EURAL COMMUNITY BUILDINGS. 27 
The personnel of the building includes a general secretary, a physical 
director and two assistants, a moving-picture operator, and a janitor. 
The corporation pays the salary of the general secretary. The heat, 
light, water, and sewage systems are a part of the general system 
maintained by the corporation. About $55 per month would cover 
the expense pertaining to the building incurred by the corporation for 
this purpose. A few other light expenses are met by the corporation. 
The annual budget of the association is about $6,000, including (a) 
salaries; those of the physical director and the first and second assist- 
ants are fixed and total $2,200 per year; the moving-picture operator 
is paid per evening, and (b) general expenses, which include support 
for town religious and welfare work, for various scholarships, for local 
athletic teams, and for certain State, religious, and welfare work. 
Fig. 13.— Amusement hall, Ware Shoals, S. C, reading room. 
The association budget expenses are covered by membership fees, 
moving-picture receipts, billiard and bowling receipts, towel rentals, 
fees for admission to athletic games, receipts from home-talent plays, 
and some donations. Association dues are fixed at $3 per annum for 
men and $1.50 per annum for boys. 
The building is of two stories with basement, and the dimensions 
are 60 by 150 feet. The upper story contains a women's rest room, 
a kitchen, a pantry, a banquet hall, a lodge room, lodge paraphernalia 
rooms, and two toilets. The lower story contains the secretary's 
office, a writing room, a reading room, two billiard rooms, an audi- 
torium with stage, two dressing rooms, a moving-picture room, and 
three toilets. The basement contains two bowling alleys, a boys' 
game room, a well-equipped gymnasium, a locker room with 128 
lockers, a multiple-bath room, various toilets, and a boiler room. 
