Milford chronicle., 1934-05-25
4.HGUB NOTES

My head to clearer thinking
My heart to greater loyalty
My hands to wider service
My health to better living for
My Club. my Community, and my
Country.
The great aim of All Club work
is to develop character and per-
sOnality, through the performing OF
simple, every day tasks. The boy
or girl enrolling as a club member
agrees to perform a definite piece
of work in agriculture, or home eco
nomics. Unless this piece Of work
teImed a project, is intelligently
planned and performed, the club
member is failing to carry out the
terms of his pledge.
Though the county club agent, or
local leader is responsible for pro-
viding all necessary instruction, the
larger part of the work must neces-
sarily be done at home. Only the
club member and his or her parents
or gurdians know how intelligently
and how cOnscientiOusly the task
has been performed.
The second clause in the club
pledge refers to the loyalty of the
club members heart. In the broad
est and finest Interpretation, this
is not confined to the things, that,
Immediately concern the club mem
ber, but to fair play toward and in
teTest in all with whom he or she
comes in contact. The contacts
made by All Club members are not
only county and statewide, but fire.
quently national and sometimes in
ternatiOnal.
Closely tied up with the second
clause is the third, pledge my
hands to wider service. Since the
days of the pioneers, there has never
been a time when it was more i'm
portant to use ones hands efficient
ly and to use them willingly, not
only for ones self. but for all who
are in need. The pioneer used his
hands efficiently because he must
produce the necessities of life. The
citizen of today uses his efficiency
because with every imaginable labor
saving device, and with abundance
on every hand. economic forces be-
yond his control have forced him to
resort to simpler manner OF liv-
ing. Even though surrounded by
canneries, the truck grower would
do well to grow a garden sufficiently
large to provide an abundance of
products for home canning, and his
wife would do well to become skilled
in conserving all fruits, vegetables
and some of the meats needed for
winter consumption.
The pioneer and his family lived
to themselves and need have no
concern for others. The far sighted
man of today realizes that one cam
not prosper surrounded by poverty
and degradation.
The last clause: | pledge my
health to better living, is no less i'm
pOrtant than the other three
Though the pioneer bore heavy bur
dens and was frequently in danger. |
it is exceedingly doubtful if the |
strain on his heart or his nerves
compared with that of today. II /
is to be hoped that every boy and !
girl enrolled in club work will real |
ize the Importance of growing a
strong, healthy body. Will realize |
that to do this, one must have bal |
anced diet containing the food |
necessary for the many different
parts of the body. That ones body
must be kept clean. That it is as
necessary for young body to grow
straight as it is for a young tree.
That, If things are wrong and can
not be corrected without treatment
and expense, that sacrifice should be
made until the correction is accom-
plished.
Sussex County has some $50 boys
and girls enrolled in All Club work
this year and the County Club Agent
sincerely trusts that every one of
hem will live up to the club pledge,
nd in consequence will be a finer
The fourteenth annual. club rally
lf Kent County All Clubs will be !
held on Dover Green. Saturday, May
70. This is an event anticipated by
club members in every community
n this county and one in which all
nay take part. ,.s. ,..s.
An opportunity will be given the =,
,oys and girls to visit their State r
'apitOl Building, the Legislative
Hall, and the new postOffice, follow r
ng their registration. At 11:15 !
hey will be greeted by A. d. Cobb,
assistant director of horticultural n
extension. \
An important feature of the pro-
,ram will be the style show for the s
clothing club girls who will he at T.
ired in the dresses that they have
made in their clubs. The judges L
or this contest are Mrs. Helen Nc II
iinley, of Newark; Mrs. Jane Wood
lead and Miss Ruth Hall, of Dover.
Following the style show is the
oil call of clubs. Each club re-
ponds with some original stunt,
ong or yell. The prize for this is n
scholarship to the Junior Short ~
curse in Newark, June 20 to %. ;,
he judges for the contest are A. ID. :,
Obj, of Newark, Anne b. Moore of \,
George X. Miller and n
ussell f. Wilson, OF Dover. \,
The speaker of the afternoon is 7.
Iayor J. Wallace WOodfOrd who ~
as been heard and greatly enjoyed "
/ previous rallies. ~
Achievement pins will be award O.
/ to all members who have COM NJ
eted their projects. These pins are ~ ~
ven by the Kent County Levy n,
Durt which has always been inter -
tied in the All program for rural d,
,ys and girls. "