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SCHOOL REBUILDS COMMUNITY<br />

(CONTINUID raoti PAOE 301)<br />

good library, provided by this club <strong>of</strong><br />

mothers, where the boys and girls may<br />

secure good literature to read. The library<br />

is also used by the older folk <strong>of</strong> the district.<br />

The next organization to come into being<br />

was that <strong>of</strong> the Porter Farm Club, the<br />

men's organization, which meets on the<br />

same night as the woman's club, the men<br />

in the basement, the women in the schoolroom.<br />

Every meeting is followed by a<br />

social at which refreshments are served.<br />

Besides the activities connected with the<br />

school and the social life <strong>of</strong> the community,<br />

the Farm Club devotes itself to the improvement<br />

<strong>of</strong> agriculture in the district.<br />

This club buys co-operatively at considerable<br />

saving to every member, oilmeal, seed<br />

potatoes, binder twine, navy beans, coal,<br />

flour, shorts„and other commodities. The<br />

members co-operate at threshing time.<br />

When I was at Porter, the threshing season<br />

was at its height and these club members<br />

were helping each other with their threshing.<br />

The jabor was so distributed that the<br />

dub members were^ble to operate three<br />

rigs on three adjoining farms at the same<br />

time. Their oats and wheat were threshed<br />

last year at just one-half price charged by<br />

the commercial threshers.<br />

The members <strong>of</strong> the Porter Farm Club<br />

hold themselves responsible for the cooperative<br />

care <strong>of</strong> the school plant. They<br />

put a new ro<strong>of</strong> on the schoolhouse, planted<br />

trees in the school yard, built a fence, put<br />

up hitching posts and provided parking<br />

space. They have made the rental <strong>of</strong> a<br />

school pianb possible by hauling coal for<br />

the school furnace free <strong>of</strong> charge, thus saving<br />

the school board this money to apply<br />

on piano rent. These club members also<br />

operate the school wagon. They take<br />

turns furnishing a team free for this wagon<br />

which is driven by the older boys attending<br />

school.<br />

The organization fever did not end with<br />

the fathers and mothers. The boys and<br />

girls <strong>of</strong> the district formed the Shakespeare<br />

Reading Club, which meets regularly at<br />

the schoolhouse. Those interested in pig<br />

raising have the Porter Pig Club; those in<br />

poultry raising, the Porter Poultry Club.<br />

Pig-and poultry club members meet regularly<br />

and each holdjan annual show to determine<br />

who has raised the best pig or<br />

chicken. These two clubs have done much<br />

to improve the quality <strong>of</strong> pigs and chickens<br />

in the community and as a result <strong>of</strong> these<br />

clubs only two breeds <strong>of</strong> chickens, most <strong>of</strong><br />

the flocks pure-bred, and only two breeds<br />

<strong>of</strong> pure-bred hogs, are now raised injhat<br />

district.<br />

There is also the Porter Senior Band and<br />

the Porter Junior Band. These two bands<br />

are composed <strong>of</strong> boys and girls, in and out<br />

<strong>of</strong> school, and are a direct result <strong>of</strong> a strong<br />

community interest.<br />

The schoolhouse is the clearing house <strong>of</strong><br />

all these organizations. In addition there<br />

has been organized an interdenominational<br />

Sunday v school which is held every Sunday<br />

morning at the schoolhouse; also a Parent-<br />

Teacher Association which meets monthly<br />

on Sunday afternoon. Add to these regular<br />

gatherings, the called meetings, socials,<br />

entertainments and lectures given each<br />

month during the year, and you may realize<br />

that the Porter School must do service<br />

almost every day and night in the year.<br />

Is not this community more than realizing<br />

on its investment in this school building?<br />

The school attendance grew as the community<br />

became more neighborly. From<br />

an average enrollment <strong>of</strong> eight pupils,<br />

seven years ago, the record has risen to an<br />

enrollment <strong>of</strong> over forty this year. With<br />

the co-operation <strong>of</strong> the patrons, Mrs. Harvey<br />

introduced several innovations which<br />

did much to strengthen the interest <strong>of</strong> the<br />

pupils in the school. She believes in play<br />

as well as study so she has provided school<br />

parties for all special occasions such as the<br />

school anniversary, Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving,<br />

