Ajto park and the
cUk CITY BEAUTIFUL.
, The public park that we
have longed for is now a
,t„ The school board has
!ten to the community club
I.. ,ise as a park, the southern
0f the school ground from
St rise of the hill. This can
he made a very beautiful and
comfortable place.
The board has suggested
that each family put out at
nce a tree and guard and
care for its particular tree.
If these trees are kept alive
the first year they will then be
n0 further trouble and in a
few years there will be a
beautlfiul grove.
As we now have the stock
law there can be flowers in
borders around the sides. The
community club asks the “Be
Square” club girls and high
school boys to attend to this.
It intends to offer prizes for
individual and club work.
These prizes will be worth
while and to be successful the
work should be commenced
at once. Borders can be
plowed or spaded inside
fences and afterward fences
taken away. The neighbors
will kindly keep their chickens
away, we know as they would
rot want others chickens in
their flowers. Those who
will take part to~ make this a
beautiful place will please see
Supt. Willis for instructions.1
There will be other prizes
given in town for best kept
yards, most beautiful porch
boxes and best sanitary "con
ditions around premises. 1
These will be annouced later.:
Mayor W.W.Raney will soon
have a general clean-up day
before long and all unsightly
morable things can be re
moved others can be covered
by rapidly growing vines.
The community club will
use its park fund to help
beautify and make comfort- j
able this play ground and!
from time to time will add
something until it will be “a
thing of beauty and a joy
forever.”
A BEAUTIFIER.
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The Necessity of Physical
Training and A.thletics
In the Schools.
After children have arrived
at school age they spend most
of their working hours in
school. We need no statistics
to prove to us that never in the
worlds history has there been
a greater need of strong vig
orous men. When their minds
are being worked so strenous
ly it is necessary to keep the
bodies in condition by physi
cal training and athletics.
The maintainance of a vigor
ous healthful body prevents
the moods of disease and
at a crisis will resist disease
germs. This training will
overcome bodily deformities
and defects and will also de
velop inavoidable moral and
mental qualities as nothing
else will.
Physical and mental vigor
depend upon muscular motion.
When children are in school
this muscular exercise can not
be had except in athletics.
Children before school age in
vent games which create
necessary exercise of mind and
body. The modern schools
have suitable exercises to de
velop the muscles and the
brain, causing a harmonious
education of mind and body
and we should make McCro
ry’s a modern school.
That they should posess .sound
minds in sound bodies is the
will of God. No indoor train
ing will take the place of open
air play. Play grounds and
equipment may cost more, but
they are worth more. The
cost is of very little matter as
it is the public business to
provide it. Happy is the
school which does it early and '
does it well.
Ail systems oi pnysicai ex
ercise have advantages and
are practically beyond criti
cism. A gymnasium is prac
tical both for boys and girls.
A gymnasium should be well
equipped and made inviting.
Should be managed by
specialists who are able to use
the apperatus in attractive
ways. Physical training
should tend to the training of
the whole body of students,!
but always ’ some excel and |
will gain special attention the
outcome of which are games,
sports and teamwork.
Any game that calls for
strength, endurance or skill*
is good. Tennis is ideal for
both boys and girls, but boys
want heavier work. Baseball
i s reasonably free from
dangers. 11 comes in the
spring when there has been
probably several months in
doors. The game that holds
attention in the fall is football.
There are not many troubles
with the games, as it is played
in high schools. There are
some adverse criticism how
ever, and we will put them
pointedly. “They say” that
the game is dangerous and ex
hausting. That boys who
give time and energy to foot
ball cannot be good students.
That the training teaches them
to evade rules when that will
aid success thereby becoming
vicious. That it encourages
battle rather than open manli
ness. Basket-ball is a fine
j fall and winter game for both
girls and boys especially where
there is an indoor court.
Athletics help to make the
management easy for the
superintendent of schools.
Especially where he takes a
part as our superintendent
does because he likes it and
because he knows that he can
use his influence when needed
to bar excess of temper, in
decency, or unfairness, and
promote right standards to
brace up the weak and cool
off the hot-headed.
Here we would lift up our
voices against a system of
athletics which would make it
possible for boys and girls of
high school age to be allowed
to leave town for games in
nearby towns without proper
chaperonage. Some very bad
things come of such liberties.
We are thankful that we have
teachers who are intelligent
enough to know that they
need to be taken care of.
That is what parents and
teachers are on earth to do.
This is no mean subject.
Athlectics means educating
the body. The mind should
never be developed at the ex
pense of the body as the body
is really most important.
Athletics goes to the making
of character and conscience
in schools.
A PATRON.
COUNTY SINGING CON
VENTION PROGRAM
Following Is the Program for
the Woodruff County Sing
ing Convention which
Convenes at Beards
Sundajr, May 2 ’20
1— Song, led by Home Class
Leader.
2— Prayer by Chaplain Nute
Chadwick.
3— 15-minute talk on the
Convention by President E. E.
Werner.
4— Congregation sin g i n g
from 10:20 to 11:45.
M. T. Wright, 1st leader.
Zelma Gibson, 2nd leader.
Guy Duffel, 3rd leader.
Sam Curtis, 4th leader.
Will Duffel, 5th leader.
J. G. Wilson, 6th leader.
Izetta Wright, 7th leader.
Robertt Curtis, 8th leader.
J. M. Hoggs, 9th leader.
E. W. Chaney, 10th leader.
Sam Smith, 11th leader.
Rudolph Robertson, 12th
leader.
Ned McMurtry, 13th leader.
Opal Gibson, 14th leader.
Other leaders will be added
as they arrive.
Adjournment until 1:00p.m.
5— Class singing, each class
to sing two selections, as fol
lows :
Beards first, DeView second,
Fakes Chapel third, Union
fourth, Jelks fifth, New Haven
sixth, Bullville seventh Howell
eighth, White Hall ninth,
Pumpkin Bend tenth. Anyone
else who can have a class pres
ent will be given a place on
the program. v
6— Quartette singing. 1st
Guy Duffel (mixed quartette.)
! 2nd. W. 6. Kyle (mixed quar-*
'tette.) Others will be added
later.
An invitattion has been ex
tended to Prof. Will M. Ram
sey, manager of Central Music
Co., of Little Rock, to be with
us and make an address.
F. P. WRIGHT,
GUY DUFFEL,
M. T. WRIHT,
W. D. WILSON,
Program Committee.
ARKANSAS EDUCATORS
TO HOLD CONFERENCE
Sex Education in the High
School Will Be the Subjcet
Under Discussion Today.
“Sex Education in the High
School” will be the suject of
the Arkansas Conference of
Educators to be held today at
the Little Rock high school.
At 4 o’clock, R. C. Hall, city
superintendent of schools, will
be in charge of the program
on the aim and scope of sex
education in the high school.
E. F. VanBuskirk of the
United States Public Health
Service and Dr. C. W. Garri
son, state health officer, will
speak, and the moving picture,
“How Life Begins,” will be
shown.
The session at 8 o’clock will
be in charge of A. B. Hill,
state supervisor of high
schools; Mrs. J. O,. Blakeney,
field lecturer on veneral dis
ease; Miss Una Pease, biology
teacher of the Little Rock
high school; C. C. Denny,
State Normal College, Con
way; Professor J. T. Buch
holtz, University of Arkansas,
and Helen Lee McGregor,
State Normal College, Con
way, will speak. A. series of
slides, “Keeping Kit,” will be
shown.—Arkansas Gazette.
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