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Mend Your Speech
The story is told of a professor
who was looking over the English
work of one of his .pupils, whom he
thus accosted, with half -meant sever-
ity: "Sir, your vocabulary is mean
and poor—but is amply sufficient for
the expression of your ideas." So
far as the glory of words is concern-
ed( fit the expression of our English
tongue we may truthfully write "hit -
abed" on the facade of the Temple of
Speech: We are in an age of slop
-
Mess and slang. Who can fail to be
touched by the delightful spontaneity
and individuality in the speech of
children till the time when they go to
school. Then Very soon everything
is "cute," "peachy," "great." They
lose thats instinctive feeling for words
and, ahat elemental quality in them,
that made their childish talk burn
and shine with extraordinary illumin-
ation. Everywhere nowadays one
may hear men and women talk slop-
pily. The magazines rarely rise a-
bove journalese. The newspapers
often fall below that.
Style and literature ACM to belong
to a past age when people had leis-
ure and desire to write cadenced
prose and classic verse. But our lan-
guage, we think, must be devastat-
ingly direct and shockingly staccato.
All too often our written word moves
forward with a series of jerks, and
with .the unmusical effect of a mach-
ine gun in action, Our vernacular
has become vapid and threadbare
and we seem to have lost sight of the
fact that it is through our folk -speech
that we attain to the characteristic
expression of our nature. It is the
mother -tongue which gives to oar
matured thought the relief and illum-
ination it seeks in the utterance of
words. After new impressiori,s are
received, comes the comparing, .judg-
ing, reducing them to order and
meaning, and in this aet the aid of I
words is sought when new judgments I
spring from the wordless recesses of I
thought or feeling under the stimulus
of experience or motion. It is thus I
that the thought is. enriched and en-
larged, Hence we see the importance
of an exact and free use of the moth-
er -tongue.
Through its medium we achieve
our highest and best literary expres-
sion. Witness Bunyan, Sir Thomas
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Bxowne Stevenson, Emerson, Rus-
kin. All the resources of language
lie ready to be quarried and polished
to a marble finish, but most people
seem satisfied to hack and chop, and
to chisel with rough tools. Even in
college and seminary there is little
quest for elevation of style, and while
the modern oratorical address is of-
ten sound and helpful, it is likewise
otten scant in ideas and lacking in
rhetoric. The increased, enriched,
and pruned vocabulary that avoids
carrulity, shallow facility, and the
halting manner is exceedingly rare.
Our use of words witnesses to the
superficiality of our thought.
"Mend your speech," said Shakes-
peare, "lest it mar your fortunes."
When Shakespeare wrote, the Eng-
lish language was woven into a cloth
of gold, whose luster we have allowed
to become dimmed. The allurements
of hidden continents and shadowed
oceans, the imperious life of hori-
zons and the discoveries of mariners
and explorers, all drained their es-
sence into literary expression. The
rich heritage of that pinnacle of un-
approachable splendor in the literary
are ought to make us mend our man-
ners and our speech.
"The evil of slang," writes Walter
Eaton Prichard, "is its failure of im-
mortality." And an editor who is
feeling after finer things for the daily
press has recently declared-. "Real-
ism when applied to the speech of
the day, can only achieve the success
of the day,"
A word fitly spoken is like apples
of gold in baskets of silver." It will
attract the eye, hold the ear, and
delight the heart, feed the under-
standing. The fit word is the inevit-
able word, the musical word. The
Eagliah language is a rich deposit
and we ought to draw upon it gen-
erously and with diserhnination.
Oh, woman, in your hours of E's
• You spend an awful lot 01! V's.
Poor man must mind his P'S and
Q's
To earn the X's that you U's.
Oh, man: if you are very Y's,
And always, always use your
I's,
You'll find the V's will come
with E's,
And all your cares will suee-
ly C's.
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WESTERN KANSAS CHANGED
BY CONSOLIDATE SCHOOLS
Every morning mon, than 6,00
country boys and girls in wester
Kansa.e elarober into hp. motorbus'
and are earried to 0)0d,r11, VU.1
equipped ;wheel building:A, there t
be taught hy ems Of reot
well-trained techers.
Yet less than et•Von yenrs ago thel
same boys ancl girls—or perhaps the
older brothers and sistere--harnesse
the family horse to the huggy o
cranked the family "flivver" an
drove to one -room, oneeteache
schools, there to reeeive somesligh
attention from an over-worked teach
er wreetling bravely with an antiquat
ed system.
The change has been due to th
consolidated school movement —
movement which has literally =DS
formed whole communities in WOO:
ern Kansas during the past save
years. And back of that movemen
is C. F3. Rariek, head of the rura
education department of Kanso
State Teachers' College of Hays
M. Rarick was recently chosen a
president of the Kansas State Teach
ers' Association in recognition of the
amazing things he has accomplished
among the rural schools of western
Kansas.
