Kansas City National Training School - Shield Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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must be faith and prayer, for the love of Christ con- straineth us. I must tell you now about our other meetings. The book we studied this year was The Church and the Community. That may sound dry but if you could see some of the ways it was presented you would Join a study class at your first opportunity. The chaDte1fS on Community Life and Co-operation were given 1n reviews. That on Economic Factors was presented by means of a play in two acts, dramatizing, A Church Americanization Class and A Street in front of the Church of All Nations. At another meeting we learned how we could help to make our community better, by four scenes, show- ing a Woman's Club of a fashionable Churchrwhlch was wholly disinterested in all missionary activity, its members thinking principally of society and self. Through their pastor's efforts they became interested in one of the city missions and because of this new 1n- terest the whole organization was changed and Vltal- ized. The daughter of one of the leading members consecrated her life to Christ for service. Perhaps our most impressive progfam WHS the pantomine which presented the chapter on. Homes and Housing. The first scene pictured an Ideal home. Grouped around the library table were the father with his evening paperg the mother and the eldest daughter with their sewing, and a younger girl with her school books. Love's Old Sweet Song and Home, Sweet Home were softly played during the scene and, as the tune changed to Sweet Hour of Prayer, all laid aside their work and father took up the Bible for the family worship. The second scene showed a family in the tenement district of the city where all were com- pelled to live in one poorly lighted and ventilated room and work beyond their strength for a living-a house, not a home. The mother stood over a, washtub hard at work while four little girls were making flower bouquets to sell. The door opened and admitted the two older daughters coming from the factory tired and hopeless from the struggle. The scene itself was ren- dered more effective by a solo, Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life. That which makes our missionary programs a suc- cess is the hearty C0-Operation of the students and faculty who are always ready and willing to give their thought, time and talents unreservedly to render them really helpful and inspiring. You have changed your mind about liking mis- sionary meetings? I thought you would. Just re- member next year when you plan to visit me to be sure and stay for one of our Friday night meetings. ,,ll.., Always live up to yo-ur'ideals. You're the best Christian some one may ever know. , A heart that's hid in God tells its great secret without the spoken word.' -,.i .i He who would be greatly. generous must train himself long and tenaciously, without much attention to momentary calls. The plan of the Great Teacher, by which he took thirty years for acquisition and three for bestowal, is not unwise, provided that we too can Say, 'For their sakes I sanctify myself! Labor is the house that love lives in. . Pg 59

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cfm M. iq. at s. at ic. oi. .at s. llmiirrra President--Miss Galliers. Vice-President-Miss Miller. Recording Secretary-Miss Berdine. Corresponding Secretary-Miss Neiderheiser. Treasurer-Miss Tice. Secretary of Mite-Box Work-Miss Swartz. . Secretary of Young Peoples' Work-Miss Minme Smith. Secretary of Temperance-Miss Hobbs. Secretary of Literature-Miss Tibbets. Secretary of Systematic Beneficence-Miss Lyon. Secretary of Reading Circle-Miss Reid. Secretary of Mission Supplies-Miss Hunt. Secretary of Evangelism-Miss Long. Secretary of Deaconess Work--Miss Bahnson. , Do you mean to tell me that you don't like Mis- sionary Meetings? Oh well, I'll forgive you for I used to feel like that myself, but since I came to K. C. N. T. S. I have changed my mind. Nothing is dull here and certainly not our auxiliary meetings, which are held once each month. At the first meeting last October We received twenty-seven new members. Of course, the Freshman did not know much about the work of the Society, so Miss Garretson gave a review of the different fields helped by our auxiliary. Some of these fields are: Alaska, the Mexican Mission work in Kansas City, the Daily Vacation Bible School, Epworth Home in St. Louis, the work at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and many others. Do we give money? Of course we do. Last year we went over the top on our 31,000 pledge and found Palo 58 we had a total of S107626. This so inspired us that we immediately made our pledge for the new year 351,200 We were each given a mite-box and, of course, wondered how we could earn money to fill it while here in school. But our worries were soon ended and the perplexing question answered-by our Bulletin Board. Every day we received a new idea by such startling notices, as the following, placed there by ambitious mite-box money earners: Special sale of Larkin Goods, northwest corner Fourth and Schoellkopff' Stockings darned, five cents a small hole. Hair shampooed and finger nails manicured. Typewriter for rent-ten cents an hour. and many others, supplying urgent needs. Oh no, we do not reach our goal by this work alone-added to it

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THE LOST MITE BOXES. CTune-Old Oaken Bucket.J How dear to my heart are those little Mite boxes, Those pasteboard Mite boxes they gave us last fall. So carefully we've kept them, so choice we've been of them We scarcely can tell where we put them at all. We've hunted all over from garret to cellar, In boxes, in corners, in closet and hall 'Where could we have hidden those little Mite boxes Those pasteboard Mite boxes they gave us last fall? They asked for our dimes, for our nickles, our pennies, The wee bits of money we scarcely would miss. We surely expected to fill to o'erflowing Those little Mite boxes, Oh long! long e'er this! The people are dying, t'hey're groping in darkness They cry Come and Help us to one and to all? But what shall we do, and Oh, where can we find them? Those pasteboard Mite boxes they gave us 121St fall- At last we have found them, those little Mite boxes, In the depths of the dresser drawer tucked out of siirht, Buried deep under gloves, laces, ribbons and feathers Oh! hidden in corners as dark as the night. Oh! had we but put them where we could have seen them We'd had them choked full as likely as not. We wanted to fill them when last fall we took them But laid them away and just simply f0I'fr0t. Today is the day to make good resolutions, Each day is a day to begin life anew. Let all be resolved that henceforth and forever Those little Mite boxes shall be kept in full view. We'll save every dime and we'll save every penny, We will try and remember the needy each day. We'll not only pray but those little Mite boxes Shall be filled to o'erflowing by this time next May. Page 60 ' SOMETHING TO WONDER ABOUT. Where library books keep themselves? Who leaves the laundry door unlocked? Who turns .on the light on third floor Fisk, in the middle of the night? Why the Kansans met in third class room so quiet- ly after supper on January 27th? How long Miss Oltmanns would keep a vow? Why Miss Garretson missed church one Sunday morning? Why we can study so well in the library? Why the lights are always out at ten? Why Miss Neiderheiser didn't offer Miss Olt- manns some dried beef, on Christmas Eve? What size shoes is Miss Smith going to buy, that she has to have a sale to make room for them? Why Millie Haines went walking with her room- mate? When taking temperatures, which end of the ther- mometer do you put in your mouth? QAsk Miss Long, she has tried both ends.J Why does Miss Baker attend Staff meetings? Why is it necessary to return thanks twice before supper? fAsk Miss Banman.J Will Hazel Stephenson ever grow up? IS Miss Baab listening? Civilization rests upon dedicated lives which ac- knowledge obligation, not to themselves or .to other single persons, but to the community, to science, to art, to a cause.