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1 SCHOOL- i A SOCIAL CENTER Adapted From Address of Superin tendent Before School Improve ment Association at Spar* tanburg During Teach ers' Meeting. (Proper Gander.) It is usually customary to append the bibliography to your paper but I shall be unusual in that I wish to rec-1 ommend to every teacher, principal m superintendent interested in the j question of making a sort of com uranity center of his school a Silver, JKardett & Co. publication, The Com munity Center by L. J. Hanifan which has recently come from the press as being a timely pedagogical hand book reflecting with fidelity the signs f the times. While the problem in r. Hanifan's book is treated rather directly in its relation to .the rural school, special adaptations are shown to be easily applicable to a city school system. The author suggests that the social aspect in a community center should be. its least significant phase. Rather shbuld community1' and school im provements of the most varied type> championed and directed by ap propriate .organizations within - the school or community center. t)r. Dewey names four specific ele ments which bear upon the school as asocial center for the community. 1. The efficiency and ease with which people are brought together through transportation, cheap litera ture and centralized industry. 2. The weakening of the bonds of saeial discipline and control as rep - ? .1 l 1. | resented Dy tne nome, xne cuuiui, custom and tradition. 3. Education is much more close ly identified with life. All people are at school because all science and all industry are closely connected, and wiiat we call practical life is replete with lessons and experiences which tend to educate. ' 4. Change and progress are so npid that education for all who in teod to be successful must be contin . was. The propriety of opening school \l tmeses and making them meeting faces for the people, was prompted feobtless, by the successful work of wtial settlements. This work, started \ sa philanthropy, has taken on so ^ ny educative phases that the best Kganized social settlements are qua si-sehools for the people. The people re reached in their homes through tfce teaching of those arts which min iver to household comfort and thrift as veil as through elements of re creation and entertainment. : The public school is not a social settlement, and can never fulfil the Cautions of one. Where there is need of social settlement work in a com Mmity this need should be filled by fhe Home Service section of the Red Cross qt some other charitable organ nation. The practical question is, under odhat conditions or circumstances can tie public schools be made centers of social as well as intellectual culture. Many experiments will be needed to vork out this problem. S9 long as aoaditions vary in different commu nties experiments will naturally knre to be tried along different lilies, be well-to-do communities where taae conditions are ideal, or nearly ml it would be obviously absurd to open the school houses for adults ex eaept in the case of parents' meetings or education societies. The conception that the school has ?dy a definite and restricted work to do in training and in giving the sup peed iunaamentai processes, cu mc ?ore modern idea that the school has social functions as well, has been as gradual as it has been positive. The school of today stands no longer apart from the other forms of com amraity life. The school master is fast fixaiig either his ascetic isolation or lis position. The successful teacher ud administrator of today is the not or woman who is a good mixer and who is a politician of the first inter?provided the water isn't mud dy. Their interests and work must be of the broadest nature. Such an attitude assumed by the underpaid as well as by the better paid educators of this country, and especially of this state, would mean a ?>dicker realization of the ideal school system towards which the intellectual ?yes of every real teacher are ever taarp*fli?at least a high school edu DECLINES INVITATION TO SEND DELEGATES United States to Have No Part in Disarmament Discussions.? Wilson Replies to League Note Washington, Dec. 9.?President Wilson yesterday declined the invi tation of the league of nations to ! send delegates to take part in the discussions of the disarmament com- , mission. The president informed the league i of nations council that inasmuch as the United States was not a member of the league he did not feel justified in appointing a commission "to tHKe even a de facto participation." The United States, however, the prjs 'ent declares, is in sympathy with any I plan for world disarmament. The reply of the president t:> t-cj invitation of the league council was transmitted today through the state department to Paul Hymans, presi- , dent of the council. It follows: # , ' "I have the honor to acknowledge j ;he receipt of your cablegram of De- i cember 1'inviting the government of ; the United States to name represen- ; iatives to sit with the military, nav- j il and air commission of the ,eague ' n a consultative capacity during the discussion by the commission on the J eduction of armaments, the consid- ;; oration of which is to be undertaken - i. ?j i* jy it forthwith at tne request ?:m j jn behalf of the council . r "The government of the United, States is most sympathetic with any, iincere effort to evolve a cooperative | >lan for disarmament which is neces- i; ;ary for the economic rehabilitation," )eace and stability of the world. The president of the United States is leeply interested in this question and s most desirous of cooperating to .his end, but as the government of the United States is not a member of ;he league he does not feel justified .n appointing a commission to take 3ven a de facto participation in the deliberations of the council or of the commission acting on behalf of the council in the execution of provisions i_ _r iu. ^? in tne covenant ui wie league ui na