Seven years ago there was not a
single consolidated school °in the
western half of the State. Then on
the morning of Oct. 19, 1919, a train
whistled into the little town of La-
Crosse, Kansas. There was nothing
unusual in that; it had done the same
thing 'many mornings for many years.
A small group of men and women
boarded the train. That, too, had
often occurred before. But out of
this very ordinary event was to grow
a movement that was not in any sense
ordinary or unimportant. Mr. Ras -
ick was piloting 'a group of school
people from this section to the San
Luis Valley in Colorado to study the
consolidation of schools. And the
trip marked the beginning of a new
era of rural education in western
Kansas.
0 A town at the vents:, of the dia.
n triets to be cow:oil/kited may be re -
es boded ne the point at which to build
1- tho new (('1)001 system. Tufa as often
o however, the building has been plac-
4 ed at he approximate center of the
dietelese to be soryrql, even if there
ie no (own M
of U' )IZO at that point.
That why the tourist peeping
g through western Kansas to -clay is
✓ often aetonished to see a beautifu,
g m new 10 or 12-rooschool building
✓ perched on a prairie swell with per-
t haps only a few scattering dwellings
„ about it.
_ A consolidation project usually pro
vides for both grades and high school
o and often requires the services of
from 12 to 15 teachers. Some of
, the schools operate as many as 10 or
12 big busses for the transportation
of the children.
t The improvement in the educations
1 al system is not the only good result-
s ing from consolidated schools, accord-
, to Mr. Rariek. The school
O "pIant" :furnishes a center and a
common interest for the community:
It develops a community pride that
evidences itself in many ways. For
instance, consolidation has brought
about a marked betterment of rural
roads in nearly every communIty
where it has been adopted. The big
school busses require smooth, well -
graded highways. ,
Promotes "Back to the Farm"
Convinced.
In the party were a number of
county superintendents of schools,
principals and superintendents of
town schools, and several public-
spirited citizens who were vitally in-
terested in the project. The group
visited the schools at Montevista,
Sargent, Center, Hooper, Lajara and
Del Norte—all of them excellent con-
solidated systems. Thoroughly con-
vinced that consolidation was the only
means of improving rural schools in
western Kansas, the delegation start-
er! home.
"Do you, suppose we than ever see
anything in Kansas equal to these
consolidated schools?" half wistful-
ly wondered one member of the par-
ty as the San Luis valley was left be-
hind.. And the question was upper-
most in the minds of all. That was
less than seven years ago. To -day
there aro 25 consolidated systems in
Western Kansas, many of them as
large, as well equipped, as those of
the San Luis valley.
The first large consolidation in
western Kansas was at Holcomb, a
little village on the Saute Fe Trail
in Finney County. The project was
started in the fall of 1919 almost
immediately upon the return of the
group from Colorado. So convincing'.
was the report of those who had
journeyed to the San Luis valley
that the vote at the bond election
stood 76 for and 9 against consolida-
tion.
After that tlie change came rapidly
but not without some strenuous work,
Mr. .Rarick has been the loader in
practically every one of the consoli-
dations. A man of wide experience
in the Kansas school field, a num of
vision and optimism, he was elected
by President W. A. Lewis et the
state teachers' college for this speci-
fic piece of work. He has kept at
his task tirelessly, spending more
Shan half of his time in organization
and exteasion work among the schools
of western Kansas. He has journey-
ed more than 120,000 miles across
the plains in the last seven years,
farther than live times around the
earth; and most Of that distance has
been in a ear driven by himself. be.
cause the railroads do not link to
the outside world many of the small -
or communities of the prairies.
Steady Growth
Occasionally come years when
there are crop :failures and times
are hard; then foe a brief period the
movement is held in cheek. But the
development throughout the seven-
yoar-period has been steady.
The thing is cumulative. One COM.
munity looks across at another in a
neighboring eounty and sees what re-
markable things have been ac-
complished there; if it is an ordinary
community it becomes aroused to do
1Iidation is full blown
as well. . Andpresently the snail -
merit for conseland the tune ripe or Isetion, Thal -
Is the way it has worked tinie after
I thine,
The consolidated school develop-
ment is proving a big factor in the
"back to the farm" movement. One
of the axioms which Mr. Rarick and
his co-workers have preached to west
ern Kansas for years is: "Provide the
boys and girls of the rural districts
the same educational facilities they
find in the towns and cities and you
cannot drive them off the farms oi
Kansas."
The inereased interest that farm
communities are taking in "educa-
tion at home" is demonstrated by the
fact that in many consolidated dis-
tricts there are to -day from two to
four times as many children enrolled
in school as formerly attended the
one and two -room schools serving
the same territory. Moreover, She
population in these communities is
rapidly increasing, and there is a
marked tendency for the children
who have finished school to remain
and make their homes there.
