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? PAGE EIGHT Modern Tren More Commi Eighty Eight Community Buildings Are To Be Found In 39 Of North Carolinas 100 Counties BUILDINGS ANSWER MANIFOLD PURPOSES All Kinds Of Buildings Are To Be Found Over The State, But All Are Center Of Activity By Miss Ruth Current State Home Demonstration Agen Eighty-eight community build ings in 39 counties are bringing to many farm families thos< things that make for community growth, progress, and happines! for both old and young. Monthlj home demonstration club meet ings, Grange meetings, electior days, 4-H club meetings, commun ity programs, recreation meetings planning conferences, husbanc and wife parties, in fact all community functions usually take place in these centrally located buildings. NEW SALEM CLUB ROOM, UNION COUNTY Think of trying to give a demonstration in a 15x16 room with around forty club members packed in around you. That is what Mrs. Pratt C. McSwain, Union County home demonstration agent, did at the 1937 January meeting of the New Salem Home Demonstration Club. The president asked at that meeting, "What are we going to do about It : The members responded by donating fifteen dollar to start work on a club room in the basement of a near-by church which has been offe -ed them for their use. The following night the men of the community met with the women at the church and $30.00 were donated, a plan of work made, and the next day the men were working with their teams and wagons hauling red mud from the large basement which was in reality only a shell of a place. "Cement was purchased and trowels flew in making the place waterproof as well as warm", says Mrs. McSwain. "As soon as this dried, a large stove was installed to heat the room, curtains were made and hung at the windows, seats were brought in, a stove with oven installed, 35 plates, 35 glasses. 35 knives, and 35 forks purchased, water and other necessities arranged for, and we gathered for another demonstration, this time a Husbands' Night. A program had been arranged in their honor and what a delightful time was had by all rejoicing over the results of their hard work and determination." EQUIPMENT PROVIDED FOR COMMUNITY HOUSES In all community houses and tiuo rooms we una equipment provided to meet the needs, or the women busy as bees adding by degrees what is required. Most club buildings now have complete kitchen equipment for giving demonstrations, knives, forks, spoons, china and glassware, tables and chairs. Many have curtained the windows, added books and magazines, those colorful touches which add a cheerful note to any room. We see all kinds of buildings? little ones, big ones, brick and weather board, new ones and old ones reclaimed, perhaps once an old church or schoolhouse but now a center of "home" for the community, a place to meet and become better acquainted with one's neighbors, to discuss problems that every family is mutually concerned about, or just to have a good time. "We can if we want to." Dr. C. B. Smith says: "It is in our power to make ourselves a great people and live great lives and live in the hearts of hundreds long after we are gone. We can, if we want to, build a rural community that shall be noted through the state, and even nation, for its neighborL'PCas, its hospitality, its abundant table, its sobriety, its thrift, its intellectualiity, its kindliness, its cooperativeness, and its spirituality, a community where the sick are visited and the weary find comfort. These are the things that make life worthwhile. These things cost little money. They represent a n attitude of mind and heart and, when you come to the end of the journey of life, i these are the things that the World has always found brings the most genuine satisfaction to the man, woman, or youth who pursues them." We believe that our community club houses scatttered all over the State will be the means of .building just such communities as Dr. Smith described as possi r i???? d Is Favoring inity Buildings f ^SajMH Hffragf MISS RUTH CURRENT ble for us to build. I know of no project that can help our peo1 pie in so many different ways ' as the community house, a pro- j ' ject for all of the people. I t>nn..tii{/M)HAn of Home Grounds This is one of our most popu- i lar projects, one in which we all join hands?farm and home agents. home economics and agri1 cultural specialists, district farm and home agents, 4-H club boys : and girls, and home demonstration club women. So popular has it become that | our new specialist, John Harris, has had to concentrate on special counties in each of the five home demonstration districts. One has only to ride over our country roads to see the changes in exterior of our North Carolina farm homes. Six hundred and forty-six miles of roadside has been improved by our club women and 8,884 homes have done something towards improving the appearance of the outside of their homes. And what have been the rej suits of a concentrated home be| autification program ? May I tell you of three specific projects as Mr. Harris told me the stories? "Mr. Zaney Carpenter of Gaston County is giving his wife physical and moral support with] her home beautification project, j When this project was started , there was absolutely no top soil | around the trees in the front yard. The tree roots were pro| jecting seven inches above the j surface of the soil and much erosion had taken place. The trees were in bad condition because of their arrangement and the hill on which the house was located, | j