their school work at the same time.
We all go in the afternoons to the va
rious industries and learn to be me-
chanics, carpenters, shoemakers. bak-
ers, printers, and countless other pro-
fessicns which our individual selves
fancy. In the afternoon the remainder
of the high school hold forth at the
school house. We have all four grades
in the high school now and are doing
all the work required by the state
course of study. Thus, our children
are getting everything in the line Of
school work that they would get on
the outside besides all the industrial
work, music, and numerous other class
es such as mental science and physical
culture We have over twenty-five pu-
pills enrolled in the high school and
about fifty in the grades with favor
able prospects for more in short time.
The brick will soon be ready for our
new school house which we school chill
dren are going to build. When that is
finished we will have the complete
foundation for the best and most COM
p1ete educational school in the country.
We have the pupils and teachers now;
all we lack is the building and equip
ment Our children are not like most
children. They have a characteristic
that is generally lacking in the average
child and that is they know how to
think and use their mental motor pow
er. We dc not believe that memorial
ton is the fundamental factor in an
education We do not believe that
mechanical action of the muscles is
the proper way to learn trade. But
we do believe that those who think,
think. think, are theones who over
come the worlds greatest obstacles.
Hence from the kindergarten up thru
the high school our children are taught
to use their head first and hands last.
He who exercises the cells of his brain
as freely as those of his arm and puts
them in harmony will be a king of sue
cess.
At noon, Comrade Martin held an
orchestra class between 1890 and
100. He is also Professor Martin but
he has lost that title since he came
here for every one is simply Comrade
whether he teaches or cleans streets.
! am in that along with about a dozen
others. We play occasionally at the
theatre and are looking forward to the
time when we will be as competent as
the class Comrade Martin startel al
year ago. They refuse all back seats
when It comes to music.
At one o'clock | am due at the print
shop This afternoon | have been
print the first half of the Colonist,
and now a little after nine o'clock
| am attempting to write something of
interest for the last half which will go
TO press Thursday.
Yes, am giving you who are miles
away an insight in one days work at
Newllano. IF you could only be in our
midst few days, you could not help
feeling the spirit that is within each
and all of US; the spirit that has pre-
dominated since the first days of this
Institution; the spirit that has made it
a success. Is the printshop crew the
only one that works late hours and do
they do it because they are driven by
empty stomachs or bare backs. or
few more coins in their pockets. No. |
indeed. no one here works only to eat
or is spurred on by the horrors of hun
ger and cold. Neither is there anyone