Some of the largest consolidation
profects have been at Oakley, Colby,
Holcomb, Weskan, Cimmaron, Gem,
Kingsdown, Kirwin, and Plains.
The battle is not won yet. There
are many communities in western
Kansas where the one -teacher system
still holds sway, often in a delapidat-
shack. Several sod' school houses
are still in use in this section of the
country. But the out -worn system
is passing. Given 10 more years in
which crops are good, and western
Kansas will say good-bye to the one -
teacher school.
"A little bird told me what
kind of a lawyer your father
was."
"What did lie say?"
"Cheep, cheep."
"Well, a duck told me what
kind of a doctor your father
was."—Answers.
0 0 0 0
"Let's see haven't I seen you
somewhere elect?"
"Possibly. I've been other
places."
0 0 +
Recently an American who
has often appeared as a banquet
speaker defined the American
banquet ai an affair where a
speaker first eats a lot of food
lie doesn't viant, and then pro-
ceeds to talk about something
he doesn't understand to a
crowd of people who don't want
to hear hien,—Feith's,
0 0 0 0
A Berlin fader claims to have
gone 44 days without food. H.
is our opinion that he should
have given his order to another
waiter or tried it different res-
taurant.—judge.
+ 0 9+
Aunt Elva: "I understand that
you wrote it letter to, your
, grandma, away out in t
ma.
Little &malt Louise: "Huh, 1
can write farther than 'that.'"
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 50, 1926,
Making His
Way
04.04004000-04
By VICTOR REDCL/FFE
(coeysteat, snle by ths union.) wostsra NOW•
PAPar
•
"You will give her up?"
"Never! Less now than ever. Uncle
Reuben, do not eress Ine In the desire
and duty of my life. Within a month
Lois Newton has iost her father, who
has left her penniless and homeless.
She Jo the only woman 1 ever loved.
I have made her my wife, Surely—"
° "Go 1" Old Reuben Morely rose to
his feet pulsating with fury. Tils
trembling finger pointed to the door,
his eyes glared. "Go" he shouted,
and his fists clenched. "Out of my
heart, out of my home—forever!"
Walton Blair bowed his head in
silence. He hurried his steps to escape
She anathemas hurled after him by his
selfish, irrational relative, The dis-
missal meant penury.
It 1585 sweet and soothing the sol-
ace he received from the bride of an
hour. The very fact of his great sac-
rifice ot home, position, heirship, en-
deared him double fold to the modest,
unassuming girl who was ready and
willing to go hungry, roofless, accept
the heaviest burdens of toil so that
she had him by her side.
Reuben Merely,. though now recov-
with his independent nephew. As to
Lois, no claims of prefereace held her
to her native village. Iler annt cared
for them In her humble way during
the week that they devoted to mapping
out their future. Walton had no trade
or profession but he had done some
clerical work for his uncle and was
capable of Oiling the position of the
average office clerk. There was an ,
old friend of bis dead father named
john Allen, who operated a large man-
ufacturing plant at a town caned Lap -
ton. Walton left Lois with her aunt,
to be received at Lupton with full
consideration and the kindly tender of
a position In the bookkeeping depart-
ment of the great works.
just as Walton was looking around
for modest living quarters, at a criti-
cal moment he saved the two little
children of the wealthy manufaetnrer
from sure death in an automobile ac-
cident, but sustained the serious in-
jury of a broken arm, imd the attend-
ing surgeon told him that he would
not be able to use his right hand for a
year to come.
"I have sent for your wife on my
own Initiative," lkfr. Allen told Wal -
t00, as he lay under hospital care. "I
have also planned to show my lasting
gratitude toward you in it way that
cannot offend your sense of the fitness
of things. You have probably noticed
that little oasis of house and garden
at the' edge of the raiII site. It was
where 1 and my family passed the
happiest year of our lives. 1 am going
to fix up the place and rent it to you
at a nominal price."
"But I shall be unable to pay for it,"
remonstrated Walton.
"So? Hardly. You may not be in a
condition to do any office work but, if
you will accept it, you shall become
our night watchman. Ten to five you
make hourly rounds of the signal
boxes and see that all is safe. And if
I do not mistake, that charming little
wife of yours will not be too proud to
It in the timekeeper's office at seven,
twelve, one and five and keep tab on
he incomings and outgolugs of the
workmen."
"Oh, this is ideal!" exuberated Lois,
hen two weeks later they were in -
tailed in the home Tohn Allen had PO
enerouely provided. It wee In the
nchanting garden surrounding the
ouse that they passed many hours of
he clay, rendering Its former brightness
$ far RS they 01(1116.Mr, Allen (lied
mi they lost it good friend but his
on -in-law, who sueeeeded to the bust -
e58, accepted the old provision made
or the Blairs as a sort of ebligation
O honer, and for five years the bonny
ncl contented married pair remained
n duty in their respective posItione.
