The Glenwood post., 1923-12-20

CO-OpeEullOu III tIlil, anu putty
plant somewhere in the district.
II want laboratory in which we
can work on seeds, pests, soils, feeds
and the like. For the education of
your children must come out of these
things.
Il want these things because they
are necessary If we are to get the cul-
ture out of life we should get-and
nobody gets culture out Of any sort Of
school-they get it out of life. or they
don't get it at all.
$50 1 want you to build as freely
for your school as for your cattle and
horses and hogs.
"The school will make for you-this
new kind of rural school-a social life
which will be the social center, be
cause 1t will be the educational center,
and the business center of the coun-
tryside
Il want all these things, and more.
But l don't expect them all at once.
1 know that this district is too small
| to do all of them, and therefore.
want bigger district-one that will
| give US the financial strength to carry
out the program have sketched This
may be presumptuous thing for me
to propose. If you think so, let me
go. But if you don't, please keep this
meeting together in permanent or
ganization of grownup members of the
| Woodruff school, and by pulling to-
gether, you can do these things-al Of
them-and many more-and you'll
make the Woodruff District good
| place to live in and die in-and l shall
be proud to live and die in it at your
J service, as the neighborhood's hired
| mani"
AS Jim sat down there was hush
in the crowded room, as if the people
were dazed at his assurance. There
was no applause, until Jennie Wood
ruff, now seen by jim for the first
time over next the blackboard, clapped
her gloved hands together and started
it; then it swept out through the win
dows in storm. The, dust rose from
stamping feet until the kerosene lamps
were dimmed by it. aAnd as the
noise subsided, Jim saw standmg out
in front the stopped form of B. b.
Hamm. one of the most prosperous
men in the district
<fMr. Chairman-Ezra Brppson," he
roared, this fefler-s crazy, an from
the sound of things YOU'RE al as
crazy as he is. If this Tdol scheme
of his goes through, my fdrms FOR
salel III quit before I'm sold out for
taxesl"
f'Just a minute. B. B.!" irfteposed
Colonel Woodruff. "This amt as
dangerous as you think. You don't
want us to do all this in fifteen min
utes, do you, Jim?"
"Oh, as to that" replied Jim. II just
wanted you to have in your minds
what have in my mind-and unless
We can agree to work toward these
things there's no use in my staying
But time-that's another matter. Be
lieve with me, and I'll work with YOU
"Get out of here!" said the colonel
to Jim in an undertone, "and leave
the rest to your friends"
Jim walked out of the room and
took the way toward his home. A
| hOA &C lACh " tAC pOlC hhu
blanket under foot, and Jim replaced
1t on his back, patting him kindly and
talking horse language to him. Then
he went up and down the line OF
teams, readjusting blankets, tying
loosened knots, and assuring himself
that his neighbors' horses were Sc
curely tied and comfortable. He knew
horses better than he knew people, hi
thought. II he could manage people
as he could manage horses-but tina,
would be wrong. Horse management
was despotism; man-Eovernment mus
be like the government Of society o.
wild horses, the result of the common
work of the members Of the herd.
Two figures emerged from tn,
schoolhouse door, and as he turned to
ward his home after his pastoral CALI
on the horses, they overlook him
They were the figures Of Newton Bron
son and the county superintendent o.
schools.
dad wants you back there again.
said Newton.
"What for?" inquired Jim.
"You silly boy" said Jennie, "yo,
talked about the good of the SCHOOL,
all Of the time, and never said wore
about your own salary! What do yo,
want7 They want to known
"Oh" exclaimed Jim in the mannel
of one who suddenly remembers tina
he has forgotten his umbrella or hi
pocket-knife II forgot all about II
haven't thought about that at all
Jenniew
"Jlm," said she, "you need
guardian!"
II know 1t, Jennie" said he, "and
know who want. I want"
"Please come back" said Jennie
land tell papa how much you're goini
to hold the district up for"
"You run back" said Jim to New
ton, ''and tell your father that whist
ever Is right In the way Of salary vii
be satisfactory to me. leave that I,