there were great possibilities fori v.n ^mjoirtnmpnt of this home. A I UK ? coat of paint has changed the | j appearance of the house from one I j of neglect and abuse to one of j cleanliness and cheerfulness. Sev| eral inches of top soil have been hauled to cover the roots and j peas will be sown this spring I preparatroy for for sewing grass I in the fall. "The drive has been taken out J of the front yard and placed to j one side which will prevent it j from washing and add much to ! the appearance and convenience of the home. No shrubs have j been bought so far but a number of plants have been moved and divided which were growing too close to the house, and a number of plants have been givJ en to Mrs Carpenter by her neii ghbora. Two hedges have been I started for screening purposes. "So far as I know the only actual cash that has been spent was for the paint." What The Young People Are Doing in Home Beautification And did you know that we have over 48,000 boys and girls enrolled in 4-H club work in North Carolina alone? "Pauline Ware, a 4-H club girl lives in Cleveland County, Her hrtrvin hot hoon nhantrpH ulmnst | entirely by underpinning the house, moving a wire fence away from one side and extending the lawn all the way around hte house. A rock retaining wall has been built around nearly twochirds of the yard and top soil hauled in to cover the bare roots of the trees and to fill in the wased places. Grass has been sown and already the place has taken on a homelike effect. "All the foundation shrubs ; suggested in the preliminary | sketch of plans have been plant! ed along with the hedge screen which was designated on the sketch. Of course, the plants are very small but within a few years time the place will be most attractive. Walks and drives have been rearranged and allweather walks placed at the main entrances. "The estimated cost of this planting is $15.00 to $20.00, for the family has done all the labor thus reducing the cost con, siderably." ' Another 4-H club member, THE STATE PORT PILOT, SOUTI ^=li PLEASURE TIME I, ; J J Tobacco curing isn't confined entirely to hard work and toil, as this picture will attest. There's often time out J for a watermelon feast, a chicken stew or some other feature designed to put spice in what otherwise might be a tiresome task. Shown amply taking care of the situation on a farm near Whiteville are, front row, left to right: Bobbie Nell Hooks, Geraldine Hooks, Imogene Hooks, and Helen. Barfield. Second row: Lloyd Pope, M. B. Queen, Wingate Hooks, and Walter Barfield.? (Staff Photo.) 4-H Club Offers A Real Opportunity To Youth Rapcr Cites The Fact That v work that has been available to ' i good of help that will help them in later j 'CO- /PAPER life. J ? : The purpose of the vH Club or girl repeats the National 4-H, work is to teach rural boys and ' Club pledge one cannot help but' girls in the "Art of Living" for think thRt nQ greater gervj(;c can better farming and homemakine. , . Our motto is To Make the Best be , *7" han, thesp boys an(11 Better." In other words, it is J* my head to our goal to get each boy and ea,er m ?ing, my heart to girl doing club work this year freater l0yalty' and my hancls to to endeavor to make his or her ?ervlce' and n,y heaIth to project a much better one the 01 .1Un*' or my cluh' my next year community, and my country. The 4-H Club is in reality a "?y and g'rl who does moM' national voluntary educational = ______ organization sponsored by the Extension Service of the State Agricultural College. Any boy or girl living in rural areas of the county and states between the; ages of ten and twenty years j old may join the 4-H Club if he; or she agrees to carry out a! project, either in the home or on the farm, and report the results of each year's work to the county or home agent. However, the record keeping and information gained in carrying out the yea fly project is only a small part of the value gained from club work. The real object of JHp the 4-H Club is the development of the club member. Every club member is offered the opportunities of wholesome social contacts, improving personality, developing leadership, the development of good health, and learning early to exercise good sound judgment in making life's decisions. 0 Club work is founded on m . "Learn by Doing". Our programs m JV f are centered around our four- (J, fold pledge, which balances our development of the Head, Heart, Hand and Health. No greater program of development can be 171? A MV 1-1 A VI given any Columbus County boy FIt/A I J The Club pledge which every BILL ^^HITLt true 4-H Club boy and girl learns early in their club career is aj A lirfifinPPfC most wonderful one. When a boy rTllVlIUIICCI u Jack Falls of Cleveland county, luu, uas a nice name ueauuiication project under way. When he A \ T T~7\^ first selected this project his fa- axL^I t~li A ther could not see the need for making some of the changes which were recommended. "But," rjij L says Mr. Harris, "on my last vis- ? JL VJJL it to Jack's home I found Mr. Falls had changed completely and is now more interested in the work than is Jack." jST^j Four buildings were moved, the wkWJ lawn sown with grass seed, and Mr. Falls has been using his t H truck to haul in native plants to use as screens. And again very little actual cash has been spent on the project for so far the only cash expenditure has been for grass seed. =^==r. IPORT, N. C. n club is the boy or girl who E( will get the most out of it. 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