tions." RECLAIMED LANDS ARE PAYING PROPOSITIONS Washington* Dec. 9.?The value of crops grown on lands within govern ment reclamation projects for the single year 1919 was $25,000,000 greater than the total of $125,000, 000 expended on all projects con- \ structed up to the close of the fiscal < year, according to the annual report ! of the reclamation service, made pub- : lie today. The value of crops pro- ; duced on reclamation lands, the re- ; port said, was just about twice as ! large" per acre as the average yield i of unirrigated lands in the arid re- ; gions. ; cation for everybody (except defec tives,) and an advanced education for all who are capable of profiting themselves and society by it. "Univer sal secondary education must become the American slogan." We must quit talking about children that have to drop out of school early; instead we must find means of keeping them in school. This will mean more than the enactment of the nineteenth amend ment, more than the 8-14 compulso ry attendance law, more than free textbooks; it may mean free food and clothing in some cases. It will mean a curriculum adapted to the social needs of twentieth century civiliza-) ti?n. It will certainly mean teachers' adequately trained and adequately j paid for these new responsibilities, j Such a school system may seem Uto-1 pian but there are indisputable evi dences of its approach. One of the foremost factors in bringing us to a realization of our* in fV?o molrinir nf fVla Q/>Vlrtn1 t.hp . uicauio AO 1/liV, tunning v* V**w wvvv. | . social center in our respective com- j munities, be they rural or urban. How j may the school become the social cen- J ter, extending its influence and pow- J er to the adult life of the community,! j in enlisting the sympathetic encour- < agement of enlightened as well as J illiterate parents in the work we are I trying to do for them and theirs. | When you have struck the sympa- j thetic chords of the mothers' hearts, j especially, by unfolding to them your ! daily problems and proving to them j by rather frequent association with^j them that it is your earnest desire, j to train their children to be better j citizens you are on the right road to i J i ?* ?T 1 ~ nn1o*inc? an/3 * Deuer SCI1UU1S, UCUCI oaimiH ? ?. better living. WOULD DISTRIBUTE BURDEN OF TAXES Washington, Dec. 9.?More equi table and just distribution of the four billion dollar tax burden which the American people must bear for at least four more years were recom mended to congress today by Secre tary Houston, who in his annual re port submitted a -comprehensive scheme of tax revision. Revision of taxes should be effec ed, Mr. Houston wrote congress. "There can and should be a better distribution of the tax burden. Un wise taxes should be eliminated. But any scheme which would after this fiscal year yield for several years to come less than four billions of dollars would be incompatible with safety and sound finance. And the country should face the fact that present taxes even may not in the future be relied upon to yield the neede revenue." The secretary of the treasury said n/WWWWWWWWWVWs/WWW>/n/sVn/n/n/Wn/sW IT 1II 1 The Crowd | aw Re J ' } FINK' Over J | j: Ladies' BilGken SF .: MEN' Socl Men's D Shir "1921" C Flam Men's Fie Shirts&Di J. the excess profits tax should be re- : ' pealed and must, of course, be re ' placed. He said he believed it should j "be replaced in large part by some form of corporation profits tax." , Reduction of the higher groups of 1 the income surtaxes accompanied by 1 increases in the lower income sur tax rates also is suggested by the 1 secretary who asked that . congress consider such a general revision : with a reduction to a maximum rate : lower than that contained in the present law, provided acceptable new taxes of equal yield can be found. I The secretary said the fact was that the present rates, which are as high as 70 per cent could not be successfully collected and that "the effective way to tax the rich is to adopt rates that do not force in vestment in tax exempt securities." Mr. Houston suggests a number of sources of revenue' which could Ibe tapped and others which could be i Is Came Saturday They Boug I'll Continue T< ady For Y< You Knov They Been Se For $3 alls $8.5* Oualil Can't Be 40c Gi A Big Vale Selling 1 One L That $1.5( 50c Gi Get Here hp iel ur it wi Gom ;eced rawers Sold Lo Of Them S WortI $1.72 ANDF Chas. A. Drennai Abbeville, South revised to make up for the loss of revenue occasioned by the changes in the taxes which he recommended. The net cost of the war to the A merican government was fixed by Secretary Houston at $24,010,000, 000. This, he said, represented the "adjusted" expenditure of the treasury, excluding all other outlay which had no relation to the actual prosecution of the war during the period from April 6, 1917, to June 30, last, which, he sadi, covered the extremes of the government's war time fiscal operations. Total expenditures by the govern ment during the period covered, ex cepting only postal revenues, were $38,830^812,8)05, treasury figures showed. Of this amount $16,078, 844,097 was obtained in taxes and revenue from sources other than borrowed money. Mr. Houston said a deduction of $9,523,000,000, the amount loaned to foreign governments should be j -They Were C ht Heavily Jling the Truth?Cha >u Tomorr 0 _ _ _ ty Y.#.4 27< 4 Pair ?t fere 3 5 ade Early 11 Be I ads ohiy/lav on UiUI VftlAJ _ ! 100( iRSON i, Sales Manager i Carolina 44-'' made from the girand total, since these loans will be repaid and con sequently can not be charged as an actual expenditure. The secretary made other deductions aggregating approximately $4,500,000000 which he said, represented the excess cost of actual government opelrations for the three year and three months over what they would have been in t ^ normal times. SEALED TINS ONLY mT VDUfi G80CE&S MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE onvinced? s. A. Drennan ow -* m. ^Pr. ; Pair ror $I.UU 5c cYd. r. Fa. CO.