A little goldr
en haired chrub
ecm
ae
o them and the pretty home beceme a
even of delight when Dorothy was
Id enough to get nround. .It was ;Met
fter her fourth birthday when there
as a collision on the trolley Itne that
n directly pt the house. Several
°ere injured, among them an old man
ho with the others was corried into
e Blair home, whieh efforded the
earest shelter. It was found that he
as only stunned, When he recovered
onsciousness he was lying on a coueh
nd little Dorothy, whose father and,
ether were away at the time, wit0
nning him and looking startled, but
"Who are you? Whose hoose ts
Is?" The old man almost frightened
orothy by starting up staidenty and
xiag his eyes 'upon a framed photo -
firth on the wall. "Who are your
O asked more gently, scanning the
lid's face obesely.
"I am Dorothy Blair," replied the
ttle one, "and mamma and papa are
way, and that picture you stare at
is Uncle Reuben, who is going to
me and see me some day, papa
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"He has come already, dear child!"
pronounced Reuben Morely in broken
tones, and he was holding the little
one on his lap when Walton Blair en,
tered the room,
'Reuben Morley, though new rota",
erect still lingered, and when he went on
his way it was an arranged that they
were to come to his hem and stay
• there permanently, and antor the WA
of the lonely old man nittla tornado*
of tondernetia find lovn.
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Saleslady: "1 understand the
new minister is a find -looking
young man, and unmarried,"
Head Milliner: "Please put aII
the new hats in the window."
4. ea 0 0
The animal with the longest
memory is said to be the ele-
phant. It is comforting to re-
member that it is incapable of
writing its memoirs.—Humorist.
+ 0
Willie had been given a new
watch, and was very proud of its
time -keeping qualities. Hereto-
fore, it had been a chore to get
the boy up in the morning, but
next morning he was dressed
01111 out in the yard before sun-
up. He had his watch in his
hand, and was studying, it, Sud-
denly he dashed into the house
and pounded on his father's bed-
room door.
"What time does the sun rise
this morning?" he asked.
There VMS 0 bewildered voico
inside which said: "How do I
know? Look in last night's pap-
er under 'The Weather'."
"I did," said the excited yos°,
consulting his watch, "arid it
said 5.80. Believe me, it will
have to get a hustle on or it will
be late."
4.•
After the honeymoon they
were visited by a friend of the
bride, who asked how they were
getting along.
"We are so happy that we
laugh until we cry," replied the
young wife. "Fly husband
paints and I cook. Then we
both guess what the things are
meant to be."—Argonaut.
+ 0 0
Mrs. A. W. writes n that a
man's idea of a vacation is where
he can wear his old clothes."
A woman's, we assume, is
where she can wear her stew
ones.
+ + 0 0
Little May's grandmother had
an old-fashioned way of meas-
uring a yard by holding one end
of the goods to her nose and
stretching the piece at arm's
length. One day May found a
piece of ribbon. Carrying t to
her grandmother, she requested,
very gravely:
"Grandma, please smell this
and see how long 15 is."—Laugh-
ter.
+ 0 0 as
The school teacher had gone
to the country for a rest. Hav-
ing neglected to take along any
books, and thinking to open the
way for the farmer's wife to
offer some of hers, the teacher
asked; "Are you fond of Ibsen?"
"Goodness, no," came the re-
ply. "About all we play out
here is croquet."
0 0 0 0
"Suppose," began the sicriS
young bridegroom, "that we get
a lumber firm's figures on burtga-
lows—"
"Yes," she sighed rapturous-
ly.
"Then drop in on a few real
estate dealers and see their
plans—"
"Oh, Sohn!" she cried.
"And then," concluded the
wise young man, "after we've
had the fun out of it, we can
lease a email apartment and put
Our money into a nice new car."
"You are a dear," breathed
the blushing bridc.—Life.
A 0 sle
"My neighbor struck a ledge
of rock in excavating foe a cel -
"Yes, his Int certainly :a a
hard one."
ea 0 +
A wildcat measuring 36 in.
was caught at Loch Lomond. We
understand that it was decoyed
by a bagpipe solo, under the im-
pression that some of its rela-
tives were arguing.—Punch.
0 0 •
The astronomer had arrived in
the mountain country, whither
he had gone to make a study of
a new celestial visitor, "Have
you seen the comet?" he 4sked
of a mountaineer.
"I don't know as I have," re-
plied the man, obviously suspect-
ing he was being joked, "but I
have seen a go -at."
0 0 0 0
Teacher: "Now, who can tell
me which month has 28 days?"
Johnny: "They all have."
PERTH COUNTY
Judge Killoran dismiesed action
brought by the executore of the
will of George H. Dili, against sons,
Chattels hail been given to the sons
by their father, prior to the latter't
death, judge ruled.
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