Milford chronicle., 1927-12-16

! and small villages during the win.
( ter, and remark on how awfully dull
/ it must be in those places. They
could be told that the winter activi-
ties of many country towns and
= sometimes in rural communities
| are so lively that people need to
, go into the cities for a quiet life
and to rest up.
|, There are many country towns
where there is so much going on,
that you can't find a free evening
on which to hold a public entertain
ment. There will be church nights,
and lodge nights, and club nights,
and nights for the card clubs, and
all kinds of\organizations. People
find it impossible to attend to all
these activities.
And then there are country towns,
many of them Of considerable size,
where there is scarcely a thing go
ing on through the long winter eve
nings, save perhaps the church
prayer meetings, and the meetings
of one or two lodges. Young people
who crave active life find conditions
almost insufferable there. Their
dissatisfaction results in many of
them leaving those places, and go
ing into larger centers where there
is something doing"
1t is a very vital thing for the
country towns to have interesting
things going on. People will not
live in those places unless they
have agreeable activities.
All that it takes in such place is
little initiative. If people claim
there is nothing doing, they must
be pretty slow if they can't get up
card club or a literary or musical
society or a dancing school. Or
they can give plays and obtain valu-
able dramatic training and Incl
dentally raise money for some good
cause.
If the country towns are dull, it
is the fault of their own people. In
most country towns of Delaware
this is thoroughly realized now, and
they have plenty of pleasant activi-
ties that make the long evenings
pass quickly.
IT SEEMS TO BE about time
that we had a restatement of our
definition of education. We are de-
handing things of the person we
call educated which we may have
no right to demand of him.
The tendency to look on the ed
ucated as a uper-intellectual seems
to be a hangover from the days
when Oliver Goldsmith modestly
confessed to a yearning amidst the
SWANS to show my book-learned
skill" when he pictured the rus
tics ranged around the village
school master discoursing in
words of learned length and thund-
ering sound: And still they gazed,
and still the wonder grew that one
small head could carry all he
knew"
The sum total of things to be
known has increased many hundred
fold since those days, so that even
village master might
be considered as nothing remark
able. From this great store of
knowledge, the schools pick out
certain things which are worth
knowing, and attempt to impart
this knowledge to boys and girls.
We can remember only a small
part of what is thus learned, and
the chances are that when we meet
someone who has remembered the
same things which we have remem-
bered, we call him educated.
This, of course, is wrong. Some
Of us may know things which we
did not learn in school. 1t is con-
that man may be a most
excellent teacher in some line, with
put having heard of Eli Whitney,
and it also is conceivable that one
may be able to answer all Of the
Edison questions and still be a
failure as a teacher.
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PEOPLE have to give out as well
IS take in. If you give out little in
he way of effort or financial sup
port to your home town, you will
not take in so much from, that !
source.
If you can't talk so that people
lear what you say, you do not con-
rince them. So if a business con-
,ern fails to make itself heard
through advertising, it has difficulty
n convincing the people of the
merits of it's goods.
The same article looks a lot bet (
er to some people, when they pay !
more for it in some distant city
tore that advertises.
So@
LOOKS are often deceiving. No
uto is over 26 years old.
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