EDITORIAL 



Can you be depended upon, Junior? If you are asked to drive a stake, 

 can you drive it straight? If your teacher asks you to plant seed rows 

 14 inches apart, is your row distance 14 or 18 inches? If you are an officer 

 of a gardening club, do you attend to your duties? We received a letter 

 lately from a boy who is interested in his school club. He wrote: "Our 

 club may bust up because the president does not come to the meetings. 

 We don't want it to bust up. What shall we do?" This officer accepted 

 the presidency, and in doing so became responsible to his boy friends. 

 Let us ask you a fair question: Had this boy, even if he had lost interest, 

 any right to miss the club meetings? We think not. He was selfish, and 

 thought little about service for his neighbors. We are all responsible, not 

 only to ourselves, but to our neighbors. As we have told you before, no 

 one has a right to neglect a cold, for an irritable person, coughing and 

 sniffling, is not only unpleasant for his neighbor, but the friend may catch 

 the cold, since colds are transmitted from friend to friend. 



A Garden city officer failed in a responsibility lately. The activities 

 of more than 100 boys and girls were upset. This individual, a girl, sent 

 no word, and evidently thought little about her responsibility to the other 

 children. 



Last Sunday the Columbia Park Boys' band delightfully entertained the 

 people of Berkeley in the Greek theater. We are sure that each one of 

 the boys enjoyed his service to his Berkeley friends. We know that each 

 member of the band was to be depended upon, for the harmonious render- 

 ing was perfect. One error by the boy who struck the drum would have 

 upset, in a measure, the good work of the others. Have you ever realized 

 that you are a part of a great orchestra, a part of a great whole, and that 

 if you do not "hit the drum" at the proper time the very best that you 

 know how, you are causing a discord, you are spoiling the work or play 

 of others? 



If you can not be depended' upon, do not accept a responsible position. 

 But if you can not be depended upon, make up your mind at once that 

 from now on you will always drive the stake straight, plant seeds at the 

 required distance, hit the drum properly and attend to your duties as an 

 officer and as a citizen. Put a mark in your notebook each time that you 

 fulfill a responsibility until you make "fulfilling responsibilities" a habit. 

 For if you do not learn to fulfill responsibilities now, at home and in school, 

 you will not be worth much as a man or as a woman in the community and 

 in the state. If, as a boy or girl, you are not a good citizen, we doubt if 

 you will be one as a man or as a woman. 



GARDEN NOTES 



Last Wednesday I met with the club flower seeds in the boxes inside and 

 in its first meeting of this year. The then re-set the young plants in the 

 meeting was called to order by Vice school yard. They will plant some more 

 President August Thiery, and where of the red geraniums, too. These will 

 do you suppose it was held? They be flowers which will last and there 

 have cleared out the basement of the will always be some one saying, "These 

 manual training building and set some flowers were planted by the garden- 

 old desks on the dirt floor. There are ing club of 1912." 

 desks at one side for the officers. In •* * * 

 this basement the club holds all its 



meetings and works during the rainy We have just returned from a 2,000 



days. mile journey limited to California. Ev- 



After the meeting was over the chil- erywhere we found children and 



dren worked out In the gardens. New parents interested in agriculture. Many 



land was carefully prepared for an- !I Pw ..„ flrdpnin „ P i,,hV» ar* tn h P fnrm^rt 



other crop of radishes and onions. ne Y gardening clubs are to be formed 



Some of the larger boys went to work and our lar ^e class of junior gardeners 



and before night succeeded in fencing will soon number 5,000. 



about half of the plats. They used old , _ 



lumber from the school and rabbit wire, ~ ... , ,, , 



which some of the boys brought from Communications should be sent to 



home. They expect to continue the C. A. STEBBINS, Editor • 



work as soon as sufficient material can a~~;„„h„..«i t?^„«„+;«„ n.Tr,v- rt „ 



be obtained. They also plan to plant Agricultural Education Division 



