The Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 14, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 28, 1914 Page: 4 of 16
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THE ODD JOBS CLUR
Ilelps Boys to Work Their Wsy
Through College.
Mr. T. W. Currie Secretary
of the Young Ai-m's Christian
Association at the University of
Texas has this year for the
second time successfully iter-
ated an Odd Jobs Club among
the men students more than
lialf of whom are either wholly
or in part self-supporting. In a
town the size of Austin there
are many people who do not
keep regular help and who yet
T. W. furri
need occasionally to have this
or that thing done. Often it is
difficult to rind sen-ice to meet
such a demand; for the people
who do manual or clerical labor
well are usual at steady employ
rnent. Put in Austin this de-
mand has been met through the
Student's Odd Jobs Club.
The ca41s are of every descrip-
tion. Some times a window-
wasner or a rug-oeaier is warn-
ed to help out a busy housewife;
sometimes there are cows to
milk or wood to cut or a lawn
to be mowed; or perhaps it is
a business man who wants en-
velopes directed or type-writing
done. From the beginning of
the present school session up
until January 1st the books of
the Club show that 1 55 jobs
had been done netting $ lfij.OO.
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THE PROOF OF
THE PUDDING
Mr. E. V. White formerly
chief clerk of the State Depart-
ment of Education and now an
assistant in the Department of
Extension in the University of
Texas in one of his recent trips
met some of the principal char
acters in the following story:
A certain community had
voted the limit of school tax.
The opposition which was bitter
and uncompromising was led
by a certain old bachelor who
argued with caustic words that
it was wrong in principle to tax
him to educate other men's
children.
The school however still had
insufficient funds and the next
year the ingenious school
ma'am a lady of good looks and
keen intelligence hit upon the
plan of giving a "box-supper"
the proceeds of which were to
be used in purchasing school
furniture. Each young lady of
the community contributed a
cake. Each cake was to be sold
at auction to the highest bid-
der and the successful bidder
if an unmarried man was
awarded the privilege of escort-
ing home the young lady whose
cake he purchased. Interest in
the contest was further in-
creased by selling votes to de-
termine the best cake and the
most popular young lady.
Meanwhile the bachelor who
had opposed the tax had been
finding the pretty school ma'am
mighty attractive; and as his
infatuation grew his hostility to
the school tax became wore and
more feeble. The night of the
box-supper arrived and the
cakes were auctioned off the
one the pretty teacher had
made netting the goodly sum of
fSO.OO. It was knocked down
to the now reckless bachelor at
that price. And with the
cake he had won the right
to see his lady home probably
the most exprrsive stroll the.
gentleman over took ; for the
teacher's home was only a scant
hundred yards from the school
house. The box-supper netted
$15).0y. The stroll netted noth-
ing but experience for the next
year the young lady accepted a
school in another section the.
bachelor is yet unmarried and
a vicious school tax is still
swelled by a yearly contribu-
tion unjustly assessed on a
tnildless man.
hot weather. Get your lady a
hioXinjr alone: nicely.
apply at our store.
the 12 Premiums.
BUGGIES CALL AND LOOK THEM OVER
"HARDWARE"
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THE COUNTRY SCHOOLS
F FISHER COUNTY
A County That la Building Mod-
ern School Houses.
People are reflected to a large
extent by the character of
houses in which they live. Al-
though good school houses do
ntt of themselves make institu-
tions where knowledge abounds
or wisdom reigns what people
think of the value of schools is
indicated by the kind of school
houses they have built.
Naturally we should expect
the counties of East Texas
where timber grows or the
counties of Central Texas where
wealth abounds to take the lead
in the construction of modern
and comfortable school build-
ings. However a thinly popu-
lated county situated near the
foot of the plains where the ve-
locity of western winds has
never yet ben measured by an
anemometer nnd where the
coyotes still sing their lonesome
songs in the presence of chick-
ens preachers and farmers can
teach the other counties of our
commonwealth how to provide
school houses that do not har-
bor the germs of human dis-
eases. Here is the record of
Fisher County during the past
four years: Twenty-six coun-
try districts out of a total of
forty-two have voted bonds for
the erection of school houses.
Twenty-four of these buildings
are modern constructed accord-
ing to the plans furnished and
recommended by the Depart-
ment of Extension of the Uni-
versity of Texas. Nineteen of
these buildings have approved
systems of heating which pro-
vide for the intake of fresh air
and the outgo of foul air.
Practically all have provided au-
ditoriums for social service.
It is said that the average
mind can neither discern nor
digest the littleness of the
magnitude of statistics. Hut
the statistics of Fisher Coun-
ty's progress are so one-sided
that even mental aptitude is not
required to grasp them. Then-
are forty-two country districts.
All levy a local tax. No dis-
trict levies less than twenty
cents. The average tax for the
several districts is thirty-three
cents and many districts levy
the maximum of fifty cents.
Every school in the county has
"patent" desks.
