VOL T VVVTTI I'ubiisUed Weekly by Tlie Rural Publishing C'o.. 
333 W. 30th St.. New York. Price One Dollar a Year 
NEW YORK. APRIL 26, 1924 
Entered as Second-Class Matter. June 26. 1870. at the Post 
Office at New York. N. Y.. under the Act of March 3. 1870. 
NO. 4792 
An Improved School; They Did it Themselves 
OHOES OF THE CAMPAION.—The 
people of this section appreciate very 
much what The R. N.-Y. has done in 
the fight on the proposed school bill. 
We think your paper has done more 
to arouse the farm people to action than any other 
paper or person. It has been impossible to get any 
information from the newspapers; they misrepre¬ 
sent the matter so. They used the words hectic and 
riotous in describing the meetings held at Syracuse 
and Albany, and the people who attended those' 
meetings tell us they were nothing of the kind. 
There probably would be a hectic, riotous meeting if 
the farm people went into the city and attempted to 
run the city schools, and we would not blame the 
city people if they did make a noise. If the country 
people are let alone they will improve their own 
schools. Let me tell you what we have done in our 
district during the past year. 
THE WOMEN TAKE A HAND.—Some of the 
women, and some of the men. too. had become dis¬ 
satisfied with the way the school business was being 
conducted, and these women planned to attend 
school meetings, a thing that had never been done 
in this district. When the men heard that the 
women were going they all turned out, and we had 
the biggest meeting in the history of the district. To 
be sure, one of the women got more notice than she 
cared for when they put her in as trustee, but we 
formed a Parent-Teacher’s Club that night, and we 
feel that it has been a great help to our district. I 
would like to tell you of the work our club has done. 
CLUB WORK.—We have a large school, I believe 
the largest in the supervisory district, some 27 
pupils. Our teacher was more than busy, and when 
we began to talk of costumes for the annual field 
day school parade, she said she didn't know what to 
do. We all wanted to have something educational, 
and we decided to have Columbia and Uncle Sam. 
followed by the different nations that make up the 
United States. We found a different national cos¬ 
tume for each pupil, and the teacher dressed is 
Columbia. The biggest boy was Uncle Sam, and 
the next two biggest boys carried a banner with the 
words “All under one flag.” How those women did 
sew, and when one who had planned to do a lot fell 
and sprained her wrist the others just pinched in and 
did her share without a word 1 Some of the ma¬ 
terial we bought, but most of it came out of our 
store rooms. The night before the field day we had 
a dress rehearsal at the schoolhouse. The children 
came forward and announced the countries which 
they represented, and when they were gathered 
around Columbia and Uncle Sam they did not look 
like our children at all. We were proud of our 
school that field day. We had bought a vaulting 
pole and standards for the boys to practice with, 
and we were delighted when they took first and 
second in many of the events. We felt quite sure 
that had a banner been given our school would have 
brought it home with them. Fig 245 shows the Held 
day costumes. 
THE BIO BOYS.—Our district has more boys 
than girls in school, and a number of older boys who 
are at home but do not attend school. This Winter 
we got 12 boys from 12 to 20 years of age together, 
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