Christmas, Washington's Birthday<br />

and so forth. To these the parents and<br />

friends were always invited, making the<br />

good time a community affair.<br />

Mrs. Harvey also modified the course <strong>of</strong><br />

study so that the school might serve the<br />

agricultural interests <strong>of</strong> the community.<br />

She sought and received the co-operation<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Porter Farm Club in holding an<br />

annual farmers' institute. Club members<br />

subscribed the necessary money and in the<br />

fall <strong>of</strong> 1913 there was held at Porter School<br />

the first course in agriculture ever held in<br />

a one-room rural school in Missouri. Men<br />

and women attended in great numbers and<br />

this course became an annual event.<br />

Next, this energetic woman established<br />

a school garden near her cottage which was<br />

worked co-operatively by her pupils with<br />

tools borrowed from the homes. Her special<br />

aim was to teach the younger children<br />

to establish a "green market" on every<br />

farm so as to insure a varied diet for the<br />

farm family for as many months in the<br />

year as possible. The success <strong>of</strong> this garden<br />

led to a school farm. An interested<br />

father donated seven acres near the school<br />

for this farm which is plotted and crop<br />

rotations planned for a term <strong>of</strong> five years.<br />

The pupils work tbe farm and receive<br />

credit for this work in their school work.<br />

Next came the organization <strong>of</strong> the poultry<br />

and pig clubs, already noted, which<br />

have done so much to improve the quality<br />

<strong>of</strong> poultry and hogs in that community.<br />

The possibilities <strong>of</strong> the one-room school<br />

was so well demonstrated, in a few years,<br />

that many parents were sorry when their<br />

children finished there and were ready to<br />

go to high school in town. The children<br />

were reluctant to leave home ạs they had<br />

become imbued with the new school spirit<br />

and were in love with their community.<br />

They had established social ties which were<br />

hard to break. Out <strong>of</strong> this, feeling came<br />

the establishment <strong>of</strong> a high school in connection<br />

with the rural school; here the<br />

pupils can continue their studies and receive<br />

sufficient credits to entitle them to<br />

enter preparatory college on graduation.<br />

A small building with the necessary ground<br />

was donated by one pafron for the high<br />

school. Mrs. Harvey agreed to take on the<br />

additional work. The high school is strictly<br />

a private affair. The coal is donated<br />

and all expenses <strong>of</strong> keeping up the building<br />

is paid from a voluntary fund.<br />

More should be said here <strong>of</strong> the two<br />

school bands. Music is a sort <strong>of</strong> heavenly<br />

magic and these bands have contributed<br />

largely to the success <strong>of</strong> all meetings and<br />

functions in the community. Most <strong>of</strong> the<br />

members own their own instruments and<br />

most <strong>of</strong> them paid for their instruments<br />

with their own chicken or pig money. The<br />

musicians practice regularly, rain or shine.<br />

"Nothing seems to keep them away from<br />

band practice and they have a fine band<br />

spirit," the band leader said to me.<br />

¦To one who has the good fortune to visit<br />

this community today, it seems inconceivable<br />

that there could have been such isolation<br />

and such extreme individualism' as<br />

existed there only eight years ago. Now<br />

the community is united in every respect.<br />

War found it prepared for immediate service<br />

and the community oversubscribed its<br />

quota in every loan, gave more than was<br />

asked by the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A.,<br />

fourteen families co-operated in canning<br />

operations at the school, using school equipment<br />

thus aiding in the conservation <strong>of</strong><br />

food.<br />

"I only wish it were possible to relate<br />

accurately the transformation that has<br />

come about in this community," Mrs.<br />

Emmet Linder, one <strong>of</strong> the residents, said<br />

to me. "Seven years ago I barely knew<br />

my neighbors; now we work together in<br />

our club and at our school. I <strong>of</strong>ten recall<br />

now that the only time J ever saw one <strong>of</strong><br />

my best neighbors who lives on the same<br />

road with me was when I met her each year<br />

at the Missouri State Fair—and, the Missouri<br />

State Fair is 250 miles from the<br />

Porter neighborhood! Mrs. Linder was no<br />

less neighborly than her neighbors. The<br />

spirit <strong>of</strong> neighborliness just did not exist.<br />

The material result <strong>of</strong> this splendid community<br />

spirit has increased farm values,<br />

bettered farming practices and created<br />

greater pr<strong>of</strong>its. Few persons like to buy a<br />

farm in a community divided against itself<br />

but they are drawn to the community<br />

which pulls together and where team work<br />

exists. Since the new order was established,<br />

only one farm boy has left the<br />

Porter community, except in cases where<br />

a whole family moved from the district for<br />

business reasons.<br />

Farming practices and home conditions<br />

have improved as they always improve<br />

where communities co-operate. Many a<br />

lesson in better agriculture has reached the<br />

home farm as the result <strong>of</strong> the work <strong>of</strong> the<br />

children in the school garden and the school<br />

farm. Educational facilities have greatly<br />

improved and it is now possible for the<br />

boys and girls <strong>of</strong> the Porter district to secure<br />

a splendid education and sleep under<br />

the parental ro<strong>of</strong> every night.<br />

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