Contestants
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Suits and Men's Suits. We handle the celebrated Kuppenheimer Suits Q
for men and Sunshine garments for ladies. rj
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AND SUITS AND A SPECIAL DISCOUNT g
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$15.00 FalierSuit. 12 50
LUBBOCK
"THE
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MORE AGRICULTURE
TEACHING NEEDED
President Meen of the Univer-
sitv of Texas (iivr Views.
There is no more important
educational work in Texas to-
day than the training of young
men to become farmer and
the increase and distribution of
information about farming.
Three-fourth of the population
of our State is rural; three mil-
lion of its people live under ru-
ral condition and there are
now at work on its farm 35V
000 white farmer. Course in
agriculture and experiment
work are carried on by the Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical Col-
lege. Each of the four State
Normal and the College of In-
dustrial Arts i giving instruc-
tion to student who are pre-
paring to teach njrriculture. I'ne
State University also a i re-
quired by the Constitution i
preparing some of its student
to teach agriculture. In the
agricultural courses of the A. &
M. College ol4 student are en-
rolled; in the four State Nor-
mals the Colh-jre of Industrial
Ans. and the I diversity 1020
studen's are enrolled in agricul-
tural classes. Is this an ade-
quate provision? Ian it com-
pare favorably in amount with
the work of the eighteen liter-
ary college of toe State 7
When we bear in mind the 3-
000000 of our rural popula-
tion a cor.. pared with the 1-
000.000 of our urban is the
typo of education especially
adapted to the need of the a.-
000000 being given sufficient
emphasis?
Texa need more agricultur-
al training rather than less
and more in-tf itution giving
iuch training Yather than few-
er uch institution. And when
they are established and all the
present State institution have
adequately met the need of
their student for agricultural
training rural schools w ill grow
up taore rapidly and enlighten-
ed skillful and ionti-nted hum.
will multiply and an intel-
ligent apprecit !Vn of the pos-
ibihtui antJI value ut th fun-
Omental falling if the pl
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LADIES AND MEN'S
MONDAY. JUNE 1ST. g
MERCANTILE CO. i
HOUSE OF QUALITY.'
DEC .'. kmm; IN EF-
r IClENCY?
In the opinion of fevrrnl
head of higher institutions of
learning in the State the grad-
uate of the a vera go high school
in Texas today is not o wvll
prepared to take advantage of
a college education a wa tin-
graduate of the average high
hchool in Texas fifteen yenrs ago
Professor Thomas Fletcher
who inspect for the University
of Tex hn eonrliided after
interviewing the head of va-
rious college and universities
in Texas that tne training giv-
en in A great number of h.gh
schools in the State ha deter-
iorated in the last lifteen year.
In speaking of the cause of
this deterioration Tnf. Fletch-
er say that the chief reason i
the over-expansion f the high
school program of study re-
sulting in the overtaxing of
both teacher and Mudent.
With a view to correcting this
evil the question arise of how
many -classes a teacher can
tench with a maximum of effi-
ciency under given conditio
and how many m-itations a day
can the average high school stu-
dent cHend with rr'tt? The
practice in sixteen high achooU
in Texas wa examined and it
was found that eight of the-n
require ."student to carry four
aubiccts at a time.
The Springfield (Mass.) High
School requires a minimum of
three recitations per day; the
St. Louis High School four;
the New York High Schools
the same.. The Iowa Hoard of
Education require of its ac-
credited list of school that not
more than four recitations be
allowed per day. In short
the overwhelming verdict of
pedagogical authority in the
United States wou'd limit the
number of m-itations per day
per pupil to four. The trend u
towurd a less number.
Now let us see what the
practice is in this regard iu 141
high schools of tl rank and
hie in Texa. In thirty-right of
these school pupil recite four
times a day ; in ninety tlva
times a day; in fifteen six or
more time a day; so in the
large majority of th ordiuary
higtt schools of the Stale tha
prat t at is againut the gnat
weight of rlt! authority
tha practice of owr turdcuinj
tht i-Mj-. witli vr.jlJ.
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UNIVERSITY HOME
AND SCHOOL LEAGUE
A New Movement for Improv-
ing Country life.
How can we make living in
the country more satisfactory
and rniovable to lmy ati'i
irl? How can we check tht
I 1
I Prof. F. M. Brill y
; drift of our best blood to tie
! cities? What can the Univcr-'
aity of Texas do to promote'
'community life and really help
I the 75 per cent of the populn-
tion of Texas who makt their
: living on the farm?
Thest art some of the b g
questions that Professor F. 51.
. Lralley formerly Superintend
nt of Public Instruction ait
now at tha head of the Extriw
ilon Department of the Univer-
sity of Texa attempt to an-
I swtr in Hulletin No. Slh.' whi h)
j is sent free 1 1 all who apply for
ill. This LulMii contains thri
ipurpoM-s ami plan of the Uid-L
versity il..m - and School I.a-
igjt which Professor UrslUy
I hi'pes to organised in eve ry
'country rominunity in "Tex
Through thu trganUation It M
ktt Uhrf that great f.sd tf
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Dow, James L. The Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 14, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 28, 1914, newspaper, May 28, 1914; Lubbock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth288050/m1/4/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .