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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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