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School Notes 
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be such as to I rain prospective teachers 
away from anil not toward the prob¬ 
lems which confront the rural school 
teachers. Be it further 
Resolved, That we believe in the rural 
schools located within reasonable walking 
distance of the rural home, and strongly 
oppose any effort to deprive the rural in¬ 
habitants of their schools as located. 
And he it further 
Resolved, That we are opposed to such 
centralization of power as would place the 
control of the education of our children in 
the hands of a select few, and that any 
effort to centralize power, which is in 
effect the power to consolidate, shall at 
all times be opposed by our rural com¬ 
munities. Be it further 
Resolved, That these resolutions be ap¬ 
proved and submitted to the Oswego 
County Pomona Orange, with the request 
that that body approve the same and ad¬ 
vance them to the New York State 
Grange for its consideration. 
L. J, FARMER, 
H. F. FOSTER. 
WM. MACLEOD, 
Committee. 
It. N.-Y.—It is our desire to give a 
faithful report of the feeling among coun¬ 
try people regarding the rural school 
question. The above resolution was 
passed after a study of the Committee of 
Twenty-one's report. It is like several 
others. We shall be giad to print other 
expressions of honest opinion. We can¬ 
not print everything, but we will give 
both sides a fair hearing. 
Twenty years of active duty 
still shooting hard and straight 
Keeping Apples on one Side 
and Potatoes on the Other 
with the 
NEW-IDEA 
Pipeless Furnace 
'My New-Idea stives remark¬ 
able satisfaction, lam keeping 
apples on one side of the heater- 
potatoes on the other, and they 
keep ns well as if no heater was 
in the cellar.” 
George Cook,Jamesville, N.Y. 
You can have an abundance 
of warmth and comfort in 
every room. New-Idea uses 
little fuel, fills the home with 
healthful warm air and will 
not spoil fruit and vegetables 
stored in the cellar. 
Send for free copy of 
"Warmth and Comfort. ” 
Ut ica Heater Company 
100-200 White St., Utica. N. Y. 
I.ire dealers lea tilt'd in territories 
not represented 
C ROWS, hawks, and other devastating pests never get away 
from this man. 
For twenty years he has been using the same Stevens shotgun, 
and for twenty years his trusty old gun has continued to throw 
the same hard-hitting, even pattern. 
Through the years, the endurance and accuracy of Stevens 
guns have remained unsurpassed. When you pay more than 
the price of a Stevens gun, you don’t get more gun quality — 
you are paying for frills and ornaments. 
It's easy to prove the accuracy of a Stevens 
Here’s the test for a full choke: on a piece of paper draw a 
circle 30 inches in diameter; measure off 40 yards and fire into 
it. Your Stevens will throw an even pattern of 70% of the pellets 
into that circle. 
A Stevens modified choke will throw an even pattern of <;o%. 
And a Stevens cylinder bore will throw an even pattern of 40 %. 
Try it. Only a perfectly bored gun will meet this test. 
Stevens manufactures a complete line of small bore rifles and 
shotguns of every description. Ask at your dealer’s or write 
for the interesting catalog describing in detail the complete 
Stevens line. Address: 
J. STEVENS ARMS COMPANY 
l Department K-311. . Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
Owned and operated by the Savage Arms Corporation, 
Executive and Export Offices: jo Church Street , AVtc York. 
The Schoolhouse for Sunday School 
Can you advise me whether or not there 
is a law in New Jersey compelling the 
Board of Education to have a district 
school opened for Sunday school? We 
are about miles from the nearest 
church, and for some years the school- 
house has been used for Sunday school. 
About two months ago a member of the 
school hoard hired a new janitor. This 
janitor refuses to open the schoolhouse for 
Sunday school for less thau 50 cents. 
The collections at the Sunday school do 
not: warrant, this amount being paid, and 
upon appealing to the member of the 
school hoard who hired this janitor, he 
states that the board can do nothing, as 
the janitor is responsible for the snliool- 
liouse and fire for school, and whatever 
he wants to charge is beyond their con¬ 
trol. The janitor only charges 115 cents 
for opening the schoolhouse for parent- 
teachers’ meetings. MRS. P. s. 
They are legally right. On referring 
the case to the State Educational Depart¬ 
ment at Trenton, we are told : 
"The local Board of Edueatiou has com¬ 
plete control of the matter. Chapter .‘142 
of the Laws of 1920 make it entirely dis¬ 
cretionary with Boards of Education 
whether schoolhouses shall he used outside 
iff school hours for other than school pur¬ 
poses, 
‘‘If a school board chooses to allow a 
school building under irs control to be 
used ou Sundays for Sunday school ses¬ 
sions, it. has a legal right to do so either 
with ot* without charge, for the use of the 
building. If. on the other hand, the Board 
of Education does not choose to allow its 
buildings to he used for such a purpose, 
its decision cannot be interfered with.'’ 
The famous Stevens Guarantee 
Every firearm turned out by the J. Stevens Arms Co. has 
attached a tag on which is printed the Stevens guarantee. 
This tag is your insurance for Stevens quality and workman¬ 
ship. Read carefully this guarantee. 
PRICE Mode! 335 Stevens, double-barrel, ham- 
inc. tax mertess shotgua—other models ranging from 
$32.40 S19.50 loS56.00. 
WvtU iciiety jbr fidl infvtmaiion 
FARM POWER MACH.CORP. 
2S6 Court Rochost«r, N. Y- 
•EjatelMaching factor £o. 
233JickjonSt., JOUET. ILLINOIS 
PRICE 
inc. tax 
$43.50 
Model 520 Steven9 repeating shotgun— 
Stevens made the first bammerless repeaters. 
President Garfield on Education 
I had the good fortune to discover in 
one of my old books an address delivered 
by ex-Prcsident Garfield before the liter¬ 
ary societies of Iliram College in 1867. 
I take the liberty of quoting a passage of 
this address. The thought is the same, 
hut the force and eloquence of his pre¬ 
sentation is masterly: 
“School committees would summarily 
dismiss the teacher who should have til - 
good sense and courage to spend three 
days of each week with her pupils in the 
fields and woods, teaching them the names, 
peculiarities, and uses of rooks, trees, 
plants, and flowers, and the ’beautiful 
story of the animals, birds, and insect; 
which fill the world with life and beauty. 
They will applaud her for continuing 
to perpetrate that undefended and un- 
defensible outrage upon the laws of 
physical and intellectual life which keeps 
a little child silting in silence, in a vain 
attempt to hold his mind to the words of 
a printed page, for six hours a day. 
Herod was merciful, for he finished bis 
slaughter of the innocents in a day ; hut 
this practice kills by the savagery of slow 
torture. And what is the child directed 
to study? Besides the mass of words and 
sentences which he is compelled to memor¬ 
ize, not our syllable of which he under¬ 
stands. at eight or 10 years of age ho is 
set to work on English* grammar—one of 
the most complex, intricate, and meta¬ 
physical of studies, requiring a mind of 
much muscle and discipline to master it 
Thus are squandered—nay, far worse than 
squandered—those thrice precious years 
when the child is all ear. and eye. when 
its eager spirit, with unsalable curiosity, 
hungers and thirsts to know the what and 
the why of the world and its wonderful 
furniture. We silence its sweet clamor 
by cramming its hungry mind with words, 
words, empty, meaningless words. It asks 
for bread and we give it a stone. It is to 
me a perpetual wonder that any child’s 
love of knowledge survives the outrages 
of the schoolhouse.” 
To all of which I say amen—and. again. 
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Rural New-Yorker, 335 
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