The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-03-24

ment are needd and the family is un-
able to pay, the Shawnee physicians
have donated their services. Depend
ent school children are provided with
| glasses through the same source. The
entire school system here is said to
be one of health.
Physical training is a vital part of
the whole system. At each of the ten
ward schols here, a specially trained
teacher has charge Of the play at in
Permission and after school hours.
| Children with physical defects are
| given especial care, and malnutrition
and underweight problems are sue
cesfully solved.
In the junior and senior high
schools special athletic directors are
employed, one for the boys and nj
for the girls in the senior high school,
two for the boys and one for the
girls in the junior high school.
The ward school buildings as we'll
as the high school buildings are at the
disposal of the public at all times
day or night and are used constantly
for social meetings in the different
communities. Practically every week,
class or club functions are given at
the high school under faculty super
vision, the school boasting Of nineteen
separate Literary, "Y", Glee, Music,
! Art and Debate clubs.
Home study is emphasized in the
schools, the parents being kept in
close touch with the school work Of
their children through phone calls and
personal letters.
School and home problems are dis
cussed before the high school and the
grade school assemblies each week;
the 'parent-teachers' associations in
each of the ward school districts are
doing good work.
The school fosters Boy and Girl
Scout work in every way possible.
, While the Rotary and Lions Clubs are
supporting the Boy Scouts, the school
authorities are making arrangements
to place the Scout commissioner as a
member of the high school faculty
next year.
During the past year, Shawnee
school children planted and tended one
thousand gardens. The previous year,
fifteen hundred school gardens ans
wered the call of the government for
more production. In addition to the
school gardens, a special effort is
made by the school children in the
in the raising of flower gardens.
Each spring and summer, Shawnee,
"The City Beautiful" is a wreath of
blooms.
The high school normal training
class is ranked high by the state
superintendent in his recent report,
graduates from this department being
given permission to teach in any of
the states schools.
The city, however, has not stopped
with its public schools. Men and wo-
men of Shawnee that too many good
schools can not exist in a community,
and, so, at an early date, they went
forward in competition with other
large cities of the state and secured
the Oklahoma Baptist and the Okla
homa Catholic Universities. The Cath
Ole University with it's imposing
buildings and national reputation
stands just outside the city. The Bap-
fist University is located here and
today has a school plant worth more
than 81, 1000, a faculty known and
honored throughout the land and a
student body of about 500 for the
nine months year and 800 for the
full twelve months.
The Carnegie Library here is one of
the largest and most efficient in the
state. The library is used constantly
by the school children, one of the
points impressed on the judges being
that 200 school children could be
found in the library Immediately af.
ter the schools were dismissed. The
two high schools and the ward schools
have excellent libraries.
Shawnee has thirty-one churches
in reporting to the better cities judges
of the work in Shawnee, the Rev. A
G. Williamson, head of the church
committee said:
eff there is any institution in the
cit! of Shawnee of which she can be
n ere proud than another, it is The
clurcn. One seldom finds in n city
of this size as many good church
buildings and large congregations as
found here Many of the churches
have recently built and are thus pro.
vided with all the equipment of the
modern church making it possible tc
care for the social and r~ecreationaI
activities of both young and old
with these well-constructed, modern
building, and with a high-grade
educated ministry, the church is nc
small factor in the life of the com
munity.
"Co-operation is possibly the one
thing that makes the work of the
churches what it is in Shawnee. II
has been the aim for many years OF
the Ministerial Alliance of the city tc
induce the churches to work together
in every great movement in which tn,
churches have been interested. TIL,
Ministerial Alliance of the city is
composed of the preachers of all the
churches of the city. They meet
every Monday morning and discuss
the vital problems of the week that
have presented themselves. What
IS the interest Of one church thus be-
comes tho iptoroct Of oil Al, oL,,.Lo,