Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-12-03


Character and Religion: Forums for
the discussion of matters of great
concern are widely advocated today
The Committee on Character and Re
ligion has held two such forums. Miss
Maxine Taylor and Miss Sue Kelly led
the discussion for Sunday School Su-
perintendents and others some months
ago on How the Sunday School can
share to a greater, degree in the spirit
ual development of school children
and youth, and last April the presi-
dent of the Federation, c. E. Greene
led laymen fromr,all the churches in
a discussion of SI1ow habits of re-
gularE church attendance by family
groups can be reformed The writer
Of this article is authorized hy Mr.
Greene to state that before January
he as president of the Federation TO
Children will send to every organize
ton and fraternity in Henderson a
personal letter urging this matter o.
regular church attendance by family
groups as a major objective in 1888
that every organization and FRATERNITY
work seriously and continuously on
this project from January 1888 to Jan
uaiy, 1899
/ The School. In 1885 the Federation.
through it's chairman on schools, the
late ]. H. Bum and the School Board,
came to the. assistance Of the Super.
intendent of Schools, Mr. Rollins. If
getting individuals and the COUNTY
commissioners interested enough in
progressive education, which is learn
ng by doing" and drawing the chilt
to school by providing for his indi.
Vldual interests Cd needs, to provide
money for two Henderson teachers
to begin some training in summer
schools prescribed by the State De
partment of Education in order to MT
progressive education into two Hen
derson schools. The Superintendent
ana the Principa1#of the North Hen
oerson School have since developed
tnls work to such degree that one
OF the North Henderson teachers wa
asked to tell about it in a sectional
meeting at the last annual Teachers
Assembly of North Carolina. A mem
per of the State Department of Edu-
cation who was present spoke of the
presentation later as the "star per-
-
dren taught by this method learn
more reading, writing and arithmetic
than Ahey would learn any other way,
and at the same they enjoy school and
learning to be good citizens.
Health. The Parent-Teacher Asso-
citation has real health program. The
Federation stands ready to support
this.
What has the Federation accom-
plished since its beginning ABOUT three
years ago? 1t might have gone ahead
too quickly for permanent growth. It
\ r''litiplicity of
meetings. It has done neither of these
hings 1t has:
I. Laid tho foundation for real
community recreation program for
HENDERSON by soliciting funds and OBJ
:fatlng p fairgrounds for three years.
z. IL mas taken an important and
forward step in uniting the leadership
OF henderson, North Henderson and
ooutn Henderson by means Of bring
ing representatives of all these COM
lliunltles together as members of the
Fsceratlon Committee, and other COM
nafttees.
s. Every Year, it has supplied the
money for the equipment for the N.
ana 5. Henderson Older Toys teams.
4. In 1887 its chief feature was Sc
curing both 9the leader and his salary
Tor the nine soft ball teams on which
many Of the. older high school boys
played, and in which the young bust
ness men of the city by active parti-
clpation became more recreationallvl
minded.
0. 1t has promoted clubs. for bows
and girls and obtained gratifying re-
suits.
o. Its system of checking the snand-
,ns OF the communitys money and
supervising the 4a1 lygrounds has won
approval Doth aside of Henderson