Fort Madison High School - Madisonian Yearbook (Fort Madison, IA)

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Q l M ment for better Clt13S In one msttnce a large monthly ln 1906 pub hshed photographs of some of the neglected spots xn Memphls Tennes see In 1910 the magavnne gave pxctures of the same places after the cltuens had gone to work to rnd thexr cltv of these evesoles In our own Clty there ns plenty of xoom fox nmprovement We have the vacant lots used as dumpmg grounds b1ll boards are ln evn dence 111 many places and some of our streets are anythlng but beautx ful especxally where all the trees have been cut down Most of the al leys Lre stdly xn need of 1 thorough cle :mug to make them respectable Fort Madlson has great possxlulltles for beauty On the south there lg the gre xtM1ss1ss1pp1 Rlver Wldl ned at thxs pomt mto Lake Cooper and on the north and east the beautnful bluffs rlse Wntll these natural ad vantages there ought to be a general movement for cnvlc progress One thmg whlch has been done recently along thls hne IS the extens1on and mlprovement of Rlver Vlew Pzrk lh1s park takes the place of the coal sheds and ramshackle boat houses whxch usually occupy the rxver front and thxs mnovatlon glves the traveler 1 favorable hrst IITIPTCSSIOII of our clty And now whlle we ire tlylllg to make FortMad1son Flrst ID other respects let us profit bv these examples of other C1tl8S and m tke It first nn be iuty llso 192 VFR V' sz 9, 'l'l-Ili HIGH SCHUOL 'l' ES 23 its-1 rig? 'L' My h U xr, Y A 'ff lt YH l .' X.

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E HICH SLHOOL TIM began to take an interest all over the little town hundreds joined the competition Now Northampton has wonderful gardens that brighten the whole city and put something of beauty into the lives of the poor The vacant lots are often the despair of the c1v1c worker They are generally used as dumping places or are over grown with weeds One solution of this proplem has been worked out in Philadelphia under the leadership of Samuel S Fels who is president of the Vacant Lots Cultivation Association The owners of the lots loan them for as long a time as they do not wish to build upon them The Association furnishes the seeds plants and rough plowing Each gardener is charged a fee of one dollar the first year two dollars the second and so on to pay for the supphes furnished him Last year between Hve and six hundred of these miniature farms were cultivated within the limits of the city md as many families were supplled with food which they themselves had earned It is said that in one year over thirty thousand dollars worth of vegetables were raised on these lots by unskilled labor work mg at odd hours But the vegetables are not the only gain A feelmg of neighborliness is developed between the gardeners and healthful ex ercise IS provided for grown ups and children In some cases the ex perience gained in these gardens has opened the way to work on a larger scale Bill boards are another nuisance which stand in the way of civic be muty All through the cities wherever there is sp ice these ugly signs may be seen often next to some beautiful building or plrk hven in track sometimes extending continuously for a quarter of a mile or more These cannot help but give to most people a bad impression of the re gion which allows itself to be so disfigured In many places movements have been started to do away with these nuisances Groups of women have pledged themselves not to buy anything ldvertised on bull bo lrds This somewhat limits the buying but is said to be very effective The Woman s Club in Evanston Illinois has co opelated with the city ofhcxals and has done several things of some importance Back tllies have been cleaned up milk and air tests in v1rious places made and the inspectlon of bakery and grocery basements has been setuied In Cuthbert Georgia the women in one year have planted two hundred trees in a public park medical inspection uid sanitary drinking faucets have been secured for the public schools and mtexest unused in 1 sewerage system which is now being built 'I he magannes of to day are doing 1 gre at dc tl to liclp the move 22 T I-I 1 S S E S Q . . . , . ' 1 7 V . ' . I 1 7 ' Y I . . . . , , - z . Y 5 V . . . 2 l - . the rural districts, they are in evidence, especially along the railroad , . ' z ' ' z ,. , . V I . . v i U I . s 1 v - ' . Q . i . K . 2 r . . . ' ' .' , - 2 ' z ' 1 'z ' -

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T Tl 'l l'- l An .Eng Qemmc-snr .1 fl Lslucarl on Eslmx Riu- SALUIAIORIAN HIS IS '1 perlod of r1p1d lfldllgfflal development :ll 'CQQXW over the world Never before has compet1t1on been ll , ,, 2 , 2 X, y W p it y, p p , ii I Q' 2 lf- Q' H' rf -' 4 ii' I Vi , I a , , y 5 , I , .V I A Q , Q 2: 1l L J 4 Q jg :uf g.- , , Q, E.-kg g sp- , ' 7' , ,4 ' so keen, or the cry for ethclent workers so strong. 'EX . . . fl I: 4- rv ,' 5 - 1 I a f , ' la N 6 1 , . 3 , ' 2 , ,ff . . M- 2- . . ' ', ' 2. 2 ., 2 . 42 ' ' . 2: ' , - 3 2 2 , 2 ' ' 2 . '. 2 Z . . . S , I . 4 I I 1 C . I I ' . . ' ' . ' '2 . 2 2 ' Condxtlons are changing constantly and one ofthe most serlous Cl lt1ClSIl'1S of our modern schools us that they are not 'tccommod ltmg themselves to these changes The puplls leave school wlthout bemg re1lly educated and the vast fIl3.JOI'lfY of them leave school 'ts soon Wx A as the compulsory educatxon laws wnll pernut They have no motlve for golng to school In Gary lndmna they thmk they have solved th1s problem by the mtroductlon of vocatxonal tralnmg Gary has been so wldely dnscussed durmg the last few ye xrs that xt IS hard to real17e how lecently xt has been bullt About e1gl1t years ago the Umted States Steel Corporatlon began thelr great steel mxlls on the southern end of I ike MlChlg3D When the vtst armles of work men moved 1nto the newly buxlt c1ty Gary was confronted by a dnfticult questlon A school system had to be bullt whnh would accomodate the thousands of forelgn chxldren wl1o had come 1n Clllrlllg the f1rst few months The laborers had very llttle taxable property and the mllls ol the bteel Corporatuon were much undervalued Accordmg to the st ate ltws approprxatlons for school purposes tre made on the basxs of tn enurnerttxon taken 1n the PFCVIOLIS Aprll So some of the leadlng men erected and rented to the c1ty 1 moderately lalge and fanly equlpped bmldxng which to then mmds solved the educatxon tl problem entirely But when the pxesent superxntendent Wtlh un Wnt tppeued he lefllbed to C.0l1SldCI'tl1lS as mythzng but t temporaxy subshtute lox the kmd of school whxch iccordmg to h1s ldeas was needed m such a