The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-10-13
RURAL CHILDREN
TOHAVE CHANCE
Sank Centre Herald to
Place Play Ground APP
piances In Schools
PARENTS SHOULD HELP
A Community Plan to Make
Life Little Brighter for
the Riddles

Suitable playground appliances
are badly needed by every Rural
and Graded school in Minnesota.
They are needed not only be-
cause they furnish a means for
wholesome amusement for the
children but also because the out
door exercise which they furnish
will be a fine thing physically for
the kddies.
Most schools are not in shape to
purchase needed appliances-or al
least they feel they cannot al
ford them.
The Sank Centre Herald has a
simple plan whereby the schools of
the territory adjacent to this city
can obtain appliances of high-class,
or cash prizes without the school
board or district paying out one
cent of cash.
A subscription campaign has
been put on for a limited time
winch will do the business for the
hustling districts with the coop
GRAFTON of the parents and the
children.
A large percentage of the farm
ers of this territory are already
subscribers of the Herald, and the
rest of them should be. Paying up
of arrearages and not more than
two years in advance will do the
trick. The subscription price is
81. 90 per year. The payments
should be made direct to the
teacher of the district, or they can
be made at the Herald office and
will be credited to the district
named at the time the subscrip-
ton is paid.
In this contest the small school
has just as good an opportunity to
win as a larger school. Percent
ages are figured strictly on en-
rollment. For instance, a school
with an enrolment of 20 turning
in $40. or 20 years subscrip-
ton, old or new, win have a per-
centage of 1000; school with an
enrolment of 40 would be re-
quired to turn in $50. 90 or 40
years to have a percentage of L.
O00. Naturally the larger school
would have more people to work
on and more pupils TO work. The
experience in localities where this
sort of contest has been held has
proven the small or medium school
fares very well.
Every school working in the
contest will receive something for
their efforts. Seven of the schools,
of course, will be prize winners;
six of them will receive play
ground appliances, and the seventh
will be paid Is per cent of the
amount of money that particular
school pays in. Those not winning
one of the seven prizes will be
paid cash commission of 10 per
cent of the amount the particular
school pays in.
The Herald has large amount
out on subscriptions. Much time
was devoted to settle a plan to get
the hist cleaned up. The publish
ers did not like the idea of giving
away an automobile, the campaign
to be handled by some stranger
who might make promises the pub
fishers could, not hope to fulfill.
The subscribers put on in contests
of this sort are largely artificial
and people are forced to spend a
large amount of money to allow
come individual to win "a car. The
Herald Playground Appliance Con-
test is community affair in which
all can have a part and every
school can win. Before starting
the contest the plan was explained
to County Superintendent VIM. A.
Boerger who became enthusiastic
over its possibilities, stating it was
(Gonfinuad on Pare SiYl